Camera Link camera selection

[TiTou]

Is there a way, from LabVIEW, to select the CameraLink camera connected to a CameraLink Framegrabber (PCIe1430 or 1433)?

My use case :

I'm deploying systems with a 2 PCIe-1430 framegrabbers and 4 Sony XCL-C280 (2 cameras on each framgrabber), I've made a camera file for this camera, I have an installer that deploys the camera file but after installing I still have to open MAX to select the camera model on each port, I'd like to add something to my installer that does that automatically.

Cheers

[udka]

There's no direct way as i know.

-But You can try by parsing camera files to get the name: http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/A3C14737B1A08C7786256B98006DCB5E?OpenDocument

-You can change the camera files also if you want: http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/CCC5BB5990AA416786256C23006E687C?OpenDocument

-There's a community example showing the same. You can try : https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-14712

[TiTou · Accepted solution]

Thanks for these pointers, they really helped me get to my solution.

In fact I simply had to make a VIs to retreive and edit the iid files.