PCO Tango device

This is the reference documentation of the PCO Tango device.

You can also find some useful information about the camera models/prerequisite/installation/configuration/compilation in the PCO camera plugin section.

Properties

Property name

Mandatory

Default value

Description

debug_control

No

0

Enable/Disble the debug (0/1)

debug_module

No

0
To set the debug module list (in hex format 0x….)

  • None = 0x001

  • Common = 0x002

  • Hardware = 0x004

  • HardwareSerial = 0x008

  • Control = 0x010

  • Espia = 0x020

  • EspiaSerial = 0x040

  • Focla = 0x080

  • Camera = 0x100

  • CameraCom = 0x200

  • Test = 0x400

  • Application = 0x800

debug_format

No

0
To set the debug format (in hex format 0x….)

  • DateTime = 0x001

  • Thread = 0x002

  • Module = 0x004

  • Obj = 0x008

  • Funct = 0x010

  • FileLine = 0x020

  • Type = 0x040

  • Indent = 0x080

  • Color = 0x100

debug_type

No

0
To set the debug type (in hex format 0x….)

  • Fatal = 0x001

  • Error = 0x002

  • Warning = 0x004

  • Trace = 0x008

  • Funct = 0x010

  • Param = 0x020

  • Return = 0x040

  • Always = 0x080

params

No

empty
List of parameters/options (one per line)

  • sn = <camera serial number> ( if it is 0 or doesn’t exist, the first camera found will be opened if the serial number is not found, OpenCam will fail )

  • trigSingleMulti = 1 ( enable TriggerSingleMulti as TriggerMulti for compability with SPEC START )

  • xMinSize = 1 ( enable correction for the X minimum size for the CLHS firmware bug )

  • bitAligment = <MSB | LSB> ( bit aligment of the image data, i.e. for 12b: [MSB - xxxx xxxx xxxx 0000] [LSB - 0000 xxxx xxxx xxxx] )

Attributes

Attribute name

RW

Type

Description

acqTimeoutRetry

rw

DevLong

Maximum Timeout retries during acq (0 - infinite)

adc

rw

DevLong

Number of working ADC’s

adcMax

ro

DevLong

Maximum number of ADC’s

binInfo

ro

DevLong

PCO hw binning info

bitAlignment

rw

DevString
Bit alignment

  • MSB (0)

  • LSB (1)

bytesPerPixel

ro

DevLong

Bytes per Pixel

camerasFound

ro

DevString

List of cameras found during the Open search

camInfo

ro

DevString

General camera parameters information

camName

ro

DevString

Camera Name

camNameBase

ro

DevString

Camera Name (Pco)

camNameEx

ro

DevString

Camera Name, Interface, Sensor

camType

ro

DevString

Camera Type

cdiMode

rw

DevLong
Correlated Double Imaging Mode

  • enabled/disabled = 1/0 (rw)

  • not allowed = -1 (ro)

clXferPar

ro

DevString

General CameraLink parameters

cocRunTime

ro

DevDouble

cocRunTime (s) - only valid after the camera is armed

coolingTemperature

ro

DevDouble

Cooling Temperature

debugInt

rw

DevString

PCO plugin internal debug level (hex format: 0x….)

debugIntTypes

ro

DevString

PCO plugin internal debug types

doubleImageMode

rw

DevLong
Double Image Mode

  • enabled/disabled = 1/0 (rw)

  • not allowed = -1 (ro)

firmwareInfo

ro

DevString

Firmware info

frameRate

ro

DevDouble

Framerate, calculated as: 1/cocRunTime (1/s)

generalCAPS1

ro

DevString

General PCO CAPS1 value (hex and bin)

info

ro

DevString

General camera parameters information

lastError

ro

DevString

The last PCO error message

lastImgAcquired

ro

DevLong

Last image acquired (during recording)

lastImgRecorded

ro

DevLong

Last image recorded (during recording)

logMsg

ro

DevString

Last Log msgs

logPcoEnabled

ro

DevLong

PCO logs are enabled

maxNbImages

ro

DevLong

The maximum number of images which can be acquired by the camera (recording mode)

paramsInfo

ro

DevString

Values of the PCO properties params

pixelRate

ro

DevLong

Actual Pixel Rate (Hz)

pixelRateInfo

ro

DevString

Pixel Rate information

pixelRateValidValues

ro

DevString

Allowed Pixel Rates

recorderForcedFifo

rw

DevLong

Forced Fifo Mode (only for recording cams)

roiInfo

ro

DevString

PCO ROI info

roiLastFixed

ro

DevString

Last fixed ROI info

rollingShutter

rw

DevLong
Rolling Shutter Mode as int (only for some types of EDGE)

  • 1 = ROLLING

  • 2 = GLOBAL

  • 4 = GLOBAL RESET

rollingShutterInfo

ro

DevString

Rolling Shutter info

rollingShutterStr

rw

DevLong

Rolling Shutter Mode as str (only for some types of EDGE)

temperatureInfo

ro

DevString

Temperature info

test

rw

DevString

Debug test function (do not use it)

timestampMode

rw

DevLong
Timestamp mode

  • 0 = none

  • 1 = BCD coded stamp in the first 14 pixel

  • 2 = BCD coded stamp in the first 14 pixel + ASCII text

  • 3 = ASCII text (only for some cameras)

traceAcq

ro

DevString

Debug information for some types of acq

version

ro

DevString

Version information of the plugin

versionAtt

ro

DevString

Version of att file

versionSdk

ro

DevString

PCO SDK Release

Commands

Command name

Arg. in

Arg. out

Description

Init

DevVoid

DevVoid

Do NOT use

State

DevVoid

DevLong

Return the device state

Status

DevVoid

DevString

Return the device state as a string

getAttrStringValueList

DevString: Attribute name

DevVarStringArray: String value list

Return the authorized string value list for a given attribute name

talk

DevString

DevString

WARNING: use this command for test only, This is a backdoor cmd and it can distrub Lima