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Basler pylon Driver Package Basler provides its own fully tested Gigabit Ethernet drivers for the Basler scout camera family compatible with the GigE Vision standard. The pylon driver package offers reliable and fl exible image data exchange between your Basler cameras and the PC, at a low CPU load. 2 BASLER SCOUT Resolutions from VGA to 2. If your VIEW system has Basler GigE cameras, this situation may impact you. This article explains the cause of the problem and how you can fix it. After a Windows Update is installed, Windows 10, on some systems may have inoperable Basler GigE cameras. Windows Update may uninstall or alter the Basler Ethernet driver required by the camera. Jan 19, 2021 For all network adapters using the pylon GigE Vision filter driver, Basler recommends disabling protocols or services that may interfere with the pylon driver. To disable protocols or services: Open the Network Connections window in the Windows Control Panel. For quick access, press Win + R, type ncpa.cpl, and press Enter.

What Happen when Installing a Basler GigE Vision Network Driver

Basler Gige Vision Adapter Driver

  • Basler network drivers are bound to all network adapters (include network for camera or LAN access) installed in your computer.
  • Two drivers are available
    1. Basler filter driver
      • Basic GigE Vision network driver.
      • Compatible with all network adapters.
      • Advantage is its extensive compatibility.
      • Basler pylon driver wil bind Basler filter driver to the network adapter as a service and will enable the service.
    2. Basler performance driver
      • A hardware specific GigE Vision network driver.
      • Only compatible with specific Intel Chipsets ('compatible chipsets')
      • Advantage is its significantly lowers the CPU load needed to service the network traffic between PC and camera.
      • More robust packet resend mechanism.
      • Basler pylon driver will remove adapter driver and install Basler performance driver.
      • Basler filter driver will be bound to network adapter as a service, however will not be enabled.

Software Installation
Camera and Adapter Configuration


  1. Firewall must be disable
  2. Configure fixed IP address on the camera network port
  3. Run IP Configurator
    • [Connected to IF] is Adapter IP
    • [Current IP Address] is current camera IP address
    • [Persistent IP Address] is Camera stored IP address
  4. Click 'Change Configuration' to force temporary IP to Camera.
  5. Then Change [Persistent IP Address] to correct IP address and click 'Write Configuration'
Camera Testing (Pylon Viewer)
  1. Go to 'Devices' tab, select Camera and click 'Continuous Shot'
  2. Common features parameters setting
    • User Level: Guru -> full parameters access
    • AOI (Width x Height) must be multiply of 8. (For eVision)
    • Acquisition Controls - Trigger Mod
    • Configuration Sets
      • Configure Set Selector - select 'User Set 1'
      • Execute 'User Set Save' (Save current setting in 'User Set 1')
      • Configure Default Startup Set - select 'User Set 1' (Select Power off/on load User Set 1 parameter)
Pylon Programming C# - Add reference
AndroidAdd Reference [PylonC.NET]- Add dll only
  • Click [Browse] -> [PylonC.NET.dll] in C:Program FilesBaslerPylon 2.3pylon.netbin
Add Reference [Pylon.NETSupportLIbrary] - Add dll only
  • Click [Browse] -> [Pylon.NETSupportLibrary.dll in C:Program FilesBasler directories
Add Reference [Pylon.NETSupportLibrary]Basler Vision Driver - Add project
  1. Add [Pylon.NETSupportLibrary] in the project
  2. Add reference -> click [Project] to add pylon.NETSupportLibrary.dll
Pylon.NETSupportLibrary - ImageProvider (Class)
Function
Cached
  1. Open - /* Open using index. Before ImageProvider can be opened using the index, Pylon.EnumerateDevices() needs to be called. */
  2. Close
  3. OneShot - /* Start the grab of one image. */
  4. ContinuousShot - /* Start the grab of images until stopped. */
  5. Stop - /* Stops the grabbing of images. */
  6. GetCurrentImage - /* Returns the next availableimage in the grab result queue. Null is returned if no result is available An image is available when the ImageReady event is fired. */
  7. ReleaseImage - /* After the ImageReady event has been received and the image was acquired by using GetCurrentImage, the imagemust be removed from the grab result queue and added to the stream grabber queue for the next grabs. */
  8. Grab - /* This method is executed using the grab thread and is responsible for grabbing, possible conversion of the image, and queuing the image to the result queue. */

