Error opening camera, No device available, error 5001

[SamiDa]

Hi, 

I'm facing these errors when I use toolkit for the CCD camera we use in LabVIEW for Pump-Probe experiment. 

When I switch from Winspec (software for Princeton instrument camera) to subvi (reading over pixel) for CCD in LabVIEW, it’s giving me the error the camera not found and NULL error. 

Following attached images are the errors we’re facing. 

[Kyle97330]

All error codes from 5000 to 9999 are "user error" codes, meaning that they were generated by your application manually and NOT by any pre-built code.

So unless you have the code itself to show us, it's not actually helpful.

Based only off of your extremely vague description (switching from vendor software to your VI), best guess is that the vendor software is holding on to the hardware resource and not letting LabVIEW share it.  You may need to completely stop the vendor software, possibly including any background services, and only then try it in LabVIEW.  Or you might need to reboot the PC and use LabVIEW first instead of the vendor software.

[Bob_Schor]

If the Camera manufacturer gives you their software, then they expect that you will use it to access the Camera.  LabVIEW uses a GenICam-compatible driver called IMAQdx that will probably "compete" with vendor-provided Drivers.

See if you can open MAX and get MAX to "see" your Camera.  Be sure you have the Vision Acquisition Software (VAS) drivers from LabVIEW installed (I believe they may require an additional License from NI).  This is usually an "Either/Or" situation -- you use either NI's or the Vendor's Driver.

Bob Schor