xirec

Program to record from USB3 XIMEA camera's

• Records from multiple camera's
• Can configure camera based on .xicamera files obtained from the offical recording tool, XiCamTool
• Records for a limited time into RAM, and then saves everything to disk
• Saves all frame metadata, including frame timestamps for example
• Commandline interface
• Saves image sequences

Usage

Run python xirec.py --help for basic documentation.

usage: xirec.py [-h] [-fc FRAME_COUNT] [-d DURATION] [-f {tiff,bmp,jpg,png}]
                [-w WAIT] [--wait-gpi {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12}]
                camera-sn:parameter-file [camera-sn:parameter-file ...]

positional arguments:
  camera-sn:parameter-file
                        The parameter file as saved by XiCamtool is optional

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -fc FRAME_COUNT, --frame_count FRAME_COUNT
                        number of frames to record
  -d DURATION, --duration DURATION
                        number of seconds to record
  -f {tiff,bmp,jpg,png}, --format {tiff,bmp,jpg,png}
  -w WAIT, --wait WAIT  Wait with recording until the trigger input of
                        specified camera goes high
  --wait-gpi {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12}
                        In case of waiting, selects which GPI port to use as
                        the trigger. Defaults to 1

You have to specify what camera's to record from by their serial number. If you want assign a .xicamera file, append :somefile.xicamera to the serialnumber

Example: python xirec.yp -fc 20 --format jpg 23150750:test.xicamera 23152050:test.xicamera Records for 20 frames from two camera's. Files are saved in jpg format, and loads specific .xicamera files.

Requirements

• Python version 3.8 or higher
• Python libraries:
  • imageio
  • numpy
• XIMEA's software package, including the python API.

Limitations

• Minimum framerate is 1 frame every 5 seconds