Camera Setup

[Simon Redman]

Hi Sushant,

Firstly, the photo plugin was mostly designed for integration into other
apps (for instance, I believe KItinerary uses it to allow you to
photograph transportation tickets)

You can use it without any other app using the kdeconnect-cli:
kdeconnect-cli -d <device id> --photo=/path/to/photo.jpg

Secondly, Android has severely limited what an app can do while in the
background. The intention is that the photo request will cause the
camera to open on your phone and allow you to take a picture, but in my
testing unless the KDE Connect app is already open, it doesn't always
work. I wish Android would stop breaking us :(

I hope this helps

Thanks,
Simon

On 6/19/20 11:36 PM, Sushant Gnawali wrote:
> Hello, 
>
> Thank you for taking your time to read this email. KDE connect is a
> wonderful tool. There are many use cases. However, I couldn't get the
> camera thing to work. I searched online about it but found nothing.
> Plugin setting for the camera is "turned on" on both my laptop and
> phone. According to the settings I can use a connected device to take
> photos. I haven't been able to do so. 
> My devices:
> Phone: Redmi Note 8 (Android 9)
> Laptop: Manjaro Linux with KDE plasma DE
>
> Thanking You in advance