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Sony’s Camera Remote API beta SDK allows you to control a number of Sony cameras, including Sony Action cams, Sony Alpha cameras and Lens Style cameras, wirelessly from another device.

Sony’s Camera Remote API beta SDK allows you to control a number of Sony cameras, including Sony Action cams, Sony Alpha cameras and Lens Style cameras, wirelessly from another device.

This opens up for a number of exciting use cases, such as zoom control, remote viewfinder, self-timer settings, still image capture and recording start and stop.

The Camera Remote API is a flexible API that builds on commonly-used protocols such as HTTP and JSON. And you can develop apps for any operating system, such as Android, IOS or Microsoft® Windows®.

Source: https://developer.sony.com/develop/cameras/

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Camera Remote API for Sony Ilce-7 Cannot change to "Contents Transfer" mode

I have been able to get my a-7 camera to take pictures by using the api. However I am stuck trying to transfer those images. By following the documentation I called the setCameraFunction to change it to contents transfer mode using the json…
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Connect Android device to Sony Camera Remote API while simultaneously connected to internet

I'm currently beginning to work on an Android application that can utilize the Sony Camera Remote API with the Sony DSC-QX10 camera. I've been looking at the sample application that comes with the Sony SDK and I'm trying to figure out how to connect…
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Sony SDK API Remote control Tutorial?

I'm planning to make a windows PC application to remote control my Sony (A5000) camera, to use for astrophotography with a telescope. I downloaded the API SDK package from Sony and I'm able to connect my camera (using the playmemory app on camera)…
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How to discover sony camers through WiFi even camera wifi password is not stored

How to search Sony Camera wifi programmatically. I want to apply same camera connection feature as sony play memories app do. I want to detect Camera even its wifi password is not stored or currently device wifi is not connected to the…
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postview image in original size

(a similar issue was asked before [1], but the answers provided there don't really help me) My camera is a DSC-W500, running Smart Remote Control Ver. 4.10 (no further updates offered). The camera has a memory card with plenty of space available. I…
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How to manually focus using the sony camera SDK over wifi

Sony has released a rather comprehensive API for wifi control of their selection of cameras here: https://developer.sony.com/downloads/camera-file/sony-camera-remote-api-beta-sdk/ I have been searching for what methods to use so I can manually…
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Sony Cybershot DSC HX60V And Remote API

I have seen a lot of remote API questions and replies about Sony Camera Remote API.However, I was not able to find the solution to my issue. I have Japanese version of Sony-HX60V. Based on Remote API docs, it is supporting HTTP Api. I connected my…
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Sony QX1 continuous shooting: fetch picture while shooting

I was wondering if it is possible to fetch the images for continuous shooting while the camera is still continuously taking pictures via the remote camera api? This seems to be possible with PlayMemories in "spd Priority cont." mode. When using the…
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Multiple A7RII syncronized using Sony Camera Remote API

I am looking to synchronize 6 SONY A7RII cameras such that I can take photos with all of them at very close to the same time (<250mS latency). Can I call the Remote API if I connected all 6 cameras to the same WiFi router? I'm developing Android…
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Sony Camera Remote API, Liveview streaming slow

I'm using trying to stream live view of a SONY FDR-X1000V camera on desktop. I use python to call the API and download the package and use opencv to decode jpeg. When I run it, it can hardly catch one frame per second. Later I found out that the…
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Sony Remote API - transferring ARW

Sony Alpha 7R doesn't support ARW images transfer through Camera Remote API, allowing to download small JPEG previews instead. Supported features table says ILCE-7R doesn't support that API group. However, there is no such note for ILCE-7R2. Does it…
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Movie Shooting Mode, Not Supported

I'm developing an application with the Sony Camera Remote API, using the a6000 as a test device. When calling startRecMode I get the following error message on the camera - The movie shooting mode of this application is not supported on this…
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Sony Camera API Wifi, is it possible to connect the camera as a wifi client to an access point?

The device that will act as the remote-control(Ipad) for the camera (QX10) has to be connected to the internet to upload or sync photos as they are taken from the remote camera. The challenge is that the ipad has to connect to the QX10 as a client.…
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Format the SD Card in a Sony ILCE-QX1 camera via SDK

I am trying to format the SD card in a Sony ILCE-QX1 camera. The SDK documentation does not provide a command to do this. I know it is possible because it can be done from the Sony PlayMemories application on iOS or Android. Does anyone know the…
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Sony Camera Api on Android Wear

I created a Android Wear application that can control a supported Sony Camera using the Sony Camera Api. I got it all working(recoring, liveview etc.), so i wanted to focus on the "connecting" thing. As said in the following question i connect to…
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