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Add camera

Enter Service Mode

The Camera list is managed by the toolbar.

- Add camera
- Edit camera
- Selection up
- Selection down
- Delete camera
- refresh
- help

Add Camera Procedure

Press under Camera Settings
Select the driver
Select the Camera use ... button to select camera
- note that some drivers accept eg ip-adress in the Camera field
If the camera is not present in the camera list, check the Windows device manager.
- If the camera is present in the device manager,
  1. try Reset All will reload camera driver
  2. restart scorpion
  3. restart the computer
Select Properties to set the camera properties.

Camera Settings

The Camera has the following properties:

Driver - Scorpion Camera Driver dll file - default is firegrab.dll
- More information see Scorpion Camera Support
Camera Name
Port - this # is only used for a few camera drivers
Format is defined by the Driver and the user configuration
Operation
- Auto Open - default on
- HW Trigger - set on if using hw-trigger
  - Note: not all camera drivers nor camera has hw trigger capability
- Calibrated
  - The Camera can resample or reduce image size if the camera is calibrated
  - Can be useful if you need to reduce size and the camera only transmits the whole image
Statistics
- Statistics is collected for every camera to be able to verify operation.
- Note: It is important to use Curves to verify the stability of image capture.