About the User-Defined Camera Name
The Genie can be programmed with a
When using CamExpert, multiple Genie cameras on the network are seen as different "Genie_M640_x" devices. Click on a Genie device user name to select it for control by CamExpert.
An imaging application uses any one of these attributes to identify a camera: its IP address, MAC address, serial number or User Name. Some important considerations are listed below.
•Do not use the camera's IP address as identification (unless it is a persistent IP) since it can change with each power cycle.
•A MAC address is unique to a single camera, therefore the control application is limited to the vision system with that unique camera.
•The User Name can be freely programmed to clearly represent the camera usage. This scheme is recommended for an application to identify cameras. In this case, the vision system can be duplicated any number of times with cameras identified by their function, not their serial numbers or MAC address.
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