IMAQdx Software trigger not working

[ThomasV]

Hi,

I am using this equipment :

- Windows 10 PC with PCIe Firewire B-card

- LabVIEW 2015 + IMAQdx 15

- AVT Guppy Pro F503-B (Firewire B camera)

We are a machine building company, NI Alliance member and seasoned LabVIEW developers.

The camera supports software triggering, and this is working when using the camera with its configuration tool VIMBA from AVT.

However when I try to use the software triggering from MAX (or from LabVIEW), this does not work.

- The camera is correctly identified and is working well in free running mode.

- Under 'Camera attributes', I can set the trigger-mode to "Mode 0" (triggered).

- I can set the source to 'software trigger'.

- When I start the acquisition, The 'Execute'-button under 'software trigger' appears.

- However when I press the execute button, nothing happens. Then the acquisition times out after 5s with an error popup.

- The selector "Trigger activation" (level low or level high) does not make any difference.

I get the same behaviour when implementing in LabVIEW.

Do you have any advise?

Thx,

Thomas.