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- Wed Mar 11, 2015 1:54 pm #11818

Almost all the new photo and video cameras are wifi enabled and it can be controlled by an smartphone

What is controlled? Please give me more info as i do not own such a camera. Or give me some info of an IOS App so that i can understand your needs.
In the Panasonic owners manual i could not find anything about WiFi.

- Thu Mar 12, 2015 1:53 am #11850 i have an esp8266 inside my frsky rx module (started with hlk-wifi-m03 / rm04) so i can control my gopro camera from my TX while flying in my quadcopter. i just did that for a test. not really useful.

but my esp8266 gopro intervalometer is useful to me.

Last edited by villTech on Thu Mar 12, 2015 6:01 am, edited 1 time in total.

- Thu Mar 12, 2015 5:44 am #11867

Almost all the new photo and video cameras are wifi enabled and it can be controlled by an smartphone

What is controlled? Please give me more info as i do not own such a camera. Or give me some info of an IOS App so that i can understand your needs.
In the Panasonic owners manual i could not find anything about WiFi.

The app is used as a remote control, the app of Panasonic: Image App, Sony: Play Memories, Canon: EOS remote.

You can control almost all the parameters, rec, stop, zoom, white balance, menu, flash, etc.

Here you can download the manual of the Panasonic HC-X920 camcorder:
http://cdn.cnetcontent.com/79/53/79531b ... a7850b.pdf

Here the Sony HDR-CX900:
http://www.sony.co.uk/support/en/conten ... X900E/list

- Thu Mar 12, 2015 7:18 am #11869 This means you want to remote control your camera using WiFi and a small micro, is that right?
Wouldn't it be reasonable to first write a program on your PC or Mac to realize the functions you are thinking of and then convert them to a micro controller. Thats the way i usually start a project. I start writing my App with XoJo (for Windows, OS X or IOS) and then convert it for a Atmel AVR. Have i understood correctly that you already have understood the WiFi communication protocol. So on what system is it based? Can you control the Cam with a self written program using USB or WiFi?
Give me more info.