Using PureThermal with Windows SDK

[Kurt Kiefer]

We're very pleased to be able to share a new PureThermal example, thanks to our friend ghellwig, that shows how to interact with a PureThermal board using the Windows SDK and doesn't require any additional drivers or third party libraries.

The following features are demonstrated:

• Read UVC extension unit (e.g. Lepton serial number or part number)
  
• Write UVC extension unit (e.g. command FFC)
  
• Demonstrate selection and acquisition of Y16 data type
  
• Demonstrate use of telemetry data

To build the example, you'll need the Windows 10 SDK and Microsoft Visual Studio. If you have a different version of the SDK installed, you may need to right-click the solution and select the Retarget Solution, or modify the project properties to set it to the version you have.

Note that in order for the telemetry data acquisition to work in Windows, you'll need to have the board's firmware version at least at 1.2.2.

You can find the example on the PureThermal UVC capture examples repo inside the MediaFoundation directory.

We hope this will help along those of you wishing to develop your Windows applications for PureThermal. Let us know how it goes!

[sam vadidar]

Hi Kurt,

Thanks to Julhio, I am getting the temperatures and color map using my PT-mini.

https://github.com/Julhio/pureThermal/tree/master/Cpp

However, the temperature rises constantly when I keep using the camera and to fix that I need to implement functions such as FFC(flat field correction) or others which are in lepton SDK. Can you give me some hints about the way I can do that?

I am using everything in a qt application in Ubuntu 16.04.

Best regards,

Vadidar