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YI Open API provides mobile SDKs and reference designs for software developers and hardware makers to build cool apps and products with YI 4K Action Cameras
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Automatically capture single pictures with 1Hz (endlessly) #53

Closed hb0 closed 7 years ago

hb0 commented 7 years ago

Hi. I'm interested in useing this camera for a project of mine where we need to capture single shots (with EIS as it's in a moving environment) with multiple cameras with 1 Hz until we ask the cameras to stop (after multiple hours). Is this possible with the YI 4k? The "video time lapse" function looks like it's automatically processing the captured shots - but we need the single shots (1HZ). The simultaneous start of multiple cameras should not be a problem as far as I understood.

Water-bamboo commented 7 years ago

What is 1HZ single shots? Could you explain more?

hb0 commented 7 years ago

Like time-laps where single pictures are captured with auto-focus, auto-iso, etc - each second (i.e. with 1Hz) and stored as pictures (not rendered to a video format). This mode should be able to capture pictures until a "stop" command is sent - for multiple hours (e.g. 6 h = 6*3600 pictures)

NikolayRag commented 7 years ago

Use "Photo time lapse", did you? I haven't try hours, but atm 10 minutes are going ok. The only issue is that timing seems to be quite uneven.

hb0 commented 7 years ago

Thanks Nikolay. I don't have the camera here right now so I can't do further test at the moment. But the "uneven timing" is a problem our use case can't live with unfortunately. Cheers