Your own camera from the website

ablecamera.evomedia.net is the same page against a camera that exists only in memory. Every button works, the dials answer, presets apply and report what they could not do, and nothing you press there reaches a real camera. It is there to be judged by pressing.

The door to your own camera

At the bottom of the demonstration is a box, Your own camera. Type the address of your own page into it once — the 192.168.…:8720 address or the ablecamera.local:8720 name the app printed when it started (see Getting started, step 7) — and press the button.

From then on, every visit to the website is one press through to your camera. The website remembers the address on that device.

Why the website cannot talk to the camera itself

It is a fair question. A page served from the internet cannot reach a camera on your home network — browsers forbid a public page from fetching private addresses, and the camera's own secure connection uses a certificate a browser will not trust for a background request. Neither is Canon's to fix.

So the app runs on your side of the network, holds the camera, and serves a page your browser already trusts. The website's box is a link to that page, not a connection to the camera: it sends you there, which a browser allows, and does nothing else.

Only private addresses are accepted in the box — 192.168.1.50, 10.0.0.5:9000, camera.local. A public address is refused with an explanation, because that is how open redirects are built and there is no camera on the public internet to allow.