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Can you post the criticallink_systemgentl.xml, so we can look at it for syntax errors?

Yes, here is the generated file

Hello,

Can you disable using the SIMULATED camera option and try again?

I think you need to unset the SIMCAM_XML_FILE environment variable. The Simulated Camera XML file provided by our GenTL producer appears to have a problem with XML validation and is causing the Harvester API to crash.

If you are still having issues, can you also post your python code?

Thanks.
Mike

Mike,

We have followed your recommendation and removed the SIMCAM_XML_FILE from the list of environment variables.
As expected the simulated camera did not show up in the device list.
However, the same XML problem persists.

Essentially, we are using the python code from the snap.py example. The only change is the XML file path.
Python code is attached.

Can you dump the error messages again? Is it still seeing the Simulated camera XML? The main 35 MM camera should pass XML validation.

You might try to remove the following file:

C:\Program Files\Critical Link LLC\GenTL Viewer\bin\sim_camera.xml

With regards,
Mike

Here is the error message (attached).
Simulated camera is not seen while the 35 MM camera was opened. We have also removed the sim_camera.xml file.
There is still syntax error in XML parsing.

Can you upload the 'C:\Users\salhadda\Documents\XMLFOLDER\criticallink_systemgentl.xml' file again now that the simcamera is disabled.

I would also try deleting the XML file and re-running just in case harvester is not checking the XML version

Here is the new criticallink_systemgentl.xml file.
When debugging we also noticed that the error on line 131 in XmlParser.cpp precedes the error on line 1720 (as we saw before in the command window). We attach the screenshot.

By deleting the XML file do you mean the criticallink_systemgentl.xml or the camera_CANON_35MMFHDXS_u3v.xml ?
We are unsure, how we could delete the first one as it is generated during the code run.
Deleting the second XML removes the camera from the list of available devices.

Hmm i thought this was from the simcamera but it doesn't match the sim_camera.xml.

ModelName="SFNC_Camera" VendorName="Critical Link LLC" ToolTip="Reference SFNC camera XML (autogenerated)" 

Mike this seems to be autogenerated by GenTL.dll in a couple places. Is this expected? Maybe we are chasing the wrong thing.

Also, Viacheslav have you tried running the snap.py script without Spyder, since the issue you linked said they had issues with running with Spyder?

Yes, Jonathan, we tried both with/without Spyder. The 'error msg.txt' before was copied directly from the anaconda console.

Jonathan, Michael, Tim do you have any updates on the issue?
We wrote to you again because our trial period for the camera will expire in 10 days...

Thanks in advance for any support!

Hi Viacheslav, I was able to reproduce this issue today. I'll let you know what I find.

This is from an incompatibility with the July 2022 release of genicam 1.2.0. We will work on supporting this release but in the meantime stick with harvesters==1.3.2 and genicam<1.2.0.

Can you switch to the previous version of harvesters and genicam and let me know if it works?

pip install numpy harvesters==1.3.2 genicam==1.1.0

I've updated the wiki as well.

Hi Jonathan and Thanks,
We could get the Python image with your suggested configuration!

Great news

Sorry for the delay. With the release of GenTLViewer 2.7.2, the latest harvesters 1.4.0 and genicam 1.2.0 python packages now work. I've updated the wiki https://support.criticallink.com/redmine/projects/gentl_apps/wiki/Using_Python_With_Critical_Link_GenTL_Producer