Installing Olympus Air Central app from outside the US or Japan

Olympus decided not to make the Air Central app for Android available outside of the US or Japan.

Good that websites exist that rip the apks from the Play Store and make them available for download.

Like this one:
http://apk-dl.com/oa-central-for-olympus-air

Download the .apk on your device, activate 'Unknown sources' in your Preferences/Security tab, run the .apk file and you are golden. You will need to install updates the same way though...

Interval shooting

We had a 32h smoking (like BBQ) session and I wanted to take a picture every 30 seconds.

With the Olympus Air it was quite easy with a shell script (linux or mac) running on a notebook, connected over WiFi:

#!/bin/bash

# switch cam to rec mode (out of standalone)
curl -v --header 'Host: 192.168.0.10' --header 'User-Agent: OlympusCameraKit' "http://192.168.0.10/switch_cameramode.cgi?mode=rec&lvqty=1280x960"
sleep 1

# enable liveview (necessary to take pictures for some reason) 
curl -v --header 'Host: 192.168.0.10' --header 'User-Agent: OlympusCameraKit' "http://192.168.0.10/exec_takemisc.cgi?com=startliveview&port=5555"
sleep 1

# loop to take a picture, then wait 30 seconds
while [ 1 ]: do
 curl -v --header 'Host: 192.168.0.10' --header 'User-Agent: OlympusCameraKit' http://192.168.0.10/exec_takemotion.cgi?com=newstarttake
 sleep 30
done

That worked for 24h, then the camera refused to take photos. After a reboot everything worked again. 

To kick things of

This blog will document my efforts to make something cool with my Olympus Air01.

To start, some links:

Documentation: 

OPC SDK landing page
https://opc.olympus-imaging.com/en_sdkdocs/

API Documentation (pdf)
https://opc.olympus-imaging.com/en/tools/toolssdk/communications/

Property list
https://opc.olympus-imaging.com/en_sdkdocs/data/PropertyList/property_list.html

3D model files
https://opc.olympus-imaging.com/en/tools/tools3d/

Examples: 

Remotely controlling an Air01 with an ESP8266: 
http://qiita.com/mayfair/items/4537a2d9fc358a7e8cc5