Sonycam

A Sony Camera Remote API wrapper.

Installation

$ gem install sonycam

CLI Usage

$ sonycam api actTakePicture

The command above will prints the result as JSON format, you can process it with pipe, for example:

$ sonycam api actTakePicture | ruby -rjson -e "puts JSON.parse(ARGF.read).first"

The best way to learn sonycam CLI is make use of sonycam help command.

Usage

If you've already known the API URL:

require 'sonycam'
api = Sonycam::API.new "http://10.0.0.1:10000/sony/camera"
api.request :actTakePicture
# => [["http://10.0.0.1:60152/pict130107_1832180000.JPG?%211234%21http%2dget%3a%2a%3aimage%2fjpeg%3a%2a%21%21%21%21%21"]]
api.request :actZoom, :in, :start
# => 0

Get API URL from device description:

device = Sonycam::DeviceDescription.new "http://10.0.0.1:64321/DmsRmtDesc.xml"
device.api_url         # => "http://10.0.0.1:10000/sony/camera"
device.api_url :camera # => "http://10.0.0.1:10000/sony/camera"
device.api_url :system # => "http://10.0.0.1:10000/sony/system"
device.api_url :guide  # => "http://10.0.0.1:10000/sony/guide"

Get device description location:

location = Sonycam::Scanner.scan.first
Sonycam::DeviceDescription.new location

Sonycam::Scanner#scan returns an array of URL string where device description is located. Generally, it only contains 1 element unless you connect to more than 2 cameras.

Error Handling

api_client.request :actZoom, :in, :asdf
# => Sonycam::Error::IllegalArgument
api_client.request :actBoom
# => Sonycam::Error::NoSuchMethod: actBoom

Livestream

Liveview.stream(liveview_url) do |packet|
  packet[:payload_data][:jpeg_data] # JPEG binary
end

For detail, read PACKET.md, lib/sonycam/packet.rb and examples/server.rb.

CLI Example

sonycam liveview will print JPEG data stream to STDOUT, it can be easily used in pipe with commands such as ffmpeg, for example:

Record to mp4:

$ sonycam liveview | ffmpeg -f image2pipe -c mjpeg -i pipe:0 -codec copy liveview.mp4
$ open examples/index.html

ffserver Stream:

$ ffserver -f examples/ffserver.conf
$ sonycam liveview | ffmpeg -f image2pipe  -c mjpeg -i pipe:0 -codec copy http://127.0.0.1:8080/feed1.ffm
$ open examples/index.html

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