Digicam-plugin

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Description

Info

The digicam plugin allows the access to digital cameras, which are supported by GPhoto2.

Features

  • Browsing camera's memory via OSD
  • Download files from the camera and store on the VDR via OSD
  • Selection where to store downloaded files via OSD
Download
Stored

Hardware requirements

  • Digital camera supported by libgphoto2

Software requirements

  • libgphoto2

Installation

To install libgphoto2

cd $SOURCEDIR
tar -jxvf libgphoto2-<VERSION>.tar.bz2
cd libgphoto2-<VERSION>.tar.bz2
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
make install
ldconfig

For the plugin, see plugin installation.

Configuration

Copy the configuration files to /etc/vdr/plugins

cp $SOURCEDIR/VDR/PLUGINS/src/digicam/examples/* /etc/vdr/plugins

Problems

Links

[1] http://www.gphoto.org/proj/libgphoto2 libgphoto2 homepage
[2] http://www.gphoto.org/proj/libgphoto2/support.php List of supported cameras