I would try doing an uninstall first and installing again. I would remove the fly stream stuff if you haven’t already.

most problems I’ve seen with the pt grey cams are related to improper installation of the drivers..

David,

Can touchlib support 60fps with the firefly?

I already uninstalled the flystream stuff so now I’ve got only the SDK and the hotfix and thats how it doesn’t work. But I’ll try to uninstall again everything and redo the installs again.

But I just thought of something. Do you guys, who have it working, use the bundled firewire card, or you use one of your own? Because I am trying to get it to work on my laptop. Of course I have a firewire hub with its own power supply so cam should be OK like this (it works with the ptgrey software), but I don’t know if there is an issue about the firewire card not being the one supplied with the cam.

Thanks
Greg

I use the bundled firewire card.. I would check with pt grey to see if you need to.

brettf - 21 December 2007 11:38 PM

David,

Can touchlib support 60fps with the firefly?

It should, though I haven’t been able to get the camera to work in anything except for the factory default mode 640x480@30fps (if my memory serves).

Gregi, does Flycap work for you?

I reinstalled the ptgrey software and still nothing.

Yes, Flycap works.

WhiteNoiz, how does the cam appears in your device manager? In mine it creates a category called Unknown and inside there is the driver PGR Firefly MV FFMV-03MTM.
So it doesnt appear under th imaging devices. I dont know if its normal or not.

Oh and do I need to copy some kind of ptgrey dlls into the touchlib directory?

I believe it shows up under imaging, though I’ll have to check.

What does your config.xml look like?

I just added in my previous post and you might have missed it:
Do I need to copy some ptgrey dlls into the touchlib directory?

did you try

pgr: 0 640 30 grey8 1 rgb

Yeah, I did. It didnt work neither.

Could someone use Firefly + touchlib on a laptop? If yes, please explain how you do it.
Thanks a lot
Greg

Hi gregi,

i have installed the firefly drivers on three machines succesfully (all macs running bootcamp : macpro, mac mini, macbookpro).
You can install both drivers, and when installing the sdk, there is an option to install some kind of “Driver ultility”, which enables
you to switch drivers… when using the streaming driver, you have to use the dsvl capture in touchlib config, when using the
sdk driver, you have to use the vvcapture (in the config -> pgr: 0 640 30 grey8 1 rgb). When using the sdk driver, you also have
to copy a few dlls from the ptgrey folder and place them in the touclib folder (at least for me).

I noticed that running the firefly at 60fps is not so good, touchlib doesn´t seem to handle that speed. I get better results with 30fps (for a DI filter chain).
I would go for the sdk drivers, because you can really adjust the settings nicely…

Hello Tim and David,

What is your process for setting up the camera? What i am interested in is how you turn off the auto correction? Do you just open the pt.grey app every time? Is there a way to save those settings to the camera that i missed?

Thanks.