Re: [Lazarus] libgphoto2 camera capture and control

[Anthony Walter via lazarus]

My libgphoto2 pascal file is located here
.

That's what I've been doing on an idle timer, but admittedly when I
submitted the changes I didn't actually change any of the libgphoto2
"widget" values. I just am calling ...

function TCamera.ApplyChanges: Boolean;
begin
  if Connected then
Result := gp_camera_set_config(FCamera, FWindow.FWidget, FContext) =
GP_OK
  else
Result := False;
end;

>From a timer without settings and new "widget" values. I might try changing
a widget value and see if that works. I will upload complete application
sources to a a git repo soon and maybe someone with a gphoto2 supported
camera  can test.

Thanks for the advice.
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Re: [Lazarus] libgphoto2 camera capture and control

[DougC via lazarus]

Sounds like a configuration change in the camera settings is called for so it 
will stop shutting down after apparent inactivity.





 On Tue, 03 Mar 2020 07:57:28 -0500 Anthony Walter via lazarus 
 wrote 



The library seems to have some application idle timeout functions, but they 
don't seem to do anything with my camera at least.



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[Lazarus] libgphoto2 camera capture and control

[Anthony Walter via lazarus]

Does anyone know if any projects exists for libgphoto2?

I wrote an object oriented interface to libgphoto2 and have a problem with
tethering (using the computer to control a camera) where after some time my
camera will turn off during a period of inactivity.

To reset camera tethering you have to manually turn the switch on the
camera to off then turn it back on again, wait a bit then press a button in
my application to try and connect again. This is a inconvenient as you have
to stop using the computer and fiddle with the camera constantly. I am
wondering if anyone has handled this before and had any insight on how to
prevent a camera from just powering down. If I continually take photos this
might fix the problem, but that would interfere with other operations as
the camera is occupied during that period and it would cause random
intervals where camera settings could not be made.

The library seems to have some application idle timeout functions, but they
don't seem to do anything with my camera at least.

I appreciate your thoughts.
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