Software for two Xenics cameras!

Yep, you've read right: we now have two of the Xenics IR cameras. The first we purchased will be dedicated to the low-order wavefront sensor, the second will have the privilege of being our "science" detector for the commissioning of SCExAO, before we try and add HiCIAO, and might even be able to do some science itself!

Today, we finally managed to control both cameras from the same computer... hurray! This server/client architecture we've developed is actually proving very handy: one server per camera, each one awaiting for connections (via the local network or directly from the SCExAO control computer) listening to their special port number.

The client can now ask either of the cameras (or both) to take images, query for or update the camera configuration (exposure time, subarray mode, gain), or tell it to shutdown. Now that these detectors are both working, we can turn off the visible laser diode: this new year will be bright in the infrared for SCExAO!