goudvuur/sonyshell: An effort to “ssh into your Sony DSLR”

A Linux-only helper built on Sony’s official Camera Remote SDK.
It connects to a Sony A6700 camera over Wi-Fi/Ethernet, listens for new photos, downloads them automatically, and can optionally run a script on each downloaded file.

• Auto-connect via enumeration or direct IP/MAC.
• Watches for new capture events and fetches the newest files.
• Saves into a chosen directory with unique filenames.
• Post-download hook: run any executable/script with the saved file path as argument.
• Keepalive mode: auto-retry on startup failure or after disconnects.
• Cleaned, Linux-only code (no Windows ifdefs, simpler logging).

./sony-remote --dir /photos [options]

• --dir : Directory to save files (required in most real setups).
• --ip : Connect directly by IPv4 (e.g. 192.168.10.184).
• --mac : Optional MAC (e.g. 10:32:2c:2a:1a:6d) for direct IP.
• --cmd : Executable/script to run after each download, invoked as
  cmd /photos/DSC01234.JPG
• --keepalive : Retry interval when offline or after disconnect.
• -v, --verbose : Verbose property-change logging.

Enumerate + keep retrying every 2s, run a hook after each file:

./sony-remote --dir /photos --keepalive 2000 --cmd /usr/local/bin/ingest-photo

Direct IP connect, verbose logs, retry every 3s:

./sony-remote --ip 192.168.10.184 --mac 10:32:2c:2a:1a:6d --dir /photos -v --keepalive 3000

Requires Linux, g++, and the Sony Camera Remote SDK.

See INSTALL.md

or (untested)

g++ -std=c++17 sony-a6700-remote-cleaned.cpp \
    -I/path/to/CrSDK/include \
    -L/path/to/CrSDK/lib -lCameraRemoteSDK \
    -lpthread -o sony-remote

1. Connect to the camera (via IP or enumeration).
   Stores/reuses SDK fingerprint under ~/.cache/sonyshell/.
2. Wait for notifications: when the camera signals new contents,
   spawn a download thread.
3. Download newest files to --dir.
   Safe naming ensures no overwrite (file_1.jpg, etc.).
4. Hook: if --cmd is set, fork/exec the script with the saved path.
5. Reconnect on errors/disconnects if --keepalive is set.

• Core behavior is driven by QuietCallback (an IDeviceCallback impl).
• Download workers use threads + condition variables to sync progress.
• Logging is plain std::cout/std::cerr with std::endl flushing.
• Minimal globals, coordinated by atomics for stop/reconnect flags.
• See DOCS.md for a deep dive into the internals.

• Built on/for Ubuntu 24.04
• It uses Sony’s official Camera Remote SDK (not included here).
• I leaned heavily on ChatGPT while creating this, so please don’t mind the mess! 😉