Hi folks. I have a Powershot SX IS and want to shoot regularly spaced images to make a time-lapse movie. To that end I downloaded the Intervalometer script. However, I can't get it to work.The instructions say copy it to your SCRIPT folder. Mine was named SCRIPTS, but that doesn't matter, does it? Anyhow, continuing. Install and boot CHDK, enter <ALT> mode, press FUNC/SET to bring up a menu. So far so good. Then I'm to select the first item "Load Script from File..." (using FUNC/SET?), but nothing happens except the menu blinks. I saw that default.bas was 0B so I copied interval.bas into it; same behavior.
Quote from: hactar on 14 / August / 2013, 18:41:16Then I'm to select the first item "Load Script from File..." (using FUNC/SET?), but nothing happens except the menu blinks.This typically means that you have not installed the complete CHDK distribution to your SD card. This could be an install error on your part or it could be that you downloaded the small rather than complete distribution file. To verify this, are there any files in the CHDK/MODULES folder on your SD card?
Then I'm to select the first item "Load Script from File..." (using FUNC/SET?), but nothing happens except the menu blinks.
Also, Powershot SX IS is not the full complete model number of your camera - there is a number missing there ( i.e. SX30IS).
You don't say, but is the card larger than 4GB and hence has two partitions (so that CHDK can boot from FAT16)? If so, note that the SCRIPTS folder must be on the large partition (where photos will go too). CHDK will switch to the large partition after booting and won't look at the small partition for scripts.
Good to know. Unfortunately not the case -- the card is 4GB. For my first try I decided to keep it simple.
Also, it's "SCRIPTS" on yours, right?
Quote from: hactar on 15 / August / 2013, 13:04:27Good to know. Unfortunately not the case -- the card is 4GB. For my first try I decided to keep it simple.Please describe in detail the procedure you used to configure your SD card - including any tools or utilities you used.
Its still possible that you have created a dual partition card, which would completely explain you problem.
There are simpler ways to do it. Instead of copying the card to a file, I could have just created a blank file of the same size. And instead of splitting the image to two parts, I could have just noted the offset and applied it appropriately.
echo -n BOOTDISK | dd bs=1 count=8 seek=64 of=/dev/sdx1
QuoteIts still possible that you have created a dual partition card, which would completely explain you problem.Pretty darned unlikely.
Quote from: hactar on 15 / August / 2013, 14:23:43There are simpler ways to do it. Instead of copying the card to a file, I could have just created a blank file of the same size. And instead of splitting the image to two parts, I could have just noted the offset and applied it appropriately.There are certainly easier ways. You could just run the STICK utility on your laptop with the SD card reader?
Or format the card in the camera, put the card in the reader on the slower laptop, unzip the CHDK distribution file to the card (maintaining the directory structure) and then issuing this command :Code: [Select]echo -n BOOTDISK | dd bs=1 count=8 seek=64 of=/dev/sdx1
However, CHDK works for thousands of people so it seem very likely that whatever you are doing in your card prep method is causing problems. The symptoms are that once CHDK is loaded, it can't find other files (specifically the .flt files).
Formatting the card in the camera applies FAT32 IIRC, so I might have to do that part in a computer.
Yes, I've apparently done something wrong. It might be as simple as "something's in the wrong place". But if everything looks reasonable, it must be something invisible like the partitioning or formatting.
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