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REST api for Camera control
I have DroidCam feeding into an video art piece I am working on. (thank-you!) However, I would like to control the camera (zoom in and out, AutoFocus etc..) via http get calls. I tried a few that I found in the webapp, such as http://IP:4747/cam/1/af or http://IP:4747/cam/1/zoomout I have seen the camera respond once to each, but I can't get it to do some reliably. Is this something that should be possible? If not would you consider making a control REST api?
The original API is really basic, you need to make those calls while the camera is active.
Each call has to use its own connection, eg. curl http://IP:4747/cam/1/zoomout
/cam/1/af
/cam/1/led_toggle
/cam/1/zoomout
/cam/1/zoomin
The new DroidCam OBS app has a better API, if you want to consider looking into it. The remote control web-page is not obfuscated if you pull up it's source.
Thanks for the reply, this should be rather helpful. I imagine was running into problems with individual connections. I will double check that each connection closes. Thanks again.