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I’m trying to use aravisGigE to drive a Basler acA1920 ethernet camera with areaDetector. I’m following the instructions at https://github.com/areaDetector/aravisGigE to add a new camera. As detailed below, I can get an XML file from the camera, but makeDbAndEdl.py is not parsing this file. The XML file is large, but the failure seems to be right at the beginning. Am I doing something stupid, or is the Basler camera incompatible with aravisGigE?

 

FIRST TWO LINES OF XML FILE:

Basler-21630837

<RegisterDescription xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://www.genicam.org/GenApi/Version_1_0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.genicam.org/GenApi/Version_1_0 http://www.genicam.org/GenApi/GenApiSchema_Version_1_0.xsd" MajorVersion="3" MinorVersion="7" ModelName="GigECamera" ProductGuid="1F3C6A72-7842-4edd-9130-E2E90A2058BA" SchemaMajorVersion="1" SchemaMinorVersion="0" SchemaSubMinorVersion="1" StandardNameSpace="GEV" SubMinorVersion="0" ToolTip="Basler generic GigEVision camera interface" VendorName="Basler" VersionGuid="6512A424-1B05-4C68-99D6-91F0E31857CD">

  <Category Name="Root" NameSpace="Standard">

 

ATTEMPT TO ADD NEW CAMERA:

 

[root@video aravisGigE]# Basler_acA1920.xmltoolbin/linux-x86_64/arv-tool-0.4m

Basler-21630837

[root@video aravisGigE]# bin/linux-x86_64/arv-tool-0.4 -n "Basler-21630837" genicam > Basler_acA1920.xml

[root@video aravisGigE]# aravisGigEApp/src/makeDbAndEdl.py Basler_acA1920.xml Basler_acA

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "aravisGigEApp/src/makeDbAndEdl.py", line 22, in <module>

    xml_root = parse(args[0])

  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/xml/dom/minidom.py", line 1921, in parse

    return expatbuilder.parse(file)

  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/xml/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 924, in parse

    result = builder.parseFile(fp)

  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/xml/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 207, in parseFile

    parser.Parse(buffer, 0)

xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: syntax error: line 1, column 0

[root@video aravisGigE]#

 

 

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