I started a thread about using the app with the GH4, with an eye to using it with an Android tablet or a Windows tablet running an Android emulator: http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/14044/panasonic-image-app-use-with-laptops-and-tablets#Item_4

Has anyone gotten this to work with the G7? I keep getting err_unsuitable_app.

the UDPServer actually works with the TZ 40, the program had just the wrong server IP. thank you!

How is the current status? I can't access the code and am currently trying to get liveview to work with my v727 using qt but any solution to get liveview to work would be great. I can attach wireshark captures of the stream but i have no idea how that format on the v727 works. One time i got some jpegs out but that was pure luck and i can't remember what i did.

For anyone interested, this works with the Panasonic HX-A1 action camera as well (uses the same cam.cgi control + actions).

How much money and where does it go? hahaha... seriously, this was a life saver.

@lenuisible Thanks for the original work on this. It's helped me out.

I just wanted to let people know that I'm working on a viewfinder app. --> Moved to new thread

@Vitaliy_Kiselev Sure thing.

Hi. I have never been able to connect my GH3 to a router - or maybe it only happened once accidently. It just does not work - WiFi is random, and so is the Panasonic Android app Wi-Fi functionality. I don't think they have it figured out. I'm guessing it's still the same issue with GH4.

It's surprising as Panasonic generally makes great products, so why can't they figure out Wi-Fi - that is anybody's guess. I have done too much testing and I'm not prepared to use it anymore, unless I really need to.

Hello, fellow GH3 users and devs. The original starting post is pure gold, got me inspired to spend 2 days coding yet another viewfinder app for android, I had this idea to implement 2 modes:

• fit mode where the whole picture from the camera will be displayed (leaving some unused space on the screen, because of difference in aspect ratios)
• fill mode where the whole phone screen is used and picture from the camera is upscaled and cropped so that user could see the central part of it in maximum size

long story short, it worked and looked good until I realized that GH3 can't serve live video feed while recording a video (or in fact even saving a picture). Bummer! I think GH4 users are more lucky, so I'll maybe even finalize it if I could find some friendly GH4 user in my town to share camera for app testing.

Question for other devs in the thread: so I guess there is no way to overcome it with GH3? Any thoughts?

Has anyone got the live view working in a broadcasting application like OBS or X-Split?

Does anybody know format of UDP data between liveview frames? I can find instant aperture, shutter, iso, zoom and camera orientation but it gets shifted every time.

Hi,

I've got a solution for live view in VB6 (and VB.NET I assume) directly, without Java It uses the csxImage OCX control of Chestysoft (www.chestysoft.com).

it's rather simple:

Initialize ...

' UDP-Protokoll einstellen Winsock1.Close 'Winsock1 ->Microsoft Winsock control in VB Winsock1.Protocol = sckUDPProtocol

' Port, der überwacht werden soll nPort = 49199

' Eigene IP ermitteln sOwnIP = Winsock1.LocalIP

' Port an die IP "binden" Winsock1.Bind nPort, sOwnIP

'geht nur im 'recmode' txtStatus.Text = Inet1.OpenURL("http://" & CameraIP.Text & "/cam.cgi? mode=camcmd&value=recmode") 'Inet1 ->Microsoft Inet control txtStatus.Text = Inet1.OpenURL("http://" & CameraIP.Text & "/cam.cgi?mode=startstream&value=49199") Timer1.Enabled = True 'damit der Datenfluß nicht abbricht txtStatus.Text = Inet1.OpenURL("http://" & CameraIP.Text & "/cam.cgi?mode=setsetting&type=liveviewsize&value=vga")

...

Private Sub Winsock1_DataArrival(ByVal bytesTotal As Long) Dim sData As String Dim bArray As Variant

On Error Resume Next

'im Stream werden ganze Bilder übertragen 'Header ist 167 Byte, Rest - JPG 'Das JPEG-Bild beginnt also bei Byte 168 (Lumix GX7)

Winsock1.GetData sData, vbString

sData = Mid(sData, 168) bArray = sData ImageBox1.ReadBinary2 bArray 'ImageBox1 ist the csxImage OCX

End Sub

Private Sub Timer1_Timer() Dim dummy As Variant

If CameraIP.Text > "" Then If Not Inet2.StillExecuting Then dummy = Inet2.OpenURL("http://" & CameraIP.Text & "/cam.cgi?mode=startstream&value=49199") 'Inet2 ->Microsoft Inet control End If

End Sub

The length of the header seems to be different in the cameras. For GX7 it is 167 bytes (the JPEG picture begins at FFD8, look for this bytes in a hex editor).

Hello, i need help. When i turn on my gf7 after few mins the screen is getting stuck and i cannot turn it off. The only way to shut it down is by removing the battery. I cant use my camera because of this issue. Please help me..