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Goldeye Technical Manual V2.5.0
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Camera control commands
To configure the internal image processing, a serial command interface is pro-
vided. By default this command interface is internally routed to the Camera Link
port, but the RS232 signals at the 15 pin D-sub connector may also be used.
Camera Link To access it, a serial terminal program employing the serial port of the Camera
Link frame grabber or a PC’s RS-232 COM port is required.
Refer to the documentation of the frame grabber manufacturer to get more
information about the serial port and how to use it.
Gigabit Ethernet For Gigabit Ethernet the control commands are mapped to GigE Vision features.
Refer to the corresponding chapters explaining camera functions throughout
this manual. There you learn also more about the GigE feature names.
AcquireControl AVT provides the software AcquireControl: this can operate the camera’s serial
port also over the Gigabit Ethernet interface or PC standard COM ports. Type
<CTRL>+Y to get a camera control terminal window there.
By default the serial interface uses the following parameters:
• 115200 Baud
• 8 data bits
•1 stop bit
• No parity
• No handshake
The baud rate is factory-adjusted to 115200 but can also be configured to other
values (see Chapter Advanced parameters and commands on page 66).
Each command consists of a command letter, followed by an equality sign and
a parameter value in hexadecimal number representation.
Hexadecimal values are always upper case and are 1 to 4 digits long. The com-
mand is activated by a carriage return ([CR], ASCII character number 0x0D).
Serial communication operates in echo mode by default. This means that each
character received by the module is echoed back to the sender.
The serial commands have the following fixed scheme:
>B=wxyz[CR]
Note
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The command letter is case sensitive.