IMAQ for USB Problem with FLIR Ethernet Module

[Chris Immer]

Hello,

I have a FLIR Photon 320 IR camera and have purchased the ethernet module to interface with it: PT1000-IDG-LVDS-V2-V434.  FLIR is an OEM distributer of the ethernet module from Pleora, and Pleora will not support the device (all support hast to go through FLIR).  I've also purchased FLIR's SDK that claims to interface with LabVIEW.  In fact it does include an example of interfacing the camera through activeX however I cannot get the example to run correctly with the shipping example.

They do offer Directshow drivers for the ethernet module, so I've been trying to go that route.  FLIR actually includes a few 3rd party WDM capture utilities and they all can successfully capture video from the ethernet module and other directshow sources.

I have used IMAQ for USB quite successfully in the past along with Alliance Vision's directshow driver: http://www.alliancevision.com/us/index.html

I can get both NI's and Alliance Vision's drivers to work with numerous other directshow sources (camcorder, 1394 frame grabber, decklink framegrabber, etc...).  I can "see" the FLIR module enumerated in the directshow source list in both drivers.  However neither NI's nor Alliance Vision's driver can capture from the device.

From the NI IMAQ-USB Driver I get the following error when I call "IMAQ USB Init.vi":

Error -1074396024 occurred at IMAQ USB Init.vi
  Error system.
Possible reason(s):
IMAQ Vision:  (Hex 0xBFF60488) Minimum coverage value should be greater than zero.

In the Alliance vision Driver I get the following error when I call "DX Cap - Configure Acuqisition.vi" (Equivalent to "IMAQ USB Grab Setup.vi")

Error -2147467262 occurred at No such interface supported
 in DXCap - ConfigureAcquisition.vi->DXCap - Demo with IMAQ Vision.vi
Possible reason(s):
LabVIEW:  (Hex 0x80004002) No such interface supported.

Any ideas?

[DjDaveNI]

Hi Chris,

Check out this forum post regarding error 1074396024 with the USB camera driver. I hope this helps 🙂

[Chris Immer]

I've already looked at thread you mention.  I am using the USA-English version of the Windows/LabVIEW.

[Poormanphysics]

Hello:

I have just been given a Declink Studio F/G and would like to use LV instead since I am used to it a lot while doing microscopy work before. I've read your post mentioning about drivers you can obtain or used in the past for Decklink also. I would appreciate your help in how to obtain then and some starting code if you permit for me start working on my project.  I hope for your kind consideration and thanks for your time.

Regards,

Berns B.

[Chris Immer]

Dr. Berns,

The Decklink boards come with Directshow drivers, which tie the video source into windows through the DirectX architecture.  The beauty of this method is that any software can access the video stream easily without special drivers.  If you have LabVIEW2009 with the Vision Development Module:

https://www.ni.com/en/shop/data-acquisition-and-control/add-ons-for-data-acquisition-and-control/wha...

or the Image Acquistion Software:

https://www.ni.com/en-us/shop/product/vision-acquisition-software.html

You'll see the Decklink board in Measurement and Automation Explorer.

If you have LabVIEW 8.6, the NI-IMAQ USB provides similar functionality:

https://www.ni.com/en/support/documentation/compatibility/25/ni-vision-driver-and-vision-acquisition...

The API for both of the above methods is very similar to the standard IMAQ API.  Hope this helps.

[Poormanphysics]

Hello Chris:

Kudos to you ! Overnight you provided me with very good insight on how to work around this F/G (which I only got late afternoon yesterday) I follow your indications.

Thanks very much.

Berns B.