Impact Acquire SDK GUI Applications
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GigEConfigure is meant to assist with the installation, removal or configuration of the GigE Vision™ capture filter driver on Windows systems.
This driver will improve the performance of the Impact Acquire driver stack on Windows systems by adding a protocol driver to each NIC (networks interface card) in the system.
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mechanism of the GigE Vision™ protocol.To install the GigE Vision™ capture filter driver, please follow these instructions:
After the installation of the capture filter driver, you will see you network devices and the connected devices:
When a GigE Vision™ compliant device will be initialised, ImpactControlCenter will display the used driver technology in The Property Grid .
Once a device has been initialized successfully the property "mvStreamDriverTechnology" will display
The property is located under "System Settings → GenTL" in interface layout "DeviceSpecific" or under "Image Settings → Camera → GenTL" in interface layout "GenICam". For more information about different interface layouts please refer to Changing The Interface Layout To GenICam™ Or DeviceSpecific.
To remove the GigE Vision™ capture filter driver, please follow these instructions:
After an initial installation the filter driver will be installed on every NIC in the system. Sometimes this is not desired (e.g. when running Wireshark on an adapter with the filter driver installed the image data can not be monitored), so this tool also allows to enable or disable the filter driver for each NIC individually. This can be done by right-clicking on the desired network adapter as shown in the following image:
GigEConfigure supports various command-line parameters to allow driver installation without the need of user interaction.
The following table lists the available command-line parameters:
Parameter | Description |
disable='index' or all | Will disable the driver for interface index or every interface. |
enable='index' , all or allWithAtLeastOneDevice | Will enable the driver for interface index, all interfaces or all interfaces that have at least on GigE Vision™ device connected to it. |
hidden | Will start the application without showing the splash screen or the application window. This might be useful when doing a silent configuration in combination with the 'quit' parameter |
install | Will install the driver if it can be located under
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install_retry_count | Defines the number of retry attempts for the driver installation. This can sometimes be useful when a network component is currently in use/shutting down. 45 seconds will be spent between 2 consecutive attempts. Currently this value will only have an effect, if specified BEFORE the 'install' parameter! |
log_file='file_name' or lf='file_name' | Will write the content of the output window of the application into a file. Passing 'STDLOGDIR' as the initial path (e.g. STDLOGDIR/file_name.log) will write the file into MVIMPACT_ACQUIRE_DATA_DIR/logs thus the file containing the regular Impact Acquire log-files as well. |
postInstallMessage | Will display a message to the user AFTER the filter driver has been installed on the system. |
quit | Will automatically terminate the application once all the other command-line parameters have been processed. |
remove | Will remove the driver. |
welcome | Will display a welcome message to the user explaining what is about to happen. |
So e.g. to automatically install the filter driver and terminate the application afterwards without any additional messages displayed to the user the following command line is needed:
GigEConfigure install quit
If no GUI shall be displayed this command-line parameters can be used:
GigEConfigure install hidden quit
This will install the filter driver, but will disable it on all the adapters and then will terminate automatically:
GigEConfigure install disable=all quit
This will enable the filter driver on adapters 1 and 3 when it is already installed:
GigEConfigure enable=1 enable=3
This will be used during standard installation:
GigEConfigure welcome install postinstallmessage