Microscan Tips and Tricks

This Blog was created to help people solve bar code and data collection applications with Microscan bar code readers and vision systems.

Thursday, March 23, 2017

Remove Debounce if you're having trigger issues




Remove the lines with debounce in them if you're having issues with your trigger signal being ignored or delayed to the camera.
This file is located in the c:\Microscan\vscape\drivers\camdefs
There is one for each camera type

Thursday, March 16, 2017

Portable LVS9580 Verification Solution

So we Velcro'd a Windows 10 tablet to the 9580 to come up with a walk around solution to grade codes.  Cabling is crude in the photos but its a good prototype.


Monday, February 20, 2017

Cloudlink images won't load

Try deleting these two files after you log in using filezilla target and password - no port#

/sd0:0/http_mv/user/settings.json

/sd0:0/http_mv/user/hmi/layout.json

refresh your browser and you should start to see images


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Thursday, February 02, 2017

Microhawk USB Reader runs on Linux

This tiny bar code reader or vision camera has a micro USB connection on the back.  Linux drivers exist to integrate this into most systems.  Contact us for more info

Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Use Autovision from Microscan for AIM DPM Verification


Screen shot shown grading a dot peen datamatrix mark on metal using the Vision Hawk smart camera.  This camera from Microscan features an optional bar code verification software package.  It enables ISO 15415/6 and AIM DPM grading.  An NIST traceable calibration standard is also available.  Contact us for more information.

Use Microscan Autovision to Detect UV Ink Striping Presence

Here's a screen shot of the Autovision software detecting a UV stripe on a product.  Using a 365nm UV light illuminates the ink for the vision system to see it..  Contact us for more info.

Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Check length of Datamatrix codes in Vision Scape

The other symbologies have a tool to check the length of the decoded text but not Datamatrix. Here's a way to insert an if statement into vscape that checks the length and compares it to what you want.
Helpful if there are  multiple codes in the field of view.  Contact us for more info

Friday, October 21, 2016

Color MV-40 5mp Camera and Autovision 4.0 Indentifies 24 colors


here's is a screen shot of the MV40 identifying 24 colors.  contact us for more info