Hi,
Hmm, weird. Other Sony Alphas were remote controllable via "PC Control Mode"
out of the box via USB.
Ciao, Marcus
On Tue, Oct 08, 2019 at 06:10:37PM -0400, David Farrier wrote:
> Glad to help.
>
> As best as I can tell, this model does not have a "PC Control" mode via USB,
> at least not out-of-the-box. It is possible to enhance the camera via
> downloadable applications. It came with a few sample applications including
> "Smart Remote Embedded" which enables a WiFi connection to a smartphone,
> which in turn allows the smart phone to control the shutter.
>
> So, the only USB modes are "MTP" and "Mass Storage". I described MTP mode in
> previous e-mail. Mass Storage" mode has a USB ID of:
> Bus 003 Device 035: ID 054c:07ca Sony Corp.
>
> I did try image capture in Mass Storage mode. As expected, it does not work:
> gphoto2 --capture-image
>
> *** Error ***
> This camera can not capture.
> ERROR: Could not capture image.
> ERROR: Could not capture.
> *** Error (-6: 'Unsupported operation') ***
>
> For debugging messages, please use the --debug option.
> Debugging messages may help finding a solution to your problem.
> If you intend to send any error or debug messages to the gphoto
> developer mailing list <gphoto-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>, please run
> gphoto2 as follows:
>
> env LANG=C gphoto2 --debug --debug-logfile=my-logfile.txt
> --capture-image
>
> Please make sure there is sufficient quoting around the arguments.
>
>
> Hope this is helpful.
>
> On Tue, 8 Oct 2019, Marcus Meissner wrote:
>
> > HI,
> >
> > We rely on user report like yours to add cameras.
> >
> > I have added the USB id for the next release.
> >
> > Can you also switch the camera to "PC Control" mode, and report
> > its USB id in there?
> >
> > It will likely also support capture in this mode.
> >
> > Ciao, Marcus
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 03:05:19PM -0400, David Farrier wrote:
> > > I notice a msg regarding Sony DSC-RX100M3 over a year ago, yet it is still
> > > not listed among the supported cameras. Perhaps you developers never
> > > received the particulars for this camera? Thank you for your
> > > consideration.
> > >
> > > The following is with the camera's USB port in MTP mode.
> > >
> > > The relevant line from lsusb is:
> > > Bus 003 Device 029: ID 054c:08e3 Sony Corp.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > output of gphoto2 --auto-detect:
> > > Model Port
> > > ----------------------------------------------------------
> > > USB PTP Class Camera usb:003,029
> > >
> > > Besides for the file, output from LANG=C gphoto2 --list-all-config
> > > > config.txt:
> > > *** Error ***
> > > Could not detect any camera
> > >
> > > *** Error ***
> > > An error occurred in the io-library ('Unknown error'): No error
> > > description
> > > available
> > > *** Error (-105: 'Unknown model') ***
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Output of gphoto2 --capture-image:
> > > *** Error (-52: 'Could not find the requested device on the USB port') ***
> > >
> > > For debugging messages, please use the --debug option.
> > > Debugging messages may help finding a solution to your problem.
> > > If you intend to send any error or debug messages to the gphoto
> > > developer mailing list <gphoto-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>, please run
> > > gphoto2 as follows:
> > >
> > > env LANG=C gphoto2 --debug --debug-logfile=my-logfile.txt
> > > --capture-image
> > >
> > > Please make sure there is sufficient quoting around the arguments.
> > >
> >
> > > For debugging messages, please use the --debug option.
> > > Debugging messages may help finding a solution to your problem.
> > > If you intend to send any error or debug messages to the gphoto
> > > developer mailing list <gphoto-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>, please run
> > > gphoto2 as follows:
> > >
> > > env LANG=C gphoto2 --debug --debug-logfile=my-logfile.txt
> > > --list-all-config
> > >
> > > Please make sure there is sufficient quoting around the arguments.
> > >
> >
> > > Camera summary:
> > > Manufacturer: Sony Corporation
> > > Model: DSC-RX100M3
> > > Version: 1.0
> > > Serial Number: 00000000000000008081613000999148
> > > Vendor Extension ID: 0x11 (1.0)
> > >
> > > Capture Formats:
> > > Display Formats: Association/Directory, MPEG, JPEG, Unknown(b982),
> > > Unknown(b301), Undefined Type, Unknown(b101), Unknown(b310)
> > >
> > > Device Capabilities:
> > > File Download, No File Deletion, No File Upload
> > > No Image Capture, No Open Capture, No vendor specific capture
> > >
> > > Storage Devices Summary:
> > > store_00010001:
> > > StorageDescription: Storage Media
> > > VolumeLabel: None
> > > Storage Type: Removable RAM (memory card)
> > > Filesystemtype: Generic Hierarchical
> > > Access Capability: Read-Only
> > > Maximum Capability: 15923150848 (15185 MB)
> > > Free Space (Bytes): 10868359168 (10364 MB)
> > > Free Space (Images): -1
> > >
> > > Device Property Summary:
> > > Battery Level(0x5001):(read only) (type=0x2) Enumeration
> > > [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,100]
> > > value: 100% (100)
> > > Property 0xd402:(read only) (type=0xffff) 'DSC-RX100M3'
> > > Property 0xd406:(readwrite) (type=0xffff) '(null)'
> > > Property 0xd407:(read only) (type=0x6) 1
> > > Property 0xd303:(read only) (type=0x2) 1
> > >
> >
> >
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