Basler Vision Connector Messaging: Assigning Pins to Cameras in a Recipe Instance#

Use this command to assign cameras to recipe pins. If you change existing assignments, only the assignments specified in the command are changed. Any other existing assignments remain unchanged.

If you close a camera, all its pin assignments are automatically removed.

JSON Payload#

Field	Optional	Type	Description
TransactionID	Yes	String	Transaction identification
Action	No	String	Method called. Fixed value: `cstm_ConnectRecipe`
RecipeID	No	String	The user-defined ID to use during communication with the recipe. See also topic Recipe Identification.
PinConnections	No	List of key-value pairs of strings	The recipe pin connections as list of key-value pairs of strings. The key is the user defined pin ID chosen in the recipe (see also Naming of Input Pins). The value is a device ID of an open device that shall be assigned to. To remove a connection, set the value of an open device to `null`.

{
  "TransactionID": "234423465465",
  "Action": "cstm_ConnectRecipe",
  "RecipeID": "MyRecipeID",
  "PinConnections": {
    "MyFirstPinID": "MyDeviceID1",
    "MySecondPinID": null
  }
}

Response Object#

Field	Optional	Type	Description
TransactionID	Yes	String	Transaction identification.
ReturnCode	No	Integer	Message code (see main Image Connector Applications Interface Specification document).
Message	No	String	Response message

{
  "TransactionID": "234423465465",
  "ReturnCode": 0,
  "Message": "Recipe connected successfully."
}