canon-proxy¶

canon-proxy is a lightweight Go service that connects to a Canon EOS camera over WiFi using the PTP/IP protocol, continuously discovers new images, and uploads them to configurable storage backends.

Key Features¶

Feature	Details
Protocol	PTP/IP over TCP :15740 — same pairing as Canon's own apps
Discovery	Delta polling — only new images are processed each cycle
Web UI	Thumbnail browser, manual push controls, settings editor
Upload Modes	`auto` (hands-free) · `manual` (review before upload)
Backends	SMB · FTP · AWS S3 · Azure Blob · Google Cloud Storage
Video	MOV files detected; displayed with a ▶ badge in the UI
Resilience	Exponential back-off reconnect, delete-after-upload option
Container	Multi-arch image (`linux/amd64`, `linux/arm64`) on GHCR
Helm chart	Published to OCI (`ghcr.io/pacorreia/charts/canon-proxy`)

Quick Start¶

# 1. Copy the example config
cp config.example.yaml config.yaml
# Edit camera.host to your camera's IP

# 2. Run
go run ./cmd/canon-proxy --config config.yaml

# 3. Open the UI
open http://localhost:9090

See Getting Started for full setup instructions.

Project Links¶

Source: github.com/pacorreia/canon-proxy
Container registry: ghcr.io/pacorreia/canon-proxy
Helm chart: oci://ghcr.io/pacorreia/charts/canon-proxy