Menu Position MENU --> 
1 --> Send to Computer
What it Does This initiates a transfer of all images on your memory card (or just a folder) to your personal computer running PlayMemories Home via WiFi.
Recommended Setting n/a
Menu Position MENU --> 1 --> Send to Computer
What it Does This initiates a transfer of all images on your memory card (or just a folder) to your personal computer running PlayMemories Home via WiFi.
Recommended Setting n/a
This feature was covered in pretty good detail in Section 5.4.
Menu Position MENU --> 1 --> View on TV
What it Does This lets you playback your pictures over any Wi-Fi enabled HDTV
Recommended Setting n/a
Having a Wi-Fi enabled camera enables a lot of interesting features for the very patient. Here’s another example: You can play back the images (pictures only, not video) you just took over an HDTV that has built-in Wi-Fi capabilities and DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance).
Is this better than hooking it up to a TV via an HDMI cable to view your images? Well, it depends on the kind of person you are. If you’re very much into convenience, and don’t mind waiting 3-4 seconds to see the next image, then this is definitely for you! On the other hand, if you’re impatient, and/or want to see your videos, then hooking up a cable is a lot better.
‘How to use it’ is broken down into two sections – before you use it for the first time, and afterward.
Before You Use It For The First Time
2 -->Access point settings (described further in Section 8.7.) 1 --> View on TV. The first time you invoke this function, the camera will start searching for compatible devices on your Wi-Fi network, and gives you a menu of found devices, asking you to choose one. Once you do that it will start “negotiating” a connection with the TV (which may take several seconds). 2 --> Disp MAC address.) I can’t tell you how to configure your TV to make sure your camera is approved because every TV has a different user interface.)After You Use It For The First Time
1 --> View on TV. Notes
Menu Position MENU --> 
1 --> One-Touch
What it Does Defines which of the camera’s downloadable applications will be invoked when you bump the camera to your smartphone.
Recommended Setting n/a
I set this to use the “Smart Remote Control” app every time the phone gets bumped with NFC. But you can choose any app in the MENU --> 
1 -->Application List, whether it was downloaded or pre-loaded at the factory.
Menu Position MENU --> 1 --> Airplane Mode
What it Does Disables Wi-Fi activity on your camera (and Eye-Fi card, if inserted)
Recommended Setting n/a
Once upon a time, during the early 1990’s, there was some anecdotal evidence from some airline flight attendants where a passenger’s laptop with an external mouse-like device was interfering with the plane’s newfangled GPS receivers. Since the Federal Aviation Administration (the US agency in charge of all flight safety rules and procedures) had neither the funds nor the motivation to properly study the matter, they just did the easiest thing: issue a blanket rule saying “electronic devices cannot emit any radio frequency signals during flight”. The FAA bureaucrats were happy and passengers routinely ignored it.
Anyway, for those of you who wish to adhere to the rule, turning Airplane Mode “ON” will disable the camera’s Wi-Fi and NFC (“bump”) functions.
TIP: Wi-Fi doesn’t use any battery power unless you actually invoke a Wi-Fi function. And NFC uses so trivially little compared to everything else in your camera (CPU, display, and shoveling data from the chip to the LCD for live view) that it’s as good as off. Therefore, don’t waste your time putting your camera into airplane mode for the purpose of saving battery power during normal shooting. It won’t make a difference. |
Menu Position MENU --> 2 --> WPS Push
What it Does Very quickly establishes a connection with a Wi-Fi Access Point that has a WPS Button
Recommended Setting n/a
As explained in Section 5.4, if your Wi-Fi router (Sony likes to call it an “Access Point”) has a WPS button, you can quickly get the two talking to each other by pressing the WPS button and then invoking this feature from the menu.
(If your router doesn’t have a WPS button, then you’ll set things up manually using the “Access Point Settings” menu item (next section).
Menu Position MENU --> 2 --> Access Point Settings
What it Does Allows you to connect to a Wi-Fi Access Point the old fashioned way – by selecting an SSID and inputting a password
Recommended Setting n/a
This is the method of pairing with a Wi-Fi router if said router doesn’t have a WPS button. Its use was detailed in Section 5.4
Menu Position MENU --> 2 --> Edit Device Name
What it Does Allows you to change the SSID of the camera for when your Wi-Fi equipped Smartphone is trying to communicate with it.
Recommended Setting The default setting is pretty good
When transferring images to your smartphone, the camera acts as a Wi-Fi hotspot, and your phone then looks for its SSID, and then connects with it before transferring images (.jpg only) or movies (mp4 only). The Edit Device Name is essentially “Change the camera’s SSID”. The factory default is “ILCE-6300” ("Interchangeable Lens Camera E-mount – 6300") which I think is pretty descriptive. Some of you may wish to change it to simply “A6300”, or have some fun with your war-driving friends and change it to “NSA-sweep627”. :-) The camera only broadcasts this SSID during times when you initiate a transfer, either via the MENU --> 
1 --> Application List --> Smart Remote Control command, or the MENU --> 1 --> Send to Smartphone command. (Send to Computer has the camera looking for your router’s SSID, so “Edit Device Name” doesn’t affect this operation.)
Mind you, changing this value after you’ve already paired the camera and the phone means you have to pair the two all over again (Chapter 5).