The trio of Labview, PT Gray Card and Basler A-610 F camera

[Asad_Tirmizi]

Hello all, 

I am trying to do a project on camera fusion with a PH d professor. As i am the research assistant i get to do the preliminary set ups. Anyways its very embarrassing that i am stuck on the very first step. That is simply detecting video from one single camera on LabVIEW. The hardware i am using is a " basler A-610f " firewire camera, a PT gray 1394b PCI Express Card (http://www.ptgrey.com/products/firepro/index.asp). 

The basler connects with the PT gray card through a firewire cable. Now as the card is not an NI product it is not being shown in the MAX. I just need to grab the video from LabVIEW, but i dont know where am i supposed to access the camera from.

I am using LabVIEW 8.2.1 and i have Vision Assistant and Vision and Motion tool kit installed in my machine. Moreover i just downloaded the Vision Development module's demo version as well. I repeat for clarification that i just need to acquire video from my camera.

[Robert_Eastlund]

Dear Asad,

Have you installed the NI Vision Acquisition Software?  See https://www.ni.com/en-us/shop/product/vision-acquisition-software.html

-Robert Eastlund

[Asad_Tirmizi]

Respected Sir, 

I have over come this problem. It was a problem with my fire wire cable that was holding me up. once the right firewire cable was used the camera got detected. I had to install the SDK of basler camera and once it detected the video feed and started showing it, then the MAX and Vision Assistant also started showing the feed.

Now sir, I am stuck with the problem that i need to bring the video feed to LabVIEW so that i can proceed furthur with the algorithm. My question is that whether the fire wire camera is detected the same way as the USB camera or is there any specific blockset for fire wire cameras ? 

[esmaham]

I am guess I answered this question on a different post. That would be nice if we could keep everything organized so we don't have duplicate content.  

Thanks and have a great day.

Esmail Hamdan | Applications Engineering | National Instruments