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Creating a Wireless remote for Nikon Camera using Esp8266

The Nikon DSLR camera I own does have a Bluetooth connection, but unfortunately it is of no use. You cannot trigger shots from Bluetooth. Also u can only share photos of low resolution across Bluetooth. What a shame!!! I also want a time lapse option which is absent in the camera.
There is a WiFi option, but have to invest a lot more money to buy the WiFi adaptor. Fortunately it has an IR interface. So I thought of creating my own triggering device (like the ML-L3) which works over WiFi so that I can remotely trigger the shutter and also take time lapse pics.

I can control ESP over phone and ESP will in turn control the camera using IR. (It can also behave as a normal ML-L3 Wireless remote). I got the command sequence for taking shots from here (http://www.bigmike.it/ircontrol/). This is the code I wrote for controlling my DSLR.

I am able to

  • remotely trigger the shutter from WiFi.
  • remotely trigger the shutter from remote.
  • configure to take time lapse pics from WiFi. (Will automatically take pics according to the number of shots and interval)



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