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Mark Rivers via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> · Mon, 8 Jun 2020 20:34:53 +0000

Folks,

> Using one of the drivers based on the open source aravis library seems a better option for portability.

Pierrick had taken our conversation off of tech-talk.  I have appended some of the messages we have exchanged on this topic.

In this case the vendor does provide their supported Vimba SDK for ARM.  They will presumably provide tech support for any issues.

On the other hand I am not sure what the state of building ARM support in aravis is.  There are at least 2 issues with cross-compiling for ARM on the aravis git site that do not show successful resolution:

https://github.com/AravisProject/aravis/issues/245

https://github.com/AravisProject/aravis/issues/207

The libaravis-dev packages do appear to be available for Debian arm.  But they only include aravis 0.6, while areaDetector ADAravis and aravisGigE currently require 0.7.2 because that fixes serious caching bugs.

Mark

________________________________
From: Mark Rivers
Sent: Thursday, June 4, 2020 10:48 PM
To: 'Pierrick M Hanlet'
Subject: RE: prosilicaSupport for arm

The Vimba SDK you need to download for ARM is on this page:

https://www.alliedvision.com/en/products/software.html

This is the download link:
https://www.alliedvision.com/en/products/software.html#agb-modal-content-5496

Let me know if you questions or problems.

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Pierrick M Hanlet <hanlet at fnal.gov>
Sent: Thursday, June 4, 2020 9:49 PM
To: Mark Rivers <rivers at cars.uchicago.edu>
Subject: Re: prosilicaSupport for arm

Thanks again Mark,
I suspect that now I need to know what is SDK, so that I can download the libVimbaC.so file for arm.
Would the be found in the link that you gave me a couple of days ago.

Just in case you've not figured it out already, I know very little about cameras.
Best wishes,
Pierrick

On 6/4/20 8:42 PM, Mark Rivers wrote:
> Just to be clear the libVimbaC.so files came from me downloading the SDK and extracting those files, adding them to ADVimba. You need to do that for ARM.
>
> ADVimba can communicate with your Prosilica camera. I am using that exclusively now, I no longer use ADProsilica.
>
> Mark
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Jun 4, 2020, at 8:26 PM, Pierrick M Hanlet <hanlet at fnal.gov> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Mark,
>> I'm attempting to follow your advice regarding using ADVimba.
>> Unfortunately this doesn't build either
>> since there is no libVimbaC.so.  I'm not certain from where this file
>> originates, but in vimbaSupportC/os/
>> there are directories for windows and linux-x86 with the shared object
>> libraries, but not for arm.
>>
>> BTW, I'm not certain how vimba is used for the Prosilica camera. It's
>> build requires ADGenICam.
>> What I'm really trying to do is to build ADProsilica, or something that
>> communicates with my
>> Prosilica GC camera, as a support module.  The IOC will come later.
>> Thanks again,
>> Pierrick
>>
>>
>>> On 6/2/20 6:10 PM, Mark Rivers wrote:
>>> Hi Pierrick,
>>>
>>> If you go to this link:
>>>
>>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.alliedvision.com_en_support_software-2Ddownloads.html&d=DwIGaQ&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=lWgMUJ9IIDH_eCcPLDGLwQ&m=Vpl7b7UwplPdOJbLQ3fvlO3U9Eg3ZCRic1Qz6bsAB80&s=BPK2roq6z1XsgZKVrUOZh_KAsxNuTM9m7kyRkZbFr0I&e=
>>>
>>> and select "Legacy Software" you will see PvAPI.  They claim the Linux PvAPI support includes ARM.
>>>
>>> That said, you might want to switch to ADVimba instead.  It uses the Vimba SDK that AVT actively supports, whereas ADProsilica uses the obsolete PvAPI SDK.
>>>
>>> Mark
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Tech-talk <tech-talk-bounces at aps.anl.gov> On Behalf Of Pierrick M Hanlet via Tech-talk
>>> Sent: Tuesday, June 2, 2020 5:46 PM
>>> To: tech-talk at aps.anl.gov
>>> Subject: prosilicaSupport for arm
>>>
>>> Hi Mark,
>>> I'd like to run my Prosilica GigE from a raspberry pi and I find that in ./prosilicaSupport/os there is no linux-arm directory with libPvAPI.a.  The README tells from where you downloaded the software, but all I see there is Vimba, but no libPvAPI.a library, though what I found does have an arm version.
>>> Any suggestions as to how to move forward?
>>> Thanks,
>>> Pierrick
>>>
>>> --
>>> Pierrick Hanlet
>>> Fermi National Accelerator
>>> Accelerator Front End Controls
>>> +1-630-840-5555 -- lab
>>> +1-312-687-4980 -- mobile
>>>
>>> "Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right" -- Henry Ford
>>>
>> --
>> Pierrick Hanlet
>> Fermi National Accelerator
>> Accelerator Front End Controls
>> +1-630-840-5555 -- lab
>> +1-312-687-4980 -- mobile
>>
>> "Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right" -- Henry Ford
>>

--
Pierrick Hanlet
Fermi National Accelerator
Accelerator Front End Controls
+1-630-840-5555 -- lab
+1-312-687-4980 -- mobile

"Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right" -- Henry Ford

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From: Tech-talk <tech-talk-bounces at aps.anl.gov> on behalf of Michael Davidsaver via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Sent: Monday, June 8, 2020 2:53 PM
To: Pierrick M Hanlet
Cc: tech-talk at aps.anl.gov
Subject: Re: prosilicaSupport for arm

On 6/2/20 3:45 PM, Pierrick M Hanlet via Tech-talk wrote:
> Hi Mark,
> I'd like to run my Prosilica GigE from a raspberry pi and I find that in
> ./prosilicaSupport/os there is no
> linux-arm directory with libPvAPI.a.  The README tells from where you
> downloaded the software,
> but all I see there is Vimba, but no libPvAPI.a library, though what I
> found does have an arm version.
> Any suggestions as to how to move forward?

Using one of the drivers based on the open source aravis library seems a better option
for portability.

> $ sudo apt-get install aravis-tools libaravis-dev
> $ arv-viewer

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