Wear Sony Cam Control

WEAR SONY CAM CONTROL

PLEASE NOTE, the installation of the app to the wear device can take some time, sync again your wear apps from your android wear app on the smartphone.

You can use this app as remote control of your sony camera from your ANDROID WEAR device.


You could take pictures and use a self timer with a different delay value. If your camera supports zoom and video recording, so you should be able to use those features as well.


You could review the picture on your WEAR device.


You could see a liveview of the camera as well on your smartphone


PLEASE NOTE, IMPORTANT HINT FOR COMPATIBLE DEVICES!!!!:
Sony provides a List of supported devices: https://developer.sony.com/develop/cameras/ (scroll down a little to see the table). Please test the app first and if you don't like it, you have 120 min to cancel the order and retrieve your invest. The App is developed on a Sony HDR AS 30, Sony QX10, LG G Watch and a SONY XPERIA Z2 (and different Nexus devices for test). Some cameras does not support zoom in and zoom out with the app and some devices like the DSC-HX60 DOES NOT support remote VIDEO, there is no such a remote calling capability provided by the sony api.

The App supports NFC (Near Field Communication), so you could just touch your phone to the camera NFC Symbol (a big N Token) and the app should connect automatically. Alternatively, you could connect manually to the wifi network of your camera and then press the connect button, to bound the app with the sony camera device.


You have only one screen on the smartphone:
1. You have a manual connect button, in case you are not able to connect through NFC,
then connect manully to the wifi network and than press the connect button.
2. You could set the delay timeout for the self timer
3. You could start the liveview on the smartphone app (only on the phone)


You have 3 vertically ordered cards on the wear device (wipe to the bottom to see the next card and to the top to go back), but first you should connect your phone to the cam described in the previous section:
1. Picture mode, here you could shoot pictures, without delay. When the picture is taken, there is a message on the screen and you are able to see a review of the foto by going write (just wipe to the right screen) If your camera supports zoom in and zoom out, then you will be able to use the + and - buttons to do zoom calls.
2. Self-timer mode, based on your setting on the phone (default 2 sec) you are able to shoot pictures with the predefinied delay. Your review will be available on the write card, by wiping right you are able to see it. If your camera supports zoom in and zoom out, then you will be able to use the + and - buttons to do zoom calls.
3. Video recording mode - Here you could start video recording on your sony cam, your device should support video, else you won’t be able to see this card. If your camera supports zoom in and zoom out, then you will be able to use the + and - buttons to do zoom calls.


Currently, following models are supported:
Sony HDR-AS15 (latest firmware update needed)
Sony HDR-AS30
Sony HDR-AS100
Sony HDR-AS20
Sony HDR-MV1
Sony A7R
Sony A7
Sony A7S
Sony NEX-6
Sony NEX-5R
Sony NEX-5T
Sony A5000
Sony A6000
Sony DSC-HX60
Sony DSC-HX400
Sony DSC-QX100M3
Sony DSC-QX10
Sony DSC-QX100


That’s all! :-)


Explaining the use of permissions:


This app needs following Permission rights:
INTERNET, ACCESS_WIFI_STATE, CHANGE_WIFI_STATE, ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE in order to connect to the Sony camera by it’s WiFi network.
NFC Permission rights, in order to be able to use the NFC tags in the sony camera devices


Keywords
Android WEAR, Smart shutter, remote shutter, remote control, sony cam, Sony Camera, Camera Remote API by Sony, Remote Viewfinder




This app is not affiliated with Sony
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