Camera image displayed on a Siemens TP277

Hi Gents

I was wondering if anybody had setup a system where a live camera image was displayed on a TP277 touch panel with ethernet, The vision inspection camera I have has ethernet capabilities and can connect to the screens port. fruitless searches of the net have come up with nothing so I was wondering if it was possible at all to do this.

So far looking through WinCC all I can see is smartclient view that has lan connection settings etc... Am I looking in the correct area ?

Regards and Merry Xmas to everybody

John V

I think it is not possible with a Win CE based panel as the TP277.
On a PC based panel there may be a chance.
Here is one that succeeded with a Cognex camera:
http://www.plctalk.net/qanda/showthread.php?t=54651

The new Comfort Panels has a media player preinstalled. Not sure if there is a way to link a camera and the media player.

Thanks for your Promt reply Jesper... Shame it won,t seem to work, there is a possibility I will have to use a seperate screen to display the image as I am tied to using the TP 277 screen at the moment...

Regards

John V

Screens are cheap.

Jesper, do you have any info on suitable screens ?

Thanks in adavance

JV

No I havent been in charge of that part.
But very cheap ones can be found at CCTV vendors. Depends on what output your camera has.

It,s a TCP/IP output and ethernet I/P output.... Its the new vision camera from IFM, 02V series. The camera itself can be setup to give me allsorts of info over ethernet connection, passes, fails etc, this is the info I want to display along with the picture.

Regards

John V

I think you should find a combination of panel and vision camera that share one native protocol.