Marco Tecno Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 Update on possible adapter from canikon to nx: http://***URL removed***/forums/post/57327272 Pavel Mašek 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georg P. Mueller Posted February 25, 2016 Share Posted February 25, 2016 I am in as well - I'd donate for an NX1 hack! kidzrevil 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otto K Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 Hi, A nice breakthrough in hacking NX500 (and possibly NX1 - could someone try and report back?). So, TLDR version first: I'm able to run a shell script off the SD card without hacking the firmware (and some other stuff). This is just a very modest start, now we need to do everything else. That said, this is a useful start as we can now play around without bricking cameras. That was the moderately good news, the moderately bad news is that I'm absolutely swamped by work related stuff next few weeks. Now for longer version: First a small "hack": If you want to take a screenshot of your camera screen put a file named save_screen_enable.txt in the SD card root and every time you press EV+OK a file named OSD####.jpg will be saved to SD card root. save_screen_enable.txt will contain the integer of next image id (as bytes, not text). Another small "hack": If you want to see how all the popups and notices look in all the languages (for any reson) put a file named qa.txt in the root of the SD card. When you power the camera on you will see a popup menu that enables you to access all the popups, etc, in camera (press up and down to change them, left and right to change the language). It's meant for quality assurance staff, but here it is. If you like scrolling through the popups - that's fine. Even better is that the camera app crashes on popup 188 (of 189, go figure) and produces a lot of detailed logs on the SD card. These logs are named timestamp_{log,a7_log,a9_crash,a9_dlog,a9_dmesg}.info If you take your sweet time analyzing these logs you will find that NX500 does not boot all that often - it hibernates and then wakes up when you power the camera on - cute - that's how it starts up in one second Also, some RAM information: Total RAM is 512MB, reserved (buffer?) is 380MB. It fits nicely with known buffer limitations. It also means it's very very difficult to extend it to anything larger (maybe by eliminating allshare app or similar but that would give us a frame or two in RAW at best - hardly worth it). How to run a shell script file: 1. Put file named "info.tg" on the SD card root with contents "nx_cs.adj" and a newline 2. Put file named "nx_cs.adj" (can use something else really) on the SD card root and put "shell script /mnt/mmc/test.sh" and a newline in it 3. Put file named "test.sh" (or whatever you put up there) on SD card root and put whatever bash shell commands you want to in it. Word of caution - it's easy to make a mistake - start small and work carefully 4. Put SD card in camera 5. Camera to AUTO mode (IIRC it works in any mode but whatever, it's in AUTO in the Service Manual) 6. Power on the camera and wait a bit (or a lot, it seems it's quite lazy with closing files and syncing, might do it for it by calling "sync" at the end) 7. Power the camera off (and wait for blinking light to stop blinking if it's blinking) For example, if you put following in test.sh st > /mnt/mmc/test This is what you get on the output: usage: st [command] [param] Supported bult-in commands help readl writel dump gpio hdmi log lcd cap pmu clk thread key firmware util app leak devman stlcd bat rtc tbm micom misc oic dvfs adc I put a "ls -laR / > /mnt/mmc/test" and it did list the whole filesystem including /proc /sys /dev etc. And /etc tar also works. I can see for example that every time process id 247 is given to /usr/apps/com.samsung.di-camera-app/bin/di-camera-app and it runs under root (almost everything does), dfmsd (that's the deamon that interprets commands in nx_cs.adj file that are read and sent by dfmstool - I will have to see what else I can do with it), /usr/apps/com.samsung.ap-setting-app/bin/ap-setting-app running with some access keys or hashed caller PIDs, etc, the works. Only two modules are loaded (exfat_fs and exfat_core) but I guess we could compile anything we need and enable it in the future (usb audio anybody?). That's it for now (and some time). Oh, yeah, the touch screen does not work with info.tg or info.tgw present on the SD card. Cheers, Otto Pavel Mašek, vaga, Syme and 5 others 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herb Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 This looks really promising Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SMGJohn Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 3 hours ago, Otto K said: Excellent work there, I was going to have a look myself if it was any close to Linux coding. Still waiting for that SDK tool from Samsung. Pavel Mašek and Flynn 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otto K Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 OK, an update: If you want to experiment with your device but don't want to be constantly reinserting the SD card - here's the solution. First, unfortunately, NX500/NX1 do not use busybox but toybox that does not contain telnetd. However, there is nothing stopping you from extracting it from NX300 open source packages (available at Samsung Open Source repo) and copying it to SD card (and naming it "telnetd") and runnig it from there. Just remember that you need to give yourself some time to turn the wifi on after powering the camera. Login is "root" and there is no password. So, after the camera boots and telnetd starts, you do telnet 192.168.1.44 Trying 192.168.1.44... Connected to 192.168.1.44. Escape character is '^]'. ************************************************************ * SAMSUNG LINUX PLATFORM * ************************************************************ drime5 login: root [root@drime5 ~]# ps aux USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 1 0.4 0.2 4684 1452 ? Ss 23:15 0:01 /sbin/init root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 23:15 0:00 [kthreadd] root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 23:15 0:00 [ksoftirqd/0] ... root 363 0.1 0.0 0 0 ? S 23:15 0:00 [ksdioirqd/mmc1] root 399 0.0 0.0 4696 380 ? S<s 23:16 0:00 /mnt/mmc/telnetd root 402 0.0 0.2 2704 1352 pts/0 S<s 23:16 0:00 -sh root 469 3.0 0.1 2664 904 pts/0 R<+ 23:20 0:00 ps aux Yippie - we have remote root! The fun stuff is the command st. It's swiss army knife - it contains everything. For example, you want to take a "smart" shot? st cap capt smart Work with aperture? st cap capt iris drive 7.1 Shoot in RAW? st cap capt quality raw Help works in most things, just add help (e.g. st cap capt help). You want to push an OK button? st key click ok You can also push/release it in two steps. How about jog dials? st key jog jog1_cw or jog1_ccw You want to touch the screen in exact coordinates? st key touch push/release/click 400 300 There is so many things available, just explore st app nx capture (for stills) or st app nx record (for video)... vaga, sandro and Flynn 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MountneerMan Posted February 27, 2016 Share Posted February 27, 2016 Otto K, you mentioned over on dpreview that the st app had the ability to take commands for sensor frame rates upto 240fps. Have you tried this yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otto K Posted February 27, 2016 Share Posted February 27, 2016 240fps iz just a value in a table describing parameters, there is no guarantee it can actually work on nx500 (for example, I tried enabling external audio - via USB - but all I'm getting are app crashes). vaga 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco Tecno Posted February 27, 2016 Share Posted February 27, 2016 Otto, I guess that's a first way to have focus bracketing. Isn't there a command to change focus of a +delta? It would be enough to routinely do that and shoot. vaga 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandro Posted February 27, 2016 Share Posted February 27, 2016 15 hours ago, Otto K said: OK, an update: If you want to experiment with your device but don't want to be constantly reinserting the SD card - here's the solution. First, unfortunately, NX500/NX1 do not use busybox but toybox that does not contain telnetd. However, there is nothing stopping you from extracting it from NX300 open source packages (available at Samsung Open Source repo) and copying it to SD card (and naming it "telnetd") and runnig it from there. Just remember that you need to give yourself some time to turn the wifi on after powering the camera. Login is "root" and there is no password. So, after the camera boots and telnetd starts, you do telnet 192.168.1.44 Trying 192.168.1.44... Connected to 192.168.1.44. Escape character is '^]'. ************************************************************ * SAMSUNG LINUX PLATFORM * ************************************************************ drime5 login: root [root@drime5 ~]# ps aux USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 1 0.4 0.2 4684 1452 ? Ss 23:15 0:01 /sbin/init root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 23:15 0:00 [kthreadd] root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 23:15 0:00 [ksoftirqd/0] ... root 363 0.1 0.0 0 0 ? S 23:15 0:00 [ksdioirqd/mmc1] root 399 0.0 0.0 4696 380 ? S<s 23:16 0:00 /mnt/mmc/telnetd root 402 0.0 0.2 2704 1352 pts/0 S<s 23:16 0:00 -sh root 469 3.0 0.1 2664 904 pts/0 R<+ 23:20 0:00 ps aux Yippie - we have remote root! The fun stuff is the command st. It's swiss army knife - it contains everything. For example, you want to take a "smart" shot? st cap capt smart Work with aperture? st cap capt iris drive 7.1 Shoot in RAW? st cap capt quality raw Help works in most things, just add help (e.g. st cap capt help). You want to push an OK button? st key click ok You can also push/release it in two steps. How about jog dials? st key jog jog1_cw or jog1_ccw You want to touch the screen in exact coordinates? st key touch push/release/click 400 300 There is so many things available, just explore st app nx capture (for stills) or st app nx record (for video)... Very interesting. I would like to test this, could you please upload telnetd since the samsung site takes forever to download? vaga and kidzrevil 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otto K Posted February 27, 2016 Share Posted February 27, 2016 7 hours ago, sandro said: Very interesting. I would like to test this, could you please upload telnetd since the samsung site takes forever to download? This is a generic busybox binary, it's not samsung specific, just compiled for ARM cpus. It can be a lot of things, like "less" if you name it that. busybox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otto K Posted February 28, 2016 Share Posted February 28, 2016 Argh! I typed a silly long post and then hit backspace outside of this box and ... poof ... it's gone OK, shorter version: If you start telnet server as described and connect to camera you can do following: killall dfmsd; sleep 2; dfmsd -p & This will kill original dfms daemon and start a new instance that we can now use by dfmstool command that sends commands to daemon like this: dfmstool -s "this is a command" Be careful, as soon as it encounters an invalid command it stops processing all other commands so we need to do killall... to restart it (it does not affect the camera state). The command we want is sys_param movie size 2560_1440_30p. Yup, it's