"Since playing with the Remote API, I recently discovered this implementation on the ESP8266.
https://github.com/kuczy/Sony-QX-10-WiFi-Remote-Control-ESP8266-Ard...

Might be helpful to others attempting to fly the camera, without putting too much…"

"The 'April Tag' stuff looks pretty cool.
Video says the detection is 'shear tolerant', but doesn't say whether the shear is a parameter that you can access. It would be really cool to be able to detect your physical relation to the tag so that you…"

"@Waladi Are you applying external power to the camera? I think (IIRC) the camera will stay on indefinitely with external power.
There are settings on my HDR-AS15 for controlling power off, but not seen these on QX10."

"The QX-10 does not offer a manual mode (via remote API), only various auto modes

getSupportedExposureMode :

{'id': 1, 'result': [['Intelligent Auto', 'Superior Auto', 'Program Auto']]}




It does appear to have an ISO setting, but I have not…"

"demo..."

"@Luke
I have a present for you... :-)
Been working on getting a script for LiveView for the Pi (using pygame rather than GTK of previous example). It outputs to console _or_ X11.
https://github.com/mungewell/sony_camera_api/blob/master/src/exampl..."

"Back to the software side of this :-)... for those who prefer Linux and/or python, there's a python script to rip open the update package to it's contents.https://github.com/ma1co/fwtool.py

This lead me down a 'late night rabbit hole' on Tuesday...…"

"I spent a while on this camera last year and overall was impressed for the price. As yet no wired control is known about, although the firmware uploader (over USB) knows a few tricks so it could be that there's a possibility.
The RemoteAPI (thanks…"

"@darius If you are really concerned about data rate/volume you could consider converting raw to a more 'efficient' format such as RTCM V2 or V3.
I believe that RTK-Lib authour was looking to do this conversion, but carrying a 'PC' might be more than…"

"In the video clip we can see that the whole assembly is rotating, is it possible to have the beam steered by a spining mirror (co-axial to laser emmiter)? This would mean lower spinning mass and maybe faster spin rates depending on what angular…"

"Might be outside the scope of your investigations; but if you are willing to strap a PSMove controller to the drone (gets you an additional stream of Acc/Gyro/Mag data) you could look at the PSMoveAPI.
https://github.com/thp/psmoveapi

Did you look…"

"Nice work, but that 15fps (seen in 2nd video @ 14s) is probably making task a lot harder. You could try with the PS3 Eye camera which will support much higher frame rate."

"Although this article is about the QX1, it's worth noting that there are several cameras which support the same Remote API including the action cam family.
https://developer.sony.com/develop/cameras/

As far as I know there is no way to hard wire to…"

"I'd just use libDTMX, plus it has python bindings if you want to use that.
Example usage:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/pydmscanner/
Simon"

"I'm very excited to see this project hit kick-starter, it's going to be so useful for many projects.

One idea I have (if anybody would like to collaborate) is to use the optical tracking (of barcode like markers) to provide yaw compensation and…"