Keyence IV-3, FTP, Edge, Perspective

[Matrix_Engineering]

I have a customer with an IV-3 on a conveyor checking dates.

The maintenance guy doesn’t have a laptop (small company).

I have Edge Perspective for a Robot on the line.

I’m happy with the FTP retrieval from the IV-3, just pondering as it is Edge what are my options for displaying the last image as DB is out of the picture.

Edge is on an OnLogic CL210-11 (Ubuntu).

All I want to do is display the last one image, so if the dater fails and conveyor stops they have a visual cue as to whether they need to adjust guide rails etc to get the product back in the camera Region of Interest.

[David_Stone]

You can encode it as base64 and insert it using script or binding into the image component source parameters a string. No need for database, just gotta be careful with image sizes and performance.

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