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how to set up a firewire listener to work

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Hello everyone,

 

My machine vision system consist of a firewire camera (PointGrey Flea2) and two computers ( A desktop PC as a Real Time Target and a Host PC running Windows XP). These three elements are linked by means of a 3 port firewire-b Hub.

 

1. In MAX, I can only make the camera appear as a device of ONE of the host  computers (There's no imaqdx device on the other one: I don't know wether this is OK). 

 

2. I want the RT Target to be the controller. There, I simply open the camera interface with the default interface name (cam0 as configured in MAX) and start the acquisition (the camera control mode parameter is at its default state: controller).

 

3. Then, I try to start the listener. On the listening computer,  I try to open your camera interface with the 64-bit unique identifier of the target camera (a string uuid:XXXXXXXXYYYYYYYY. Of course, I  set the listener camera control mode parameter. But then I get the error than the camera cannot be found.

 

 

Any help to make this work is wellcome. Thanks in advance.

 

 

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The Performance of 1394 devices may decrease after installing Windows XP SP2 or SP3.

 

The problem was solved by downgrading to the 1394 drivers that come with Service Pack 1.

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