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Connect your PC to the camera
The first step to utilize Sony Camera Remote API is connecting your camera to the PC (or device) with Direct Wi-Fi.
Maybe you want to do it programmatically like Android or iOS rather than clicking buttons, don't you?
If you are using Linux or MacOS machine, you can use SonyCameraRemoteAPI::Shelf
class the enables you to manage Wi-Fi connectivity for multiple cameras.
To initialize Shelf
class, you have to specify the configuration file path where Wi-Fi configurations are saved. If not specified, the default path ~/sonycam.shelf
is used.
Then, add your camera's Wi-Fi configuration by shelf#add
. It consists of 3 elements: SSID, password and interface by which you connect. Once cameras are added, they are saved immediately to the configuration file. So you don't have to add cameras each time.
require 'sony_camera_remote_api'
shelf = SonyCameraRemoteAPI::Shelf.new
shelf.add 'DIRECT-xxxx:HDR-AZ1', 'passwd00', 'wlan0'
shelf.add 'DIRECT-xxxx:ILCE-QX1', 'passwd01', 'wlan0'
To select the camera you want to use from the above, call shelf#select
with its SSID. Given SSID can be its partial string as long as it is unique among all cameras. You can connect to the selected camera by calling shelf#connect
. It returns true if succeeded, otherwise false.
shelf.select 'AZ1'
unless shelf.connect
puts 'Failed to connect!'
exit 1
end
After connection is succeeded, all you have to do is creating a SonyRemoteCameraAPI::Camera
class instance, which is the entry-point of all APIs and wrapper methods. It can be initialized by giving Shelf
instance.
cam = SonyCameraRemoteAPI::Camera.new shelf
Excellent! Let's move on the other tutorials of the various useful shooting functions.