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Hello everyone,

I have an old Canon 20D which still works fine. I do tethered shooting via gphoto2 in Debian. This library allows the pc to communicate with the camera over USB in Linux. So I can shoot directly into the PC, see the picture on a larger screen and even do some fancy stuff like time-lapse series or set settings via pc.

I really would love to have this on Jolla. I could then make an attachment at the flash shoe and have the Jolla connected to it. I would have a large screen and even better I could send my pictures via LTE/Wifi directly to my home server. In the end a native Jolla frontend could be developed.

Therefore I am planning to port gphoto2 to Jolla, but as I am really not a linux-expert, I could need some help. I propose to open a wiki here to get everyone to collaborate:

1. Step: Compiling and installing the necessary dependencies

Dependencies:

http://www.gphoto.org/doc/manual/compilation.html

Highly required libs: pkgconfig libusb-dev libexif-dev libjpeg-dev libpopt-dev libltdl-dev

Libs succesfully installed by now:

pkgconfig (MikErk): pkcon install pkgconfig //I know that was simple, the other ones aren't listed in pkcon

I hope you are as excited as I am! Cheers Mika

Hello everyone,

I have an old Canon 20D which still works fine. I do tethered shooting via gphoto2 in Debian. This library allows the pc to communicate with the camera over USB in Linux. So I can shoot directly into the PC, see the picture on a larger screen and even do some fancy stuff like time-lapse series or set settings via pc.

I really would love to have this on Jolla. I could then make an attachment at the flash shoe and have the Jolla connected to it. I would have a large screen and even better I could send my pictures via LTE/Wifi directly to my home server. In the end a native Jolla frontend could be developed.

Therefore I am planning to port gphoto2 to Jolla, but as I am really not a linux-expert, I could need some help. I propose to open a wiki here to get everyone to collaborate:

1. Step: Compiling and installing the necessary dependencies

Dependencies:

http://www.gphoto.org/doc/manual/compilation.html

Highly required libs: pkgconfig libusb-dev libexif-dev libjpeg-dev libpopt-dev libltdl-dev

Libs succesfully installed by now:

pkgconfig (MikErk): pkcon install pkgconfig //I know that was simple, the other ones aren't listed in pkcon

libusb-dev (MikErk): see first answer //seemed to have worked but I haven't tested it yet

I hope you are as excited as I am! Cheers Mika

Hello everyone,

I have an old Canon 20D which still works fine. I do tethered shooting via gphoto2 in Debian. This library allows the pc to communicate with the camera over USB in Linux. So I can shoot directly into the PC, see the picture on a larger screen and even do some fancy stuff like time-lapse series or set settings via pc.

I really would love to have this on Jolla. I could then make an attachment at the flash shoe and have the Jolla connected to it. I would have a large screen and even better I could send my pictures via LTE/Wifi directly to my home server. In the end a native Jolla frontend could be developed.

Therefore I am planning to port gphoto2 to Jolla, but as I am really not a linux-expert, I could need some help. I propose to open a wiki here to get everyone to collaborate:

1. Step: Compiling and installing the necessary dependencies

Dependencies:

http://www.gphoto.org/doc/manual/compilation.html

Highly required libs: pkgconfig libusb-dev libexif-dev libjpeg-dev libpopt-dev libltdl-dev

Libs succesfully installed by now:

pkgconfig (MikErk): pkcon install pkgconfig //I know that was simple, the other ones aren't listed in pkcon

libusb-dev (MikErk): see first answer //seemed to have worked but I haven't tested it yet

libexif-dev (MikErk): see second answer //seemed to have worked but I haven't tested it yet

1. Step: Try to compile and install libgphoto2 and gphoto2

I hope you are as excited as I am! Cheers Mika

Hello everyone,

I have an old Canon 20D which still works fine. I do tethered shooting via gphoto2 in Debian. This library allows the pc to communicate with the camera over USB in Linux. So I can shoot directly into the PC, see the picture on a larger screen and even do some fancy stuff like time-lapse series or set settings via pc.

I really would love to have this on Jolla. I could then make an attachment at the flash shoe and have the Jolla connected to it. I would have a large screen and even better I could send my pictures via LTE/Wifi directly to my home server. In the end a native Jolla frontend could be developed.

Therefore I am planning to port gphoto2 to Jolla, but as I am really not a linux-expert, I could need some help. I propose to open a wiki here to get everyone to collaborate:

Dependencies:

http://www.gphoto.org/doc/manual/compilation.html

Highly required libs: pkgconfig libusb-dev libexif-dev libjpeg-dev libpopt-dev libltdl-dev

Libs succesfully installed by now:

pkgconfig (MikErk): pkcon install pkgconfig //I know that was simple, the other ones aren't listed in pkcon

libusb-dev (MikErk): see first answer //seemed to have worked but I haven't tested it yet

libexif-dev (MikErk): see second answer //seemed to have worked but I haven't tested it yet

I hope you are as excited as I am! Cheers Mika