Question:

I run this script and applescript can detect the devices just fine

tell application "QuickTime Player" video recording devices end tell

It gives a the reply below

{screen compression preset "FaceTime HD Camera" of application "QuickTime Player", screen compression preset "Gangzheng's iPhone" of application "QuickTime Player"}

But when I run my actual script

tell application "QuickTime Player" video recording devices set newMovieRecording to new movie recording tell newMovieRecording set current camera of newMovieRecording to "Gangzheng's iPhone" set current microphone of newMovieRecording to "Gangzheng's iPhone" start end tell end tell

it says QuickTime Player got an error: Can’t make "Gangzheng's iPhone" into type video recording device.

Is there a way to make applescript record anything from iPhone?

I had accomplished what you want to do, but in a different way because I also tried with

set current camera of newMovieRecording to "Gangzheng's iPhone"

but had no luck.... So here is my script for setting a camera

tell application "System Events" to tell process "QuickTime Player" #Set volume to 100% click button 1 of window 1 #To open dialog to show available cameras click button 3 of window 1 #To select our device click menu item "Gangzheng's iPhone" of menu 1 of button 3 of window 1 end tell

My script was a bit longer because I wanted to record the screen of my iphone at my MAC... So I had to set QuickTime Player to full screen, move mouse pointer outside the screen and so on...

tell application "Finder" set bigBounds to (get bounds of window of desktop) end tell tell application "QuickTime Player" activate start #Start new recording cmd + option + N tell application "System Events" to key code 45 using {option down, command down} set iBounds to (get bounds of front window) if bigBounds = iBounds then delay 1 else #Full screen only if is not already at full screen control + cmd + F tell application "System Events" to key code 3 using {control down, command down} delay 1 end if tell application "System Events" to tell process "QuickTime Player" #Set volume to 100% click button 1 of window 1 #To open dialog to show available cameras click button 3 of window 1 #To select our device click menu item "iPhone de User" of menu 1 of button 3 of window 1 end tell #To move mouse to the right side of the screen set mouseToolsPath to "/Users/Shared/MouseTools" set x to (item 3 of bigBounds) - 1 set y to (item 4 of bigBounds) / 2 #Por si el archivo no existe... try do shell script quoted form of POSIX path of mouseToolsPath & " -x " & (x as text) & " -y " & (y as text) on error errMsg number errNum display dialog "An unknown error occurred: " & errNum as text end try end tell

Hope it is helpful to someone.

barbudito, can you try this?

tell application "QuickTime Player" get video recording device "Gangzheng's iPhone" set newMovieRecording to new movie recording tell newMovieRecording start delay 10 do shell script "env" pause save newMovieRecording in "/Users/pmlg673f/Movies/test.mov" stop close newMovieRecording end tell end tell