TrackIR5 spassing out all the time

[Finkeren]

A few weeks ago I bought TrackIR5 and has thus far been fairly pleased with the way it feels. Having never before owned a head tracking device, I naturally suck at using it, but I'm learning.

 

Recently though, it has become something of a nightmare for me. The system keeps losing track and throwing my view into strange positions.

 

Using the software, I can see, that it usually tracks the reflective clip alright. I see three green dots on the small tracker display and they move in accordance with my head movement. Then suddenly and for apparently no reason, the tracker stops tracking one dot which goes red (usually the top one) and the view is spassing out into a weird angle. Then it loses the other two and the green light on the tracing device starts to flicker. It usually happens, whenever I keep the head still for more than a couple of seconds. A quick shake of the head can sometimes bring the tracker back of track, but it's by no means a guarantee and makes BoS nearly unplayable in any case.

 

I've removed all reflective surfaces and direct light sources behind me, but obviously, I'm not sitting in a completely dark room. On the tracker screen I see no other dots than the three I'm supposed to see.

 

Does anyone have an idea about what to do?

Edited June 4, 2015 by Finkeren

[Finkeren]

Never mind, I think I've fixed it. It was a question of raising the light intensity threshold. It seems that even the slightest glare from any object that reflects sunlight was enough to throw it off track with the lower setting.

 

It seems to work fine now.

[dburne]

My first thought:

In the TIR software, under tracking device, make sure you have " Track Clip", and not " Track Clip Pro" selected.

 

Once determined that is set correctly:

Click on  the " camera" tab in the software, go to light filtering threshold, try increasing it. I have mine set to "108".

Works very well for me, mine never seems to lose tracking. I am in kind of a semi-dark room.

 

Edit: Looks like you beat me to it, glad you got it working.

Edited June 4, 2015 by dburne

[Finkeren]

Thanks.

 

Yeah I think it completely solved the issue and raising the threshold has not hampered the tracking of the clip itself by any means. 

 

I just think it's strange that Naturalpoints own troubleshooting site doesn't even mention the option to tinker with the light threshold. I can't be the only one who's had problems with it.

 

And BTW I'm using the normal trackclip and the setting is correct.

Edited June 4, 2015 by Finkeren

[No601_Prangster]

These are great for reliable tracking and cheaper/much more robust than the Track Clip Pro: 

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DelanClip-Head-Tracking-FaceTrackNoIR-Freetrack-compatibile-with-TrackIR-/331562283409?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item4d32a6f191

 

Had three Track clip pros and broke all three so I bought a DelanClip and it's lasted longer than all of them.

[Pajeka]

Never mind, I think I've fixed it. It was a question of raising the light intensity threshold. It seems that even the slightest glare from any object that reflects sunlight was enough to throw it off track with the lower setting.

 

It seems to work fine now.

AHA! that's where i'm going wrong, didn't know about threshold adjust. Roll on the weekend when I can hopefully set it up properly!  Many Thanks...

 

Pajeka

[claw]

I had the same problem. Adjusting the treshhold sadly  didn't work for me. But his did: http://forum.aerosoft.com/index.php?/topic/56739-tip-trackir-backlight-problem-solved/

Pantyhose! Who would have thought of it. 

Edited June 6, 2015 by claw