Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Mark Rivers" <[email protected]> · Tue, 26 Apr 2011 13:14:22 -0500

Hi Zen,

There are 2 areaDetector drivers for the CoolSnap HQ2.  

The first is the Roper driver:

http://cars9.uchicago.edu/software/epics/RoperDoc.html

That driver uses the Roper/Princeton Instruments WinView program.  The areaDetector driver controls WinView through the Microsoft COM interface.  It only works with Windows.  I use this driver extensively for collecting microtomography data.

The second is the PVCam driver:

http://cars9.uchicago.edu/software/epics/pvcamDoc.html

That driver uses the Roper/Photometrics PvCam library.  It should work on both Windows and Linux.  However, I have never used it on Linux.  I know that Stuart Wilkins ([email protected]), Darron Chabot ([email protected]) and Mattheaw Pearson ([email protected]) have been working on trying to use PvCam with Linux.  You may want to contact them to see if they have managed to get it working.

Mark

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From: Szalata, Zenon M. [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 12:51 PM
To: Mark Rivers
Cc: EPICS Tech Talk
Subject: Area Detector

Hi Mark,
I was given a Photometrics Cool SNAP HQ2 camera.  It comes with a PCI interface.  Can this camera work with Area Detector on Linux RHEL5?  If so, is there some documentation or an example on how to use Area Detector with this type of camera?  

Any help with this is greatly appreciated,
Zen

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System