Photography Asked on August 23, 2021
The first time connecting my smartphone to DSLR’s wifi, I get a message box stating that no internet access could be reached, and asking if I want to keep connection though. So, I just tap “yes, don’t ask me again”, and everything seems to go well. I use the dedicated Canon/Nikon app, download photos, and disconnect. When I want to connect again, I find that my smartphone doesn’t connect automatically to DSLR’s wifi. So I open the wifi menu on my smartphone, see my DSLR’s network, and tap on it, but I get the weird message “this network is not internet connected, so it wont be used”.
I’m not able to get my connection working again until I turn wifi off and on again in both DSLR and Smartphone. Then, it goes as if I was connecting it for the first time. As I work on real-time journalism, this little issue gives me some headaches (specially when my boss wants the photo “right now”) either using Canon Camera Connect for EOS 80D and EOS Rebel T6s/760D, or Nikon WMU for D750. I got the same behaviour on Moto G3 when I had one. Might it be a Motorola issue?
Android and also IOS have a check inside the operating system which checks if the wifi has a connection to the internet and only if this check returns true the automatic reconnect is happening. This is done to prevent that the phone is not connected to the internet without the user noticing.
It should not be a problem that you cannot reconnect with the camera if you click on the network in the wifi settings, at least as far as i know and as far as the connection to the camera is a pure wifi connection, not like on for example the nikon d7500, where it is a combination of bluetooth and wifi.
We all know that the vendors apps for the dslrs are not very good and most people use third party apps to get more usability from the wifi connection like for exaple with qdslr dashboard. Honestly I never got enough usability from the connection to the phone out of my camera to use it too much because the transfer to the phone is too slow compared to a direct copy from the card to the computer and also it is easier to work with the raws on the computer.
Answered by LuZel on August 23, 2021
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