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SC2 Camera Reset

Extensive testing by my colleague Jesse Casman on camera.reset shows that the camera.reset API command does not work with the SC2. To reset the SC2, we must set each option to the original options one by one. In addition to individual options, there are video and image modes that are stored separately. Identifying Image Options To Reset on S...

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Raspberry Pi Robot with 360 Images

I recently used our THETA robot to test remote interval shooting and automated cloud upload with RICOH THETA SC2, V, and Z1 cameras. I used a Raspberry Pi 4 as both the controller for the camera and to communicate with the THETA camera. The RPi4 has an additional USB Wi-Fi adapter to communicate with both the THETA using the WebAPI and the Int...

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SC2 Take Picture Status

Using /osc/status to see the completion of startCapture on the SC2 does not work. You must use /osc/state to see when the interval or bracket sequence ends. Using /osc/status with takePicture does work. However, the SC2 has a problem with handling individual HTTP requests in rapid sequence. Using /osc/status, I can take pictures in rapid sequ...

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Installing Mac Binaries

If you would like to install the useful command line tool for THETA API developed by Oppkey used in articles like Using BASH Scripts To Easily Test THETAs and Saving HDR _filter Setting to mySetting, please go to: https://github.com/theta360developers/webapi/releases/tag/v0.1.1-alpha The registration and the command line tool are free. Binarie...

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Get My Settings

My Settings will survive reboot. On the Z1, you must press the lower Fn button twice to go into My Settings. If there are no settings saved in My Settings, then the camera will not go into My Settings. On the SC2 and SC2B, the camera will boot into My Settings automatically when the camera is turned on or when it establishes Wi-Fi connecton. ...

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3 Ways To Use RICOH THETA WebAPI Test GitHub Repo

Using the Code Examples There are different ways for you to use this repository. 1. Use Command Line Example Program You can use this repository as a command line application to test the RICOH THETA API. There are two ways to use the command line application. pre-compiled binaries for Windows and Linux are in the releases section. T...

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Jekyll on Windows 10 WSL2 with auto-regeneration

Jekyll works on my Windows 10 system with WSL2 when I add the --force-polling option. bundle exec jekyll serve --force-polling When I start Jekyll on WSL2, I get a message that Auto-regeneration may not work on some Windows versions. Until yesterday, I ignored this because Jekyll was working for me. However, when I used VS Code from WSL, VS...

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Delete all files from RICOH THETA with camera.delete

A new YouTube video explains how to delete all the files from the SC2 with a single API command. The video also explains an older bug in the SC2 firmware that prevented this feature from working properly prior to the summer of 2020. This will delete all the files in the camera. String _baseUrl = 'http://192.168.1.1/osc/commands/execute'; ... ...

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THETA WebAPI Dart Package Documentation

Documentation for the Dart package for the RICOH THETA WebAPI is being built up at https://codetricity.github.io/theta/. The dartdoc tool to automatically generates documentation based on embedded docstrings. The package currently uses static properties and methods to expose the camera information. The package can be installed either from G...

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