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Re: Legal Cameras

More than likely the camera will have to be supported by NI's IMAQdx driver. Currently only Bassler and AXIS camera's are supported. The camera would have to be a fast ethernet (aka 10/100), as the cRIO-FRC does not have any gigabit ethernet port like other CompatRIOs

Here is a small portion from the following link
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Driver used: IMAQdx 3.5 - installed with Vision Acquisition Software November 2009.
No framegrabber required. Images are processed onboard.

National Instruments supports Internet Protocol (IP) cameras manufactured by Basler and Axis. IP cameras are the only type of cameras currently supported by the Compact RIO. An IP camera typically sends a compressed image over an ethernet connection. Axis IP cameras must have firmware version 2.0 (or later) to be supported.
The big question to ask is would another camera help? Personally I don't think as the vision processing is CPU limited and there is only so much we can get out of a 400Mhz processor.

Just for reference I am able to process 7-8 fps (125-166ms) at 320x240with an AXIS 206.
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