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Possible to save images/video directly to portable usb hard drive?

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Offline Kestrel1978

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Possible to save images/video directly to portable usb hard drive?
« on: 17 / March / 2015, 08:15:28 »
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Hi,

Is it possible to save images/video directly to a portable usb hard drive when shooting with the chdk camera? Would be ideal for video when using motion detection, this to enable large amount of video.

Regards,
Kes
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Offline waterwingz

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Re: Possible to save images/video directly to portable usb hard drive?
« Reply #1 on: 17 / March / 2015, 08:26:23 »
You can't do that without some sort of device in between your camera and the hard drive.  USB is a "master : slave" protocal - one device is the master and the other the slave.  Slaves cannot communicate with other slaves.  And guess what - the USB port on a camera is a "slave" port as is the USB port on a portable hard drive.

That being said, one of the many more powerful micro-controller cards available (one with USB master hardware) could probably be setup to do the job via ptp.
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