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NX500 - tethered shooting - simple "hack"

Started Feb 8, 2016 | Discussions thread
OP otto k Senior Member • Posts: 2,252
Re: USB hack for remote trigger?

FWIW, you can mount a remote filesystem from your Linux over the net (I tried NFS and it works but you have to build the missing kernel modules). There are two issues with this: it is quite slow (max ~5MB/s, NX1 is much better as it has faster Wi-Fi support) so you have to use low-ish bitrate (40Mbps max for me) and the camera hangs if it loses the connection or you enter the playback after recording (latter happens apparently only on NX500 amd it is a bug, it will hang if you delete a photo from the shell and then enter the playback as well).

If you really want to do this I strongly recommend using AP mode on your laptop and not connecting over an existing Wi-Fi AP or router as it's faster and more stable.

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