Remote control support

[pics23d]

This is a great tool!
One feature I'd find really useful is to start and stop the capture remotely (Bluetooth remote), i.e. if the phone is on a monopod/ higher vantage point.
Maybe an easy solution would be, that triggering could be started with the volume button of the phone? I guess that's what a Bluetooth remote defaults to, and this is also how other camera apps work?
It would also be important to have some (accoustic?) feedback when/if the triggering starts and stops (as one can't see the progress on the screen in this remote case).

[Ilya-Muromets]

Heya,

Great suggestions, the volume button camera trigger is actually at the top of my feature todo list (I implemented it once but then broke it).

Audio cue is also a good idea, but I think that will have to wait until I figure out how to make a better settings menu UI (so that people can turn stuff like that off/on)

[pics23d]

Great that you are considering this remote feature, thanks so much!
Would open up quite a few other use cases for this software, i.e. photogrammetry, radiance fields (with fast dng captures rather than video)...
Please let us know if there are any updates on this.

[Ilya-Muromets]

Thank, I got somewhat carried away and basically rewrote the entire front-end of the app (and also half the back-end) to have control bars like a pro camera app. Should have a release out this week hopefully.

[Ilya-Muromets]

Added the button control, still working on sound (for some reason when the frames start getting read out it cuts off whatever sound I'm trying to play)

[pics23d]

That's brilliant progress, looking good!
I did some very quick initial tests (Max FPS 0.5, EXP 1/100, OIS disabled, rest also manual) on a Pixel 8 Pro, and noticed that there was a huge delay between the captures (2+ sec). Has something changed in this respect, or could it be my settings? Thanks!

[Ilya-Muromets]

Will check that out, that might be because it's waiting for a bunch of threads with "delay(0.5)" in them to die before restarting the stream