jigneshbadrakhiya / baslercamerahardwaretrigger

Basler Camera using hardware trigger : a program used for grabbing image using Basler camera

BaslerCameraHardwareTrigger

Basler Camera using hardware trigger

Description

This is a simple program used for grabbing image from a Basler USB3 camera, trigger signal generated by Arduino microcontroller

Dependencies

1.OpenCV3

2.Pylon SDK

--OpenCV3 is used for display image grabbed and write image to disk In case you don't want to display images or you have your own function for writing image to disk, please feel free to disable OpenCV part

--Pylon SDK Since we are using Basler camera, Pylon SDK must be installed on your system

Please follow the instruction from Pylon documentation Documentation could be found here https://www.baslerweb.com/en/products/software/basler-pylon-camera-software-suite/, select the documentation correpond with your own camera model e.g. I'm using Basler acA1300-200um

Usage

cd BaslerCameraHardTrigger
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
../bin/BaslerCameraHardTrigger

Parameter

--camConfig:Camera configuration file, you could load camera parameters from configuration file before grabbing images

--saveImgDir:Directory where you would like to put images in

--imgPrefix: Prefix of image filename

--imgPostfix:Postfix of image filename

--showView: bool, whether display image grabbed