Problems using ptpcam on RPi with Theta SC via USB

THETA API Usage
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Update: I just found out that SC supports the USB API as well.

Can you do this:

$ ptpcam -i

Camera information
==================
Model: RICOH THETA S
  manufacturer: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
  serial number: '00010093'
  device version: 01.42
  extension ID: 0x00000006
  extension description: (null)
  extension version: 0x006e

If not, can you see the camera if you do this:

craig@linux-cube:~$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:8000 Intel Corp. 
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:8008 Intel Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 05ca:0366 Ricoh Co., Ltd

Example detecting camera with gphoto2

craig@linux-cube:~$ gphoto2 --auto-detect
Model                          Port                                            
----------------------------------------------------------
USB PTP Class Camera           usb:003,003

Please advise on version of Raspian and libptp you are using.

This is a known working configuration

  • Raspbian Jessie
  • kernel version 4.9.51-v7+
  • libptp2-1.2.0
  • Raspberry Pi 3.

In addition to your version of Raspian and libptp, please confirm that you’ve read the article below and can detect the camera with lsusb: