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basler / pypylon

The official python wrapper for the pylon Camera Software Suite
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General support for GenICam-compliant Cameras #463

Open agvdndor opened 2 years ago

agvdndor commented 2 years ago

Hi,

Basler cameras support The GenICam standard and provide GenTL producers so that they can be operated by third-party software libraries that support the GenTL standard, i.e. GenTL consumers. It is my understanding that (py)pylon itself is such a GenTL consumer and hence should be able to also operate other, non-basler, GenTL producers.

I have tested this theory by enumerating devices after adding the simulated GenTL producer TLSimu.cti (provided by the official genicam python bindings) to the GENICAM_GENTL64_PATH system variable. The simulated device does not show up in the device_list.

Was I wrong in assuming that pypylon uses the GenTL interface to operate its cameras?

SMA2016a commented 2 years ago

pylon does not support 3rd party cameras, unless you get an unlock key from Basler.

agvdndor commented 2 years ago

Thanks for the reply. Could you elaborate on that?

  1. How would one go about getting such a key? I can't seem to find any documentation on it.
  2. What exactly is its purpose? Are 3rd party GenTL producers now simply restricted as a business decision?
SMA2016a commented 2 years ago

Simply contact the Basler sale rep in your region.

https://www.baslerweb.com/de/vertrieb-support/vertrieb/