PoseHeadingDegrees/GPSImgDirection seems to be random.

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There’s a relevant discussion here:

Compass direction or heading on the Ricoh Theta V where is it?

Today I received my Ricoh Theta V and I produced some of my first shots. Once I uploaded two files from my Android device via the Google StreetView app I noticed that the initial orientation that is shown in the app does not match the direction that is visually presented to the user as rotated image. I was under the impression that the Ricoh Theta V had a compass build in. Using exiv2 I am enable to recover the following information: exiv2 -p a R0010002_20181008184158.JPG | grep -i Pose Xmp.GP…

I’m not sure what the GPSImgDirection refers to. As the camera does not have a GPS unit, the GPS must be coming from the smartphone. Are the PosePitchDegrees and PoseRollDegrees changing?

Xmp.GPano.PosePitchDegrees                   XmpText     4  -0.9
Xmp.GPano.PoseRollDegrees                    XmpText     4  -0.6

There’s a tutorial here on accessing the raw data of the orientation sensors:

HowTo: Use THETA Motion Sensors

I recently read an article by @yokazuya on using the THETA motion sensors to take a picture. [image] He used the Android Sensor class. I went through his article and was able to successfully get data from the THETA internal accelerometer. I’m displaying the data to both logcat and using it to trigger the shutter of the THETA. The working repo I used for my test is below. Make sure you set the plug-in permission after installing it. I’m using a mock location. If you want to test it out f…

If your camera is unlocked (it’s free), you can install a compass app inside the camera and confirm that the internal magnetic field reading of the camera is correct.

What firmware version are you using? You can update the firmware with the desktop app and a USB cable.

GPSImgDirection was different in both pictures.