hy all,
i'm interested to manage my both camera shoot from the computer somehow. i've tried the autohotkey script but i didn't get anywere.
anyhow both camera shoots if i run chdk and write the five line of code for runing multicam.lua. but it takes a lot of time just to shoot once. i've read other post and i saw dtic even managed to shoot automaticaly with a wireless mouse.
how did you do it?? thanks
The best way to shot and download pictures to computer
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FYI, the best way to do this is now the Spreads program by jbaiter. Using spreads, everything is controlled from your computer. The cameras will capture images at the press of a button and those images will be automatically downloaded and stored in the right order. Go check out the Spreads sub-forum.
If you can, get a Raspberry Pi board to run Spreads on. That is the most painless way to get going because you just install the SpreadPi image and hook up the cameras and you are good to go. With SpreadPi, you operate Spreads via your web browser by going to the network address that the Pi lives at. You create a workflow, capture all your photos, and then download them all as one big zip file for postprocessing.
If you can, get a Raspberry Pi board to run Spreads on. That is the most painless way to get going because you just install the SpreadPi image and hook up the cameras and you are good to go. With SpreadPi, you operate Spreads via your web browser by going to the network address that the Pi lives at. You create a workflow, capture all your photos, and then download them all as one big zip file for postprocessing.
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i agree with you, but spreads is not supported in windows.
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This is why I mentioned SpreadPi. A Raspberry Pi card is very cheap and then you can control the entire process from a windows computer and download a zip at the end.
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Re: The best way to shot and download pictures to computer
yeah, the best way at this time is definitely a SpreadPi setup with two cameras. dive in!
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mihai2054 wrote:I'm interested to manage my both camera shoot from the computer somehow. i've tried the autohotkey script but i didn't get anywere. anyhow both camera shoots if i run chdk and write the five line of code for runing multicam.lua. but it takes a lot of time just to shoot once. i've read other post and
You can control chdkptp from the command line (connect to camera, set photo mode, zoom, shoot) in windows. I will clean up some code and post a script for autohotkey for that when I have time. But it is really pretty straightforward. Read the usage.txt helpfile for chdkptp for details on the different commands. The rsint command is the fastest, it saves directly to the PC and you can start shooting the next photo while the previous is saving. It requires a camera with filewrite, see this list.
I posted about that here. A mouse scroll wheel can be used as a hotkey just like any keyboard button can. Here is a simple example for autohotkey.mihai2054 wrote:i saw dtic even managed to shoot automaticaly with a wireless mouse.
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WheelDown::
Run notepad.exe
msgbox, hello world
return
Re: The best way to shot and download pictures to computer
@mihai2054 and others: I made the small tool TwoCamControl , see this new thread.