Comments on: CHDK tutorial for RC AP - Scripting and remote USB triggering http://paulrene.no/index.php/2008/05/chdk-tutorial-for-rc-ap-scripting-and-remote-usb-triggering/ Me, my projects and some other stuff Tue, 7 Sep 2010 10:38:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Ken Croft http://paulrene.no/index.php/2008/05/chdk-tutorial-for-rc-ap-scripting-and-remote-usb-triggering/#comment-333 Ken Croft Sun, 15 Feb 2009 08:19:18 +0000 http://paulrene.no/?p=11#comment-333 I have been a radio control flyer for the last 40 years, and lately I have been using a Canon Ixus 50 in a model for airborn videos. I now want to remorely trigger the shutter without using a servo and a mechanical link to the shutter button. I loaded CHDK some time ago and it works for my camera. I copied your script into wordpad, saved it and renamed it to remotetest.bas and put it in the /CHDK/SCRIPTS folder. I have enabled remote usb and I can get the script to run by pressing the shutter when in ALT mode. Just to prove that the remote connection works, I connected a 4.5 volt supply [3xAA cells] between pins 1 and 4. When I switch on the 4.5 volt, I get some kind of flicker of some of the icons on the screen, but no picture is taken. In this mode, the shutter button does not take pictures either. I just cannot get the remote to work at all. I do not know anything at all about programming and I wonder if I have not produced the script correctly. Here is the script: is it correctly written. Can you help to solve the problem? @title Remote button :loop wait_click 1 is_key k "remote" if k=1 then shoot goto "loop" end I have been a radio control flyer for the last 40 years, and lately I have been using a Canon Ixus 50 in a model for airborn videos. I now want to remorely trigger the shutter without using a servo and a mechanical link to the shutter button. I loaded CHDK some time ago and it works for my camera. I copied your script into wordpad, saved it and renamed it to remotetest.bas and put it in the /CHDK/SCRIPTS folder. I have enabled remote usb and I can get the script to run by pressing the shutter when in ALT mode. Just to prove that the remote connection works, I connected a 4.5 volt supply [3xAA cells] between pins 1 and 4. When I switch on the 4.5 volt, I get some kind of flicker of some of the icons on the screen, but no picture is taken. In this mode, the shutter button does not take pictures either. I just cannot get the remote to work at all. I do not know anything at all about programming and I wonder if I have not produced the script correctly. Here is the script: is it correctly written. Can you help to solve the problem?

@title Remote button
:loop
wait_click 1
is_key k “remote”
if k=1 then shoot
goto “loop”
end

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