Gear 360 wifi direct connection

Samsung Developer Program
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Since Samsung has stopped supporting Gear 360 (2017), the official app is not working on Android 11.
I’m trying to create an alternative application which works.
Using the Streetview mode I am able to access camera and get images/videos.

But I want to connect using wifi direct mode.
For this I assume I have to use wifi direct. Is this correct ?

By default I can’t see the device when I try Android’s default wifi direct setings.
Before following the guide below to create something , I want to make sure if wifi direct is the correct way

If not, should I first access through bluetooth and trigger the device somehow to make it accept wifi direct connection ?

I could not find any developer information for this device.
Where can I find how to access it ?

thanks.

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Did you see this Open Source Gear360 app in GitHub?

Ron
Samsung Developer Relations

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no I haven’t seen it. thanks.
I’ll build and test it.

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I just tried to build it but it uses th Samsung Accessory SDK
I included the required jar files (sdk-v1.0.0.jar and accessory-v2.6.1.jar) and removed Addon.jar from build.gradle as the author says it is not used.
But the following imports are not found:

import com.samsung.android.sdk.accessorymanager.SamAccessoryManager;
import com.samsung.android.sdk.accessorymanager.SamDevice;

where can I find these ?

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it doesn’t work.
even if it had worked, it is not the correct path.
author has a crippled implementation based on Samsung accessory sdk.
it requires the connection to be made by official Gear 360 app.

So , back to my question:
how can I connect to Gear 360 using wifi direct (and bluetooth ?) ?

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Hi,

I have no contacts with that. You can try Developer Support Request if it was developed in house and not by a 3rd party they may be able to help.

I’m sorry I can’t be of more help,

Ron
Samsung Developer Relations

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Thanks Ron.
But I doubt that they would help me.
Because now Samsung does not support this camera. And it seems they never supported external development on it.

Actually I am looking for information how the connection is done. First BT , then wifi direct ? or vise versa ? or directly wifi direct ?

I just thought some other developer here from the community could jump in give feedback.

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nobody has any information on this ?