1) Use labview to open up the software that the camera came with and extract the image from there (which is what essentially the example VI does).
2) Get labview to get the camera working with vision acquisition like any other USB camera.
Which option would be more feasible? Thank you. I know I left out a lot of information, I will gladly provide any details.
I don't have experience with this specific type of camera but here are a couple of suggestions.
Are you able to make the camera work with the manufacturer's software on the same computer than the one you want to use LabVIEW with?
Does you camera need triggering to acquire images?
If you try to use IMAQ (vision toolkit) to acquire the images, you might not have access to some functions of the camera but if you can start triggering in someway, it should work.
If the manufacturer provides a LabVIEW driver, that is probably your best bet. Let us know exactly what you try (which VI among those) and what was the exact problem if you still cannot make it work.
Yes, on the same computer, it will work with the default program but won't with labview.
I'm not sure what you mean by triggering, but the camera can do a video stream with the default program without the need to press a button or anything to start streaming.
I attempted to use imaq, but I have no idea how to use it to make the camera an input and out put an image from it.
I appreciate it, but I saw that post a while ago and it might as well be in hieroglyphs. I did do some research about call back features in labview (in regards to option 1 of my first post) and it said that I would need a c based wrapper, but I am not familiar with it at all so I was hoping I would get some help with it on here.
Based on the electrical specifications in the manual provided by PI, it looks like you are using a USB 2.0 camera.
We have a troubleshooting guide to help troubleshoot USB 2.0 cameras: Troubleshooting USB 2.0 (DirectShow) Camera Installation Problems. This is where I would start.
The fact that the camera manufacturer (I'm assuming) provided an API is a good sign - it means we should expect LabVIEW to be able to work with the SDK - I also suspect that you may want to reach out to Optris to see if they have any suggestions.
I'm also interested in how to use this camera under Labview.
1. Make a folder in the pi connect directory called "imager.exe" (I know it's weird) on the same level as the actual imager.exe. You're gonna have to do some moving stuff around.
2. Move every file that's not a folder into the newly created "imager.exe" folder. Including imager.exe.
3. Run one of the getting stated vi's.