Hello Kuvacode team,
would you consider adding a SetActiveCamera (or equivalently named) command to the External API in a future v5 / v6 release? Reading the request reference in external_api.rst, I can see Connect / Disconnect / Shoot-with-CameraSelection / SetProperty etc., but there’s no documented way to change which camera SS5 treats as the Active Camera in its Camera Controls panel.
In a multi-camera studio workflow where the operator presses SS5’s own Shoot button (rather than scripting captures via Shoot with a CameraKey), the active-camera selection is what determines which body fires — so the only way to flip it from an external tool today is to drive SS5’s UI via macOS Accessibility, which is genuinely fragile (panel focus state, Qt event routing, Spacebar / Enter inadvertently triggering Shoot, timing, etc.).
A direct request like {"msg_type":"Request","msg_id":"SetActiveCamera","msg_seq_num":N,"CameraKey":"…"} returning the usual msg_result reply would eliminate that entire class of fragility.
Happy to share more detail on the use case if useful — and thanks for this very useful application.