Rs232 Serial Interface; Seek Camera - AVT Bigeye G Installation Manual

Using the AVT viewer applications

RS232 serial interface

Seek camera

Select the desired camera from the cameras window of the GigE Sample
Viewer. Click the serial icon, shown left, to open the serialIO window.
This tool controls the camera's RS232 port which communicates across
the RXD and TXD pins on the camera IO port. All AVT GigE Vision cameras except
Mako G offer an RS232 port.
Figure 18: GigE Sample Viewer serialIO window
RS232 communication can be used for interfacing the camera to motorized
lenses, temperature and pressure sensors, camera position motors, and other
applications.
Select the desired camera from the cameras window of the GigE Sample
Viewer. Click the seek icon, shown left. The seek camera window
appears. This is used when camera UDP discover broadcast packets are
either disabled, or blocked by hardware or network administrator preventing
the camera from being recognized by the GigE Sample Viewer. Enter the cam-
era's IP address into the window shown below.
Figure 19: GigE Sample Viewer seek camera
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