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Event
  1. OnDeviceOpenedEvent - /* Notify that ImageProvider is open and ready for grabbing and configuration. */
  2. OnDeviceClosingEvent - /* Notify that ImageProvider is about to close the device to give other objects the chance to do clean up operations. */
  3. OnDeviceClosedEvent - /* Notify that ImageProvider is now closed.*/
  4. OnGrabbingStartedEvent - /* Notify that grabbing has started. This event could be used to update the state of the GUI. */
  5. OnImageReadyEvent - /* Notify that an image has been added to the output queue. The receiver of the event can use GetCurrentImage() to acquire and process the image and ReleaseImage() to remove the image from the queue and return it to the stream grabber.*/
  6. OnGrabbingStoppedEvent - /* Notify that grabbing has stopped. This event could be used to update the state of the GUI. */
  7. OnGrabErrorEvent - /* Notify that the grabbing had errors and deliver the information. */
  8. OnDeviceRemovedEvent - /* Notify that the device has been removed from the PC. */
Note:
  1. Heart beat timeout
    • Heart beat is send to camera at regular interval
    • If no heart beat (time out), camera will stop and no command can be send from application
    • During Debugging, time out can be too fast. However, increase to large time out can end up camera not able communicate if application is terminated without proper terminate command. (This condition can be solve by disconnect/connect the network cable.)
  2. Convert to Euresys eVision image

Basler scout cameras are also available in 90 degree housing versions with either C or CS lens mount options for maximum flexibility in tight spaces.

The Basler scout family features a GenICam compliant API and uses new drivers. The FireWire-b cameras are also compatible with Basler’s existing BCAM driver and API for FireWire cameras. Along with the drivers, GUI based software is provided that lets users easily set camera parameters, adjust image quality, and control cameras from a remote computer.

With the scout family, Basler is pushing the “analog goes digital” trend into the next dimension.

Basler scout cameras are a perfect fit for a variety of vision applications including semiconductor and component inspection, manufacturing quality control, food and beverage inspection, intelligent traffic systems, microscopy and medical imaging, biometrics, and many others.

Outstanding Image Quality
 The scout family is equipped with seven assorted Sony CCD sensors in mono and color. These sensors were selected to provide outstanding image quality in combination with the scout’s read-out and processing electronics. For precise imaging results, all scout cameras run in progressive scan mode. Users of interlaced analog cameras can easily switch to a scout camera equipped with Micron’s MT9V022 CMOS progressive scan sensor.

Gigabit Ethernet (GigE Vision) Drivers
 Basler provides its own Gigabit Ethernet drivers for the scout camera family. These drivers will be compatible with the GigE Vision standard and optimized for the scout family. To give you maximum flexibility, Basler provides two different drivers:

GigE Vision Network Drivers And Bandwidth Management | Basler

Filter driver: The filter driver quickly separates incoming packets carrying image data from other traffic on the network and makes the data available for vision applications running on the computer.

Performance driver: By using the performance driver, even demanding applications with multiple cameras, high data rates, or very strict real-time requirements can be supported. When the performance driver is used in combination with a dedicated network interface card (Intel), the load on the host computer’s CPU is significantly reduced.

Basler Gige Vision Network Driver

Precise Sensor Alignment
 In addition to Basler’s standard CTT+ automated quality assurance and calibration system, the scout camera family will be tested and measured with another production tool. This unique tool is an ultrahigh precision sensor alignment device. The device automatically mounts the sensor board on the camera’s front module in six degrees of freedom with reference to the optical axis. This ensures a constant depth of focus over the whole sensor. For sensors with small pixels (< 5 μm) this is essential for good imaging results.