Release Notes IDS peak 2.10

From version 2.10 on, the IDS peak setup is available for Windows 64-bit in different variants:

• IDS peak standard setup: This setup has the same scope as in the previous version. You can use the uEye Transport Layer to operate uEye cameras (UI models) if you have installed the IDS Software Suite.
• IDS peak runtime setup: This is a greatly reduced setup, which only contains drivers without a development environment or IDS peak Cockpit. You can use the uEye Transport Layer to operate uEye cameras (UI models) if you have installed the IDS Software Suite.
• IDS peak extended setup: This setup also contains the uEye camera drivers for UI models. With this setup, you can use UI camera models without the additional installation of the IDS Software Suite. The setup also includes the IDS Camera Manager, which you can use to configure the IP addresses of the GigE uEye cameras (UI-5xxx), for example.
  Note that this setup automatically uninstalls an existing version of the IDS Software Suite.

The following overview shows you which components are included in the individual setup variants.

• The “BufferToImage” function was added in C# to create an image from a buffer using the IDS peak IPL.
• You can now install the Python bindings directly via PyPI.

• Support for certain types of TIFF images was implemented in the IDS peak IPL.
  • Supported pixel formats: Mono8, Mono10, Mono12, RGB8, RGB10, RGB12
  • Colour spaces: RGB and black as zero
  • Support for 8- and 16-bit per sample (10- and 12-bit are supported by the "TIFFTAG_BITSPERSAMPLE" tag)
  • Limitations: only one layer, only stripe-based images, no compression, no BigTIFF support, no alpha channels, no packed formats
• You can now install the Python bindings directly via PyPI.

• You can now install the Python bindings directly via PyPI.

As announced in the IDS peak 2.6 release notes, IDS peak 2.10 changes the default mode of LossHandlingMode from "Limited" to "Unlimited". If you still want to use “Limited”, you can change this setting in LossHandlingMode. For more information on the different modes of LossHandlingMode, please refer to the IDS peak manual.

Additional features have been added to the uEye Transport Layer to enhance the operation of uEye cameras (UI models) under IDS peak:

• You can use LineInverter to invert the signals of output lines.

General improvements

• An issue was fixed in the IDS peak Cockpit that caused a broken image to be displayed after the image size was changed.
• Under Python, an issue was fixed concerning the update of the camera firmware.
• In the Python programming examples “record_video_and_change_parameter” and “start_stop_acquisition_software_trigger”, an issue was fixed that an exception occurred when more than one camera was connected.
• The “host_auto_features_live_qtwidgets” programming example was revised and improved.
• In the uEye Transport Layer, errors in the I2C features were fixed concerning reading or writing via I2C as well as image acquisition.