Description

• This repo contains source code to perform initial image acquisition.
• It saves the captured images inside the 'images' folder.
• The timestamps are saved inside the 'timestamps' folder.

Installation

• Go to project directory and create folders lib and build:

  cd <your_path>/init_img_acq
  mkdir -p build lib
  

• VimbaX Library

  • Download the VmbCPP library VimbaX_Setup-2023-1-Linux64.tar.gz from here.
  • Extract the contents of tar file: tar -xvzf <your_download_path>/VimbaX_Setup-2023-1-Linux64.tar.gz
  • Paste the extracted directory inside the lib folder.

• Install ZLIB: sudo apt install zlib1g-dev

• Install LibXLSXWriter from instructions here. Make it on your own from given instructions inside your lib directory.

Build

# Go to build folder
cd build

# Generate makefiles
cmake -s ..

make -j

# Run the executable
./init_img_acq

Troubleshooting for Camera API

# Ping the camera IP address
ping <camera_ip_address>

# Run VimbaXViewer
cd lib/VimbaX_2023-1/bin
./VimbaXViewer

# If TL (Transport Layer) not found
cd ../cti
sudo -E ./SetGenTLPath.sh
sudo -E ./VimbaGigETL_Install.sh

# Log off your system and run VimbaXViewer again after restart