Posted in: WiFi pairing is the process of ensuring that your computer is able to recognise your camera on a network and connect to it. It is necessary to carry out the WiFi pairing process for each camera, and each network you will use.

Configuring communications settings in PTP mode 1. Select [OK] from Pairing screen. Start WFT Pairing software on PC. Grinev s v vvedenie v terminovedenie 1993 full. Double-click the icon inside PC task bar.

WiFi pairing is like the paring process to get a mobile phone to pair with your car using Bluetooth. A camera can pair with multiple different networks and devices, and store them. It will only operate with one device at a time. Start WiFi pairing from the camera. EOS Utility launcher ready for WiFi pairing With the release of EOS Utility 2.14 and EOS Utility 3.0 Canon have changed the process for WiFi pairing your EOS camera with your computer. Canon has added an EOS Utility Launcher that will start if you try to run EOS Utility when no cameras are connected to the computer with USB.

The software assumes that no connected cameras means that you will connect a camera with WiFi. Click the Pairing over WiFi / LAN button to show any cameras that are detected on your network as part of the WiFi pairing setup on the camera.

This will display the dialog box so that you can select your camera on the network. Hi Brian, do you know if it is possible to control the camera from a laptop via wifi when connected directly without a separate wireless access point as you would with a mobile device and app. I have a windows 8 tablet (no app available) and I would like to use this for controlling the camera when taking shots outside.

I can setup the camera as a wifi hotspot and join the cameras wifi network from the tablet/laptop. I can also ping the ip of the camera from the tablet/laptop so communication is working. But when pairing it finds no camera and when opening the app the control options are grayed out. I am running the latest version of software. Thanks in advance for any help. Gammi dlya fortepiano nikolaev.

Hi Keith & phm, Yes you can control the camera from a laptop via WiFi without using an access point. The camera effectively becomes the access point for the laptop. You need to choose camera access point mode for the communications.

However not all the cameras with WiFi are enabled to work over Wifi with EOS Utility. The EOS 750D / EOS 760D can only connect to iOS or Android devices over WiFi. EOS 70D, EOS 80D and EOS 6D can all connect to EOS Utility on Windows/Mac using Wifi and no access point. There’s no app for Windows 8 tablets. Brian / p4pictures. Hi Kornel, I think you are mistaken. I have successfully connected several different camera models to a laptop with EOS Utility using a Wi-Fi connection and no other access point operating.

There are two possible ways to connect, the camera can create a Wi-fi hotspot itself that you connect the laptop to, or you can use an existing Wi-Fi network hotspot and connect both camera and computer to that. The only odd issue with the camera creating the hotspot, is that when you turn the camera off, the laptop usually starts hunting for another network, and if it finds something, then it stays with that new one, not the camera one. Hope this straightens things out for you? Brian / p4pictures. Hi Billy, To me this sounds like you are in the menu to enter the WiFi password, the screen asks for ASCII characters.

The characters you need to enter will depend on whether you are connecting to an existing WiFi network, then the ASCII characters, sometime labelled as the WiFi password or key may be on the WiFi router itself. Or if you are connecting directly to the laptop and there is no WiFi router or network around then you can make up the ASCII keys, they are the password you need to be able to connect your laptop to the network created by the camera. You will then enter these ASCII characters as the WiFi password on the computer or smartphone. Brian / p4pictures. Hi Olav, Basically the EOS Utility Launcher is what is “kicked in to action” when the camera connects.

It then decides if the camera can use EOS Utility 3 or 2 or if WiFi pairing needs to be done. On my mac I tend to specifically select the application I want to start in the ImageCapture utility that’s part of the OS. I change it from the default Launcher to the specific version of EOS Utility for the camera, it just speeds things up a little. You can do something similar in Windows by choosing the default program that’s started when the camera is connected. Brian / p4pictures. Hi Andrew, Are you tethering with EOS Utility or directly to Lightroom. I don’t know why your camera is dropping the connection, make sure you turn off the WiFi in the camera as this does usually switch off the USB port.

I would suggest you use EOS Utility to handle the tethering, I find it drops out much less – almost never – than Lightroom. You can then use Lightroom to watch the folder that the files arrive in and auto import. I wrote about that in this older post but the process is still working fine with the more recent EOS Utility and Lightroom versions Brian/p4pictures. Hi Brian, I am wanting to setup a permanently tethered EOS camera for taking pictures of gemstones for the web. I am after good image quality but not resolution.