Triggering GigE camera

[Paul Brugier]

Hi,

I'm trying to trigger a GigE Camera with Labview. My camera is Jai CM 140 GE and I want to trigger this camera to control the FPS during a recording.
I have read this post http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=200&thread.id=13963 but I don't understand everything :s
I have used the Property Node to set Trigger Selector to "Frame Start", Trigger Mode to "On", Trigger Activation to "Rising Edge".

I tryed to set the Trigger Source to "Software" or "Pulse generator" but these both options don't look to work... But when I configure my camera Attributes with MAX and set TriggerSource to "Software" I can control my camera (With a button in MAX, but I don't know how to reproduce this in Labview 😕 )

I'm using Labview 10.0.1

Thank you!

[Paul Brugier]

I did some progress: Now I can trigger with the Software Trigger, but my frame rate is limited to 28fps while my camera speed is 31fps.

I think this slowdown comes from the fact of modify the Attributes of the camera for each iteration. Do you know another solution maybe?
I though about trigger the camera with the pulse generator in it, but I don't know how to do... (I set the TriggerSource to "Pulse generator 0" but nothing work)

Thank you

[ShalB]

Hi Paul,

I stumbled onto a document that explains how to acquire from GigE camera and it also has a simple exmaple of how to implement triggering:

http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/5750

Hope this helps,