Camera Not Detected

[BowenZheng]

Hi there,

I bought a BFLY-PGE-31S4M/C-C 1/1.8" Blackfly® PoE GigE Monochrome Camera https://www.edmundoptics.com/p/bfly-pge ... mera/3875/, but I'm having trouble connecting the camera to the Spectrum Analyzer software even though it connects to Spinnaker IDK. I was going through the manual to resolve it, but I can't figure out why the camera is still not detected.

Best,
Bowen

[Luc]

Hi,

Can you double check the followings ?

• is the spinview software closed when you try to connect to the camera using SpectrumAnalyzer?
• is the ip address of the camera in the valid range ?

If it keeps blocking we can organize a TeamViewer session.

[BowenZheng]

Hi Luc,

How do I determine if the IP address of the camera is in the valid range? I can identify the IP address, but could you clarify what the valid range is supposed to be?

Thank you,
Bowen

[Luc]

Can you open spinview and take a screenshot of the camera list ? without doing anything else

[BowenZheng]

Hi Luc,

Sorry for the late reply, but the OpenRaman software is now successfully running when I close the spinnaker software. However, when I go back to try to use the spinnaker software, it's saying that another application is running it. Is there a way to bypass this and use both applications simultaneously? .

Thank you,
Bowen

[Luc]

Hi,

That's normal -- you cannot connect twice to the camera

It's a common problem people meet but there is nothing to do, it's just that the camera is not made to support multiple connections.

[Dubbie]

I am also having trouble. I have the same camera, I can connect and capture just fine in spinview, but when I run the spectrum analyser app, It just crashes. Is it because I have spinaker v4 installed and not v2? Should I try to build your app against V4 of the SDK?

[Luc]

you need to use the exact version provided with the software or recompile for the new SDK version

[Dubbie]

Ok, I am back on this project.

I have installed the correct version of the spinaker SDK as per your download link.
The camera shows up and works fine in spinview.
However I can't seem to get it to work in the openRaman app. When I click connect, it shows the camera, but if I try to connect, I get an "invalid node" error. I can't figure out where this is coming from. I don't have spinview running at the same time.

Here is the even monitor log.

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[Luc]

I guess you are using the BFS and not the BFLY version of the camera ; the problem was already addressed here : viewtopic.php?t=15

there's a dll to download to fix the issue