Acquire Images From Camera(S) - Smartek Vision Giganetix GC Series User Manual

3.6.2 Acquire Images from Camera(s)

In this section a step-by-step guide will be introduced, showing how the user can start the image acquisition
from a camera using the SMARTEK Vision GigEVisionClient.
3.6.2.1 Device Enumeration
After the GigEVisionClient is started, it automatically searches for GigE Vision compliant devices connected
to the network. All found devices are listed in the device list dialog. If the required camera is attached or
powered-up subsequent and is not shown in the list, the user can manually update the list and search for
devices.
To search for devices within the network(s) the computer is connected to, click the Find Devices icon in the
Toolbar, shown in Figure 65.
If none of the connected cameras was found, check the status of the network adapters
and their configuration, as well as the status LEDs on the Ethernet connector of
Note the camera, described in chapter 2.3.1 - Ethernet Interface. Make sure everything
is plugged properly and that the firewall settings are not blocking the connection to
camera or GigEVisionClient.
After discovering one or multiple cameras, there is one of three available flags in front of each camera name
displayed in the Devices list:
Device available and waiting for connection
Connection to device established
Warning
In case the Warning sign is shown in front of a camera name, there could be two reasons:
1. The IP-address and subnet mask of network interface card or camera are invalid
2. The link speed of the used network interface is providing less than 1000 Mbit/s
For a quick start it is recommended to only use Gigabit Ethernet NICs, configured according to Table 66
shown in chapter 5.2 - LAN IP Configuration.
In all cases it must be ensured that further NIC's within the PC are not configured for an IP-address within
the same logical network as the NIC for the camera connection.
Figure 65: Find Devices icon
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