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Setting Things Up – Wi-Fi Download 113

If your Wi-Fi router / access point has a button on it labeled “WPS”, then
the registration of a Wi-Fi Access point becomes a two-step operation:
1. On the camera: Menu  1  WPS Push
2. On the Access point: Press the WPS button

You’ll briefly see the screen in Figure 4-3b and then you’ll get a
confirmation screen. That’s it!

WPS was originally designed to make setting up a secure network a push-
button affair (without having to enter any SSID’s or long passphrases). Wi-
Fi Protected Setup (WPS) goes by other names too – Wifi Simple Config
(WSC), or Push ‘n’ Connect. But the idea is the same: you just press two
buttons while the two devices are proximate and then that’s that.

4.2.1 CONFIGURING PLAYMEMORIES HOME
Next, in order to transfer images to your home computer you MUST be
running Sony’s PlayMemories Home software.

Figure 4-4: Two mandatory setup screens when you configure PlayMemories
Home to be the recipient of Wi-Fi downloads.
So if you haven’t yet installed PlayMemories Home on your computer,
now’s a good time, and you can download it from here: http://sony.net/pm.
Then open the software, connect your camera via USB cable, and turn it on.
After a few (or more) seconds you should see a message saying “Hey, I
detected a new camera! The following new functions will be installed:”
and then an empty box showing no new functions is shown. Hit OK
anyway, then after a few more seconds the screen in Figure 4-4a appears.