Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Engbretson, Mark S." <[email protected]> · Tue, 2 Oct 2018 07:34:10 +0000

I believe that this is the expected behavior of that area detector. You can have multiple real or simulated cameras configured, but you can only use one at a time. One of the display elements is a menu option of the possible cameras which allows you to pick and choice which one you want active at any given time. 

I do not think that any single AD allows for multiple active cameras. The controls are not made for that. 

If your case, you really need to configure yours as 2 different ones, and have each manually select for the particular one the you want - which only works if you do not have 2 of the same camera type.

On Oct 2, 2018, at 02:00, Jörn Dreyer <[email protected]> wrote:

Hello,

I'm currently setting up a system that uses a PrincetonImaging PIXIS camera. 
As these cameras use an USB interface I have to use the latest version of the 
PICAM library (5.1.2) from Princeton.
With this library the driver connects at startup but looses the camera during 
the initialization phase. In the hardware setup routine the driver registers a 
callback function for the PICAM_Discovery mechanism. This function seems to 
loos the communication over USB with the connected camera if another thread 
talks to the camera.
Has anybody else observed this behavior? I could get around this problem if I 
comment out the calls to the PICAM_AdvancedRegisterForDiscovery function.
But then the driver is only able to use the first detected camera. If I would 
connect two, I can not select the one I want to use.

Regards

Jörn

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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