Blackfly S GigE and Teledyne GigE PoE PCIe 2.1 x4 Dual Port Adapter

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Paulo Ricardo Marques de Araujo

• March 13, 2025 16:49

Hello,

I have 2x Blackfly S GigE cameras and 1x Teledyne GigE PoE PCIe 2.1 x4 Dual Port Adapter. I ordered the Ethernet Network Interface Card so connect the camera to my PC. I installed it and powered the PC, but I couldn't connect the camera. Also, I noticed I don't see the led on the back of the camera ON, which indicates the camera is not powered.

My PC is running Ubuntu 20.04, and I have a local network set under 192.168.1.x. I don't know what else I can do, SpinView (Spinnaker SDK) does not see the cameras as well.

Any tips on what might be missing? I couldn't find any driver for the components.

Thank you.

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  Paulo Ricardo Marques de Araujo

  • March 15, 2025 12:07

  Hello William,

  Thanks for the recommendations. The only way I could make it work was on Windows with a dedicated PoE router. Then, I was able to set the Persistent IP properly. Next, I moved back to Linux, everything in the same network, and cameras connected to the the Teledyne Ethernet Network Interface card worked. Mysterious behavior, but after a few hours I found this solution.
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  TDY_William

  Community team

  • March 13, 2025 23:55

  

  

  Hi Paulo,

  I would recommend doing the following items (in order):

  • Turn off the PC, and double-check to make sure that the gige host adapter is properly connected to the PC, as it sometimes may take an extra push to have it properly seated on the connection
  • Try turning on the PC; once its turned on, try connecting the camera; if the LED on the back of the camera lights up at all, then the host adapter should be working fine.  
  • Try going through the README included with Spinnaker
  • If the camera still isn't being recognized, then I would advise to connect the camera to a Windows machine.  In SpinView, when the camera is recognized right click on the camera, choose the force ip option. Once thats done, right click again, choose gige configuration->ip configuration.  Set an ip address/subnet mask (if you need an example, you can ip address to 169.255.0.2, subnet mask to 255.255.0.0, and default gateway to 169.255.0.3).  Click on the the "Set Persistent IP configuration" then check the "Persistent IP" box.  
  • At this point, the camera will startup with this ip address; you can then move back to your Linux machine, and set the IP Address for your Gige host adapter to a matching value (to match the previous example, you can set the ip address to 169.255.0.4 and subnet mask to 255.255.0.0).  When the camera is connected now, it should show in SpinView, assuming it is properly powered.

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