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Subject: Re: Point Grey GigE Blackfly conflict
From: Jörn Dreyer via Tech-talk <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], Nilson Pereira <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 11:27:05 +0100
Hi Nilson,

I don't have experience with the PointGrey GigE cameras, but with Basler 
cameras. These cameras have parameters to tune the network settings.

What happens if a trigger is received by a camera:

The sensor is exposed according to the settings. After this time has elapsed, 
the sensor is read out and the data streamed to the network in packages of a 
defined size. Normally 1500 Bytes (MTU) as fast as possible. As this is done 
using UDP, there is no collision detection or re-sending of lost packets.

BUT:

You can tune a delay, that the camera will wait after the exposure is finished 
until it sends its first packet

AND

you can tune a parameter defining the time between two packets send by a 
camera.

If you configure these parameters correctly, no data collisions of any amount 
of cameras (up to 24 as stated by Basler) will occur. There PYLON software can 
configure this settings aromatically. Check for the PointGrey software if it 
can do the same.

Hope this information will help you.

Regards,

Jörn

Am Donnerstag, 7. Februar 2019, 10:17:19 CET schrieb Nilson Pereira via Tech-
talk:
> Hello community,
> 
> I have 3 cameras (Point Grey GigE Blackfly) that I want to use
> simultaneously at a very low framerate (1fps) for BPM purposes.
> 
> Each camera has its own IOC and they run perfectly one at a time.
> However, when running simultaneously, always 2 cameras conflict with
> each other and not necessary the same two cameras. During conflict, the
> IOC shows an error about frame inconsistency on both affected cameras. I
> have a gigabit network port on both switch and server, and the port is
> far from saturation.
> 
> Does anyone have experience with GigE cameras and have seem this type of
> problem? Is this a protocol issue since it happens even with the
> original (Flycap2) software ?
> 
> I appreciate any shared experience with problems with GigE cameras that
> could give a hint on why this is happening.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Nilson
> 
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