Re: Canon EOS R - gphoto --get-config

Marcus Meissner <[email protected]> Sun, 12 Apr 2020 13:10:38 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.multimedia.gphoto.user
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hi,

On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 06:32:53PM +0100, Michael Mayer wrote:
>    Hi all,
>
>    I have restarted to use gphoto2 lately with my Canon EOS R. I can set parameters, create exposures etc... which is really great.&nbsp;
>
>    Settings done in one "--set-config " call are persistent which is great.&nbsp;
>
>    With the exception of shutterspeed however i cannot read back the values via --get-config I set for things like aperture, iso, etc... The values are either "Auto" or display the lowest possibly value for the choices, i.e. the integer value for the option is 0.&nbsp;
>
>    If I run an image, all the settings are observed as expected (according to the exif information).&nbsp;
>
>    I wonder if it is a bug in gphoto2 or a problem in the firmware ? Happy to supply the debug outputs as needed.&nbsp;
>
>    All the best,&nbsp;
>
>    Michael.&nbsp;

Are you doing --get-config on a seperate command invocation?

If yes, can you try e.g.

	gphoto2 --wait-event=1s --get-config aperture

and see if that helps?

(The values are fetched by event reading and while get-config does that, it might not wait
for long enough.)

Ciao, marcus