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Reverse Engineering Sony Digital Cameras
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Switching SmartRemoteControl from AP to client mode #172

Open ccucumber opened 4 years ago

ccucumber commented 4 years ago

Sony has HTTP/JSON Camera Remote API, so it makes it one of the most useful cameras to be controlled remotely. There are several projects using this API on Github. When SmartRemoteControl app is running, it switches camera' WiFi in AP mode and computer has to connect to it. The API is nice, but connecting to more than one camera simultaneously is real pain in the neck (we managed to use 5 USB network cards and configure 5 network interfaces, which is most ugly IT solution I've ever seen) .

My question is about the possibility of switching some network settings while running SmartRemoteControl app, allowing the camera to connect to an existing WiFi network instead of announcing its own AP. I think it could be useful to a lot of people.

mungewell commented 4 years ago

It's termed "MultiWifi" and there's some info in #64, but I didn't find a way of triggering it.

mungewell commented 4 years ago

And there's details here on how to encode the AP's ESSID/Password into the camera's keys. https://github.com/ma1co/Sony-PMCA-RE/issues/54#issuecomment-349182711