dashinfantry / yikes

yi action camera application for sailfish os

yikes

yikes is an unofficial, bare-bones Sailfish OS application to interface with Yi Action Cameras. It is primarily targeted towards the Yi 4k Action Camera, but with at least some features working on other models. For example, recording Video or Photos with the Yi Discovery work, as does downloading media from the camera. Other models may or may not work and are generally untested.

yikes is not an official product from or in any way related to Yi Technology.

Limitations

• The Yi Action Camera API is not publicly documented, so all features may stop working completely in edge cases
• Only the "most basic" use case is supported, at all. For example, you will only be able to connect with the camera in "hot spot mode" with the standard IP address.
• Most camera models are totally untested. You may get in touch with the authors of this application to sponsor other models which might help us to debug them. No promises on actual progress, though. ;)
• The "Live" mode of newer firmware versions is and will remain unsupported.

Features

Model	Modelname	Basic connection	Viewfinder stream	taking Photos	recording Videos	Media preview	read Settings	write Settings
Xiaomi Yi Action Camera		Needs testing	Needs testing	Needs testing	Needs testing	Needs testing	Needs testing	Needs testing
YI 4K Action Camera		YES	YES	YES	YES	YES	YES	YES
YI 4K+ Action Camera		Needs testing	Needs testing	Needs testing	Needs testing	Needs testing	Needs testing	Needs testing
YI Lite Action Camera		Needs testing	Needs testing	Needs testing	Needs testing	Needs testing	Needs testing	Needs testing
YI Discovery Action Camera		YES	NO	YES	YES	YES	Needs testing	YES

Installation

from source

You may clone this repository, open it in the Sailfish OS SDK and deploy it to your device. Keep in mind that you have to pull the python API, as well:

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/jgibbon/yikes.git

packaged

yikes is not ready for general use, yet. For now you can find builds that may or may not be current on Nokius' OBS repository. Other release channels may follow.

Acknowledgements

This is a QML/Python application, using the fabulous PyOtherside for Python/Qt bindings.

It would not be possible to without existing work at Yi4kAPI, which we forked and misused a bit for this.