How to install CHDK on my new Eye-Fi card

caustic02

« on: 30 / September / 2011, 11:07:10 »

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I just bought a 4 GB Eye-Fi card and it doesn't seem to work with CHDK. I downloaded the software from the Eye-Fi card onto my Mac and then used SDM Inst to partition the card into the 16bit bootable part and the 32 bit for the CHDK AND the Eye-Fi software from my desktop. It does't work though, Can somebody who has successfully installed the Eye-Fi software onto the partitioned SD walk me through the installation process?

Thanks!

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reyalp

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Re: How to install CHDK on my new Eye-Fi card

« Reply #1 on: 01 / October / 2011, 00:06:23 »

From why I understand eye-fi doesn't like partitioned cards. You may be able to format the whole thing FAT16, since it is a 4 gb card

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zeno

Re: How to install CHDK on my new Eye-Fi card

« Reply #2 on: 01 / October / 2011, 04:00:08 »

The latest version (1.18) of SDMInst will properly format a 4gb card as FAT16, but you may have to edit the sdminst.properties file (by double-clicking it) to make sure it has the line:
max1size=4000

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caustic02

Re: How to install CHDK on my new Eye-Fi card

« Reply #3 on: 02 / October / 2011, 20:24:48 »

I spent some time doing trial and error with different format versions, Eye-Fi doesn't like 16bit at all, so for now I have managed to manually load CHDK everytime I turn my camera on. It's running 32 bit though and only one partition. When I do 2 partitions, one 16 bit and the other 32 bit, Eye-Fi keeps installing in the 16 bit partition which doesn't work with wifi. I have no idea why. For now CHDK is running but with a handicap :-)

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philmoz

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Re: How to install CHDK on my new Eye-Fi card

« Reply #4 on: 02 / October / 2011, 20:44:46 »

Quote from: caustic02 on 02 / October / 2011, 20:24:48

I spent some time doing trial and error with different format versions, Eye-Fi doesn't like 16bit at all, so for now I have managed to manually load CHDK everytime I turn my camera on. It's running 32 bit though and only one partition. When I do 2 partitions, one 16 bit and the other 32 bit, Eye-Fi keeps installing in the 16 bit partition which doesn't work with wifi. I have no idea why. For now CHDK is running but with a handicap :-)

What camera are you using?
The cameras released this year can boot CHDK from a FAT32 partition (up to 32GB).
This includes the SX220, SX230 and IXUS310 models.

Phil.

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