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How to install a GigE camera

Bigeye/Pearleye/Goldeye

V2.0.0

03 November 2011

Allied Vision Technologies GmbH
Taschenweg 2a
D-07646 Stadtroda / Germany

AVT GigE (Bigeye/Pearleye/Goldeye)

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Page 1: ...How to install a GigE camera Bigeye Pearleye Goldeye V2 0 0 03 November 2011 Allied Vision Technologies GmbH Taschenweg 2a D 07646 Stadtroda Germany AVT GigE Bigeye Pearleye Goldeye...

Page 2: ...r implicit Also excluded are all implicit warranties concern ing the negotiability the suitability for specific applications or the non breaking of laws and pat ents Even if we assume that the informa...

Page 3: ...ent IP address 13 Static Persistent IP for GigE Vision camera 14 General tips for setting IP addresses 16 Installing GigE driver from Pleora 18 Hardware connection and first power up 19 LED states for...

Page 4: ...8 Appendix 40 GigE Vision register description 40 DeviceInformation 40 ImageSizeControl 41 AcquisitionControl 42 AnalogControls 42 CameraSpecialFeatures 43 CameraSpecialFeatures TwoPointCorrection 45...

Page 5: ...28 677 0 Fax 49 36428 677 28 e mail info alliedvisiontec com Allied Vision Technologies Canada Inc 101 3750 North Fraser Way Burnaby BC V5J 5E9 Canada Tel 1 604 875 8855 Fax 1 604 875 8856 e mail info...

Page 6: ...ter IP based camera access background on page 10 gives you back ground information when working with IP based cameras Chapter Installing GigE driver from Pleora on page 18 gives you installing descrip...

Page 7: ...emphasize important information the following typographical styles and symbols are used Styles Symbols Style Function Example Bold Programs inputs or highlighting important things bold Courier Code li...

Page 8: ...ation of the camera and is written for experts Safety warnings Note Please read through this manual carefully before operating the camera Caution Before operating any AVT camera read the following saf...

Page 9: ...g of the optic should also be done in a dust free environment clean room class better than 1000 Therefore also a dust free optic is necessary or rather the optic has to be cleaned with pure air first...

Page 10: ...onnect thecameradirectly to a PC notebook The following subchapters describe what IP addresses can be used and how they are obtained In order to work properly with a AVT GigE camera please take care o...

Page 11: ...used as operating system make sure that the Microsoft Hotfix KB926255 is installed After the first functional test of the camera you can try to re enable Firewalls and antivirus solutions step by step...

Page 12: ...only have to connect the camera to the LAN and the IP configuration is done automatically Please contact your local network administrator regarding DHCP Link Local Address LLA The Link Local Address...

Page 13: ...ent IP address Here the camera gets a static IP address which is stored persistently in the cam era So after every power up of the camera the same IP address is available Note The Pleora driver has to...

Page 14: ...layer should be used Please refer to Chapter Installing GigE driver from Pleora on page 18 regarding installation of this software 1 Open GEVPlayer select the camera and set the desired persistent IP...

Page 15: ...IP settings preliminary considerations How to install a GigE camera Bigeye Pearleye Goldeye V2 0 0 15 Figure 4 GEV Device Control...

Page 16: ...ng 2 To set the IP address of a PC NIC open the network connections Start Settings Network connections Then open the properties window of the desired connection 3 It is also possible to add a second o...

Page 17: ...ye Goldeye V2 0 0 17 If the two entries in this example were swapped the camera would work in the 192 168 1 XXX range To verify which NIC IP address is used by the Pleora IP engine click on the NIC en...

Page 18: ...all a driver make sure that all old Pleora drivers have been deinstalled After deinstallation restart the computer Note We recommend to use the iPORT eBUS Filterdriver architecture for the best perfor...

Page 19: ...take up to 5 seconds until the LEDs reach their settled state that means that the camera is ready for use LED states for different camera models Figure 8 LED states Bigeye cameras Goldeye Cameras Pea...

Page 20: ...can be used The following subchapters describe how to get a live image using these pro grams Please also refer to the detailed manual of the chosen application Using AcquireControl Most of the followi...

Page 21: ...dress In dependence of the driver version you use the appearance of this dialog may differ If an IP address could not be set automatically it can be set within this dialog manually After closing the S...

Page 22: ...ll a GigE camera Bigeye Pearleye Goldeye V2 0 0 22 Select the camera Select the image processing chain Bigeye cameras Goldeye cameras Pearleye cameras Table 3 Select the camera model you want to use F...

Page 23: ...efaultexposuretimeand default camera settings You can stop the live image by Stop snap at every time Advanced operations The AcquireControl software was developed for many different cameras so we will...

Page 24: ...get a good image quality we have prepared and stored different correction sets inside the camera So it is very easy to change the correction when chang ing the exposure time or gain Figure 15 Camera...

