Spinnaker SDK is FLIR’s GenICam3 API library. SpinView is the GUI for Spinnaker. The FLIR Spinnaker toolbox enables supported FLIR cameras play with the Image Acquisition Toolbox for MATLAB. The Spinnaker SDK supports FLIR USB3, 10GigE, and most GigE area scan cameras. Supported platforms: Windows 7 (32- and 64-bit) / Windows 10 (32- and 64-bit) / Desktop Ubuntu 18.04 (64-bit) / Desktop Ubuntu 16.04 (32-bit) / Ubuntu 18.04 (ARM64) / Ubuntu (16.04 ARMHF & ARM64) / MacOS (Mojave & High Sierra). Btw, a real spinnaker is actually a special kind of sail, which fills with wind and balloons out at the front of a sailboat.

Installation#

1. Download and install Spinnaker from FLIR as appropriate for your operating system. SpinView is the GUI for Spinnaker. For older FlyWire cameras and similar you may instead require FlyCapture, Spinnaker’s predecessor.
2. In order to install Spinnaker, go here. During install, go with the ‘Application Development’ option. not ‘Camera Evaluation’. On Windows 10, the standard path is: C:\Program Files\FLIR Systems\Spinnaker.
3. You will probably not need to use GigE Cameras. If you do need to later, you can run the EnableGEVInterfaces or DisableGEVInterface shortcut from the utilities shortcut.
4. If you want to interface using MATLAB (uncommon in the lab atm), look here. You need to install the support code as a toolbox that helps your camera play with the Image Acquisition Toolbox for MATLAB and Simulink. Typically you are using a Point Grey or FLIR camera (FLIR acquired Point Grey in 2016), and you can download the pointgreyhardware.mlpkginstall file here. Double click to prompt MATLAB add-on management, and the installation process. In MATLAB, you need to use the imaqregister function to ‘register’ your adaptor(s).