1394 Vision Acquisition Runtime?

[Christ0phe]

[Windows XP - Labview 8.21 - Firewire PCI board - Sony Firewire camera]

Hello,

I have built a very simple 1394 grab vi to get the pictures of a Sony Firewire camera and perform basic image analysis routines. This works well in Labview 8.21 + Vision Acquisition 8.21. I am now trying to build my application and install it onto a runtime PC. I have installed the Labview 8.21 runtime, the vision821rte.exe and IMAQdx. After rebooting my camera was still not recognized neither in MAX (4.2.1 - same version as in the development station where everything runs fine) nor in the WIndows XP device manager. I have then installed the IMAQ I/O 2.0.1 but this did not improve the situation.
I do not know what I am missing, either another package or is there a conflict that prevents my PC from seeing the camera?

What are the only runtime components that are required to have my PC recognizing the camera?

THe FIrewire board is well detected in the Windows Device Manager.

Thanks a lot,
Christophe

[demux]

Good Morning Christophe,

When you want to distribute an application that uses algorithms from NI Vision and grabs images from an IEEE 1394 camera you need the following:

LabVIEW Runtime engine, does not need activation

Vision Runtime Engine, needs to be activated

NI-IMAQdx, needs to be activated.

If all of the above is activated and you are still having problems, you can find some valuable KnowledgeBases here and here .

Please keep us informed about your progress.

Kind Regards,

Wouter Van Hoof

Applications Engineering

NI Belgium

[Christ0phe]

Thanks for the information. This is exactly what I did. I realized that I had forgot to tick the legacy option in the IMAQdx installer (why is not there by default if without it, it would not work?) then reinstalled it with the option ticked. As a result the firewire device appeared in the Device Manager of Windows but still not in the MAX. I found another useful entry in the forum (http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&message.id=63847&requireLogin=False) in which one recommends to reinstall manually IMAQCFG.msi (from IMAQ I/O 2.0.1) and that did the trick.

All this is a bit sloppy and disappointing. I hope things will improve in future versions...
Thanks for your help,

Christophe

Message Edited by Christ0phe on 10-23-2008 03:56 AM