Page 25: ...the exposure time you always have to process two steps 1 Adjust the Exposure time or Continuous mode and Gain setting like described in Chapter Bigeye cameras on page 24 2 Select the corresponding cor...

Page 26: ...eye cameras it is not possible the change the exposure time Pearleye cameras work always in Continuous mode The internal image correction in the camera should be calibrated from time to time and some...

Page 27: ...es How to install a GigE camera Bigeye Pearleye Goldeye V2 0 0 27 The calibration can be started by the command k 0 After some seconds the camera is calibrated Figure 19 Camera Control Terminal Figure...

Page 28: ...ge the contrast of the displayed image to see more details of the 12 bit values Note k is a lower case letter Note Don t scramble this with the camera parameters The contrast slider only changes the d...

Page 29: ...and switch on this correction Statistics histogram It can be very useful to take a look to the statistic histogram values to be sure that the light conditions are OK see Image processing menu For a go...

Page 30: ...for the whole image or only for an AOI Using Pleora Coyote 1 Install the GigE VDS Camera Integration DLL available as download from the AVT website 2 Start Coyote 3 Select the camera by clicking on D...

Page 31: ...of the IP Engine and the image format has to be setup manu ally 7 After connecting to the camera click on Configure 8 Adjust the settings for I0 I7 and the Lookup Table as follows 9 Click on the Pixe...

Page 32: ...GEVPlayer and an iPORT application e g AcquireControl it is necessary to power cycle the camera Using Bigeye Pearleye Goldeye cameras with 3rd party solutions Using National Instruments software Inor...

Page 33: ...a few seconds 4 In the lower pane of the MAX software now several controls appear for accessing the camera parameters Please also refer to Chapter Appendix on page 40 for more information regarding t...

Page 34: ...plication e g Coyote it is necessary to power cycle the camera 8 In some situations the MAX software is not able to confirm the used pixel format In this case open the Acquisition Attributes tab and r...

Page 35: ...e steps 1 Open the device manager 2 Open the properties of the network card Try to find a value called Jumbo Frames Jumbo Packets or Packet Size and change it to the maximum e g 9014 Bytes If the came...

Page 36: ...d the GRABBER_ section with the description Gigabit Ethernet iPORT 5 Find the value PacketSize and enter the determined Jumbo Frame size 72 bytes 6 Save the file and start AcquireControl again Using 3...

Page 37: ...ewall settings step by step The communication from and to the camera is done in the UDP protocol 2 A global rule for incoming and outgoing traffic should be created Rule Pleora outgoing Allow Protocol...

Page 38: ...ttings within the Shutter time group and the Interval time group are only used when IOD On with enabled Timer was chosen Coyote Make sure that the GigE VDS Camera Integration DLL was installed Open th...

Page 39: ...ntec com with a detailed description of the problem including Camera model name Camera serial number Type of Power Supply used AVT or own Used operating system 32 or 64 bit edition Used Pleora driver...

Page 40: ...camera the availability of certain features may vary Feature Description DeviceModeName Name of the attached camera model DeviceID Unique 32 bit device ID of the AVT camera model DeviceUserID User ID...

Page 41: ...ixels OffsetX This feature represents the horizontal offset from the origin to the AOI in pixels OffsetY This feature represents the vertical offset from the origin to the AOI in pixels BinningVertica...

Page 42: ...ra waits for an external trigger signal or antimer pulsegenerated internally Tocontrolexposureanddarktimetriggermodemustbeswitched to On ExposureMode Start or stop the internal exposure signal timer E...

Page 43: ...cial feature DigitalGain Feature Description AutoCalibrateOnce Start the automatic calibration once k 0 command The processing of this command can take several seconds depending on the current image r...

Page 44: ...ensor temperature state 0 The sensor temperature is OK 1 The sensor temperature is outside the optimum range SensorTemperatureStateReg Camera sensor temperature state register QuerySensorTemperatureSt...

Page 45: ...ion K value command TPC_FirstImage_LowRef File number of the first low reference image of the two point correction A value command TPC_FirstImage_HighRef File number of the first high reference image...

Page 46: ...Table 16 Camera special feature LUT Feature Description IIS_OperationMode Operation mode of the integrator and image store H value command While reading this feature the MSB shows the state of the in...

Page 47: ...in each case two parameters are available ExposureTime ExposureTimeGranularity DarkTime DarkTimeGranularity The granularities are integer values in the range from 0 65535 which define the minimum and...

Page 48: ...convention AVT camera feature Camera Link CC port GigE Vision feature names TREX CC1 ExposureMode ExposureTime DarkTime TREX is an input signal The LOW time defines the exposure time The HIGH time def...

Page 49: ...cument history 6 F Feature mapping 48 G GigE driver from Pleora 18 GigE Vision register description 40 I IP settings 12 L LED states 19 Legal notice 2 Link Local Address 12 LLA 12 S specifications 18...

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