MATLAB: Turning off dinoLite Edge LED

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Hi people and AI,

I've run into a problem with turning off the LED of my dinoLite. I need to have it disabled within my MATLAB function since its a feature of the program. Reading this person's solution from a couple years back is not working because the dinoLite used is different than mine. The person used a DinoLite premier whereas I am using an Edge.

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/203399-using-dino-lite-microscopes-with-matlab?s_tid=answers_rc1-2_p2_MLT

His work around of telling MATLAB to tell cmd prompt to shut off the dinoLite LED should work for older versions though. I'm in contact with dinoLite support so I will post a solution to this problem once I figure it out. In the mean time, anyone know of another work around I can try?

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Okay so I figured out how to do, the way I solved the problem was to get in touch with dinoLite support and get the newest command prompt utility that supports the EDGE series. Make sure the DN_DS_Ctrl.exe is in the directory where you're coding from.

Here is what my DOS command looks like

dos('DN_DS_Ctrl.exe LED off -CAM0')

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Actually, in case it matters to anyone, I think I have it figured out.

The key is to download the LED control package from Dino-Lite (You can find it here.) The PDF that is attached as part of the package should direct you through some of the commands.

The general guidelines are as follows:

Simply locate the DN_DS_Ctrl.exe file (most likely located at a location like C:\Program Files (x86)\Dino-Lite DOS Control.)
Copy the file to your current work directory (or add the path to the location where the file is located.)
At this point, you are pretty much good to go with things. You can look at the How to use Dino-Lite DOS Control Commands PDF to locate the specific commands.
You can learn about how to run DOS commands via MATLAB from the documentation here.

For my particular application, I ended up simply creating a checkbox object for the GUI that I was using. The general concept of the operation is as follows:

checkBoxVal = get(hObject,'Value'); % Get the checkbox value (1 or 0)

if checkBoxVal % If checked 'on', let's turn on the LEDs
     dos('DN_DS_Ctrl.exe LED on')
else % If checked 'off', let's turn off the LEDs
     dos('DN_DS_Ctrl.exe LED off')
end

That's what I have for now, and hope this helps someone! Please let me know if you have any questions!

Cheers,

-Sid

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