Mark II Posted October 24, 2018 Author Share #21 Posted October 24, 2018 Advertisement (gone after registration) On 10/21/2018 at 9:24 PM, ing_rippi said: tried to connect to my M10 with you Software, but so far with no success Hi Harald, I have sent you an email to see if we can figure out what is going on find a solution... On 10/22/2018 at 10:15 PM, schattenundlicht said: Maybe you should think twice to call your app „Leica Sync“ without endorsement from them, as the Leica brand name is jealously guarded by the four completely independent companies that share it between them (Leica Camera, Leica Microsystems, Leica Geosystems and Leica Biosystems). I am no lawyer myself, but I would rather play it safe there. YMMV. I have a background in VC finance and technology as well as photography, so I am familiar with corporate legal processes. I did go to some effort to avoid referencing Leica branding in the UI and icon designs, but if any of the Leica companies object (and there has been no issue so far) I will remove the application from download. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Mark II Posted December 5, 2018 Author Share #22 Posted December 5, 2018 I have posted an updated version of the application, which takes it to version 1.3. The changes are: - improved initial connection handling (the camera is now automatically selected when it is first detected) - more robust initial connection handling (if an initial connection fails, the app will keep retrying) - slight performance improvement for image downloads with M10 firmware 2.6.5 - app now notarised by Apple to give greater malware protection The download page can be found here. The initial connection setup is probably as robust as I can make it at this time, but there are still some issues in the firmware that I can not work around. For example, if the Mac's WiFi connection is briefly interrupted the camera firmware does not detect the loss of connection and the camera wireless will need to be restarted to recover. In case anyone at Leica is reading this, the issue is that TCP/IP keep-alive appears not to work (which is not a great surprise). However, the firmware could solve this by implementing support for the PTP/IP probe request/response commands. 4 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhoebusXS Posted January 4, 2019 Share #23 Posted January 4, 2019 Great job! Any plan to post it on GitHub someday? Many people would be more than happy to help maintain and improve it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
humerc Posted March 5, 2019 Share #24 Posted March 5, 2019 Thanks for the Application! I just tried it with my M10-D and it works flawlessly! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndreasG Posted March 7, 2019 Share #25 Posted March 7, 2019 Yes, it is a very useful application, it runs well with my M10-D and my Macbook Air and Mac Mini, both with Mojave, however, it does not connect with an older Imac, that only is capable of El Capitan 10.11.6. The camera network is visible, but does not connect. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark II Posted March 7, 2019 Author Share #26 Posted March 7, 2019 Hi Andreas, I will take a look at 10.11 to see if I can confirm the problem. One question - is the older iMac connected to a wired (ethernet) network as well as by WiFi? Unfortunately, the M10 uses a hard-wired and *very* common IP address (192.168.1.2), which 99% of the time will conflict with the defaults used in home network equipment. AFAIK there are only two work-arounds for this: unplug the wired network cable first, or change your home network to use a different IP address range (eg: 192.168.2.xxx). Unfortunately, the latest M10 firmware removed the ability to change the camera's address. In any event, I will put out an update at the end of next week which squashes a couple of bugs and adds the ability to display a rough "shutter count" for the camera. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott kirkpatrick Posted March 7, 2019 Share #27 Posted March 7, 2019 Advertisement (gone after registration) M10 "shutter count?" How are you calculating that? Do you include starting and stopping live view in your count of activations? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndreasG Posted March 7, 2019 Share #28 Posted March 7, 2019 vor 1 Stunde schrieb Mark II: Hi Andreas, I will take a look at 10.11 to see if I can confirm the problem. One question - is the older iMac connected to a wired (ethernet) network as well as by WiFi? Unfortunately, the M10 uses a hard-wired and *very* common IP address (192.168.1.2), which 99% of the time will conflict with the defaults used in home network equipment. AFAIK there are only two work-arounds for this: unplug the wired network cable first, or change your home network to use a different IP address range (eg: 192.168.2.xxx). Unfortunately, the latest M10 firmware removed the ability to change the camera's address. In any event, I will put out an update at the end of next week which squashes a couple of bugs and adds