[Android Software Development] purplemonkey:
I will start of by saying this absolutely doesn’t belong here, but as there are very few pages related to the Gear360 posting here will give this finding the most visibility. I hope my reporting will excuse the foul of thread jacking. This is something I haven’t found anywhere else.

To start off I haven’t used my camera in a very long time so I began digging around to see if there were any new updates for the camera and found out that Samsung pretty much abandoned this device which is a bummer.

One of the main things I have always wanted was a way to get the camera to stream to my PC without using ActionDirector. I will spare the details on the long way around on how I found this, but while digging around I found a way to access a terminal on the device and run commands on it.

My device is a 2017 model running firmware R210GLU0AQF2 so YMMV. I am also using a windows PC.

These are the components you will need:

Tizen Studio so you can get the Tizen SDK Tools. https://developer.tizen.org/ko/development/tizen-studio/download

Download and install the SAMSUNG_USB_Driver_for_Mobile_Phones.exe from Samsung. https://developer.samsung.com/mobile/android-usb-driver.html

Once you have installed these components you will do the following on the camera:

Power off the camera and unplug the USB cable.

Hold down the OK (Shutter) button AND the Menu key.

While both of those buttons are held down, hold down the power key until the camera turns on. The display will show “DOWNLOAD” on it.

Plug the camera into your PC and you should see a device in device manager named “Samsung SDB Interface”

Open a CMD window and navigate to the Tizen Studio folder and you will need to use the SDB.exe application located in the tools folder. \..\..\Tizen-Studio\tools\sdb.exe. It functions very similarly to ADB with android. https://developer.tizen.org/ko/deve...nning-and-testing-your-app/sdb?langredirect=1

At this point you can run commands listed in the link above, or launch sdb shell and run commands at the devices terminal. You can press Tab Twice to list out a bunch of commands that the camera will take.

This is where my discovery and expertise run out. I know absolutely nothing about Tizen as an OS and I didn’t want to get too wild and brick my camera. I did find that the commands “test-wifi-direct” allowed me to enable the Wi-Fi and performed a direct connection to my Android Phone. I also ran “tethering_test” and was able to enable the Wi-Fi in AP mode and had my desktop PC connect to it. For the “tethering_test” function run “get ap_setting” first before “enable AP” as the device will set a random passcode that you will need to connect to the SSID.

There is also the ability to run the sdb pull and sdb push commands to fetch and place files on the camera. This might be useful to further identify and unlock the features of this device, however a Tizen expert might be needed here.

I also see you have captured some firmware for the SM-C200 camera but here is a link to the SM-R210 camera SMR210GLU0AQC6 firmware from the open source page. Might be good to grab and archive this one as well before it disappears.

https://opensource.samsung.com/uploadSearch?searchValue=R210

Hopefully all of this is useful to someone and could possibly unlock the full potential of these cameras.