I’m currently work with Kinect for Windows SDK version 1 under Win7, VS2010, C#.NET.
Demos in Microsoft Kinect for Windows SDK Sample Browser can’t run properly after Kinect is connected to my PC.
- Kinect Explorer(in C#) says Kinect is not ready (which is different from Please insert a Kinect… if Kinect is not connected).
- Shapes Game(in C#) says Oops… Something’s wrong with Kinect
- Skeletal Viewer(in C++) can run, but only depth image run properly. Color image has a frame rate less than 1! And skeleton view show nothing but a black background.
Here’s what I have tried:
- The above thing will not happen(which means everything goes all right) if SDK is reinstalled and PC is not restarted. So… I have to reinstall Kinect SDK everytime I restart my PC!!!
- I checked the Resource Manager after Kinect USB is plugged to my PC. The strange thing is that if the PC is not restarted after reinstalling SDK, there’re 4 devices concerning Kinect: Audio, Speech, NUI and Security. But after restart PC, the Security Device won’t be shown after Kinect is connected to PC.
- I’ve tried with 2 different Kinect(one at a time) and have the same situation.
- Using different USB slots make no difference.
I don’t know what’s wrong with my PC or how to do next. The only thing I know is that I don’t want to reinstall Kinect SDK everytime I restart my PC! So would anybody offer some solution? Thanks very much!
I came across this problem just now, and finally solve it. I accidentally killed the process names “KinectManagementService” in the task manager, and then I could not connect the Kinect any more. Have a glance at the task manager whether the process is there.
Open Windows Service, and start the service “Kinect Management”. That’s it!