Remote Camera Control API/SDK over USB for Sony Camera

Question

I can see that Sony made an application named Remote Camera Control that controls a Sony camera over USB. Is there somewhere where I can find maybe the API or SDK to communicate with this camera like the Remote Camera Control does?

Spalla

Could you find anything relevant for this ? – Baumgardner

Answer 1

There is a lot of ressources on Developer Sony website

Unfortunately, Remote control over USB is not possible using public API. This might be modified in a soon futur by Sony but for the moment you have to give a look to unofficial library like this Github projet which try to provide such control (but is 6 years old and has not been updated since).

This post on stackoverflow refer to "the PTP protocol for libgphoto" which seems an option ... I don't know much about that.

What about Sony Remote camera control which might provide some API ... worst case you can have some code to simulate a click (like a robot) but thats a terrible option :D

Baumgardner

That is the remote API to control the camera over wifi, not over USB. I need USB because I need to do Continuous Shoot and I cannot do continuous shoot with that API with the A6000 which is the camera that I am using. – Spalla

Found an unofficial library to do so, I updated my answer in consequence. – Baumgardner

Few years later, and Sony already released SDK which allows remote USB/Ethernet/WiFI control (CrSDK) ;) – Herculaneum