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LJMUAstroecology / flirpy

Python library to interact with FLIR camera cores
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Flir Tau2 support #6

Closed YashRunwal closed 4 years ago

YashRunwal commented 4 years ago

In the docs it is mentioned that this library supports flir Tau Cameras. Does this support Flir Tau2 Cameras too?

jveitchmichaelis commented 4 years ago

Yes, the Tau 2 is supported. Though please note the limitations in the readme - unless you have a readout board, image capture will be very slow. Support for image capture on the Tau2 is not great right now, but control is fine.

jveitchmichaelis commented 4 years ago

I've updated the readme to reflect that only the Tau 2 has been tested.

https://github.com/LJMUAstroecology/flirpy/commit/9a35fb1a4ceca557acea165543acf5cd9d900f1e

YashRunwal commented 4 years ago

Thank You so much... I am sorry but I want to know whether you know a ROS driver for Flir Tau 2 is available or not. I know this is a different issue, but I was unsure as to whether i should open a different issue or not.

jveitchmichaelis commented 4 years ago

Not sure. I don't think there is. You'd probably have to write one, but it wouldn't be complicated if you're just publishing images. Do you have an adapter for the camera core?

YashRunwal commented 4 years ago

I have a VPC (Video Power Communication) and Camera Link Expansion Board. Is this what you mean?

jveitchmichaelis commented 4 years ago

Something that will let you capture images digitally (i.e. not analogue), so camera link would be fine. I'm not sure if you're familiar with writing ROS nodes, but you need some driver to actually capture the image and then some code to publish the topic.

However, this is somewhat out of flirpy's scope at the moment. I might provide some ROS examples in the future when ROS Noetic goes live.