Aimed to create a set of tools to control multiple cameras to help VFX workflow, start with photogrammetry, maybe bullet time later. I got some of Sony NEX cameras, and Sony has API to control them, so I started from them.

This is rush personal project originally, moved from private repo to public and looking for anyone (VFX Artist, Developer, Designer, Engineer & Everyone) would like to join the development, welcome for comments, create issues, fork, pull request & others.

This Project is logging in https://hackaday.io/project/189006

Work In Progress: Rewrite all code, Redesign the UI.

• Two side of backend, controller and server side
• Controller side is running on SBC (Orange pi Zero 2) to control the camera by Sony Camera Remote API (https://developer.sony.com/develop/cameras/)
• For 30 cameras, there will be 30 controller run on 30 SBC
• Server side is running on any computer by sending command to all Controllers
• Both controller and server side: Running python flask to handle POST JSON command from control panal UI(frontend)
• pysony (https://github.com/Bloodevil/sony_camera_api) is used to handle Sony's API

• Bootstrap is used for UI layout
• Jquery is used for handle button actions
• Jinja format templates for flask in python

Update Homebrew (Optional)

brew update

Install Python3

brew install python3

Install Virtualenv

pip3 install virtualenv

Go to Project folder

cd <project-folder-path>

Create Virtualenv and Activate

virtualenv -p python3 venv
source venv/bin/activate

Install Python Modules

pip install --upgrade pip
pip install -r requirements.txt

• macOS Monterey 12.4
• Homebrew (https://brew.sh/)
• Bootstrap Studio 6.1.2 (https://bootstrapstudio.io/)

• Python 3.10.8 (https://www.python.org/)
• virtualenv 20.17.1 (https://virtualenv.pypa.io/)

• opencv-python >= 4.6.0.66 # https://pypi.org/project/opencv-python/
• requests >= 2.28.1 # https://pypi.org/project/requests/
• Flask >= 2.2.2 # https://pypi.org/project/Flask/
• asyncio >= 3.4.3 # https://pypi.org/project/asyncio/
• aiohttp >= 3.8.3 # https://pypi.org/project/aiohttp/
• beautifulsoup4 >= 4.11.1 # https://pypi.org/project/beautifulsoup4/
• #pysony == 0.1.12 (Manual install from https://github.com/Bloodevil/sony_camera_api)

• Bootstrap v5.2 (https://getbootstrap.com/)
• Bootstrap Icons v1.8.0 (https://icons.getbootstrap.com/)
• JQuery v3.6.0 (https://jquery.com/)
• gridstrap.js v0.7.3 (https://github.com/rosspi/gridstrap.js)

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