Macintosh and firewire

[Stysley]

Does anyone know of a firewire camera that can talk between macintosh OS X and labview 7.0? Thanks.

[Jarrod_S.]

LabVIEW interacts with firewire cameras using the NI-IMAQ driver, which must be purchased separately from LabVIEW. In order for a firewire camera to be accessed in LabVIEW, it must be compatible with the NI-IMAQ driver. Please review the following knowledge base and tutorial regarding using IEEE 1394 (Firewire) cameras in LabVIEW. The first link includes a link to an Industrial Camera Advisor, which can help you select a compatible firewire camera for your Mac OS X system.

How Can I Tell If My IEEE 1394 (Firewire) Camera Is Supported by the NI-IMAQ for 1394 Driver?
 https://knowledge.ni.com/KnowledgeArticleDetails?id=kA00Z000000P6COSA0&l=en-US

Acquiring from Firewire Cameras using National Instruments NI-IMAQ for IEEE 1394
 https://www.ni.com/en/support/documentation/supplemental/06/acquiring-from-firewire--cameras-with-ni...

[Stysley]

Ah I see, but I was under the impression that the IMAQ driver doesn't work for OS X which I guess is the real problem my group is having making this work.
Thanks

[ryanm]

You impression is correct.  The NI-IMAQ for 1394 Driver is restricted to computers running the Windows OS.  If your camera came with a driver, you may be able to calls into this driver to get an image into LabVIEW.

Ryan M.

Applications Engineer

National Instruments