Canon S110 - Script makes sound like its shooting, but I get no images - Script Writing

Wreck

Canon S110 - Script makes sound like its shooting, but I get no images

« on: 01 / April / 2014, 19:25:50 »

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I have a basic script i have created to control the zoom of the camera, and fire the shutter via USB pulse. The zoom function works, and when I flip the switch to take a shot, I hear the camera clicking like it is shooting a photo, but when I look at the card there are no photos saved.

What am I missing here?

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while 1
   do
      k = get_usb_power
   until k>0
   if k > 37 and k < 43 then gosub "shoot"   
   if k < 5 then gosub "zoom100" 
   if k > 7 and k < 11 then gosub "zoom80" 
   if k > 13 and k < 17 then gosub "zoom60" 
   if k > 19 and k < 24 then gosub "zoom40"
   if k > 25 and k < 29 then gosub "zoom20" 
   if k > 31 and k < 35 then gosub "zoom10"
      
wend
end

:zoom10
   print "zoom10"; k
   set_zoom 10
   sleep 1000
   return

:zoom20
   print "zoom20"; k
   set_zoom 20
   sleep 1000
   return

:zoom40
   print "zoom40"; k
   set_zoom 40
   sleep 1000
   return

:zoom60
   print "zoom60"; k
   set_zoom 60
   sleep 1000
   return
 
:zoom80
   print "zoom80"; k
   set_zoom 80
   sleep 1000
   return

:zoom100
   print "zoom100"; k
   set_zoom 100
   sleep 1000
   return

:shoot
   print "shoot"; k
   shoot
   sleep 1500
   return

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waterwingz

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Re: Canon S110 - Script makes sound like its shooting, but I get no images

« Reply #1 on: 01 / April / 2014, 23:57:25 »

If you go to the CHDK Settings -> Remote Parameters menu, did you set Enable Remote [ * ] ?

A couple of other script suggestions :

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while 1
   do
      sleep(100)
      k = get_usb_power
   until k>0
   if k > 35 and k < 43 then gosub "shoot"   
   if k < 6 then gosub "zoom100" 
   if k > 5   and k < 12 then gosub "zoom80" 
   if k > 11 and k < 18 then gosub "zoom60" 
   if k > 17 and k < 25 then gosub "zoom40"
   if k > 24 and k < 32 then gosub "zoom20" 
   if k > 31 and k < 36 then gosub "zoom10"
      
wend
end

:zoom10
   print "zoom10"; k
   set_zoom 10
   sleep 1000
   return

:zoom20
   print "zoom20"; k
   set_zoom 20
   sleep 1000
   return

:zoom40
   print "zoom40"; k
   set_zoom 40
   sleep 1000
   return

:zoom60
   print "zoom60"; k
   set_zoom 60
   sleep 1000
   return
    
:zoom80
   print "zoom80"; k
   set_zoom 80
   sleep 1000
   return

:zoom100
   print "zoom100"; k
   set_zoom 100
   sleep 1000
   return

:shoot
   print "shoot"; k
   shoot
   sleep 1500
   return

Also note that set_zoom puts the zoom in a position defined the number of zoom steps. If your camera only has 7 or 8 zoom steps then every one of the functions listed above will move the camera to the 100% position.

« Last Edit: 02 / April / 2014, 00:04:31 by waterwingz »

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Wreck

Re: Canon S110 - Script makes sound like its shooting, but I get no images

« Reply #2 on: 02 / April / 2014, 00:47:37 »

Thanks, looks like i was missing the enable remote setting.

When I tested earlier it seemed like the zoom feature was working more or less as expected.

Is there any way to find out how many zoom steps a camera has? This is a canon s110. I can do some testing and see if a reduced scale of zoom steps will work better.

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