Test camera off robot?

[Greg McKaskle]

The way I do it is to use NI Vision Assistant. If not installed, you can find it on the LabVIEW DVD.

If you place the camera and PC on the same subnet, or otherwise routable network, the vision asst allows you to acquire images form the camera, make measurements, process the images with vision scripts, save images, and even generate code.

With this networking setup, you can also do basic settings with a web browser by opening the camera IP address.

Greg McKaskle

[michael714]

Are you able to process live images from the Axis Cam? We're having a problem where we can process image snapshots from the Axis Cam, but we can't process live images. When we try to grab live images, we get a prompt to install NI-IMAQdx.

[sometimestommy]

Yes! it is possible! We did it just a couple of days ago with our axis camera. All you have to do is go to the Support tab of labview and click on "Find FRC examples and go to vision, then "Rectangle Tracking.VI"

Once open, you simply just type in your camera's IP and you can view the original image and then the processed image with tracking overlayed.

EDIT: You can alternatively change the size and frame rate of the image stream to test what settings work best for the actual code (usually the smaller the better for processing speed)