USB WIFI DONGLE - Tethered Wireless Shooting - Creative Uses of CHDK

joselandrada

USB WIFI DONGLE - Tethered Wireless Shooting

« on: 22 / September / 2010, 06:16:40 »

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Facts :

- Dedicated wifi modules for Canon and Nikon are VERY expensive - USD 750.00 to 800.00 (whew)
- DSLR's have 5 pin connectors (usually) used to connect to laptop and PC's
- USB wifi dongles are CHEAP ! (the 802.11 g or b or n variety)

Question :

- Is it possible to write a CF card script that will a) activate the WIFI dongle b) assign the necessary IP addresses c) detect and connect to predefined wifi networks ?

WHY would I want that?

I want to use DSLR Remote Pro to do tethered shooting without all the cabling and NOT break the bank.

Cheers and thanks for your replies.

Jojo A

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zeno

Re: USB WIFI DONGLE - Tethered Wireless Shooting

« Reply #1 on: 22 / September / 2010, 07:55:40 »

No!

Cameras are not capable of acting as USB hosts, which is a requirement to be able to interface with a dongle (or any other USB device).

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joselandrada

Re: USB WIFI DONGLE - Tethered Wireless Shooting

« Reply #2 on: 22 / September / 2010, 16:03:01 »

@ zeno

Is what I'm suggesting very different from the Eye Fi technology which are SD cards that are equipped with wifi antennas and the software that runs the transceiver? link : http://www.eye.fi/how-it-works/basics

This technology already exists but I'm unable to use it because my camera is not supported (Canon EOS 10D - ancient hehe).

Also, there are working rigs using WUSB (Certified Wireless USB) instead of 802.11 g-b-n technology.
Link1 : http://petetek.blogspot.com/2009/05/50-wireless-tethering-solution.html
Link2 : http://www.diyphotography.net/wireless-tethering-shoot-tethered-wireless
The downside with this set-up is that they don't ship these WUSB gadgets to my country (Philippines).

SO, this post is exploratory in the hopes of finding a work-around using wifi USB dongles. My premise is a camera does have a processor to run it's firmware so, maybe .... if the script is written on a CF card, it may get wifi functionality.

Again cheers !

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Microfunguy

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Re: USB WIFI DONGLE - Tethered Wireless Shooting

« Reply #3 on: 22 / September / 2010, 16:43:21 »

An equally simple reply is that DSLR's are not supported by CHDK.

The best that you can do is use one of the CHDK-supported cameras with a wireless USB link and BreezeBrowser (if the camera is supported) or the experimental CHDK PTP feature.

If you cannot 'obtain' by some means the wireless USB devices I think you are out of luck.

David

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reyalp

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Re: USB WIFI DONGLE - Tethered Wireless Shooting

« Reply #4 on: 22 / September / 2010, 17:02:44 »

Quote from: joselandrada on 22 / September / 2010, 16:03:01

@ zeno
Is what I'm suggesting very different from the Eye Fi technology which are SD cards that are equipped with wifi antennas and the software that runs the transceiver? link : http://www.eye.fi/how-it-works/basics

Yes, it is completely different, because the camera just sees eyefi as a normal SD card.

Given sufficient resources, you could make custom hardware that does the same thing in a CF form factor, but this has nothing to do hacking the camera firmware never mind a "script", and probably isn't within reach of most hobbyists.

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Also, there are working rigs using WUSB (Certified Wireless USB) instead of 802.11 g-b-n technology.
Link1 : http://petetek.blogspot.com/2009/05/50-wireless-tethering-solution.html
Link2 : http://www.diyphotography.net/wireless-tethering-shoot-tethered-wireless

Again, nothing on the camera side is changed with these things. The camera thinks it is connected to a regular USB cord. All custom, external hardware, no camera hacking.

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The downside with this set-up is that they don't ship these WUSB gadgets to my country (Philippines).

That sounds like a solvable problem.

As david says, this whole topic also has nothing to do with CHDK, because CHDK does not exist on DSLRs, and almost certainly never will.

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toinech

Re: USB WIFI DONGLE - Tethered Wireless Shooting

« Reply #5 on: 15 / December / 2010, 22:10:08 »

Quote from: joselandrada on 22 / September / 2010, 06:16:40

I want to use DSLR Remote Pro to do tethered shooting without all the cabling and NOT break the bank.

Hello - this may be pure speculation here:
If you have an SD slot on your camera, you may consider eye-fi SD card.
The price of which seems reasonable: http://www.eye.fi/where-to-buy

If you have a CF slot, you may want to try to get on ebay one of those SD to CF adaptor.
http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&_trksid=m570&_nkw=sd+to+cf&_sacat=See-All-Categories

I never try any of those though.

Toine

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Pabloec20

Re: USB WIFI DONGLE - Tethered Wireless Shooting

« Reply #6 on: 17 / December / 2010, 08:13:17 »

You can try some msp430-rf2500T they are from texas instruments they ship worldwide and they cost about usd50 and all you have to do is program them.

im tryng to program mine, so i can publish the source code. But it seems one of them has problems with its radio chip i have to wait until friday to test them

.(everything i try lately seems to go to the trash like ive become a reverse king midas).

« Last Edit: 22 / December / 2010, 08:04:24 by Pabloec20 »

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mzmaker05

Re: USB WIFI DONGLE - Tethered Wireless Shooting

« Reply #7 on: 24 / October / 2015, 10:48:33 »

For some reason the 8 gb is cheaper than the 4 gb at amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CS4WPD6/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00CS4WPD6&linkCode=as2&tag=cp075-20&linkId=EVC2WGQHF4IGKB2Z

There are other Chinese clones on ebay, but I am eager to see their cloud system as well, this is one of the coolest inventions I have seen for a while.
Has anyone purchased it or the chinese clones?
I just placed my order I will update when I receive it.

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