trail / wildlife camera software wanted
 

Does any one know how to download directly from a wildlife camera?
The camera is not recognised when I plug in the USB cable however I can get the pics via my sd card reader but would prefer to do it straight from the camera.

Need more information about the camera.

Zoneminder (from SBo) knows a bit about various cameras, so that (or the software that it uses) might be a start.

it's an HC-800 A model.
there is no company name on the box nor in the manual but google says it's a Lixada brand.
tried on a windows box which recognised it straight away via USB cable.

Does lsusb show anything interesting when you plug in the usb cable?

I get this line added to lsusb
Bus 003 Device 043: ID 0603:8611 Novatek Microelectronics Corp.

also repeatedly getting a blue circle with exclamation mark and small window saying "no devices available" popping up.

Does it have instructions stating that it could do this?

A Raspberry Pi Zero is only $5 would make a pretty nice wildlife cam*...

don't forget the waterproof case, 3 infared sensors,20 meter range flash, colour screen, the equivalent of an 8 * AA battery pack and you are getting close to a wildlife camera.

thinking about this, it seems that the kernel is not recognizing the camera rather than I need software to look at the pics.

I use this : "gphoto2 --get-all-files" to pull pictures off my Nikon D7100. Perhaps it may help ???

Run udevadm monitor and plug the camera in - see if it's recognised.

seems were going down the rabbit burrow - sometimes it does nothing sometimes it generates errors.
still looks like kernel not recognizing it.
got some debug info which I will try and show you - haven't done this bit before.

From the USB ID database. Your correct the kernel is not recognizing the device as a camera and I don't know what version supports the device.

that didn't work
how do I put it in a little window?

I'm running 14.2 current so I guess no version at the moment.

There's no such thing as 14.2 current. It is either 14.2 or -current (which is a development version of Slackware that will lead to the next release, in this case, Slackware 15.0).

If you are on 14.2, then you have the 4.4 kernel, which is a few years old at this point. -current has 4.19, which is the latest stable kernel release and it might have better support for your device than the 4.4 kernel.