Lumenera Infinity 2-1 Driver

[jstir]

First off I have LV 7.1 and Vision Dev Module V7 and a Lumenera Infinity 2-1.  I have loaded the driver from the Lumenera website and I have found  and used the VIs for LuCamStart, LuCamEnd, and the one to take a picture (snapshop). There are a few for movie, quick picture, and setting which appear with a queation mark over them and I cannot utilize them. After talking to the Lumenera folks, the said the their driver would only work if I had Builder AI as well. My question is this.... is there any way to make their capture movie VI work without AI (what does it utilize in AI that the Dev. Module doesn't have)? And if not, is there any way to write a VI that couls capture a movie (full frame rate) from this camera in LV? I have limited experience with LV, but am learning and can pick it up when guided.

Thanks

Jeff

[Michelle_N]

Hi jstir,

I am not sure what those VIs (movie, quick picture, and setting) could be doing that need Vision Builder for Automated Inspection (VBAI). Maybe they are making ActiveX calls to it? Is there anyway you could post them or a screen shot so I can take a look at the block diagram?

You should be able to use AVI VIs to create a video from your camera. You could start by looking at the AVI examples. In LabVIEW click on Help >> Find Examples... Click on the Search tab and search for the keyword "AVI". You might find Grab and Save to AVI.vi and AVI Read Write With Data Example.vi helpful.

Does this help?

[jstir]

I will try and let you know. As for the movie VIs... I cant even access them, open them, so I cant paste a block diagram. They are available to freely download from the LUMENERA website.  Thanks.... jeff

[Michelle_N]

jstir,

I downloaded the support VIs from Lumenera's website but still do not see any called movie, quick picture, or setting. Maybe I installed the wrong VIs? I downloaded it from Lumenera Download Centre and installed the Lumenera USB 2.0 Camera LabVIEW Plug-in. Also, the website explicitly states:

"This plug-in requires the installation of LabVIEW, the NI Vision Development Module, and the applicable Lumenera Software for your camera model."

Is it possible that you are missing the Lumenera Software?

If this is the correct Plug-in, then you should not have a problem using it without having Vision Builder AI installed as the VI's appear to making DLL calls to the Lumenera driver only.

Does this help?

[quixomniac]

To everyone who has used a Lumenera camera.
Was anything additional needed to the plug in downloaded from the website?
I was trying to turn an example but it keeps asking for an NILuAPI.dll file.
Which I suppose is a shared library.
LabVIEW immediately starts looking for it but cannot find it.

For this reason, whenever I try to run it, it sends out errors.

"The library specified for this node cannot be found or cannot be loaded. Right-click the Call Library Function node and select Configure, then choose the correct library name or path."

When I go to this node, I find it is looking for an NILuAPI.dll