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Connecting a GigE uEye Camera |
uEye Camera Manual Version 3.80
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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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.
Figure 78: 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.
Figure 79: Connecting a camera to a PC, using switches to extend the line length
Figure 80: 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.
Figure 81: 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.