New and crazy camera types

[henrypinkard]

New and crazy camera types

[rwb27]

This is not really a novel camera, but possibly a camera system that doesn't fit the current API: I work a lot with Raspberry Pi cameras, usually controlled over the network. That means that the quickest way to capture an image ends up with the image on a remote machine and I retrieve it later. So far so good, it works nicely with snapImage and getImage, but it doesn't play nicely with a local ring buffer. I'm not a heavy MMCore user (yet!) so my apologies if this is spurious, but my reading of the docs is that there's a bit of assumption that there is a ring buffer, and that it is local, I think? That's definitely something that could be generalised to good effect.

Related to this, I not infrequently get into a situation where I want to call snapImage several times before calling getImage. Is there a way to return a reference from snapImage that you then pass to getImage so that you know you're retrieving the right thing? This makes my network implementation way easier (and is the way I currently do it from non-MMCore control scripts).