IXUS 100 IS (Europe) / PowerShot SD780 IS - Porting Thread

Microfunguy

Do not get confused, fvdk is not referring to the 'official' CHDK version.

Andrey

Kind of stupid question.

How to start CHDK on SD780 Camera?
I tried SD1100, did some programming, all works, want to experiment with SD780 now.
For SD110 I used Cardtricks and it all worked

SD780?

Microfunguy

Andrey
want to experiment with SD780 now.

Temporarily rename your existing DISKBOOT.BIN file and replace with IXUS100 version.

David

Andrey

I placed DISKBOOT_prealpha_v8.bin and PS_prealpha_v8.FI2 onto SD card (4Gb)
CHDK starts, operates erraticaly, placed remote control script in SCRIPTS sub remots control script starts but does not work (same script works on SD1100)

What do I do wrong?

whim

@Andrey

What do I do wrong?

You failed to read the 1st post properly

* BASIC scripting.
Progress: Ignored so far

* Lua scripting.
Progress: Some works default - Ignored so far

Running (pre)alpha versions of ports means you'll often see crashes and non-working features ...
If you want to do so anyway, please read the entire porting thread

HTH,

wim

Microfunguy

Andrey

What do I do wrong?

If you wish, you can try the version that you can get here : http://stereo.jpn.org/eng/sdm/index.htm

Andrey

Microfunguy

Andrey

What do I do wrong?

If you wish, you can try the version that you can get here : http://stereo.jpn.org/eng/sdm/index.htm

Ok, http://stereo.jpn.org/eng/sdm/download.htm

Followed instructions, installed SDM 1.82, copied into one folder (Common Files folder) files from .ZIP files Common Files.zip and 1.82-148-ixus100-100c-57.zip

Started sdminste.exe
Selected camera as right
Formatted card

Did NOT replace CFG file this time.

The trigger does not function as it did on SD1100: I press the button, it focuses ans shoots.
Here I press the button and camera focuses then LCD goes dark. To shoot I need to press second time.
Can I change something in settings to shoot from single press of the trigger?

fvdk

Andrey

Did NOT replace CFG file this time.

To use the SDM version, you HAVE to replace the CFG file, read the instructions on the SDM site.

Frans

Microfunguy

There are three diffent modes.
Two are for synchronising a pair of cameras so that is not of interest to you.

In menu Bracketing/Overrides, set focus-mode to Manual.
It should now say FAST at the top of the screen.
As soon as you press the switch a photo will be taken.

If you use scripts, include the command 'sync-off' as your first command.

That means the script will not wait for you to release the switch.

Andrey

This is awesome!

Microfunguy
In menu Bracketing/Overrides, set focus-mode to Manual.
It should now say FAST at the top of the screen.
As soon as you press the switch a photo will be taken.

If you use scripts, include the command 'sync-off' as your first command.

That means the script will not wait for you to release the switch.

Thank you, I will try and let you know.
Is there a list of commands I can use for writing scripts?

To Frans

>> To use the SDM version, you HAVE to replace the CFG file, read the instructions on the SDM site.

To your experience, what difference will it make?
Right now it works with default .CFG file. And I think the screen is cleaner then when I changed to .CFG5.
Could that be? Not sure, just getting used of the environment etc.

You comments guys are greatly apprecialted. Hoping to evolve to the state when I can contribute something useful myself.

Microfunguy

Andrey
Is there a list of commands I can use for writing scripts?

Sure http://stereo.jpn.org/eng/sdm/ubasic.htm

Also read about the time-lapse bracketing function :-

http://stereo.jpn.org/eng/sdm/tlapse.htm
http://stereo.jpn.org/eng/sdm/tlapse2.htm

and when you have time read the rest of the documentation.

Microfunguy

AndreyI think the screen is cleaner then when I changed to .CFG5.
Could that be?

Actually, yes .. I do not like the CFG5 screen layout either.

However, use CFG5 and in menu Advanced\OSD Parameters\Layout editor you can change the position of all the screen elements.

fvdk

Andrey
This is awesome!

To your experience, what difference will it make?
Right now it works with default .CFG file. And I think the screen is cleaner then when I changed to .CFG5.
Could that be? Not sure, just getting used of the environment etc.

I have no idea what the actual differences are, maybe David can explain.
However, with the standard chdk config you might find some unusual behavior like the camera not starting/shutting down normally. I assume the special cfg is there for a reason 😁

Frans

Microfunguy

fvdk

I have no idea what the actual differences are, maybe David can explain.

It allows the CFG editor to work correctly with the different colour palettes that cameras have.

Not an ideal solution, it will change one day.

David

Andrey

Some good news, some bad news:

Good news: I got script with remote control to run!!
Bad news: with SDM software installed I can not upload images to PC! Any advice what to do?

Note regarding configuration files: I got CHDK.CFG5 file installed on the card automatically ... not clear how but i see it there in directory CHDK. There are two filesnow: CHDK.CFG and CHDK.CFG5. And I definitely did not place second configuration file there manually! ?

fvdk

Andrey

Bad news: with SDM software installed I can not upload images to PC! Any advice what to do?

Note regarding configuration files: I got CHDK.CFG5 file installed on the card automatically ... not clear how but i see it there in directory CHDK. There are two filesnow: CHDK.CFG and CHDK.CFG5. And I definitely did not place second configuration file there manually! ?

In Advanced menu -> Serial Comms -> Disable USD Download

The CHDK.CFG5 is probably saved by the camera.

Memo

Is there any chance that an intervalometer script would work with this alpha? I'm guessing that the answer is not but...

Andrey

fvdk

In Advanced menu -> Serial Comms -> Disable USD Download

That worked, thank you! Only the camera hangs after the transfer ... need to work further with it

gutts

I just bought this camera and would like to help get CHDK working with it. Could anyone explain where we are at the moment? Is there anything I could do as someone with very limited coding skills?
Cheers!

Benoe

gutts
I just bought this camera and would like to help get CHDK working with it. Could anyone explain where we are at the moment? Is there anything I could do as someone with very limited coding skills?
Cheers!

As far as I know, the latest pre-alpha binary is in the first post, but HarpoMa seems to stopped developing it further.

I think the ultimate goal would be to include this version into the automake server, and having frequent CHDK release from it.
But my coding skills are also very limited, so it would be very nice that someone with better skills could take care on the prealpha source and make it into the "normal" tree. Hopefully it will happen some time.

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