Protee : How to setup machine vision cameras

[janton79]

Janton, do you have the resolution set to 640 x 480. I have my vcam about 6 or 7 feet to the side and 2 feet in front. I had to have the resolution at 640 x 480 and the lens focus the same as you. You have to play with the minimum grayscale and/or the camera device settings to get the ball and not the club detected.

How do you change the resolution to 640 x 480?

[ZMax]

How do you change the resolution to 640 x 480?

I told Dennis that he needs to preset these cameras to 640X480 before sending them out. Anyway, you can change the resolution of the cameras in the settings file. I need to update my procedure once I sober up....

In the Proteeinterface folder, open the settings.pgs file with Notepad. Look for the "video settings" section. Change the width and height to 640 and 480 respectively. Scroll down a little bit and do it again for the other camera. Save it and restart the interface. Let me know if it works. The other option is to use the camera stream window.

[Video settings]
Selected_cam=Firefly MV FMVU-03MTM
Capture_interval=10
Video_frame_rate=125
Video_widht= 640
Video_height= 480

[janton79]

Here's a screen shot with the lense that Protee provided.
old lense - vcam1.jpg

[psace]

Janton, your resolution is still 320 x 240 with both lenses. You need to change the resolution to 640 x 480 in the settings file. If you did not install the updates as "administrator" you may have two settings files. (I did the same thing) Do a search for the settings file and see if you find you have two of them. When you change the resolution in the settings file and save it, you should have the 640 x 480 resolution. Check the camera stream to make sure.

The new lense will not work well for you in 320 x 240 resolution but if you change it to 640 x 480 it should look the same as the old lenses at 320 x 240.