EDT VisionLink F Series, User Manual

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VisionLink F-series Setting the Camera Model
Setting the Camera Model
After installing the board and its driver, configure it for the camera you will use.
Your EDT installation package provides example configuration files for various camera models; if no file is provided for
your camera, or if you wish to modify the directives of an existing configuration file, consult the EDT Camera
Configuration Guide (see
Related Resources on page 7) .
Next, initialize (configure) the driver for your camera model, using one of the methods in Table 3 .
Table 3. Configuring the driver for your camera
OS Configuration via GUI Configuration via command line
Windows
Click the desktop icon for vlviewer .
When the camera selection dialog box appears, select
your camera. After initial setup, access this dialog box
any time via the Camera>Setup menu.
From the pdv utilities command shell, invoke the
initcam
utility...
initcam -f camera_config\ filename .cfg
...where
filename
is the camera configuration file
that matches your camera model and operating mode.
For specifying a non-default unit and channel and other
options, see
initcam
( Example and Utility
Applications on page 13 ) and the Camera
Configuration Guide ( Related Resources on page 7 ).
Linux First, build vlviewer (see Compiling vlviewer on
page 22 ). Then, in the installation directory (see
Installation on page 8 ), enter...
vlviewer
When the camera selection dialog box appears, select
your camera. After initial setup, access this dialog box
any time via the Camera>Setup menu.
From a terminal window, navigate to the installation
directory and follow the procedure for Windows,
replacing “
\
” with “/”.
If you do not have “
.
” in your path, add “
./
” before
each command
–
for example...
./
initcam -f camera_config/ file .cfg
Image Capture and Display GUI
Your EDT software contains the GUI application vlviewer , a GUI application which allows you to:
•
Configure the frame grabber for a specific camera.
•
Capture, display and save (.bmp, .tif, .jpg or .raw) images from cameras connected to the frame grabber.
•
Perform image processing and analysis on captured image data.
•
Communicate with the camera via serial.
•
Display information about the frame grabber hardware and device driver.
The Windows version of vlviewer is shown in Figure 1 .