Failed to set the LED of K4W or 1473 device: LIBUSB_ERROR_IO

[duckduckhero]

please help me i am very urgent

i am trying to connect my kinect 1517 to ubuntu 18.04

i downloaded libfreenect and everything, and if i try to execute freenect-glview
i keep getting this error.

freenect-glview Kinect camera test Number of devices found: 1 Found sibling device [same parent] Failed to set the LED of K4W or 1473 device: LIBUSB_ERROR_IO Found sibling device [same parent] Could not open device: LIBUSB_ERROR_NO_DEVICE Could not open device
maybe it's because of the usb problem?
because i don't have any usb bus 003 when i execute lsusb -t

anyways please help me
i searched everywhere, but i wasn't able to find the answer...
please help me..

[BrainPotter]

I have this problem too. Do you have any answers?

[peproctor]

I have this problem as well:

Failed to set the LED of K4W or 1473 device: LIBUSB_ERROR_IO
Found sibling device [same parent]
Could not open device: LIBUSB_ERROR_IO

[peproctor]

Mine works after trying this solution from another answer (#543):

"Please try freenect-camtest, which uses only the camera.
The root cause is probably missing audio firmware. Model 1473 uses the audio device to control the motor, and needs firmware for the audio. I am working on a firmware fix, but I still can't get it to work with 1473. In the meantime, I'm thinking of printing out warnings when audio/motor fails to load instead of stopping the program"

[ghost]

So, Can't we open Kinect 1473 through OpenCV?
Is there any other way rather than this? (for Model 1473)

[YoungZ626]

Me too!

[yasiupl]

What did it for me, was running freenect-micview and freenect-camtest before freenect-glview.

[procub3r]

What did it for me, was running freenect-micview and freenect-camtest before freenect-glview.

This worked for me! thanks a lot!

[Rage997]

What did it for me, was running freenect-micview and freenect-camtest before freenect-glview.

When I run freenect-micview I get:

Number of devices found: 1
Trying to open ./audios.bin as firmware...
Trying to open /home/rage/.libfreenect/audios.bin as firmware...
Trying to open /usr/local/share/libfreenect/audios.bin as firmware...
Trying to open /usr/share/libfreenect/audios.bin as firmware...
Trying to open ./../Resources/audios.bin as firmware...
upload_firmware: failed to find firmware file.
upload_firmware failed: -2
Could not open device

any help is appreciated.

[n-qber]

The file audios.bin is missing (I'm not sure but I think it is a firmware that needs to be sent to to the kinect during runtime)
To download it, go to the git cloned folder of libfreenect and run:

python3 ./src/fwfetcher.py

This will download the audio.bin to the libfreenect folder, then simply move it to the location of the installed libfreenect library

sudo mv ./audios.bin /usr/local/share/libfreenect/

[NewtonAlbukerk]

@n-qber,

This worked for me! thanks a lot!

[Lecrapouille]

I have also the model 1473 (I did not know where to get this info: it's depicted in the sticker on the foot of the device) and I had the same error LED of K4W or 1473 device: LIBUSB_ERROR_IO with, i.e., freenect-glview . I solved the case by the following two steps depicted in #543:

• what @frederico-klein said: python3 ./src/fwfetcher.py
• then what @StoneLabs said: comment the line fnusb_keep_alive_led(ctx, audio); in usb_libusb10.c

  libfreenect/src/usb_libusb10.c

  Line 443 in aca6046

  fnusb_keep_alive_led(ctx, audio);

EDIT: today I wanted to retry tests but I got this error similar to #650:

Trying to open ./audios.bin as firmware...
Trying to open ~/.libfreenect/audios.bin as firmware...
Trying to open /usr/local/share/libfreenect/audios.bin as firmware...
Trying to open /usr/share/libfreenect/audios.bin as firmware...
Trying to open ./../Resources/audios.bin as firmware...
upload_firmware: failed to find firmware file.
upload_firmware failed: -2
Could not open device

I tried to call back python3 ./src/fwfetcher.py but I get stalled with:

Downloading SystemUpdate.zip from https://www.xbox.com/system-update-usb
Reading response...

I did not understood but my hypothesis is that I shall be libfreenect/build once in this folder it runs back well

[Lecrapouille]

Update. On my Ubuntu I got this error again. This is because I was inside the build folder. After doing sudo make install and cd .. it worked back

[AntonyCat]

If anyone is still checking this thread... I am attempting to run python3 ./src/fwfetcher.py to download the audio file audio.bin but it seems that https://www.xbox.com/system-update-usb is no longer a page on the Xbox website (error 404).

Would anyone know where I can manually download the files or update.zip that fwfetcher.py used to download from the website? Or if someone has the files I can download from them? Much appreciated!!