First package draft

[bruno-f-cruz]

This PR adds a first draft of the package including:

• Operator to acquire frames and corresponding metadata (XimeaCapture)
• Wrapper classes for the metadata

[bruno-f-cruz]

Added a small example of how to derive from the XimeaCapture base class and:

1. Setting additional settings by overriding the base Configure method;
2. Log specified camera settings to a dump file;

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[glopesdev]

Thanks for taking a jab at this, looks good. I left full feedback, but I'm also happy to go directly into the branch and help edit these, whatever is more convenient.

[glopesdev]

I think 70 MB is too much to store in a git repo, especially when it is likely we will need to update these binaries at a later date. In this case what we should probably do is leave in this folder a README file with instructions on how to download and install the correct version of the library from where to pull the dependencies.

The build process can still point to this folder and package the binaries in the .nupkg but this would be for the NuGet distribution only.

[talmo]

Hey guys,

I don't see anything here to set FPS, but that was one modification we needed to make.

@bruno-f-cruz I think you started it, but here's our CustomXimeaCapture.cs: https://gist.github.com/talmo/1954f2ee452498b82654e94c1151af17

Important piece was setting the acquisition timing mode:

                // Refs:
                // https://www.ximea.com/support/wiki/apis/XiAPINET_Manual#ACQ_TIMING_MODE
                // https://www.ximea.com/support/wiki/allprod/Frame_Rate_Control
                camera.SetParam(PRM.ACQ_TIMING_MODE, ACQ_TIMING_MODE.FRAME_RATE_LIMIT);
                camera.SetParam(PRM.FRAMERATE, FrameRate);

[bruno-f-cruz]

Hey guys,

I don't see anything here to set FPS, but that was one modification we needed to make.

@bruno-f-cruz I think you started it, but here's our CustomXimeaCapture.cs: https://gist.github.com/talmo/1954f2ee452498b82654e94c1151af17

Important piece was setting the acquisition timing mode:

                // Refs:
                // https://www.ximea.com/support/wiki/apis/XiAPINET_Manual#ACQ_TIMING_MODE
                // https://www.ximea.com/support/wiki/allprod/Frame_Rate_Control
                camera.SetParam(PRM.ACQ_TIMING_MODE, ACQ_TIMING_MODE.FRAME_RATE_LIMIT);
                camera.SetParam(PRM.FRAMERATE, FrameRate);

Heya!
Once the package is live, this will be an easy modification to make to the extensions script . For the "base" camera class we just want something as barebones as possible, inline with the other camera acquisition nodes already implemented in Bonsai.

[bjudkewitz]

I just wanted to add
(1) many thanks for working on this!
(2) it would be great to see this become part of bonsai!
(3) if there is a reason for keeping it out: is there a simple way for me to install this and use a ximea camera?

[bjudkewitz]

pinging @bruno-f-cruz @glopesdev