Getting enough power for the F200 from macbook

[Sean_M_1]

Hi everyone,

my only computer with USB 3.0 ports is MacBook Pro Retina Mid14,

I installed Win 8.1 through VMware fusion and tried to connect the F200 (VF0800) and install all the required software, and only get the microphones work properly. After some traveling here I came to suspect that the F200 doesn't get enough power:

When I connect the camera the grin LED is turning-on for short time and go off, I inspect the System Information and I saw that the Camera gets only 440mA (under "Intel(R) RealSense(TM) 3D Camera (Front F200)" field) or 100mA (under "Creative VF0800" field), screenshots attached.

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http://cl.ly/image/0l231r47381Z/Screen%20Shot%202015-03-19%20at%2012.56.10%20AM.png)

In my country we don't have already USB 3.0 Hubs (with dedicated power source) so the solution of getting one will delay my work in about 2-3 weeks, so I'm asking for "internal" fixing, without additional hardware - I know the ports in the mac can provide up to 1.1A if required (https://support.apple.com/en-il/HT204377) - but it seems that the camera doesn't explicitly require that from the system, does anyone know a solution?

thanks a lot,

Sean

[Zsolt_E_ · Accepted solution]

Virtual machines use an emulated USB driver, and even the ones which offer USB 3.0, are not good for most hardware, except for say pen drives, mouse, keyboard, etc.

To use the Realsense SDK with a Mac you have to use Bootcamp. Under Bootcamp it's 100% stable. It is not working under any other environment, only bootcamp.

source: I've spent countless hours setting up my Mac for the app challenge.

[Sean_M_1]

thank you very much,

I didn't wanted to install Windows alongside MacOSX, but at least it worked...

thanks again