USB remote and USB connect from script

crasspm

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« on: 15 / June / 2010, 15:16:18 »

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Hello all,

I've searched the forum but haven't found a solid answer to this one. I'm writing a uBasic script that uses the USB remote functionality. I'd also like to connect to a PC from the same script. Is this possible? SDM has the make/break USB connection commands, I'd like something similar in CHDK.

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tubamaphoner

5

Re: USB remote and USB connect from script

« Reply #1 on: 13 / July / 2010, 15:46:23 »

I did this:

take_photo_now
   sleep 250
   enable_usb_download
   sleep 9000
   disable_usb_download

then I have a script on my computer that gets the pic then deletes it from the camera.

I just selected "Do nothing" when the camera connects to the pc and have the vb program I made running in the background waiting to do its job...

my problem is it gets stuck in playback mode after that...

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jevans161

1

Re: USB remote and USB connect from script

« Reply #2 on: 16 / December / 2010, 05:58:52 »

i have sdm installed on my sd cards. remote shutter operation works as expected.

Now, I need to be able to quickly switch my camera to usb mode to download the pictures to the computer. I would like a script that would switch to this mode when I press <alt>, and then switch back to direct mode to continue snapping pictures when I press the <alt> again. I tried to put in this script:

@title Connect to PC
enable_usb_download

but when I start the script from the <alt> menu, I get a ubasic: 2 parse error.

Please help!! I don't know what I'm doing.

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