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Feel free to try it out! Please let me know if it does, I'll add the cam to the supported list. If not, send me the error in a github issue and I'll have a look.


Believe it or not, but I'm old enough to have used Eye-Fi cards back in the day and its shitty performance inspired me to hack away on this project in the first place!


Oh shit we're old now?


This is correct. I have ironed out my silly mistake just minutes after seeing comments of smarter people showing me the light.


It's probably laziness AND misunderstanding on the author's side ;)


As of now, yes, but luckily auth support is on my todo list SOON ;)


Sorry to disappoint you ;)


Funny you ask, since the a6700 doesn't have ftp support and it mainly was the reason I started this app in the first place. Also, wiring into the command structure with little shell callbacks offers me a LOT more flexibility than initially thought.


What a weird choice! An FTP client implementation is tiny.

I guess they figure FTP uploads are mostly used for professional sports photography, and they don't think people will buy the a6700 for that. (Or they don't want people buying the a6700 for that sort of professional use.)

Nice work in any case. My cameras have FTP, but using sony's remote protocol seems like a lot more fun. Its probably more reliable, too. (And I wouldn't be surprised if you can do more advanced stuff with it, like download low resolution proxies before downloading the high res images).


I'm afraid the only thing I do is use the official SDK to wirelessly log in to the camera. No firmware hacking at all. That said, if the SDK offers a setting the LCD menu on the camera doesn't, it would be fairly trivial to change it, yes.


The app was built to suit my needs with my Sony a6700 but it uses the official SDK. So it should theoretically support all the cameras the SDK supports.


The SDK does not support any DSLR's, and Sony announced its last DSLR camera 10 years ago.


I can't speak for other brands, but I started this project by digging into the LCD menu of my camera, discovering "auth", "user", "pass" and wanted to know what protocol they used to authenticate remote logins. That's when I discovered the camera just uses ssh-style auth. As a part time sysadmin, it gave me the idea to try to "log into" the camera and here we are.


This doesn't actually use ssh at all right? By ssh-style auth you just mean a username and password? Seems to work great for the intended use case regardless !


I'm guessing, but AFAIK, the camera runs some sort of sshd demon you log into, so I wouldn't be surprised it really does use ssh under the hood.


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