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General / Re: Tie points checkbox disabled in Merge chunk workflow

« on: November 02, 2023, 06:16:26 PM »

Hi Alexey, thanks for the quick response.
I have tie points & key points in both the chunks I'm trying to merge, even then the Merge Tie Point checkbox is disabled.

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General / Tie points checkbox disabled in Merge chunk workflow

« on: October 30, 2023, 11:43:16 AM »

Merge Tie Points checkbox is disabled even when chunks have tie points. My understanding of it is that Merge Tie Points option requires key points to be present in the chunks that you are planning to merge.
I have tried with the following:
Merging chunks that were processed till Align Photos
Merging chunks that were processed till Dense Cloud
In both cases, Merge Tie Points checkbox was disabled.
Why is this happening and how to enable it?

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General / Re: How to add password on floating license server

« on: May 24, 2023, 10:17:57 AM »

@alexy please help me with this. This is very important for me. I need to secure my license server asap.

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General / Re: How to add password on floating license server

« on: May 17, 2023, 08:05:22 AM »

This article is for adding password on RLM dashboard webpage. I meant the licenses should have a password to authenticate. For example if we use PPU license we have a license file that contains hostname, port and password. Similarly I need to have a password for my floating license server.

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General / Re: How to add password on floating license server

« on: May 15, 2023, 09:18:14 AM »

for versions 1.8x

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General / How to add password on floating license server

« on: May 12, 2023, 12:35:46 PM »

Hi,
I've a floating license server and I need to add password to it because I'm on a shared network so anybody can checkout my license if they have my server ip and port. In order to prevent this what can be done?

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General / What do the Merge Tie Points do in the Merge Chunks workflow?

« on: May 04, 2023, 03:20:12 PM »

What do the Merge Tie Points do in the Merge Chunks workflow? This option is disabled on every occasion even in the manual provided by Agisoft. Why is the option always disabled? On what condition is the option enabled?

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General / Re: How metashape divides tasks among network nodes?

« on: February 16, 2023, 10:13:05 AM »

Thanks alexey for the explanation.


Please refer to the first question

How tasks are are distributed for different steps

for example in match photos how photos are selected that need to be matched together.
similarly for align photos how groups are made for distribution and so on for other steps.

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General / How metashape divides tasks among network nodes?

« on: February 15, 2023, 12:26:08 PM »

I have a few questions on how the task distribution happens between nodes:
1. for different steps starting with Matching photos -> Aligning cameras -> Building dense cloud -> Building Mesh -> DEM -> ortho how these are bifurcated to smaller task?


If you have any article on this works under the hood because we need to understand how resource allocation works for different task.


While running workloads over network processing I've noticed that some of the nodes complete their tasks and sit idle. We can't move forward in the processing because we need to wait for that step to complete.

2. if the capabilities of different nodes are different then will metashape take that into account and give bigger tasks to bigger nodes and smaller tasks to smaller nodes?

Example:
Node 1
16 core CPU
8 core GPU
16 GB ram

Node 2
4 core CPU
1 core GPU
8 GB ram

will both the node be considered to be at par for running the small tasks provided or bigger tasks will be assigned to Node 1

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Python and Java API / Re: Getting error on nodes in Network Processing

« on: February 15, 2023, 12:14:22 PM »

Thanks Alexey

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Python and Java API / Getting error on nodes in Network Processing

« on: February 07, 2023, 11:47:10 PM »

Distro info:

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Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS
Release:        20.04
Codename:       focal

I'm using ubuntu 20.04 as server using the command:

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./metashape.sh --server --control <server-ip> --dispatch <server-ip>
and two nodes running ubuntu 20.04 using commands:

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./metashape.sh --node --dispatch <server-vol> --root <shared_storage_path> --platform offscreen

Then I use python script to connect to the server and send tasks to it, from the server itself.
Here are the python scripts:

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client = Metashape.NetworkClient()
client.connect(socket.gethostname())
batch_id = client.createBatch(path[len(root):], network_tasks)
client.setBatchPaused(batch_id, False)


Just when this process starts the nodes start to throw error given below in infinite loop:

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: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found.
* Line 1, Column 1
  Syntax error: value, object or array expected.
: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found.
* Line 1, Column 1
  Syntax error: value, object or array expected.
: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found.
* Line 1, Column 1
  Syntax error: value, object or array expected.
: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found.
* Line 1, Column 1
  Syntax error: value, object or array expected.
: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found.
* Line 1, Column 1
  Syntax error: value, object or array expected.
: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found.
* Line 1, Column 1
  Syntax error: value, object or array expected.
: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found.
* Line 1, Column 1
  Syntax error: value, object or array expected.
: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found.
* Line 1, Column 1
  Syntax error: value, object or array expected.
: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found.
* Line 1, Column 1
  Syntax error: value, object or array expected.
: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found.
* Line 1, Column 1
  Syntax error: value, object or array expected.
: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found.
* Line 1, Column 1
  Syntax error: value, object or array expected.
: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found.
* Line 1, Column 1
  Syntax error: value, object or array expected.
: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found.

Please help

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Python and Java API / Error while network processing

« on: February 02, 2023, 05:39:07 AM »

While running the script it mount the nfs and opens the project fine but it errors out in add photos.

Just FYI. The server VM is amazon linux and the nodes are ubuntu.
Logs:
[172.32.33.0:50080] failed #0 AddPhotos: Unexpected process termination

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Bug Reports / License files gives error on M2 Mac

« on: January 11, 2023, 10:36:47 AM »

Adding the license file to Metashape Pro is giving error on Mac M2 machine. Same license file works on M1 Mac.

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Python and Java API / Filter photos by marker using Python API

« on: August 03, 2022, 09:31:15 PM »

The filter photos by marker work very well on GUI. I need to get the same result of filtering photos using the python API. Is there any way to do it?

and also is there any way to find the approximate positions for the markers on the images?

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Python and Java API / Re: How agisoft gets the origin for a 2D image

« on: April 12, 2022, 10:59:18 AM »

Cursor was not visible in pictures