Getting images from both cameras in sawyer

[Homagni Saha]

Hello,
I was recently trying to follow along the code for displaying two camera images from the sawyer one-handed robot.
Here:
http://sdk.rethinkrobotics.com/intera/Camera_Image_Display_Example

Now the camera interface in sawyer does not allow to have two cameras on, but I need it !, so I did :
(after installing sawyer gazebo from here :http://sdk.rethinkrobotics.com/intera/Gazebo_Tutorial)

    import argparse
    import numpy as np
    import cv2
    from cv_bridge import CvBridge, CvBridgeError
    import rospy
    import intera_interface
    from sensor_msgs.msg import Image
    import message_filters
    def img_callback(image_hand,image_head):
        bridge1 = CvBridge()
        bridge2 = CvBridge()
        try:
          cv_image1 = bridge1.imgmsg_to_cv2(image_hand, "mono8")
        except CvBridgeError as e:
          print(e)
        cv2.imshow("Hand Image window", cv_image1)
        cur_image_hand=cv2.resize(cv_image1, (80, 80))
        cv2.waitKey(3)
        try:
          cv_image2 = bridge2.imgmsg_to_cv2(image_head, "bgr8")
        except CvBridgeError as e:
          print(e)
        cv2.imshow("Head Image window", cv_image2)
        gray_image = cv2.cvtColor(cv_image2, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
        cur_image_head=cv2.resize(gray_image, (80, 80))
        #rospy.spin()
        cv2.waitKey(3)
    def main():
        rospy.init_node('image_converter', anonymous=True)
        image_sub_hand = message_filters.Subscriber("/io/internal_camera/right_hand_camera/image_rect",Image) 
        image_sub_head = message_filters.Subscriber("/io/internal_camera/head_camera/image_rect_color",Image)
        #ts = message_filters.TimeSynchronizer([self.image_sub_hand, self.image_sub_head], 10)
        ts = message_filters.TimeSynchronizer([image_sub_hand, image_sub_head], 10)
        ts.registerCallback(img_callback)
        rospy.spin()

    if __name__ == '__main__':
        main()

This code starts with both the images showing nicely together in two seperate windows for a few seconds, but after that both the cv windows blacken out and images are not updated anymore .
Please suggest what to do, and provide me the best solution that allows me to access these two topics at any time using python code.
 

[CSIC]

I dont remeber where I found it, may even be from this forum, but I have a script that allows both cameras to work simultaneously. I've not done much with it myself but it worked in Rviz. Hope this helps you out.

both_cam.py