Chapter 2 System Components This file, in XML format, has three main sections. The first section, settings, can be ignored. The second section, which starts with the line, outlines all the devices (other than smart cameras) that will be listed in the FrontRunner device bar. In the example above, there are two devices – GigE Vision1 and SoftSys1 . The third section, starting with the line, lists all the GigE cameras attached to the network cards. Note that only cameras that are connected via gigabit ethernet will be listed. We do not recommend or even allow the use of 100baseT networks with Omron Microscan GigE cameras.
If you look closely, you'll notice that the assignment uid listed in the device section is the same as that shown for the resource uid for the attached camera. If you open the Visionscape Backplane debug window, you will see the same information again: 10:41:37 QuerySWRights: GigE license rights detected, features: Visionscape GigE (x8): YES / IntelliFind: YES / Third Party GigE Cameras: 0 allowed 10:41:39 CreateSystemsFromConfigFile: found 2 devices in dm.config file 10:41:39 Creating GigE System 1: GigEVision1 10:41:39 Channel 0 (Filter Driver): Microscan VISIONSCAPE CMG20 (1624x1236) MAC="00-06-BE-00-09-4A" IP="192.168.254.3" Connected 10:41:39 Creating SW System 1:
SoftSys1 10:41:40 Creating IO Server for System GigEVision1 10:41:41 Creating IO Server for System SoftSys1 Now let’s quit FrontRunner and the Backplane and add a second camera to our network. Once the second cameras is plugged in, the network card will take a little while to recognize and configure it, so don't start FrontRunner immediately. If you look at the dm.config file now you will see that it looks similar to this: instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"> 8899 http://localhost DM true C:\dev\EngineSolution\EngineProcess\bin\Debug\Vision scape.EngineProcess.exe 2-38 Visionscape GigE Camera Guide