On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 10:53:31AM -0500, Hubert Figuière wrote: > On 2020-01-21 10:18 a.m., Tim Camerate wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > I cannot use my LG g5 to capture images. It is in PTP mode. At abilities it > > say's it should work. Could you help me out? > > > > pi@raspberrypi:~ $ gphoto2 --capture-image-and-download > > > > *** Error *** > > Sorry, your camera does not support generic capture > > ERROR: Could not capture image. > > ERROR: Could not capture. > > *** Error (-6: 'Unsupported operation') *** > > "abilities" are the abilities of the driver, not the device. As the > error say, your device doesn't support capture with PTP. > > Given that it is a phone, I doubt it support anything with a proprietary > command set. However, if you know of a vendor app that does it, then > there is hope.
General guidance for Android phones: - They allow file download and upload. - They do not expose their camera over USB for remote control. Ciao, Marcus _______________________________________________ Gphoto-devel mailing list Gphoto-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gphoto-devel
