Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Jeong Han Lee via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> · Mon, 29 Mar 2021 19:41:55 -0700

Hi Mark,

A long ago, I set up the GigE, not Firewire, PointGrey Camera,
Blackfly BLFY-PGE-23S6C (Firmware 1.66.3.0),  on Debian 9 with Ubuntu
Linux SDK, but only the shared lib - libflycapture.so.2.9.3.43, and it
worked with ADPointGrey module with the version 2.7.0.

HTH,
Han

On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 7:21 PM Mark Rivers via Tech-talk
<tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> wrote:
>
> Hi Mirek,
>
>
> > Number of cameras detected: 0
> > 2021/03/25 17:56:30.674 pointGrey:connectCamera: no cameras found
>
>
> This means that the vendor SDK is unable to find any Point Grey/FLIR cameras.
>
>
> The Flea2 is a Firewire camera.  In principle that is supported by the FlyCap2 SDK that ADPointGrey uses.  However, I am not sure if anyone has actually used a Point Grey Firewire camera with ADPointGrey on Linux, and almost certainly not on a Ubuntu 20.
>
> Firewire cameras are not supported by the new FLIR Spinnaker SDK, so upgrading to that is not an option.
>
> Is replacing the camera an option?  New GigE or USB-3.0 cameras with much better performance than the Flea2 are less than $500.
>
> Mark
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Tech-talk <tech-talk-bounces at aps.anl.gov> on behalf of Miroslaw Dach via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
> Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2021 8:09 PM
> To: tech-talk at aps.anl.gov
> Subject: Area Detector and Flea2 camera problem
>
> Hello,
>
> I am using the latest Area Detector R3-10 on Ubuntu 20.04 focal (x86-64).
> Unfortunately the Flea2 camera which is connected to the computer is not detected:
>
> Startup script:
> epicsEnvSet("IOC","iocPointGrey")
> epicsEnvSet("TOP","/home/beamline/EPICS/synApps/support/areaDetector-R3-10/ADPointGrey/iocs/pointGreyIOC")
> epicsEnvSet("ADPOINTGREY","/home/beamline/EPICS/synApps/support/areaDetector-R3-10/ADPointGrey/iocs/pointGreyIOC/../..")
> epicsEnvSet("SUPPORT","/home/beamline/EPICS/synApps/support")
> epicsEnvSet("ASYN","/home/beamline/EPICS/synApps/support/asyn-R4-41")
> epicsEnvSet("AREA_DETECTOR","/home/beamline/EPICS/synApps/support/areaDetector-R3-10")
> epicsEnvSet("ADSUPPORT","/home/beamline/EPICS/synApps/support/areaDetector-R3-10/ADSupport")
> epicsEnvSet("ADCORE","/home/beamline/EPICS/synApps/support/areaDetector-R3-10/ADCore")
> epicsEnvSet("AUTOSAVE","/home/beamline/EPICS/synApps/support/autosave-R5-10-2")
> epicsEnvSet("BUSY","/home/beamline/EPICS/synApps/support/busy-R1-7-3")
> epicsEnvSet("CALC","/home/beamline/EPICS/synApps/support/calc-R3-7-4")
> epicsEnvSet("SNCSEQ","/home/beamline/EPICS/synApps/support/seq-2-2-8")
> epicsEnvSet("SSCAN","/home/beamline/EPICS/synApps/support/sscan-R2-11-4")
> epicsEnvSet("DEVIOCSTATS","/home/beamline/EPICS/synApps/support/iocStats-3-1-16")
> epicsEnvSet("EPICS_BASE","/home/beamline/EPICS/base-7.0.5")
> errlogInit(20000)
> dbLoadDatabase("/home/beamline/EPICS/synApps/support/areaDetector-R3-10/ADPointGrey/iocs/pointGreyIOC/dbd/pointGreyApp.dbd")
> :
> :
> # Prefix for all records
> epicsEnvSet("PREFIX", "13PG1:")
> # Use this line for the first Point Grey camera in the system
> epicsEnvSet("CAMERA_ID", "0")
> # Use this line for a specific camera by serial number, in this case a Flea2 Firewire camera
> epicsEnvSet("CAMERA_ID", "9211601")
> :
> :
> pointGreyConfig("PG1", 18402100, 0x1, 0)
> 2021/03/25 17:56:30.651 pointGrey:connectCamera: no cameras found
> 2021/03/25 17:56:30.651 pointGrey:connectCamera: ERROR calling GetCameraFromSerialNumber Type=19 Description=Failed to get the camera from the serial number.
> 2021/03/25 17:56:30.651 pointGrey:pointGrey:  camera connection failed (3)
>
> Number of cameras detected: 0
> 2021/03/25 17:56:30.674 pointGrey:connectCamera: no cameras found
> 2021/03/25 17:56:30.674 pointGrey:connectCamera: ERROR calling GetCameraFromSerialNumber Type=19 Description=Failed to get the camera from the serial number.
> 2021/03/25 17:56:30.674 pointGrey::report error calling connectCamera()
>
> Supported properties
> ./start_epics: line 1: 78175 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) ../../bin/linux-x86_64/pointGreyApp st.cmd
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> kernel reports the following problem:
>
> 692673.933782] pointGreyApp[78175]: segfault at 0 ip 00007f56601b1a1f sp 00007ffecc98aa50 error 4 in libpointGrey.so[7f56601a4000+11000]
> [692673.933794] Code: 84 9f 04 00 00 48 8b 85 30 e8 ff ff 49 8b b7 60 05 00 00 48 8b bd 38 e8 ff ff 49 8b 94 07 c8 05 00 00 4d 8b b4 07 58 06 00 00 <48> 8b 06 48 89 95 20 e8 ff ff ff 50 78 48 8b b5 38 e8 ff ff 4c 89
>
> Does anybody have an idea what might be wrong?
>
> Best Regards
> Mirek

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System