Thermal Camera Image Acquisition Toolbox Setup

All,

I will list the steps that I have taken to adjust the settings of my Mac to make the FLIR thermal camera work with Matlab Image Acquisition Toolbox. I will also try to lead other platform users to important websites.

1. (For Mac users) Make sure you have the R2011b version on your Mac which is already available via CMU computing services. This is the only version that supports Image Acquisition Toolbox for Mac.
   Similarly Windows users can check the system requirements here.
2. Make sure you have the latest version of the Matlab Image Acquisition Toolbox.
   If you have used CMU computing services to obtain the latest copy of Matlab and followed the suggested steps you should be good to go. The toolbox will be automatically installed on your platform.
3. The FLIR Thermal camera supports GigE . So we have to install the GigE vision drivers. A good tutorial is given here. For troubleshooting you can also consult here.
4. When you are done with setting up the GigE drivers, type imaqhwinfo in Matlab command window and check the available adapters list. You should see 'gige' in the list.

• Note for Mac users: If you do not have the development tools or you cannot access ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist while configuring GenICam environment variables, here is the workaround:
  -Open up a terminal window and type sudo vi /etc/launchd.conf
  -Add the following lines to launchd.conf and save.

setenv GENICAM_CACHE_V2_2 /Users/username/.GenICam/xml/cache

setenv GENICAM_LOG_CONFIG_V2_2/Applications/GenICam/V2_2_0/log/config_unix/DefaultLogging.properties

setenv GENICAM_ROOT_V2_2 /Applications/GenICam/V2_2_0

-Finally type export to see if the environment variables are set correctly, you should see these three variables within the output.

Let me know if you face any troubles.

Thanks,

Emre