Trigger video acquisition in SpinView

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Yarden Wiesenfeld

• January 17, 2024 21:53

I would like to trigger video acquisition for my Blackfly camera using SpinView. Specifically, I would like to configure the recording to collect a 30 min video at 3 fps every 2 hours, for 24 hours (acquire 5400 frames, wait 1.5 hr, acquire 5400 frames, and so on). The output can be one concatenated video or multiple short ones. How can I do this? It seems like "Acquisition Control" or "Counter & Timer Control" should allow me to do this, but I am not finding documentation explaining how.

Camera: Blackfly S BFS-U3-200S6M

Software: SpinView 3.1.0.79

Computer: Windows 64-bit

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  TDY_Markus

  Community team

  • January 19, 2024 15:05

  

  

  Hi Yarden,

  Have you already taken a look at our source code examples? You should find them at C:\Program Files\FLIR Systems\Spinnaker\src .
  "Acquisition" is a simple one which grabs ten images and saves them as single image files to disk. You can extend this section to align it to the pattern you want to record.
  The next step would be saving the frames to video files (see "SaveToAvi" example).

  What about the external trigger signal (electrical pulse) every two hours?

  Best Regards,
  Markus

   
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  TDY_Markus

  Community team

  • January 19, 2024 08:24

  

  

  Hello Yarden,

  is there an external trigger signal (hardware trigger) every two hours to start the 30 min. session? If yes it should be possible to to configure this using SpinView. Having said this is not trivial and may take some time.

  Would you be able to write your own piece of software using our Spinnaker API to run it at the command line? I assume this would be the easier and quicker solution.

  Thanks,
  Markus

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  Yarden Wiesenfeld

  • January 19, 2024 13:44

  Hi Markus,

  I am new to all of this (I have some coding background, but not in controlling a device using code)… I’m not even sure where to start, and the Spinnaker API documentation is over my head given my background.

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  Rik

  • August 13, 2024 13:39

  My appologies for jumping into an old topic but I have a similar problem and would like to have a look to the source code examples.

  However I cannot find the folder "C:\Program Files\FLIR Systems\Spinnaker\src".

  Closest I get is "C:\Program Files\Teledyne\Spinnaker" but there is no src subfolder.

   

  Rik

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  TDY_Manuel

  Community team

  • August 13, 2024 14:36

  

  Hello Rik, 

  You are probably using a newer version which now installs into the Teledyne directory. Please try to uninstall Spinnaker, install again and this time chose "Application Development" during installation. That should install the source code examples. 

  Regards, 
  Manuel

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  Rik

  • August 13, 2024 16:23

  Thanks Manuel, I'll try that!

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