Standard Features AW00011916000
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12.14 Acquisition Status
When controlling image acquisition with a software trigger you can use the acquisition status feature
to detemine when the camera is ready to be triggered for an image acquisition. Using this feature,
you can avoid triggering the camera at a rate that exceeds the maximum allowed with the current
camera settings.
For other means of checking the acquisition status, see also the "Acquisition Monitoring Signals"
section.
Note the different applicability of the acquisition status feature depending on the image acquisition
control mode:
Standard mode: The acquisition status can be determined for the frame start trigger.
Legacy mode: The acquisition status can be determined for the acquisition start trigger.
Determining the Acquisition Status
To determine the acquisition status of the camera:
Use the Acquisition Status Selector to select the Frame Trigger Wait status. (The Frame
Trigger Wait parameter also applies when operating the camera in legacy mode, where
actually the status of the acquisition start trigger is determined).
Read the value of the AcquisitionStatus parameter.
Standard mode: If the value is set to "false", the camera is not ready to receive a frame start
trigger, if the value is set to "true", the camera is ready to receive a frame start trigger.
Legacy mode: If the value is set to "false", the camera is not ready to receive an acquisition start
trigger, if the value is set to "true", the camera is ready to receive an acquisition start trigger.
You can set the Acquisition Status Selector and read the AcquisitionStatus parameter from within
your application software by using the pylon API. The following code snippets illustrate using the
API to set and read the parameter values:
// Set the Acquisition Status Selector
Camera.AcquisitionStatusSelector.SetValue(
AcquisitionStatusSelector_FrameTriggerWait );
// Read the acquisition status
bool IsWaitingForFrameTrigger = Camera.AcquisitionStatus.GetValue();
For detailed information about using the pylon API, refer to the Basler pylon Programmer’s Guide
and API Reference.
You can also use the Basler pylon Viewer application to easily set the Acquisition Status Selector.
It is not possible to monitor the status of the Acquisition Start command. Therefore,
you cannot use the status of the Acquisition Start command to determine when the
camera is ready to be triggered for an image acquisition.
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