Kinovea compatibility with FLIR cameras?

[barwick11]

Has anyone had any success with Kinovea and FLIR cameras? I've been running Swing Catalyst for about two years now and it's just ridiculous to keep spending over 20 bucks a month when I only use the software maybe twice a month on average.

I guess every machine vision camera has its own plugins or drivers for Kinovea, and they're 3rd party developed. So far I haven't seen any for FLIR, but I haven't fully scoured the depths of the entire internets yet. I also heard the developer is building a universal plugin for machine vision cameras that may also work.

But in any case, if Swing Catalyst already has drivers for interfacing with FLIR cameras, can't those same drivers be called by Kinovea somehow?

[StalefishFS3]

As far as I understand, FLIR and Kinovea do not work together and I have never seen anyone post about a successful pairing of the two.

[barwick11]

As far as I understand, FLIR and Kinovea do not work together and I have never seen anyone post about a successful pairing of the two.

Me either, but I just talked with the developer of Kinovea and got the universal plugin, which I'll be trying later today after work... hopefully.

[Senorwanderer]

Any luck on this front in the last 18 months!? I was also in contact with the developer around this time and she had just published the GenICam plugin that was supposed to support the cameras. I messed around with getting the cameras to work and went back and forth with Joan for a while and sent her some logs from kinovea and nothing ever came of it. I too was (am) sick of paying for swing catalyst for my use frequency and recently cancelled my subscription.

[joan]

Hi, sorry for any miscommunication. Multiple people got it to work with the current version of the GenICam plugin (1.1.0), for both the BFS-U3-04S2* and the BFS-U3-16S2* models. But there is also feedback from other people that it didn't work for them (especially with two cameras of the same model).

You need to install the Spinnaker SDK 64 bit Full from Teledyne website, it has the GenICam DLLs that Kinovea connects to (FLIR_GenTL_v140.cti file) and the installer will add an entry in the Windows PATH to where they are. Some people mentioned they had to manually copy this file to the GenICam plugin directory which I find puzzling personnaly as this shouldn't even work but if it doesn't work after normal installation (and a reboot for good measure), you may try that as well.

This is likely the most popular brand of cameras that I don't personally own so if it still doesn't work I'm going to buy one so I can make sure it works correctly.