Control RICOH THETA S Camera API with JavaScript

This is a quick test of accessing the RICOH THETA S API with electron. It only uses a handful of commands right now. It's intended as code for this tutorial.

It provides a template skeleton for application developers. It is not intended to be used by photographers.

Prerequisites

Install Electron

npm install electron -g

If npm is not on your system, install Node.js

Install node-rest-client

npm install node-rest-client --save

Camera State

The camera must be connected to your computer with WiFi. I am using firmware 01.82. You can check and upgrade the camera firmware with the RICOH THETA Official Desktop application.

Reference

• THETA API v2.1
• node-rest-client
• electron
• Node.js
• Google VR View for the Web used for 360 image display
• Google Open Spherical Camera API that the THETA API is based on and compliant with

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