Connecting A Gige Ueye Camera - IDS uEye series User Manual

7 Installation
7.5

Connecting a GigE uEye Camera

Please install the software first as described in the Installing the uEye Drivers section.
Check the power supply to the camera. Suitable AC adapters are available as accessories (see
also GigE uEye HE Accessories and GigE uEye SE Accessories). Connect the camera to the PC
either directly or using switches.
Connecting the camera directly to the PC
Using a suitable network cable (e.g. Cat 5e), connect the uEye camera directly to a Gigabit Ethernet
port on your PC. With this connection type, you need a network card for each camera.
Figure 45: Connecting two cameras directly to a PC
Connecting the camera to a PC via switches
The use of switches allows you to extend the line length, as each switch adds a segment. The
maximum cable length for each segment is 100 m.
Using the GigE uEye camera through a router is not supported.
Figure 46: Connecting a camera to a PC, using switches to extend the
line length
Figure 47: Operating multiple cameras via switch
Connecting multiple cameras to multiple PCs using switches
As soon as one of the cameras is used by a PC, it is visible to other PCs, but no longer available. It
can only be used by a different PC when the existing connection to the first PC has been closed.
If the two PCs are on different subnets, each PC can only work with the cameras that have been
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