What's New?#

This version of the Basler Product Documentation includes enhancements and minor corrections.

Basler Lens & Lighting Control#

The following topics have been added or revised to reflect the new lens and light functionalities:

• Basler Lights: This topic has been revised and now describes the new Basler lights with integrated controllers and their intelligent light control (ILC) functionality.
• New Partner Motorized Lenses: This topic describes motorized lenses for autofocus applications.
• New Partner Liquid Lenses: This topic describes liquid lenses for autofocus applications.
• New Peripheral Devices Control feature: This topic describes the latest firmware features for peripheral devices control.
• New Optic Control feature: This topic describes the optic control functionality of the latest firmware.
• New Basler Sync Cables: This topic provides an overview of the new Basler sync cables for connecting cameras, lights, and lenses. The Light Sync Cables, Lens Sync Cables, and Vision Sync Cables are described in separate topics.
• Basler SLP Strobe Controller: This topic has been updated to reflect the controller's revised role in the Basler lighting portfolio. It is now primarily intended for legacy lighting setups and for use cases that require external light control.
• Light Control (ace U/L): This topic describes the Light Control feature for cameras with legacy firmware that does not include the Peripheral Devices Control feature.
• Light Control: This topic describes the Light Control feature for cameras with firmware that includes the Peripheral Devices Control feature.

Basler Vision Connector#

• The documentation has been updated to version 2.1.0 of the Basler Vision Connector. For a complete list of changes, see the Basler Vision Connector 2.1.0 Release Notes.
• Additionally, the Basler Vision Connector documentation has been updated:
  • Roles and Access: This topic describes the tasks and the required access for the IT Administrator, the Automation Engineer, the Vision Engineer, and the Operator.
  • Reading a Barcode: This topic describes how to read one barcode with a vTool recipe and deliver the decoded text to your application.
  • The following sections have been added to the Basler Vision Connector topic:
    • From the Marketplace to the First Image: This section describes the steps from obtaining the app to the first image.
    • Recommended Starting Point: This section describes a first setup with one GigE camera and the Web UI.
    • Planning Memory and Throughput: This section describes how image size, frame rate, cameras, frame buffers, and vTools affect memory and throughput.
    • System Architecture: This section shows the Basler Vision Connector in a Siemens Industrial Edge system.
  • Workflow Description: This section describes how to acquire the first image in the Basler Vision Connector Web UI.
  • Troubleshooting: New entries describe what to do when the camera isn't detected, when an error occurs during installation, when the MQTT user can't access the Basler Vision Connector topics, and when a recipe can't be opened in the Web UI.
  • Naming of Input Pins: The user-defined part of a pin name can contain letters, numbers, and hyphens. The stream number in the pin name must be 0.

New OCR vTools#

New OCR vTools have been added to the documentation:

• Free-Form OCR vTool: This allows you to detect words and text segments without having to know where they appear in advance.
• Pattern OCR vTool: This allows you to detect words and text segments where the expected text layout or pattern is known in advance.

QSFP28 Handling and Cleaning#

A new Handling and Cleaning topic has been added to the Transceiver Modules section. This topic describes how to handle and clean QSFP28 modules and MPO cables. The instructions apply to racer 2 XL cameras, imaFlex 2 Dual 100 frame grabbers, the 100GigE Interface Card, 2-CH, QSFP28, the Module QSFP28 100G SR4 MPO 100 m, and the Cable Optical, MPO, 8x PC/F.

Changes#

For a complete list of changes, see the History topic.