Re: Area Detector and Flea2 camera problem

[Miroslaw Dach via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

Hi Mark and Han,

Thank you very much for your expertise and suggestions.

>This means that the vendor SDK is unable to find any Point Grey/FLIR cameras.

I will just give a last try. I will read the serial number and set it explicitly in EPICS db.  

>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.

Does it mean that the Flea2 would work with area-detector under Windows?

>Is replacing the camera an option?  New GigE or USB-3.0 cameras with much better performance than the Flea2 are less than $500.

Well, we just have this camera so we wanted to make use of it even if it is not so new.

Best Regards

Mirek

On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 7:20 PM Mark Rivers <rivers at cars.uchicago.edu> 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


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Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2021 8:09 PM
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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

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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