cdqp / aylp_menable5

Anyloop plugin for Basler's microEnable 5 frame grabber

Anyloop plugin for the MicroEnable 5 frame grabber

Linux only for now. Only tested on a Mikrotron camera.

libaylp dependency

Symlink or copy the libaylp directory from anyloop to libaylp. For example:

ln -s $HOME/git/anyloop/libaylp libaylp

basler-fgsdk5 dependency

Download Basler's Framegrabber SDK from https://www.baslerweb.com/en/downloads/software-downloads/ and either install the SDK or symlink or copy it into a directory namedlibfgsdk.

Then, when running sdk_init with this plugin, make sure you include libfgsdk/lib in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH. You won't have to do this while running anyloop.

Building

Use meson:

meson setup build
meson compile -C build

Initializing

For some reason, talking to the kernel driver using only ioctl interrupts is not completely reliable. It seems that we need to initialize with the SDK once, and after that it all our own code should work across reboots. This initialization is probably happening over /sys/class/menable/menable0/pci_dev/resource* but I've yet to write code to replay those messages.

As such, just run the sdk_init binary which I think takes care of initialization until other code using the Basler SDK is run.

Note that the sdk_init binary determines the width and height of the acquired image.