| Documentation | |
| Quick-Start guide | quickstart.html |
| Installation guide. Wiring, mounting & other hardware related information (2 Feb 2009) |
Installation Guide.pdf |
| Software /programming guide Programming, interfacing etc For firmware V2.15 (25 Feb 2009) |
Programming Guide.pdf |
| Reccommended mounting height graph for each model | mounting_heights.gif |
| Utilities | File | |
| Thermitrackdemo - PC demonstration & utility software. This allows the functions of the Thermitrack camera to be expliored & demonstrated. Run the software & select the COM port that the camera is connected to. It can also be used without a camera to play back the samples below to illustrate the data available : simply run the softwarel click 'play' and select one of the .log files to play back.
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thermitrackdemo.zip is a full install package, unzip and run
setup.exe. thermitrackdemo.exe is the executable only, which will run if you have previously installed from the full setup, or already have the necessary Visual Basic support DLLs present. If you get a 'DLL not found' type error, run the full install. VB6 source code is available in the examples section below. |
thermitrackdemo.zip |
| Samples of recorded data For use with demo software playback mode |
These are files containing the camera's output stream,
containing image, one-target, multi-target and status data. These can be played back using the PC demo software above to illustrate typical camera output. |
People walking around : demo_1.log 1MB. camera height approx 3m demo_2.log 870K camera height approx 3m demo_3.log 1.8MB camera height approx 3m Random hand-waving
over camera on desk : |
| PC drivers for USB interface | Unzip into a folder on your PC. When Windows asks for a driver disk, point it to this folder. (It will do this twice). | thermitrack_usb_drivers.zip
Updated 22/7/10 with FTDI 02.06.02 drivers. Note for Win2K users : When unzipping, check that the folder contains two sub-folders i386 and amd64 - older versions of Winzip didn't handle the folders properly. |
| Mac OS X drivers for USB interface | A pre-configured Mac driver is not yet available due to lack
of a Mac to test on, however the following procedure should work : According to FTDI, once the driver has been installed/configured, Apple's PackageMaker utility can be used to make a .dmg file for redistribuiton. Any hints/comments from MAC experts on the above welcome! |
Download the drivers from here Install as per this guide (VCP driver) Add support for the custom device ID as shown in This technical note, using the following settings - number in brackets is section of document. (3.1) VID (idVendor) is unchanged (0x403 decimal 1027) (3.1) PID (idProduct) is 0xD8B6 = 55478 decimal (3.4) Latency timer value set to 2 (3.6) Port name Thermitrack_USB_RS422_Interface (3.2) You may also like to set up some aliased baudrates to match the PC driver settings, i.e. B300 230400 B600 250000 B1200 46088 B2400 500000 |
| Linux drivers for USB interface | Support for the FT232RL chip is included in Kernel 2.4.20
onwards, but it may not recognise it as the Thermitrack USB RS422 interface does not use
the standard USB PID value. A possible solution to this is to reprogram the chip in the Thermitrack interface to look like standard FT232 chip. Instructions to do this are here Any comments/hints from Linux experts welcome! |
Linux drivers here You need to add a PID of D8B6 to the product table in the drivers (VID is unchanged at 0x0403). And if possible figure out how to set the latency timer to 2 |
| Examples and drivers for specific platforms | ||
| Visual Basic | ||
| Visual Basic 6 source code for the PC demo software | ttdemo_vb.zip (32K) V1.01 3 Mar 09 | |
| VVVV | ||
| Simple image-only | Copy of simple_image_demo.v4p | |
| Image, tracking and adjustment | Copy of thermitrack_demo.v4p | |
| Simple one-target tracking | Copy of simple_trackdemo.v4p | |
| Arduino | ||
| openFrameworks | ||
| openFrameworks Thermitrack library from Chris O'Shea | Here | |
| Your favorite package not listed above... All contributions gratefully received..! | ||
