Coreco PC-CamLink driver

[Dejmek]

Hi.

My goal is to aquire image in NI Vision (or better in LabView) by using Coreco PC-CamLink and JAI CV-M4+CL cam.

Has anyone any experience with install this hardware (drivers) to successfully aquire data in LabView?

I'd just download IFC5.8 SP3 and DCAM-API October 2007 (Hamamatsu) but it doesn't works.
DCAM-API writes init_fails, even the DCAM-API configurator shows Coreco PC-CamLink is initialiset successfully.

Thank you for any help!

George.

[McCarty]

Hello George,

You will need the NI-IMAQ driver that comes bundled with the NI Vision Acquisition Software.  NI-IMAQ will allow you to acquire from a JAI-M4+CL camera in LabVIEW.  You will also need the camera file for the JAI-M4+CL camera.

Best Regards,
T. McCarty

[ChristopheC]

Hi,

The NI-IMAQ driver *WON'T* allows you to acquire images from the Coreco PC-CamLink acquisition board.

You can purchase a driver that does exactly what you want from a company called Alliance Vision. The driver is a set of VIs that calls into the Coreco driver and interface nicely with LabVIEW and the NI Vision library.

Here is the link to what you're looking for:

http://www.alliancevision.com/us/products/software_alv/coreco_pcvision/fr_pc_vision.htm

Hope this helps,

Best regards,

-Christophe

[kaccie]

George,

Alliancevision is probably not the most practical solution since it is a French company that charges quite a bit for a few simple VIs (how dare they call it a driver!). Go to your IFC folder and look for a simple grab c routine. All you have to do is compile it as a dll and call it in LabView. There direction for this on the NI website. This is all I do and it works great!

Good luck,

Kaccie

[Dejmek]

Thank all of you for informations.
But I'm afraid, I'm not able to use any of them:

1) New I-IMAQ driver v8.5 still doesn support Coreco PC-CamLink (or maybe I\m not able to find method to install property drivers in MAX)
2) Alliancedrivers are to expensive and as Kaccie wrote, doesn't work correctly.
3)Thirth method should be the best way, but I'm not able to handle with dll compilation (low experience in C/dll programing)

So, I would like you Kaccie please for help, should you be so kind and send me your CamLink driver (and if it is possible an example) to email dejmek(at)kte.zcu.cz.
Thank you.

George

[jc.benoit]

Hi all,

I think interfacing a framegrabber with LabVIEW can be much harder than Kaccie said.

You will need to have a good knowledge of C/C++, in order to develop a dll which takes care of many things, and especially of image pixels transfer. This means handling correctly the image border, different pixel depths, memory alignment, etc... (the image in memory may not be stored in the same way in the IFC driver and in LabVIEW and you will have to take care of that).

This is the job we have done at my company : Alliance Vision.

Our driver supports all Coreco framegrabbers, and it has been tested with many differents cameras (Analog, RGB ,camera Link,...). Our driver is well documented, and we also provide free technical support.

You can purchase it from our company (www.alliancevision.com), and from our United States partner which is Graftek Imaging (www.graftek.com)

Best Regards.

Jean-Chrisotphe BENOIT

Alliance Vision

[kaccie]

George,

Not a problem. I have a PC-dig grabber running a dalsa camera. I can give you the c file that compiles into a dll (done in MS visual studio 6.0) and a VI that puts a while loop around this dll, grabbing an image each time. Do you have an email address? Mine is kaccie_li@hotmail.com.

 By the way, I'm pretty confident that Alliance vision "drivers" work great. The only problem is that they are expensive and they wouldn't provide me with a demo to gurantee that it works. So it was hard to persuade my advisor to purchase it.

Kaccie

[kaccie]

oops, didn't see George's email address there at first. I'll attach the files to you as soon as I can.

Kaccie