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I just got the OAK-1 today and tried to run the demo app, depthai_demo.py, and it does not run do to the error below.

  1. Why is the blobconverter needed?
  2. Is this server available 24/7?
    File "C:\Users\SantoRosario-Torres\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python39\site-packages\urllib3\util\retry.py", line 446, in increment
    raise MaxRetryError(_pool, url, error or ResponseError(cause))
    urllib3.exceptions.MaxRetryError: HTTPConnectionPool(host='blobconverter.luxonis.com', port=80): Max retries exceeded with url: /compile?version=2021.4 (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPConnection object at 0x00000202900297F0>: Failed to establish a new connection: [WinError 10061] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it'))
  • erik replied to this.

    I'm using the latest code from github for the demo, python 3.9 and windows 10

    Hello rosariosanto , we apologize for this issue, it has been fixed now. Please pull the latest main branch of depthai before running depthai_demo.py.
    1) It's a tool (more info here) that lets you convert and download models - makes it much easier to do model conversion/compilation compared to locally doing so with OpenVINO toolkit (model optimizer & compile_tool).
    2) It was an issue with the certificate, otherwise the server is online 24/7. Sorry again for the inconvenience.