How to: Remote Control SEP via RPC

First, we need to know the IP address of the computer that is running the Smart Eye Pro (SEP) software.

In my case this will be 172.31.89.102

On the SEP computer you need to make sure that you have Smart Eye Pro started with a working setup (cameras, World Coordinate System (WCS) and if needed a World Model (WM)).

You will need to copy the Command Line Interface file (CLI), that runs the RPC, from the Smart Eye computer.

The file you need is called “Cli.exe” and can be found here:

" C:\Program Files\Smart Eye\Smart Eye Pro 12.0\API\Examples\bin"

Place this file somewhere on the controlling computer, where you can find it easily.

I will use this location for this guide:

C:\

Run the file “Cli.exe”.

You will now see this.

Now we need to connect to the SEP on the Smart Eye computer.

I will use the “connect” command followed by the IP-address and the port to connect to the SEP.

It will look like this: connect 172.31.89.102 8100

To confirm that we have a communication between both computers you can run the ping command that will return a pong answer.

Now you can go ahead and run any of commands you find under the “help” list.

If this doesn’t work, there could be a problem caused by the firewalls on your computer.

Make sure you have the network settings set in such a way that you get traffic between the computers.