PyRealSense2 Controls Programmatically

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Hello,

I'd really like to adjust some of the controls that you normally see in the Realsense2 viewer in Python (like laser power for instance), but I can't seem to find any documentation anywhere, even in the C++ area for it. How the heck do you research function names and parameters?

I don't want the advanced controls, just the more basic ones.

Thank you!

[MartyG · Accepted solution]

An excellent reference for instruction names is the documentation site by RealSense developer UnaNancyOwen, which draws information directly from the official docs and arranges it into a more easily searchable format.

https://unanancyowen.github.io/librealsense2_apireference/pages.html Intel® RealSense™ Cross Platform API: Related Pages

A good search technique when looking for very technical details is to start each search with the word 'librealsense' - e.g 'librealsense laser power python', as this is likely to pull the very technical RealSense GitHub site's content into the search results. Below is a search result related to accessing laser power in Python:

https://github.com/IntelRealSense/librealsense/issues/1258 How to control the laser with python wrapper · Issue # 1258 · IntelRealSense/librealsense · GitHub

You can also find some Python tutorials published by Intel here:

https://github.com/IntelRealSense/librealsense/tree/jupyter/notebooks librealsense/notebooks at jupyter · IntelRealSense/librealsense · GitHub

The first link in the list of Python tutorials is about post-processing filters, the second is about using RealSense underwater, and the third is about calculating the distance of an object.