Thanks for replying Irene, I will try to answer your questions.
Today my timeout problem seems to be happening all of the time. I am having a hard time acquiring any images at all. I can't even get it to work in MAX. Before this it had been fairly random.
This is a new system. I only have one camera right now. This system will have a total of 4 cameras when I am done, but I didn't want to order them until I had my program complete.
I am not using any triggering. I am just snapping images as I need them. Timing is not critical for my project.
The video mode is set at 640x480 Y (Mono
😎 30.00fps (within MAX)
Here are the attributes I have setup in MAX:
Timeout: 5000ms
Ignore first frame: unchecked
Speed: 400Mb
Packet size: 1280bytes
Region of interest: Left 0, Top 0, Width 640, Height 480
Brightness: 16 (scale is 0 to 255)
Gain: 300 (scale is 192 to 768)
Shutterspeed: 580 (scale is 1 to 1661)
The 1394 driver was installed with the NI software. Windows lists the device as "Generic 1394 Desktop Camera" It is driver version 2.0.0.0 from NI. Clicking on driver details shows the file being used as nipalfw.sys (file version 1.10.0f0) I uninstalled and reinstalled all of the software and had no improvement.
I did get the camera to acquire images once this morning in MAX, and got some strange results. There were some horizontal lines on the image. They almost looked like noise. I did also notice while in the "grab" mode the image partially "flipped". What should have been the top of the image was at the the bottom. Almost like a TV with a vertical hold problem. I was able to get some samples of these and have attached them. test1.jpg shows the image partially flipped. test2.jpg shows just the noise. The images also look very grainy. They are usually much clearer than this.
Beacuse of this last part I think there may be a problem with the camera. I will have to contact the manufacturer and see what they have to say