Andor camera server

Overview

The Andor Camera server interfaces with Andor CCD Cameras. It communicates via Andor SDK, which can only be used on a Windows machine. To access the SDK in python we load the DLL library with ctypes.

The server is provides a graphical user interface to view the streaming camera images. This is done directly instead of having a separate GUI client to speed up the display of live images. All of the functionality can, of course, also be accessed through the server settings.

Installation

• Requires pyqtgraph

• pyqtgraph works faster if there are c and c++ compilers installed on the machine. To get them on Windows, install MinGW. If there are any issues with stdref.h, copy the file fromC:\MinGW\lib\gcc\mingw32\4.7.2\include to C:\MinGW\include.

Version Control

Version 1.0

• Stable, has basic display and image region selection functionality.