camera-control

Info

Simple command-line application for controlling camera settings.

Based on source code posted by AlexOD42 at showmewebcam/showmewebcam#56

Dependencies

sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev 

Compilation

make

How to use

Usage: 
Available options are
 -c file               Path to config file
 -d                    Disable unsupported controls
 -h                    Print this help screen and exit
 -i control_variable   Ignore control with defined variable name\n");
 -l                    List available controls
 -v device             V4L2 Video Capture device

# default config file - /boot/camera.txt
# default v4l2 device - /dev/video0

Run

./camera-ctl

# List control variables
./camera-ctl -l

# Ignore selected controls by their variable name
./camera-ctl -i h264_i_frame_period -i h264_profile -i h264_level

User interface

keyboard key	action
Up	Previous item
Down	Next item
Home	First item
End	Last item
Left	Decrease value by one step
Right	Increase value by one step
PgDn	Decrease value by ten steps
PgUp	Increase value by ten steps
R	Reset all items
D	Set default value for current item
N	Set minimum value for current item
M	Set maximum value for current item
L	Load settings from config file
S	Save settings to config file
Q	Quit application