Hi, other people may have more information on this topic. I’ve only used the Ethernet with a few of the plug-ins in the THETA store. I’ve used it with Wireless Live Streaming to YouTube and Facebook. I’ve also used it with File Cloud Upload. Though, I think that plug-in recently stopped working.
If you want to connect your THETA to a Mac/PC with a wire, the best way is with USB.
I also looked at a USB to CAT5 solution.
The Solutions Below are Untested
These are the ones that I’ve found for possible testing:
Thanks for sharing this. Can you power the THETA indefinitely using this solution? How long have you tested it for? Many other people are looking for this solution. This is a great add to the community.
I am surprised no one else has looked into this,
I myself am very in to otg connectors since they showed up.
I’m glad they decided on Type-C for the Z1, that means more then 1 device can be connected throught a adaptor like this with not much loss of transfer speed, also would allow for gigabit ethernet, and a connected local storage device, and any usb that would also work.
Also the y cable is charging And on the network.
OH yes the last magic trick up my sleve…
You could use a ethernet poe, so that it sends on one side and receives on the other the ethernet line and usb power… Making this a 1 cable solution. Or use a micro USB extension… Witch I’ll test once I find my connector.
Thanks again for your work. We know that not all of the adapters work to supply power. Your link to the actual adapter is useful to the community. It’s great that you’re sharing your experience.
It is, just now I have to make a multi address connection window, so that you can easily use a custom addresses to connect to the app when the app opens.
It’s just a simple drop down with many addresses up to 255, I haven’t looked into if node js can fetch a IP address from a device Hostname yet, that would simplify this for the user
In your streaming project, how does the user know what IP address is assigned to the THETA V? Do you assign the same IP address to the THETA V from your router all the time?
Currently I just look connected devices on my router,
I haven’t fully added the feature yet, using node js to find the Hostname “THETAXXXXXXXXXXX” then get the IP address would be ideal, I just have not got into trying to code yet, Above image was just a simple layout.
Great job with what you have. It looks usable right now. There’s a real need for a desktop application to control the THETA.
I haven’t tried this, but you can probably use client-mode with digest authentication to access the THETA V when it is connected with Ethernet. Here’s an example with Python to find the IP
I personally like Electron and feel this is a good path forward. I was thinking of working on a similar project and I get excited every time I see your updates.
Thanks for the help, I’ll look into this more this weekend, currently getting a Nas to setup a easyer way for me to work on projects like this, and stay on task a little more.
I should also make my own thread for posting updates…
Also, I am using a gigabit to usb3 adaptor…(based off my switch I am getting full 1gigabit speed)
The micro USB on the theta would have speeds up to 60MB/s max(USB 2.0 speeds) ,
and gigabit ethernet has a max around 100MB/s,
conpaired to a regular 10/100M ethernet witch max is10MB/s
So based on this if the usb2.0 connect is the only bottle neck i would be getting a max transfer speed of 60Mb/s if I’m correct… Further testing would be needed.