Hi guys,
I understand it might have taken you years of reverse engineering to gather all this information and here I come out of the blue asking for advice. Let me just say I am willing to contribute to the hacks and mods as soon as I have something to contribute.
In the summer I bought a Firefly 8S, the 90 degree version. I was really impressed with the picture quality and the overall functionality of this little camera. The 90 degree field of view was exactly what I was looking for. A wide angle, not a fish-eye.
I have a background as a documentary filmmaker before I started doing web development and now I want to do filmmaking again. My plan is to control this camera remotely via a Raspberry PI. I picked that because it is very small and has wifi built in. I know this camera can be controlled over wifi but then I would need another wifi modem attached to the computer so I hope to be able to do it over USB.
On the Raspberry I want to use one of the languages I already know: PHP or Perl, probably PHP, to relay commands from the internet.
So basically what I am looking for is something I can access from PHP that will then control the camera via USB.
The functionality that I am looking for is to be able to control:
start/stop recording
adjust iso
adjust white balance
adjust EV
adjust audio level
get a preview image
get files
What also would be helpful is if it would automatically pick one of the USB modes, so it won't be stuck on that menu.
I would be really interested to find out what you all think about this. Is this something that is already possible or would this need additional hacking?
Thanks!
Guustaaf
I understand it might have taken you years of reverse engineering to gather all this information and here I come out of the blue asking for advice. Let me just say I am willing to contribute to the hacks and mods as soon as I have something to contribute.
In the summer I bought a Firefly 8S, the 90 degree version. I was really impressed with the picture quality and the overall functionality of this little camera. The 90 degree field of view was exactly what I was looking for. A wide angle, not a fish-eye.
I have a background as a documentary filmmaker before I started doing web development and now I want to do filmmaking again. My plan is to control this camera remotely via a Raspberry PI. I picked that because it is very small and has wifi built in. I know this camera can be controlled over wifi but then I would need another wifi modem attached to the computer so I hope to be able to do it over USB.
On the Raspberry I want to use one of the languages I already know: PHP or Perl, probably PHP, to relay commands from the internet.
So basically what I am looking for is something I can access from PHP that will then control the camera via USB.
The functionality that I am looking for is to be able to control:
start/stop recording
adjust iso
adjust white balance
adjust EV
adjust audio level
get a preview image
get files
What also would be helpful is if it would automatically pick one of the USB modes, so it won't be stuck on that menu.
I would be really interested to find out what you all think about this. Is this something that is already possible or would this need additional hacking?
Thanks!
Guustaaf
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