the ability to display a rough "shutter count" for the camera. Hi Mark, Yes, my old Mac is hard-wired with the router, so, I simply unplugged it and within seconds the camera got connected to the Mac - thanks a lot for this simple work-around, I never would have found out on my own! Andreas Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott kirkpatrick Posted March 7, 2019 Share #29 Posted March 7, 2019 A similar interference between the camera wifi "hotspot" and my home network sometimes occurs with Fotos. I get disconnected and can't reconnect. Checking the phone's network interface, I find that the phone thinks it is talking to the camera still, but the camera has switched itself off. I shift the phone back to the home wifi (which has been running all along) and start over, re-initiating the app and the wifi at both ends. But this isn't good. The ideal situation is that the phone or tablet can talk to the camera and at the same time connect to the internet to upload stuff to your computer or your cloud data storage. I don't think we are there yet. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark II Posted March 7, 2019 Author Share #30 Posted March 7, 2019 2 hours ago, scott kirkpatrick said: M10 "shutter count?" How are you calculating that? Do you include starting and stopping live view in your count of activations? It the number of images captured - the same as used to be available in the M7 DNG EXIF data before it was hashed. It counts the number of images taken, rather than shutter actuations (they are obviously closely related, although if you use live-view a lot then obviously it is not an accurate measure of shutter wear-and-tear). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott kirkpatrick Posted March 7, 2019 Share #31 Posted March 7, 2019 1 hour ago, Mark II said: It the number of images captured - the same as used to be available in the M7 DNG EXIF data before it was hashed. It counts the number of images taken, rather than shutter actuations (they are obviously closely related, although if you use live-view a lot then obviously it is not an accurate measure of shutter wear-and-tear). That seems like something worth knowing, regardless of whether liveview (or video in the L-mount cameras) causes additional shutter usage. Where did you find it -- in the Maker Notes? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark II Posted March 7, 2019 Author Share #32 Posted March 7, 2019 No, it is a proprietary extension to the PTP property set, so it is read from the camera rather than the DNG files. The "Image Unique ID" in the EXIF is likely derived from this via a 64 bit hash, concatenated with the camera serial number. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott kirkpatrick Posted March 7, 2019 Share #33 Posted March 7, 2019 Interesting. If it is in the PTP properties, does that mean that it should be available for all the Leica cameras using wifi and PTP? I'll bet it is also somewhere in the service interface that you could see on the M8 and M9 (and later if you happen to know the special sequence that opens them). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark II Posted March 7, 2019 Author Share #34 Posted March 7, 2019 (edited) It is a proprietary property, so I can not say any more than it exists on the M10 with the current firmware. The M10 is the only digital Leica camera that I own, and I am unable to test others as I do not know anyone else here with a Leica digital camera (!). Edited March 7, 2019 by Mark II Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Miranda Posted March 7, 2019 Share #35 Posted March 7, 2019 Does this application still work with the later M10 firmware update that 'simplified' the WiFi connectivity? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark II Posted March 7, 2019 Author Share #36 Posted March 7, 2019 Yes - the only downside is that you loose the option for the camera to join an existing wireless network (so you have to join the camera's own WiFi network from your Mac). Image downloads are also slightly slower. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Miranda Posted March 7, 2019 Share #37 Posted March 7, 2019 Thank you Mark, I installed your software, it works great. Thank you so much for your contribution to our community! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IkarusJohn Posted March 10, 2019 Share #38 Posted March 10, 2019 Thanks Mark - really usable and stable. Would it be possible to specify the destination folder, much like the LightRoom folder set up, rather than just using the Downloads folder? Cheers John Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakontil Posted April 27, 2019 Share #39 Posted April 27, 2019 This is amazing apps mark, leica should have had this since the beginning thanks so much Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
acmineiro Posted April 28, 2019 Share #40 Posted April 28, 2019 It works beautifully thank you for the app. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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