LabVIEW
Camera missing from MAX
The FLIR camera's are generally not using standard USB camera protocol and are as such not recognized by Windows as a camera. They also do not support the GeniCam standard so IMAQdx doesn’t recognize them either. Instead FLIR uses their own proprietary drivers to use the camera from their own application software which they sell separately.
They also sell SDK s for their camera families that you can use to access the camera from other software.But accessing such an SDK from LabVIEW (but also other applications) is a lot of work and therefore expensive.
That with the attached picture did not work.
But why it appears under Network devices is simply because the driver installer told Windows that it was a network device, nothing more and nothing less. And no it's not a GIGE camera because of that. That would require the driver to specifically be a GIGE driver, which I doubt very much that it is.
Yes you probably have to access that device over its IP address, but!!!!! Without some detailed protocol description from FLIR and lots of work yourself you can forget to try to do that yourself. You will have to work through the SDK documentation and understand how the LabVIEW drivers need to be installed/used. That can be hard but anything else is super hard to impossible so choose your fights wisely.
