Supported Industry Standards; Genicam; Ascii Commands - Teledyne Linea 2K CL User Manual

Supported Industry Standards

GenICam™

Linea cameras are GenICam™ compliant. They implement a superset of the GenICam™ Standard
Features Naming Convention specification V1.5.
This description takes the form of an XML device description file respecting the syntax defined by
the GenApi module of the GenICam™ specification. The camera uses the GenICam™ Generic
Control Protocol (GenCP V1.0) to communicate over the Camera Link serial port.
For more information see www.genicam.org.
Teledyne DALSA recommends using Sapera CamExpert as your Camera Link compliant camera
interface application. CamExpert is the camera interfacing tool supported by the Sapera library and
comes bundled with SaperaLT. Using CamExpert is the simplest and quickest way to send
commands to and receive information from the camera.
Sapera uses the GenICam™ Generic Control Protocol (GenCP V1.0) to communicate with the
camera over the Camera Link serial port. When communications are first established, Sapera
downloads the GenICam™ XML Description file. This file details how to access and control the
camera.

ASCII Commands

As an alternative to the CamExpert (or equivalent) GUI, you can communicate with this camera
using ASCII-based commands. Using a terminal emulating program, establish a serial port
connection with the camera.
In the ASCII interface press the ESC key; the communication mode will be switched into the ASCII
command mode other than the GenICam mode.
A complete list of the commands and a description of how to access them can be found in Appendix
B: ASCII Commands.
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