Camera is not showing up as a video device by default in Linux

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TDY_Ana

• September 21, 2023 13:38

We are looking to integrate our Teledyne FLIR machine vision camera by writing our application on Linux. We want to do this by attaching a streaming video device (from /dev/videoN), but the camera we have does not seem to show up as a video device by default. 
Is there a way to make linux recognize the camera as a video device?

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  TDY_Ana

  • September 21, 2023 13:59
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  Teledyne FLIR machine vision cameras are not webcams and they are not compatible with UVC , Linux UVC or Video4Linux (v4l or v4l2) drivers, which is what most webcams use, so they will not show up as a normal webcam in Linux. 

  To work with Teledyne FLIR machine vision cameras on Linux, you will have to use Spinnaker SDK or third party GenICam based software like Aravis. 

  The following articles can help for an approach with Aravis on Linux:

  https://www.flir.com/support-center/iis/machine-vision/application-note/getting-started-with-aravis-in-linux/ 

  https://www.flir.com/support-center/iis/machine-vision/application-note/using-the-aravis-gstreamer-source-plug-in/

  Best Regards,

  Ana

   

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