RE: Connecting Basler camera with areaDetector on Windows

[Mark Rivers via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

Hi Bryan,

 

Unfortunately I don’t have the time or motivation to write a Pylon driver, since I don’t own any Basler cameras, and have no future need for them that I can foresee.

 

To write the driver you should use the ADSpinnaker, ADVimba, and ADAravis drivers as the model.  You basically need to write 2 classes:

 

PylonFeature  This extends the GenICamFeature class from ADGenICam.  This is the code to write/read GenICam features in the camera.  I assume that Pylon has a straightforward way to do that, the way that aravis, Spinnaker, and Vimba do.

 

ADPylon  This extends the ADGenICam class from ADGenICam.  This is the code to read the images, etc.

 

Mark

 

 

From: Sullivan,Bryan <Bryan.Sullivan at colostate.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, February 9, 2022 1:17 PM
To: Mark Rivers <rivers at cars.uchicago.edu>
Cc: tech-talk at aps.anl.gov
Subject: Re: Connecting Basler camera with areaDetector on Windows

 

Hi Mark,

 

I'm running on windows because I'm building a control system in LabVIEW, and all the other elements in the system are setup on windows. 

 

Writing a driver with the Pylon SDK seems like a promising solution. Would you be willing to put one together? Or if not, how would you recommend I start that process?

 

Thanks,

Bryan

 

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From: Mark Rivers <rivers at cars.uchicago.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, February 9, 2022 11:38 AM
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Subject: RE: Connecting Basler camera with areaDetector on Windows

 

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Hi Bryan,

 

The Windows support in aravis is very new.  The Windows GigEVision support was added less than a year ago, and I was not aware of it.  ADAravis and aravisGigE currently only work on Linux.

 

The aravis documentation does explain how to install aravis on Windows using msys2 (gcc) or using MSVC.  Once it is installed it should be possible change ADAravis to build with it on Windows, but it will definitely require work.

 

If there is not a strong reason to use Windows I would suggest using Linux instead.  It should just work out of the box.

 

Alternatively, the Basler Pylon SDK works on both Linux and Windows.  A driver using that SDK could be written, as I have done with ADSpinnaker and ADVimba for other vendor SDKs.

 

Mark

 

From: Tech-talk <tech-talk-bounces at aps.anl.gov> On Behalf Of Sullivan,Bryan via Tech-talk
Sent: Wednesday, February 9, 2022 11:16 AM
To: tech-talk at aps.anl.gov
Subject: Connecting Basler camera with areaDetector on Windows

 

Hi,

 

I am trying to connect a Basler camera with areaDetector. I saw in a previous tech-talk (https://epics.anl.gov/tech-talk/2020/msg00388.php) that the aravisGigE and ADAravis modules should work with basler. I would prefer to use ADAravis since it is newer and better optimized, but when reading the documentation, I saw that ADAravis explicitly states that it cannot be used on windows because the underlying library aravis does not support it  (https://areadetector.github.io/master/ADAravis/ADAravis.html) but in the aravis documentation it gives instruction on how to install on windows (https://github.com/AravisProject/aravis).  Then with aravidGigE the documentation says it works on windows but then only gives instruction on how to install on lunix.

The questions I have are

1. Can ADAravis be used on windows?
2.  
3. Given a set of instructions for installing on lunix how can I adapt those to install on windows?
4.  

Thanks,

Bryan