Controlling a FLIR Vue Pro with a Raspberry Pi

This repository is used to control a FLIR camera from a Raspberry Pi.

To do so, we have to use the accessory cable to connect through the PWM3 or 4 ports. Then, we can trigger up to 3 instructions using standard PWM inputs for the R/C industry: 3.3-5vdc, 50Hz. LOW = 1ms/20ms, MID = 1.5ms/20ms, HIGH = 2ms/20ms.

The instruction associated to the PWM inputs can be configured using the Vue Pro smartphone application. In this exemple we only use one instruction: trigger an image capture.

Use the code

To use the code, you can simply download or clone this repository onto your Raspberry, then open Julia (e.g. using VS Code), activate the project and instantiate the packages:

using Pkg
Pkg.activate(".")
Pkg.instantiate()

It will download the right packages for you.

Then open the script called take_picture.jl.

External references

Raspberry

Follow this link to better understand PWM.

Follow this one for a list of GPIO (i.e. the pins) you can use for PWM.

Arduino

See this use case for another example with an Arduino (French).

See this link to get the ESP32 pins that are compatible with PWM.