SidelineID
Camera to phone. Captioned on the sideline.
SidelineID is the phone half of GalleryID Desktop. The camera joins the phone’s hotspot and sends each JPEG as it’s taken. You caption it from the roster with CaptionID, then send the named file by FTP or SFTP, to Desktop, to Photos or to a share. Names write to the file in XMP and IPTC metadata before it leaves the phone, with the same writer Desktop uses. Install the app from the phone apps page and pair it from Catalog › Pair Phone.
The name
What SidelineID is
SidelineID is GalleryID Desktop on your phone at the game. The camera sends each frame to the phone, CaptionID names the athlete from the roster Desktop synced down, and the named file goes out from the sideline: by FTP or SFTP, to Desktop’s inbox, to Photos, or to a share. It is a mode of Desktop, not a separate product or subscription. MatchID finds the athlete, CaptionID names them, and SidelineID does it before you are back at the laptop. In the phone app it lives in the tab labelled SidelineID.
Setup
Connect the camera
Once per body. After this the camera reconnects on its own when the hotspot is on.
- Turn on the phone’s hotspot (iPhone: Personal Hotspot with Maximize Compatibility off; Android: Wi‑Fi hotspot, 5 GHz if offered). Open the SidelineID tab and tap the camera dot. The panel shows the address the camera should send to and the port. The dot is green when the receiver is listening on the hotspot, yellow when the hotspot is off.Press and hold to enlarge
- On the camera, add an FTP transfer target: the phone’s address, port 2121 (not 21), passive mode on, any login, plain FTP (not FTPS). Set transfer to send after capture, JPEG. On the Canon EOS R3 that’s Wireless features › Network settings › Connect › Transfer images to FTP server. On Android the receiver runs as a service, so the phone can lock; on iPhone keep the app open and use Pocket mode.Press and hold to enlarge
Receiving
Frames land in the folder
Each send from the camera is a burst in the current folder. Folders keep games apart.
- Frames appear as the camera finishes each one. Switch List and Grid at the top. Folder ▾ switches folders; the folder’s … holds its settings, Import from Photos, and Send folder. Bind a roster and a template to the folder in Folder settings and each frame in it captions from them.Press and hold to enlarge
- Select picks frames for Move, Rename, Delete or Send. A frame that went out shows a green check; one that landed on Desktop shows a computer. Sent frames clear on their own when space runs low, or after a Desktop sync, or never, whichever you set in Settings.Press and hold to enlarge
CaptionID on the phone
Caption a frame
Tap a frame. The roster, the template and the CaptionID bar do the rest.
- The CaptionID bar sits above the keyboard. Type a name, a number or a short code and the matches rise from the bar with number, team and position. Return takes the first match, or tap one.Press and hold to enlarge
- A single digit is enough for a jersey number. Two rosters bound at once keep their numbers apart, so 9 on the home roster and 9 on the visitors both show.Press and hold to enlarge
- Accepting a name tags the person, and the template re-renders each mapped field from the tag: the long form in the caption, the name in the headline, the tag in Persons Shown. A common code (an opponent, a venue) tags the same way and lands where the template put it. Remove a chip and the fields re-render without it. Swipe left or right for the next frame; the keyboard stays.Press and hold to enlarge
On a tablet
Folder on the left, editor on the right
An iPad or an Android tablet uses the width: no full-screen editor, no paging back to the folder.
- Tap a frame on the left and it opens on the right with the same scope row, CaptionID bar and actions. Swipe in the right pane to move through the burst. The Send, edit, collapse, delete and … actions sit in a row above the frame instead of the top bar.Press and hold to enlarge
Fields and edits
Full metadata, when you want it
The sideline set shows the eight fields you touch at a game. A photo’s … › Fields & layout switches to all IPTC fields, reorders the sideline set, or hides the filename overlay. The same menu holds Copy IPTC and Paste IPTC for a burst of near-identical frames, Apply template, and Reset to template. The sliders icon opens Light, Color and Crop; the edit is stored on the frame and applied to the copy that goes out at send, so the camera original on the phone is never touched.
Sending
Send the named files
One Send sheet, from a frame, a selection, a burst or the whole folder.
- FTP / SFTP destinations sync from Desktop, with their resize, sharpen, watermark and filename pattern; you can add one on the phone too. Desktop drops captioned copies into Desktop’s Field inbox (Pictures › GalleryID Field) and Desktop catalogs them. Photos, Files and Share hand over stamped copies. In each case the metadata is written first; a frame that can’t be stamped is not sent.Press and hold to enlarge
Rosters and templates
They come from Desktop
Pair the phone (Catalog › Pair Phone on the desktop) and the rosters, metadata templates and FTP destinations sync down whenever Desktop is reachable. Gear › Rosters lists them, refreshes on demand, and builds a new roster from the GalleryID feed: pick the league and up to four teams, and Desktop materializes it. The phone reads the same short codes Desktop does.
Limits
What SidelineID doesn't do yet
JPEG only; the camera should send JPEGs, not raw. FTPS destinations (AUTH TLS) aren’t supported on the phone; use SFTP or plain FTP. On Android the receiver listens on 2121 only. On iPhone the receiver stops when the app is in the background, so keep it open and use Pocket mode, which dims the screen and keeps receiving.