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tell camera to

Access the photo/video-taking functionality of a remote device using the tell camera to function.

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App required You must use one of the micro:bit apps to use this functionality.

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devices.tellCameraTo(MesCameraEvent.TakePhoto)

Parameters

  • event - an event identifier

Examples

To tell the connected device to take a picture:

devices.tellCameraTo(MesCameraEvent.TakePhoto)

To tell the connected device to start recording a video:

devices.tellCameraTo(MesCameraEvent.StartVideoCapture)

To tell the connected device to stop recording a video:

devices.tellCameraTo(MesCameraEvent.StopVideoCapture)

To tell the connected device to toggle front-rear:

devices.tellCameraTo(MesCameraEvent.ToggleFrontRear)

To tell the connected device to launch photo mode:

devices.tellCameraTo(MesCameraEvent.LaunchPhotoMode)

To tell the connected device to launch video mode:

devices.tellCameraTo(MesCameraEvent.LaunchVideoMode)

To tell the connected device to stop photo mode:

devices.tellCameraTo(MesCameraEvent.StopPhotoMode)

To tell the connected device to stop video mode:

devices.tellCameraTo(MesCameraEvent.StopVideoMode)

See Also

tell remote control to, raise alert to

devices