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mattogodoy | 5 years ago

I guess you might find this useful. It's a Python3 library to emulate the remote control for a Zoom H6 recorder from your computer. You can use it directly from the terminal, or import it in your Python scripts.

I created it because I was looking for a way to automate some steps in my podcast, and starting or stopping the recording was one of them. This led to a big rabbit hole to understand and emulate the commands sent by the real remote to the recorder. All the digging has finally paid up and the code works!

I hope you find this useful. Pull requests are also welcome.

I'd love to know what you'll be using it for :)

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bserge|5 years ago

Really good stuff! Would this work for a H4n Pro? Regardless, thanks for the effort!

Strange thing, your comment shows as 2 days old in this reply window, but the submission says "1 hour ago".

detaro|5 years ago

Presumably HN mods resubmitted this through the second chance pool (which treats an older submission and its comments as if they are new, but in some places that magic leaks ;))

mattogodoy|5 years ago

Thanks! Sorry for the delay in the reply.

I'm not sure if it will work in other recorders. I wrote them an email asking if the remote is compatible with various models. I'll post their answer in the GitHub repo (https://github.com/mattogodoy/h6/issues/1) as soon as they write back.