Photometrics Drivers

• Download the PVCAM software from Photometrics. The PVCAM SDK is also available from this location. You will likely have to register and agree to Photometrics terms.

• Perform the Full Installation of the PVCAM software.

• Should a “Base Device” still show up as unknown in the Windows Device Manager, you may need to install the Broadcom PCI/PCIe Software Development Kit

• Upon successful installation, one should be able to acquire images with the manufacturer-provided PVCamTest software.

Note

A static version of the Photometrics API is provided with this software. It is located in src/navigate/model/devices/APIs/photometrics/PyVCAM-master. To install this API, navigate to that directory in your navigate environment and run python setup.py install.

Note

The most up-to-date version of PVCAM can be found on GitHub.