1.14. FireGrabber

Summary:	Firewire - Fire Package Capture (Windows) / FireForLinux (Linux)
Type:	DataIO
License:	licensed under LGPL
Platforms:	Windows, Linux
Devices:	Cameras supported by FirePackage from Allied Vision
Author:	G. Baer, A. Bielke, M. Gronle, ITO, University Stuttgart

1.14.1. Overview

Camera plugin that uses the FireGrab driver from the AVT FirePackage in order to communicate with corresponding cameras. The cameras are connected to the computer via firewire.

This plugin can only be loaded and used once the AVT FirePackage driver has been correctly installed on your computer. For more information about AVT FirePackage and their license browse to http://www.alliedvisiontec.com. This plugin was mainly tested with the cameras AVT Malin, Guppy and Pike. Not all parameters are supported by this plugin.

For cameras from Allied Vision it is recommended to use the new Vimba interface and the itom plugin AVTVimba. This supports more types of cameras and features than the deprecated FirePackage driver from Allied Vision.

1.14.2. Initialization

The following parameters are mandatory or optional for initializing an instance of this plugin:

1.14.3. Parameters

An instance of this plugin has the following internal parameters:

bpp: {int}: bit depth of camera
brightness: {float}: Brightness value (if supported)
cameraID: {int}, read-only: camera ID of the camera
frame_time: {float}, read-only: Transmission time per frame in s
gain: {float}: Virtual gain
gamma: {int}: Gamma correction (0: off, 1: on, default: off)
integration_time: {float}: Integrationtime of CCD programmed in s
modelName: {str}, read-only: model name of the camera [if connected]
name: {str}, read-only: name of plugin
offset: {float}, read-only: Offset not used here.
sizex: {int}, read-only: Pixelsize in x (cols)
sizey: {int}, read-only: Pixelsize in y (rows)
timebase: {int}, read-only: timebase (step width of integration_time) in Âµs
vendorID: {int}, read-only: vendor ID of the camera
vendorName: {str}, read-only: vendor name of the camera [if connected]
x0: {int}: Startvalue for ROI
x1: {int}: Stopvalue for ROI
y0: {int}: Startvalue for ROI
y1: {int}: Stopvalue for ROI