Ahhh dang, i think i have finally reached the final dead end.
I don’t think there is a way to
A) Remotely wake up the theta
and then
B) trigger it to take photos
in any kind of autonomous (especially low-power) way
In my mind i could have used the Keyboard stroke trick + the PTP of the rpi, BUT the OTG cable needs to be connected the opposite way for both of these approaches (which is bizarre to me, i always thought the OTG cable was just the 4 wires going to a different header, but for some magic reason it seems to make a difference!)
Has anyone successfully woken up the camera with a Pi-zero’s bluetooth, and then triggered it for photos?
ahhh i might have to abandon the Theta as a possible camera for this, which is too bad because it definitely seems feasible, but there are strange road blocks at every corner it seems
I use Theta V with raspberry pi. Gphoto works fine except for the shutterspeed ( you need to compile).
Theta wakes up when the raspberry pi starts and you can use the power off for theta. I think (i will try) a reboot of the pi will wakes up the theta V.
oh totally, this was just a quick test, i can control every bit of it very easy.
Basically i will have the Teensy send a virtual mouse click to wake up the Theta, and also have the servo move slightly to trigger it
i should be able to go from Sensor reading at PIR to photo captured in 1/2 a second (the goal against other camera traps right now)
I just saw this working. Both wake from sleep and put camera to sleep works using the USB API.
Ignore the error messages on the console about “Could not open session!”. That is appearing because the camera is in sleep mode. I also saw a demo the USB API controlling live streaming in 4K
Wow this would be great! then i can just have the Pi+ Theta! Do you think it works for the Theta V, or is there something special about the Z1?
Ill try it out probably tomorrow!
meanwhile here’s our documentation for how to make camera traps out of both the Theta V (or really any camera you can boop with a servo) and the MADV http://www.dinalab.net/2019/09/27/panatrap/
I am currently working on a 360 TimeLapse project with a GoPro Fusion but I’ve had issues with the Wifi not being reliable for communication when camera gets over heated.
I’m thinking of trying out either the Theta V or the Theta Z1.
Have you had any success in waking up from sleep the Theta V via USB API?
I’ve seen it work with the THETA Z1. It definitely woke up from sleep with the USB API and went back to sleep. Note that I saw this demoed by a RICOH engineer with ptpcam. However, he assured me that there was nothing special with his setup.
I have not tried it with the THETA V.
To be honest, I was trying to get ptpcam running on Ubuntu 18.04 (my workstation) and I ran into problems. I plan to install it on a Raspberry Pi and test it again.
Maybe you can order a camera from someplace with a good return policy and try it out, then return the camera if it doesn’t operate as you intend.
I believe that @quitmeyer was not able to get the THETA V to wake from sleep.
Note that I personally have not tried it with either the THETA V or THETA Z1 because when I upgraded my Linux system to Ubutu 18.04, ptpcam stopped working for me and I didn’t dig into it to fix the problem. Also, I cleaned my office at some point in 2019 and put the Raspberry Pi in a box somewhere. I need to find the Raspberry Pi.
How long is the timelapse? Is it several days? Months?
Can you power the camera with an external power source? Or, is it powered by a battery?
For powered timelapse, the application below works.
Correct, I could not turn it on via USB api quickly.i could turn it on via an emulated keystroke sent to the USB, but then I could not control the camera.
I needed a speedy time sensitive turn on though.
Others have said that if you turn on a raspberry pi connected to it, it will wake up the camera at the same time. Never tried it myself, but that’s because it would be too slow
I am developing a solution to last a few months that’s why I don’t want to depend on the wifi connection. The tests I’ve made with the GoPro Fusion have led me to believe that when the camera gets too hot the WIFI communication doesn’t work properly. I’ve been able to get It to work properly for about 3 Days max.
I’m assuming that I can power and exchange data between (via USB API )a RPI 4 and the Theta 360 camera ?
I’ve used the gphoto2 before but not the ptpcam tool before. I guess there’s a lot to explore.
Thank you for the tlapser360 suggestion. I will dig into It.