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NX500 - tethered shooting - simple "hack"

Started Feb 8, 2016 | Discussions thread
foot Veteran Member • Posts: 4,805
Re: USB hack for remote trigger?

otto k wrote:

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.

Thanks for responding.

btw, what is 'AP mode on your laptop' ??

I'm thinking of using my raspberry pi 3B+ computer, my laptop is a creaky old win8.1

One thought I had is the ability to immediately rename and organize the vlog video files. I really hate having to go back and figure out which file is which

I'm just reading that the open source OBS program supports PTP/MTP so I might give that a go. I also read that I should be able to directly (sorta) send the video from my smartPhone (goggle pixel android) into OBS

I did manage to get my Logitech c270 webcam working with the raspberry pi but unfortunately I couldn't get the video/audio to properly and reliably synch. Maybe OBS could help with that also

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