Streaming live feed to external software
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Streaming live feed to external software
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.
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Re: Streaming live feed to external software
Hello Anthony Fouad,
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’.
Sorry, but the Live Image of Zen cannot be accessed in any way :(now and in the near future).best-performing strategy for streaming Zen's live camera feed to an external Python application?
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’.