I made a little script to make a 360 spherical panorama photo, using a remote controlled IP cam,

Looking at the API CGI, i only needed to control the movement of the camera and getting a snapshot.

• Point camera down
• Point camera maximal left
• Take picture
• Point a little to the right
• Take picture, loop until max right
• Point a little more up and go max left
• Doing same loop as above, until pointing maximal up

After getting all those pictures, i only needed to stitch them using Hugin.
When viewing the image with VR Glasses, i could look around my room, without image distortion, like below flattend example.

The ipcam generates a token, which you have to use in your curl commands.

TOKEN PART

token=$( curl -s -d  '[{"cmd":"Login","action":0,"param":{"rs": "abcd", "User":{"userName":"admin","password":"SECRETPASSWORD"}}}]'  "http://camera.ip.number.here/cgi-bin/api.cgi?cmd=Login&token=null"  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' | grep name | cut -f4 -d\" )

GETTING A IMAGE FROM IPCAM

wget "http://camera.ip.number.here/cgi-bin/api.cgi?cmd=Snap&channel=0&rs=123asd&user=admin&password=SECRETPASSWORD" -O output.jpg

CONTROLLING MOVEMENT

curl -X POST  -d '[{"cmd":"PtzCtrl","action":0,"param":{"rs": "abcd", "channel":0,"op":"Left","speed":1,"id":1}}]' "http://camera.ip.number.here/cgi-bin/api.cgi?cmd=PtzCtrl&token=$token"

COMPLETE SCRIPT

#!/bin/bash
token=$( curl -s -d  '[{"cmd":"Login","action":0,"param":{"rs": "abcd", "User":{"userName":"admin","password":"SECRETPASSWORD"}}}]'  "http://camera.ip.number.here/cgi-bin/api.cgi?cmd=Login&token=null"  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' | grep name | cut -f4 -d\" )
echo $token

if [ $2 == "max" ]; then
curl -X POST  -d '[{"cmd":"PtzCtrl","action":0,"param":{"rs": "abcd", "channel":0,"op":"'$1'","speed":1,"id":1}}]' "http://camera.ip.number.here/cgi-bin/api.cgi?cmd=PtzCtrl&token=$token"
exit 0
fi


for x in $(seq -w 1 25) ; do
	for y in $(seq -w 1 12) ; do
                wget "http://camera.ip.number.here/cgi-bin/api.cgi?cmd=Snap&channel=0&rs=123asd&user=admin&password=SECRETPASSWORD" -O ${x}${y}.jpg
		curl -X POST  -d '[{"cmd":"PtzCtrl","action":0,"param":{"rs": "abcd", "channel":0,"op":"Right","speed":1,"id":1}}]' "http://camera.ip.number.here/cgi-bin/api.cgi?cmd=PtzCtrl&token=$token"
		sleep 0.5
		curl -X POST  -d '[{"cmd":"PtzCtrl","action":0,"param":{"rs": "abcd", "channel":0,"op":"Stop","speed":1,"id":1}}]' "http://camera.ip.number.here/cgi-bin/api.cgi?cmd=PtzCtrl&token=$token"
		sleep 5
	done

	curl -X POST  -d '[{"cmd":"PtzCtrl","action":0,"param":{"rs": "abcd", "channel":0,"op":"Left","speed":1,"id":1}}]' "http://camera.ip.number.here/cgi-bin/api.cgi?cmd=PtzCtrl&token=$token"
	sleep 30
	curl -X POST  -d '[{"cmd":"PtzCtrl","action":0,"param":{"rs": "abcd", "channel":0,"op":"Stop","speed":1,"id":1}}]' "http://camera.ip.number.here/cgi-bin/api.cgi?cmd=PtzCtrl&token=$token"
	sleep 1
        curl -X POST  -d '[{"cmd":"PtzCtrl","action":0,"param":{"rs": "abcd", "channel":0,"op":"Up","speed":1,"id":1}}]' "http://camera.ip.number.here/cgi-bin/api.cgi?cmd=PtzCtrl&token=$token"
	sleep 0.5
	curl -X POST  -d '[{"cmd":"PtzCtrl","action":0,"param":{"rs": "abcd", "channel":0,"op":"Stop","speed":1,"id":1}}]' "http://camera.ip.number.here/cgi-bin/api.cgi?cmd=PtzCtrl&token=$token"
sleep 5
done