FLIR Boson SDK modified by the RRC for USMA

• This SDK is based on the FLIR "Boson SDK" located at: https://www.flir.com/support/products/boson/#Downloads
• Modifications were made to enable the compiled shared libraries to work when compiled against CPP projects.
• Other changes involved modifying the compiling and linking commands.

Only the ClientFiles_C were used and tested, everything else is provided for completeness.

Udev Setup

• The boson camera when plugged in to the computer should map to two devices.
  • One is in the tty subsystem (/dev/ttyACM#) and is used for sending control commands to the camera.
  • Second one is in the video4linux subsystem (/dev/video#) and provides access to streaming video.
• To avoid conflict with other devices using the same subsystems you can use the below UDEV rules.
  • echo 'SUBSYSTEM=="tty", ATTRS{idVendor}=="09cb", ATTRS{idProduct}=="4007", GROUP="dialout", SYMLINK="boson_ser"' | sudo tee -a /etc/udev/rules.d/90-boson.rules > /dev/null
  • echo 'SUBSYSTEM=="video4linux", ATTRS{name}=="Boson*", GROUP="dialout", SYMLINK="boson_video", ATTR{index}=="0"' | sudo tee -a /etc/udev/rules.d/90-boson.rules > /dev/null
• Then reload the udev rules
  • sudo udevadm control --reload-rules
• The example code uses a "port_num" to identify the device name to connect to, "port_num" is an enum found in serialPortAdapter.c file. I changed the last enum value to be /dev/boson_ser. So now when port_num == 47, the code attempts to connect to /dev/boson_ser
• The source code limits the length of device strings to 16 characters. This limit is hardcode at more than one place. Instead of chasing them all down, I opted to shorten /dev/boson_serial to /dev/boson_ser

Build and install the SDK code

• This process is all done in a script and can be run with:
  bash buildAndInstall.sh
• You can test this with the command:
  TestFolder/bosonsynch s

Test install and camera code

• cd ../TestFolder
• Note: it takes time for the camera to compete its boot process after being plugged in. Documentation says 3 seconds, but it seems to take longer sometimes.
  gcc bosontest.cpp -o bosontest -lstdc++ -lboson -lFSLP
• Run the test code to get camera info
  ./bosontest