Windows/Mac Laptop as your host

Visual Studio

Download the Visual Studio from Download Visual Studio Tools - Install Free for Windows, Mac, Linux and install on your Windows/Mac OS.

Camera SDK

Download the SDK for the Camera from Camera Remote SDK | LICENSE AGREEMENT | SONY

Choose the option for windows:

Extract the contents of ‘CrSDK_v1.05.00_20211207a_Win64.zip’ in a folder called ‘SDK’.

Inside the SDK folder, follow instructions on pages 7 to 9 in the document “RemoteSampleApp_IM_v1.05.00.pdf” to connect your camera properly and install the camera drivers.

Next, create an empty folder called ‘build’ inside the SDK folder. Open the camera SDK directory in Visual Studio, and in the menu under ‘Build’ option, click on ‘Install RemoteCli’. You will get a success message on installation.

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Python

Download and install Python using this link Download Python

Open the command line and install pip by running the following commands

curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py
python get-pip.py

Create and activate a python virtual environment

python -m venv myenv
myenv\Scripts\activate.bat

GUI

Clone the github repository

git clone https://github.com/precision-sustainable-ag/BenchBot.git

In the cloned repository, navigate to BenchBot/Laptop setup/GUI/

Install the required libraries

Run the GUI.py script