photocon

Thanks. Now I have a use for my old devices that are stuck at android4. I used it to "broadcast" (from differen angles) a LAN party for the ones joining via VPN.

Sun, 2021/09/19 - 20:52

Nice I am glad that it could be of help for you. But you could also think about using gstreamer gst-launch to create a network stream from the camera. Just an idea. Happy gaming.

arsh0r

Wed, 2021/09/15 - 08:37

Nice, Thanks. Is scaling of the images also possible? Calling Imagemagick after taking an image takes additional time. After all the cameras of SailfishOS devices aren't that good after all.

Thu, 2021/09/16 - 21:13

Yes it is possible. Made a new version there you could specify different resolutions with res=800x480.

The supported resolutions for a specific camera could be found by running "photocon cam=1 -i" for example.

arsh0r

Thu, 2021/09/09 - 13:09

Could you make the output path for images configurable via commandline, please? I wanted them to be saved at /tmp to upload them via script. Or did you publish the source code somewhere?

Sun, 2021/09/12 - 18:26

Now you could add for example path=/tmp/photo it will automatically add .jpg. When you have a series it will add the count number too.

sashikknox

Wed, 2021/04/07 - 19:12

Nice tool, not test it.yet, but.good idea!

Wed, 2021/04/07 - 17:21

Thank you so much for the Update!

Wed, 2021/04/07 - 17:28

You are welcome.

ekari

Sun, 2021/01/10 - 14:04

Hey, thanks for this! Seems to be working fine on my XperiaXA2 with SailfishOS 3.4.0.24. It outputs some warnings, but images are captured ok.

Wed, 2021/04/07 - 17:28

No problem, thanks for reporting.

Fri, 2019/11/01 - 10:18

Is there a way to automatically take a picture every x seconds?
And are there any plans for a videocon-app?
Thanks again for photocon!

szopin

Sat, 2019/11/02 - 14:50

You could use 'watch -n (seconds) photocon' for this and just run the photocon repeatedly this way, or does it expect user input?

Sat, 2019/11/02 - 15:29

There is no user input. This should work you could only run into problems below one second, when the delay is not long enough to take a picture.

Or something like focusing once and then take many pictures as fast as possible would not work.

Sat, 2019/11/02 - 14:26

At the moment this option is not available, will think about it for next release.

A videocon app is not planned, when I am bored and have time I could give a try, but don't count on it.

You are welcome and thx for feedback.

Mon, 2019/10/28 - 21:37

The console shows an error, but the picture is taken:

,---
| Sailfish OS 3.1.0.11 (Seitseminen)
'---
[nemo@Sailfish ~]$ photocon flash=off --focus
[W] unknown:0 - Starting camera without viewfinder available

(photocon:17007): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: 19:30:21.116: Registering meta implementation 'NemoGstBufferOrientationMeta' without init function
[D] unknown:0 - Focusing...
Captured:/home/nemo/Pictures/IMG_00000003.jpg

Mon, 2019/10/28 - 22:32

Yes the error is normal. I am guessing it is because the camera is started without a viewfinder and the application has no orientation gestreamer throws an error. I think qcamera was not to be meant to be used in a none gui application. I wanted to make a dummy viewfinder which is not shown, but for SFOS there are no multimedawidgets.

Mon, 2019/10/28 - 10:23

thanks! Works great.

Mon, 2019/10/28 - 14:22

Thats nice btw on which device and which OS version?

Mon, 2019/10/28 - 21:32

XA2 Plus on 3.1.0.11

Sun, 2019/10/27 - 00:43

How to disable flash?

Sun, 2019/10/27 - 22:21

It looks like you don't have the latest version installed :p.

Please download the new uploaded version 0.0.3 and there you could disable the flash by setting the option "flash=off".

Mick

Wed, 2019/10/23 - 08:34

Getting same results with this update.
Maybe it's because I'm using Sony Xperia X. I'll give it a go with my Jolla 1 sometime.

Wed, 2019/10/23 - 12:39

Yeah would be nice to know if front camera is working. For me Jolla 1 on 3.1.0.11 only back camera is working, but also stock camera software can't open front camera (maybe hardware fault).

And Jolla C on 3.0.0.8 everything is working as it should.

Mick

Tue, 2019/10/22 - 01:28

Gave it a test on 3.1.0.11, but getting varied results and terminal displays:-

[nemo@Sailfish ~]$ photocon cam=1
[W] unknown:0 - Starting camera without viewfinder av
ailable

(photocon:18722): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: 23:20:30.218
: Registering meta implementation 'NemoGstBufferOrien
tationMeta' without init function
[D] unknown:0 - Focusing...
[nemo@Sailfish ~]$.

Tue, 2019/10/22 - 11:17

Thanks for report. Tried with Jolla on 3.0.3.10 compiled with newer sdk and it is also not working. Don't know which version will break/change qcamera and atm I have no fix.

Tue, 2019/10/22 - 23:09