Setting up your connection

[chris31fr]

Good news... I bought the card just for that, I need to sent pix from my camera direct to my Iphone. Wait and see...

[terrywhite]

Hi All,
I'm new to this App and the Eye-Fi card. I consider myself to be pretty good with tech stuff, but I'm lost with how to get this setup and working with the Pro 2 card. Is there a CURRENT step-by-step guide on getting ShutterSnitch on an iPad 2 working with the Eye-Fi Pro 2 card? I'll continue sifting through this long thread trying to figure it out, but a simple PDF or webpage with the steps would be appreciated.

BTW I have setup the card to work and transfer images to my computer. I've logged into my Eye-Fi account in the iPad app. I just don't know what I'm supposed to do now to shoot and have the images show up in the app?

[TheBrew]

Hi Terry,

Try going through the troubleshooting guide.

You're right, things are getting bloated here - I made the above guide an "Announcement" now, then it'll stand more out.

[Deibertt]

I have used ss successfully for about 4months. Last night half way through my images uploading to my ipad2 they just stopped. I have tried everything I know and am hopeful someone on the forum can help. Details:

nikon d7000, ipad2, eye Fi card 8gb pro x2.

What I have tried:

Ensured camera was not timed out
Removed card and reinserted card
On iPad reconnected to eye Fi connection*. Last night I could re-establish the connection. This morning I keep getting the pop up "unable to connect to eye Fi network.
I checked the wifi settings on the eye pad and under networks I can see my home network. If i select the blue arrow for info i can see the ip address for my home network. when I click on the blue arrow to get the details on the eye Fi network they are blank.
used the troubleshooting guide and ensured my card could see my network, ensured online sharing was off and that it would not upload to computer, turned off the computer and then tried to get the ipad and shutter snitch to recognize the card

When I go to the shutter snitch settings I see my username and the port 26000.

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide

[TheBrew]

The "Unable to connect to eye Fi network" must be the iPad telling you this (and does not have anything to do with ShutterSnitch).

If you got those connection messages outside of ShutterSnitch, perhaps you should ask at the Eye-Fi forums too, and hear if they have any suggestions.

Could you try getting the card log and attaching it here? Perhaps that can tell us more.

[JeffBoyardee]

I'm REALLY sorry if this is the wrong place to post this or if I missed something elsewhere. I've tried looking various places and older posts MAY have info that's no longer relavent since my issue is on a jailbroken iPad 2 (and I've never jailbroken any of my devices before so... here goes nothing).

I just jailbroke my iPad 2 using Absinthe STRICTLY so that I could get MyWi to use with my EyeFi card. I don't care about tethering at the moment but perhaps when I need it It'll come in handy then. Until that time, I was under the impression that MyWi will work with EyeFi using the connection I created. Because I'm not transferring data on the internet, It seems it gets confused and says "No Data Connection Could not verify data connection. Cycling airplane mode may fix - cycle now?"

The icon shows in the status bar but goes away so I figured I couldn't use MyWi for what I needed. I apparently was wrong because I was transferring images when I was driving and had the stuff sitting on the passenger seat. It seems to work sporadically though and I have a hard time trying yo figure out how to reset it to get it to be able to have EyeFi be able to transmit the photos again. Most people use MyWi to connect to the internet so online it's hard for me to tell what I'm doing wrong, if anything.

I'm wondering if this is a potential issue with the newly jailbroken iPad 2/iOS 5 devices?

[TheBrew]

Once a photo has been transferred from the Eye-Fi card it won't be sent again. You can't reset that (that's just how the Eye-Fi cards work).

Is your iPad the Wi-Fi or the Wi-Fi + GSM version?
What kind of Eye-Fi card are you using? (is it a Pro and / or an X2)
Do you need Internet access while shooting?

[JeffBoyardee]

Thanks for your response. I meant resume transferring new images as they're shot, not the same photos again.

I have the pro X2 card and iPas 2 with 3G but it's not active. I bought the 3G version hoping it would perform the same function as the MyWi or the Aluratek CDM530AM portable router I have because I want less devices in the equation.

I don't need internet access while shooting, no. Honestly, I'm a little confused beyond what I've stated in that I have an iPhone 4 but am unclear if the jailbroken device needs to have MyWi in order to connect to the internet properly. If so, my iPad being jailbroken with MyWi isn't going to help me get online, correct?

Also, do the wifi settings on the iPad relate to MyWi at all? Does it need to have the MyWi network selected? It looks like no. I can start MyWi and it'll transfer pictures but if there's a gap in shooting, it doesn't appear to resume (what I referred to as "transmit photos again" in my previous post). I would have to reboot my iPad to have it resume receiving photos.

Lastly, it seems that when I'm done with MyWi, I have to reboot the iPad to be able to go online.

[TheBrew]

I don't need internet access while shooting, no. Honestly, I'm a little confused beyond what I've stated in that I have an iPhone 4 but am unclear if the jailbroken device needs to have MyWi in order to connect to the internet properly. If so, my iPad being jailbroken with MyWi isn't going to help me get online, correct?

If you don't need Internet access, you don't need MyWi (or jailbreaking) at all. You can set up X2 Eye-Fi cards up to transfer photos directly between the card to the iPad via the Direct Mode feature.

If you need Internet access, and you have an iPhone 4 nearby, you could start the Personal Hotspot on it, let your iPad join that network and also set up your Eye-Fi card to do the same. ..this is a little more finicky, so if you don't need Internet access, don't bother with this..

[JeffBoyardee]

Thanks for the info. I've heard of the direct mode thing but may have thought it only went to the camera roll using the EyeFi app for some reason. I removed my home network from the card to test it and it seems to work as intended. I'll work with it some more to be sure.

Thanks again!