Streaming live feed to external software

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Anthony Fouad
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Streaming live feed to external software

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What is the best-performing strategy for streaming Zen's live camera feed or confocal feed to an external Python application? Is a Zen Extension faster at this than sending all the pixel data as strings over TCP-IP? Writing images to disk and reading them continuously probably isn't an option.
CarlZeissMicroscopy3
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Re: Streaming live feed to external software

Post by CarlZeissMicroscopy3 »

Hello Anthony Fouad,
best-performing strategy for streaming Zen's live camera feed to an external Python application?
Sorry, but the Live Image of Zen cannot be accessed in any way :(now and in the near future).
The only workaround we know is to make a snap, save it in a shared folder and read it on ‘the other side’.

An alternative to a shared folder is to use the feature TRANSFERFROM (Zen version > 2.5).
With TRANSFERFROM it is possible to handover files from a DropFolder.

The DropFolder usually has to be generated at
C:\Users\MyUsername\Documents\Carl Zeiss\ZEN\Documents\DropFolder

If there is a file named ‘MyTest’.txt in the DropFolder then calling
TRANSFERFROM MyTest.txt
e.g. with PuTTY, will transmit the content of ‘MyTest.txt’.
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