To all wifi enabled Lumix owners using Windows PC

Hi,

I posted this earlier in Panasonic Compact Forum, but I don't think G3 and G4 owners look at that forum, so I am also posting here:

Couple of months ago, a photographer (nickname lenuisible) decode the communication protocol between image app on smartphone and GH3 camera http://www.personal-view.com/talks/...our-gh3-from-a-web-browser-now-with-video-/p1. I took these, and adapted to my 13 years old remote control software (originally written in vb6 for casio qv3000).

After a couple of days, the software now finds the camera, queries its capabilities, and allows user to control the camera from windows PC.

It is a very simple program, you just see the commands (like focus, zoom, exposure, aperture, white balance etc...) and use them.

You can also record those settings and play them back later. You can tell the program to repeat those commands. So you can make timelapses by zooming in each shot, or changing the white balance when its dark outside.

I also added liveview from http://www.personal-view.com/talks/...our-gh3-from-a-web-browser-now-with-video-/p1, thanks to lenuisible.. You should just press "Liveview" button. But you have to have java installed in your machine. From the post,

"Java RE : download here : http://java.com/en/download/index.jsp

Add the java bin directory to your PATH, On a windows machine, the Java bin directory should be : C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\bin"

I have a FZ1000 to test it, it works ok, but it should work with all wifi enabled LUmix cameras. So feel free to try it, and let me know how it works.

Before you run the software, you should enable wifi from camera, connect the camera either a wifi network, or your pc to your camera. Program should find the camera automatically.. If program gives "no response from camera" then check wifi connection, get closer to the router, try again..

you can download and install it from http://www.dijitalakademi.com/lumixcontrol.zip

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Regards,

Melih

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Very cool, will give it a try later... Thanks for posting it here! Didn't think their com protocol could be deciphered and re-engineered like this.

I had a go with the GH4 but I couldn't get a live image on screen. Most of the other image controls worked as expected. I could fire the shutter via wifi. Nice!

Great program!

Of course it needs a little polish since I had a few bugs during testing: focus stuck, had to turn off/on the camera (GX7) but as for functionality its really great.

Really liked the live view. Even the focus peaking and magnify worked, with the occasional lag, but already very useful for something like a studio/macro shot.

Congrats on the effort. Will keep checking for updates.