User`s manual

Preliminary
28 • Installing the Genie Camera Genie Monochrome Series-GigE Vision Camera
About the User-Defined Camera Name
The Genie can be programmed with a user-defined name to aid identifying multiple cameras
connected to the network. For instance, on an inspection system with 4 cameras, the first camera might
be labeled “top view”, the second “left view”, the third “right view” and the last one “bottom view”.
The factory default user name is set to match the camera serial number. Note that the factory
programmed Genie serial number and MAC address is not user changeable.
When using CamExpert, multiple Genie cameras on the network are seen as different
"Genie_M640_x" devices. Click on a Genie device user name to select it for control by CamExpert.
Each time you start a Sapera LT application, the camera associated to a given “Genie_M640_x”
instance might change since this is dependent on the sequence in which cameras answer the device
discovery request.
An imaging application uses any one of these attributes to identify a camera: its IP address, MAC
address, serial number or User Name. Some important considerations are listed below.
• Do not use the camera's IP address as identification (unless it is a persistent IP) since it can change
with each power cycle.
• A MAC address is unique to a single camera, therefore the control application is limited to the
vision system with that unique camera.
• The User Name can be freely programmed to clearly represent the camera usage. This scheme is
recommended for an application to identify cameras. In this case, the vision system can be
duplicated any number of times with cameras identified by their function, not their serial numbers.