Connecting a GigE uEye camera

Please install the software first as described in the Installing the uEye drivers section.

Check the power supply to the camera. Suitable AC adapters are available as accessories (see also Accessories). Connect the camera to the PC either directly or using switches. Please read the following notes before setting up GigE uEye cameras:

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Cabling

•The data network and the camera network should be cabled separately. We therefore recommend connecting the GigE uEye cameras by a separate network card (see also Configuring via IDS Camera Manager).

•We recommend to use Cat5e type cables.

•The cable length of the individual segments must not exceed 100 m. A segment is a continuous cable connection between two network devices (e.g. PC, camera, switch).

•The network must be cabled throughout at either 100 Mbit/s or 1000 Mbit/s. The use of 1000 Mbit/s networks is recommended.

•Using the GigE uEye camera through a router is not supported.

Network card

•To ensure optimum performance of the network connection, you need to install the latest drivers for your network card.

•GigE network adapters for PCI slots do not achieve the maximum transfer rate of 114 MByte/s. In real life conditions, the transfer rate on a PCI bus is approx. 80-90 MByte/s.

Connecting the camera directly to the PC

Using a suitable network cable (e.g. Cat 5e), connect the uEye camera directly to a Gigabit Ethernet port on your PC. With this connection type, you need a network card for each camera.

Fig. 85: Connecting two cameras directly to a PC

Connecting the camera to a PC via switches

The use of switches allows you to extend the line length, as each switch adds a segment. The maximum cable length for each segment is 100 m.

Fig. 86: Connecting a camera to a PC, using switches to extend the line length

Fig. 87: Operating multiple cameras via switch

Connecting multiple cameras to multiple PCs using switches

As soon as one of the cameras is used by a PC, it is visible to other PCs, but no longer available. It can only be used by a different PC when the existing connection to the first PC has been closed.

If the two PCs are on different subnets, each PC can only work with the cameras that have been configured for the relevant subnet.

Fig. 88: Multiple cameras and PCs networked using a switch

Connecting the camera to a PC behind a firewall

The use of external firewalls between the camera and the host PC is not recommended on image data networks. If you nonetheless want to use a firewall, please ensure that ports 50000, 50001, 50002 and 50003 are open for the UDP protocol.

The built-in Windows Firewall or personal firewalls installed as software in the host PC usually do not cause any problems.

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