still in the firmware, it has no crop and it supports peaking. Why they removed it from the menu I have no idea. It's labelled as MJPEG on screen but it records HEVC as others and is limited to 29:59. dfmstool -s "sys_param movie size 2560_1440_30p" Here's what ffmpeg has to say (I have to find a way to set the quality as well): Stream #0:1(eng): Video: none (hvc1 / 0x31637668), 2560x1440, 11280 kb/s, 29.97 fps, 29.97 tbr, 120k tbn, 120k tbc Oh, yeah, remember how there is no 1080p at 120fps in NX500? Think again: dfmstool -s "sys_param movie size 1920_1080_120p" And output of ffmpeg: Stream #0:0(eng): Video: none (hvc1 / 0x31637668), 1920x1080, 38589 kb/s, 119.88 fps, 119.88 tbr, 120k tbn, 120k tbc If you really want to you can put just the command in the nx_cs.adj file and call it a day (dfmsd will parse it and finish) or put a small script in test.sh that will do it for you (there is no touchscreen available while dfmsd is running). You could have SD cards for special video modes to simplify it. For NX500 full list of modes is 4096_2160_24p 3840_2160_30p 2560_1440_30p 1920_1080_120p 1920_1080_60p 1920_1080_30p 1920_1080_24p 1920_1080_15p 1280_720_120p 1280_720_60p 1280_720_30p 640_480_60p 640_480_30p For NX1, full list of modes is (yeah fractional ones too, don't know whether they are just for show or are there really differences between 24 and 23.98 when recorded) 4096_2160_24p 3840_2160_30p 3840_2160_24p 3840_2160_23_98p 1920_1080_120p 1920_1080_60p 1920_1080_30p 1920_1080_24p 1920_1080_23_98p 1920_1080_15p 1280_720_60p 1280_720_30p 640_480_60p 640_480_30p Well, that's it for now, have fun Marco Tecno, Pavel Mašek, Tommix and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kadajawi Posted February 28, 2016 Share Posted February 28, 2016 The NX1 is already a very advanced camera, and, sadly enough, there won't be successor the hacks can be ported to. IMHO Pentax is a more worthwhile target. They have a FF sensor for the price of a NX1. They use the same processors Nikon uses, so raw video seems to be a possibility. Add the fact that their higher end cameras feature 2 SD slots, dramatically increasing write speed...? And that they have a very efficient SR system that just needs to be enabled during video? And lets not forget the headphone jack. There's plenty of potential for massive improvements that could turn their cameras into serious tools. Plus they will continue to release cameras based on these processors, so it isn't a dead end. And there are many beautiful primes for the system. Though I must admit the NX1 looks like it is pretty easy to hack. wow. Now THAT is user friendly :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syme Posted February 28, 2016 Share Posted February 28, 2016 Nice work Otto! Looks like I was missing some major components when I was investigating the camera app. I was focusing on libmmf-camcorder, since di-camera-app definitely passes parameters like bitrate, resolution, time limit, etc. to that library. However after reading your posts on the dfmstool, I took a look at the strings in di-camera-app again, and it definitely includes the dfmsd commands and arguments. I'm rather confused as to how the two interact. I'll take a look at where those strings are used in the binary when I have the time. Hopefully there will be some way to add the 1440p mode back into the GUI. The simplest way might be to replace one of the existing video modes in the menu with the 1440p mode. To do so someone will have to figure out exactly how the camera app calls dfms and mmf-camcorder in order to figure out the right constants and strings to change. That seems to be beyond me at least for the moment. Otto K: are you planning on trying to install a modified firmware? Pavel Mašek 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otto K Posted February 28, 2016 Share Posted February 28, 2016 No, I'm trying not to mess with the firmware. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco Tecno Posted February 28, 2016 Share Posted February 28, 2016 Otto, is there a way to implement 2.5k into nx1? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pavel D Prichystal Posted February 28, 2016 Share Posted February 28, 2016 Or remove the crop on NX500. Because if it is possible, I'm gonna run down to the store and buy nx500 immediately to downscale from NX1 in the term of size and compactness, while keeping the quality Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otto K Posted February 28, 2016 Share Posted February 28, 2016 @Syme dfmsd is not needed by camera app, o it is used to control the camera remotely (either by scripts or by ptp over usb - have to check this out as well). For direct control from command line one should use st command (it's just it's easier for me to use dfmstool add I can also monitor the output from dfmsd log file). It seems that all heavy lifting and low level stuff is actually done by libudd5.so that configures all the things I don't see in command lines (like 3dlut and similar). Just have to see how to do it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco Tecno Posted February 28, 2016 Share Posted February 28, 2016 Pavel: I'm sure that the reply to both is yes. But the important question is 'how'. Dunno if that's possible only through scripting, if those modes are not already implemented. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pavel Mašek Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 Otto K and Marco - you are so great! Thank you... I am starting to believe that higher bitrate is possible... if 120fps1080p mode works on NX500. See this (take from DPreview forum) - https://github.com/ottokiksmaler/nx500 kidzrevil 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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