gPhoto / Feature Requests / #442 Support for Sony A7 / A7r

Hubert Figuiere - 2014-03-27

So you are sending a camera to the developers, aren't you?

(I'm sure images download should already work)

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Marcus Meissner - 2014-03-27

Can they be controlled over USB or just over WLAN?

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Marcus Meissner - 2014-03-27

I love: http://blog.sony.com/2013/10/a7-faq/comment-page-1/

quote:
“Can you please consider open source software so that users can write various software that will push NEX capabilities even further. Tethering, better wi-fi support and many other issues can be easily solved by open sourcing at least some of the needed code. If you don’t want to do it – then fix it yourself please.”

We take this feedback very seriously and are working hard to continue to allow developers to iterate on our camera capabilities and other Sony gear. Sony has a Developer Community portal which offers developer kits, APIs and engineering support for many different lines of electronics. Last month, this program expanded with the announcement a new Camera Remotes Apps Developer program to include SDK availability for PlayMemories Camera Apps and we are already seeing discussion in our developer forum.

oh.,.. and the forum moved to StackOverflow. ;)

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Marcus Meissner - 2014-04-21

Can you test if it has a Control mode and if libgphoto2 2.5.2 (or better 2.5.4) works? It just might.

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Jan Erik - 2014-06-10

Hi,

Just tested the Sony Alpha 7 this weekend.
It connects through MTB mode, but are not able to take an pictures. Only to view some settings.

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ gphoto2 --list-all-config
/main/status/serialnumber
Label: Serial Number
Type: TEXT
Current: 00000000000000003282633503979006
/main/status/manufacturer
Label: Camera Manufacturer
Type: TEXT
Current: Sony Corporation
/main/status/cameramodel
Label: Camera Model
Type: TEXT
Current: ILCE-7
/main/status/deviceversion
Label: Device Version
Type: TEXT
Current: 1.0
/main/status/vendorextension
Label: Vendor Extension
Type: TEXT
Current: None
/main/other/5001
Label: Battery Level
Type: MENU
Current: 100
Choice: 0 0
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/main/other/d402
Label: Friendly Device Name
Type: TEXT
Current: ILCE-7
/main/other/d406
Label: Session Initiator Info
Type: TEXT
Current: (null)
/main/other/d407
Label: Perceived Device Type
Type: TEXT
Current: 1
/main/other/d303
Label: PTP Property 0xd303
Type: TEXT
Current: 1

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ gphoto2 --abilities
Abilities for camera : USB PTP Class Camera
Serial port support : no
USB support : yes
Capture choices :
: Image
Configuration support : yes
Delete selected files on camera : yes
Delete all files on camera : no
File preview (thumbnail) support : yes
File upload support : yes

gphoto2 --capture-image

*** Error ***
Sorry, your camera does not support generic 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.

Works fine on my old Canon 350D, so this is compability and that the Sony is not supported.

It would have been great to get support for it.
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Marcus Meissner - 2014-06-10

can you see if you can "PC Control Mode" in the USB settings and see if that works better?

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Jan Erik - 2014-06-10

Sorry, I was mistaken that the camera just said connectiong in PC-Control-Mode.
I thought it would not work. But it DID :-)

It worked just fine. When running ghpoto2 it got connected and got control of the Sony Alpha 7.

It takes pictures and downloads. nice.

I will test it more to see if other commands and my scripts work. :-)

A big thanks to you for just getting me to try it again.

GREATE TOOL this gphoto.

--
Jan Erik

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Marcus Meissner - 2014-06-19

good to hear that it works! :)

can you tell us the USB ids of MTP mode and Control Mode, so we can add it to the database?

and the outout of

gphoto2 --summary --list-all-config

in both modes would be nice

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Marcus Meissner - 2014-08-17

status: open --> pending

Group: -->
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Marcus Meissner - 2014-08-17

(pending reply of ids et.al.)

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- Camille Pagniello - 2017-05-15
  
  Hi Marcus,
  
  Does the as7 ii work with MTP or USB mode by any chance? The USB ids I get is:
  
  USB PTP Class Camera usb:020,009
  
  Last edit: Camille Pagniello 2017-05-15
  
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xileffelix - 2014-08-19

Hi Marcus,

unfortunately no one replied to your request. I can confirm that shooting and downloading images works just fine but many other values like iso, shutterspeed that can be set with sony camera control do not work in gphoto 2.5.5.

Please find attached the debug and summary log in control mode. Anything else you need to know (USBlyzer log for example) to get this camera supported?

a7r.log

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xileffelix - 2014-08-19

gphoto2 --summary --list-all-config

settings.txt

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Marcus Meissner - 2014-08-20

thanks for testing and the usb id!

I have so far implemented setting only for "f-number", as the property setting is special.

We know what the camera expects, so traces are currently not necessary.

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Marcus Meissner - 2014-12-21

status: pending --> closed-fixed

assigned_to: Marcus Meissner
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Marcus Meissner - 2014-12-21

should work better in 2.5.6 now

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SKAL - 2015-10-19

Hi all,
I've just installed gphoto2 2.5.8 on my ubuntu box, but there is no way to make it work with my sony a7 ilce-7 firmware 2.0. How do you set it in order to make it work?

thanks

Last edit: SKAL 2015-10-19

my-logfile.txt

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Marcus Meissner - 2015-10-19

you also need to install libgphoto2 2.5.8.

the cameras needs to be in USB Mode: PC Control Mode.

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Thank you Marcus.
Done what you told me, but the problem still remains.

in the PC

z-lmutt@server-linux:~$ gphoto2 --summary --list-all-config

*** Errore ***             
Could not detect any camera
*** Errore (-105: "Unknown model") ***       

Per ottenere messaggi di debug, usare l'opzione --debug.
I messaggi di debug possono aiutare a risolvere i problemi incontrati.
Se si ha intenzione di inviare errori o messaggi alla mailing list degli
sviluppatori di gphoto <gphoto-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>, eseguire
gphoto2 come segue:

    env LANG=C gphoto2 --debug --debug-logfile=my-logfile.txt --summary --list-all-config

Assicurarsi che gli argomenti siano sufficientemente quotati.

z-lmutt@server-linux:~$ 
z-lmutt@server-linux:~$ env LANG=C gphoto2 --debug --debug-logfile=my-logfile.txt --summary --list-all-config

*** Error ***              
Could not detect any camera
*** Error (-105: 'Unknown model') ***

I have the camera in PC mode, and after some time appears the message "Check the connected device"

Any other idea?

my-logfile.txt

Marcus Meissner - 2015-10-22

gphoto2 --auto-detect
should detect it.

Your logfile checks out ok, just the camera is not found.

Does the camera appear in "lsusb" output when its plugged in?

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