Wifi remote control of Lumix camera
Recently Panasonic added wifi support to their camera which is awesome for wireless portable control using a smartphone via their Lumix Link application. However, for advanced photography their application lack scripting possibilities.
Following lenuisible's works at:
I managed to control my own DMC-FZ1000 camera.
The camera use simple http protocol to transmit commands. So connecting your laptop computer to the camera and opening a web browser at the following address will perform the associated actions:
Start monitoring mode:
http://192.168.xxx.1/cam.cgi?mode=camcmd&value=recmode
Take a picture:
http://192.168.xxx.1/cam.cgi?mode=camcmd&value=capture
Start playback mode:
http://192.168.xxx.1/cam.cgi?mode=camcmd&value=playmode
Download a picture:
http://192.168.xxx.1:50001/DOxxxxxxx.jpg (Original Size)
http://192.168.xxx.1:50001/DLxxxxxxx.jpg (Large Size)
http://192.168.xxx.1:50001/DTxxxxxxx.jpg (Thumbnail Size)
There is an example:
I have also started a project library on sourceforge to control the camera via an executable.
If you are interested to read mode, I have also updated lenuisible original http page for focus stacking. See this page for more!
