reload cameras

[leoyala]

🚀 Feature Request

At the moment, when a new camera is connected to the system and xilens is already running, the application needs to be closed and re-opened in order for the app to be aware of the new camera. A better approach would be to create a menu option or button to reload the available cameras.

🔈 Motivation

It is too much of a hassle to have to close the app just to connect to a new camera.

🛰 Alternatives

To create a service that periodically checks for new cameras. The disadvantage is that this would be running constantly, while a new camera is only connected sporadically.

[leoyala]

The current behavior is that when a camera already exists in cameraListComboBox, the item is not removed even if the camera is no longer connected, ideally the item should be removed.
Even more, cameras are identified in the combo list by the model number, for example: MQ022HG-IM-SM4x4VIS which creates a problem when two cameras of the same model are connected to the system.

Potential solution 💡 : Identify cameras by model and reference number e.g.: MQ022HG-IM-SM4x4VIS-9.2.4.1

[leoyala]

The adopted solution is to identify each camera in cameraListComboBox with the pattern: cameraModel@sensorSerialNumber. Such that the camera model can then be queried by splitting the string using the character @.
This needs to be handled carefully because the mapper of available cameras only holds camera model at the moment, so a conflict between a camera item having the handle of a different camera might occur.