is it possible to access the live GPS data from a Sony Action Cam AS30V using the remote API?
Just Lat/Lon would do.
Thanks in advance
Unfortunately that is not possible at this time. However you can always access the GPS data from the phone/tablet that the Action Cam is connected to.
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I want to track a vehicle and send its coordinate locations to multiple mobile devices at the same time. Is there a way to do that? i also need to send the live feed of the buses' current location Can i do it with agora.io?
Agora Aignaling SDK is perfect for this
You can get started through their demos on Github for different platforms.
I have 20 wifi cameras that are compatible with the camera remote api (all identical).
Using the API, is it possible to trigger all of them over wifi to take a picture at the same time?
I would basically like to trigger all 20 over wifi and then fetch the pictures from all of them. So any suggestions for how to do that would be appreciated. Mainly just triggering them together would be a great start.
Also, is it possible to send commands to the camera with the API when the camera is connected to a network via the play memories camera app or can commands only be sent via connections with the Smart Remote Control? Reason being, I can have multiple cameras connect to my network this way, but via the smart remote, I can only connect to a single pc to camera at a time as the camera acts like the hot spot instead of the other way around.
Thanks,
-Scott
That would be possible but since it's only possible to connect one camera to one phone at a time, you would need 20 phones as well and then you could send the command to take a picture to all the phones which would in turn trigger the camera connected to each one.
It is not possible to send commands to the camera other than by using the Camera Remote API.
It would appear that some cameras use WPS to make outgoing connections (ie. when using 5 AZ1 with LiveViewRemote)....
If you had such a camera maybe you could connect them all to the same WiFi router, and then use the API to initiate a connection to all at the same time and quickly tell each to take a picture in quick succession.
Here's a link which might help you get there:
https://github.com/Bloodevil/sony_camera_api/issues/8
Is it possible to delete images remotely using an API call for Sony cameras that support the Sony Camera Remote API?
Taking pictures is not possible once the camera memory card gets full and there seems to be no way provided to remotely delete images or erase the card. This is with the HDR-AS100, I assume other cameras have similar limitation.
If not possible here are two solutions that would resolve the issue for us:
Provide an API to enumerate/read/delete images stored on the camera memory card, or at the very least allow for an API to delete the picture returned by actTakePicture
Have an option in actTakePicture to specify not to store the image on the memory card, at least not permanently. i.e. erased once next picture is taken.
There is currently no API to do this unfortunately. We appreciate the feedback though and I will pass this on to our API team as a suggestion.
We are planning for vehicle tracking system. We would like to relay on GPS Tracking System and view position report via Google Maps.
For hardware requirement we are thinking of GPS modem that can transmit data to our system.
Which GPD Modem is suitable for my project?
Use a smartphone. Haha.
On a more serious note, since it's for vehicular application only, there are a lot of companies that manufacture GPS modules (u-blox is one of them). Just google and you'll find thousands of companies manufacturing them. But before you choose a GPS module, make sure you check the regulations of your target country. If the module works on the Iridium satellite network, countries like India & China won't allow it as Iridium frequency is close to their military frequencies. In Europe you'll be better off with the Inmarsat network. So, do your homework & you should be good.
Also, if you're developing your own map interface, you might wanna ask the manufacturer if they have any existing mapping interface you can hook into or disable. You mag be charged for either.
All the best!
Are mobile networks (like GSM/GPRS/UMTS) available where you are?
if so check-out the tracking products from this site or this site (Google keywords: GPS GPRS)
If not, you should consider a custom solution, maybe someone like this company can help...
I have worked on a project that involved sending data over GSM/CDMA network. It used a simple GSM/CDMA modem connected to an embedded linux device and was a stationary piece of hardware. Attach a GPS device and it may very well be a tracking system. The problem is when the network drops or the device moves out of the network coverage area. I am not sure if there any GSM/CDMA modem available with GPS added to them as we didn't have this facility in our hardware and it was very much desirable. We needed to use a separate GPS device, mostly iPhone, separately to determine the lat long of our device.
You can use any GSM/GPRS modem equipped with GPS device. The modem will forward the GPS data to your central server through GPRS and at the server side you just need to process rcvd data and display it on google maps.
all the sets will not have inbuilt gps connectivity....for example mine is sony Ericsson z550i in this i dont have inbuilt gps service. suppose i want to use gps service in such sets what i should do? please Suggest some alternatives...
And also suggest is it mandatory to have a gprs connection for my handset if i want to avail gps service?
GPS does not require any cellular connection like GPRS, it relies purely on a GPS antenna on the phone picking signals from orbiting GPS satellites.
If a phone doesn't have a GPS system, then there might be other APIs available to obtain an approximate position from cell tower information, but generally speaking I think you're out of luck.