Acquring real time images with NI 1742

[Varughese]

Dear Sir / Madam

How to acquire a real time image using NI 1742 Smart Camera?..

Also Please tell me the necessary steps I should take type in the Labview Code... Should I open with blank Vi or create real time projects?

Thanking You

with Regards

Roy

[ChristopheC]

Make sure you installed LabVIEW RT. Add your smart camera target. (Right Click on the top level item of the project, select New>>Targets and Devices, Smart Camera, then select your smart camera.

Select the Smart Camera Icon in the project, then New VI from the file menu.

Select the Vision and Motion palette>>Vision Express (bottom right icon)>>Vision Acquisition.

Follow the instructions from the wizard. When you finish and click OK, the LabVIEW code is generated and you'll be able to acquire images in LabVIEW. If you want to know how the acquisition is implemented, right click on the Express VI and Select Open Front Panel, then convert. LabVIEW create and open a sub-VI where you can see how the acquisition was implemented using the NI-IMAQ API.

Also, I encourage you to look at the acquisition examples located in your LabVIEW folder here:

<Program Files>\National Instruments\<LabVIEW>\Examples\IMAQ\IMAQ Real Time.llb.

Hope this helps.

Best regards,

Christophe

[Varughese]

Dear Christope

Thank you so help but when I tried to run an example program , I received an error saying " No Interface Found" .....

Can you tell me how to trouble shoot this problem?

With Regards

Roy

[ChristopheC]

You need to first create a project and add the smart camera target, then add the example to the project under the smart camera target. LabVIEW will then download the code on the target, run it there and return the image. If you just try to run the example without doing that, the code will run on your local host, and return the error you got because the there is no acquisition device in your computer.

Have you tried the express VI with the instructions on my previous post?

-Christophe

[shrusa]

Hello

I tried to acquire images in real time by adding camera first & following all the steps.

I am getting message : target running on version of  Labview Real Time is different than Real Time Module Software on host computer

real time module (target) 10.0

real time module (host computer ) 8.6

what should I do???

Thank You.