Eye-fi Mobi App Download

[Adeline Haverstock]

<div>Eye-Fi was a company based in Mountain View, California, that produced SD memory cards with Wi-Fi capabilities. Using an Eye-Fi card inside a digital camera, one could wirelessly and automatically upload digital photos to a local computer or a mobile device such as a smartphone or tablet computer. The company ceased business in 2016.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>eye-fi mobi app download</div><div></div><div>Download Zip: https://t.co/zoGGG724PO </div><div></div><div></div><div>The company abruptly announced on June 30, 2016, that, due to security vulnerabilities present in the cards, all previous generation cards (X2 and before) would cease to be supported by the company's proprietary software after September 16, 2016.[4] Eye-Fi said that some functions not requiring contact with its servers, such as transfer directly to a computer or mobile device and Selective Transfer, might continue to work, although this was not guaranteed. However, to continue using these modes, they had to be configured before September 16, 2016.</div><div></div><div></div><div>The Eye-Fi Mobi apps and desktop software are proprietary software products available for Apple and Microsoft's desktop and mobile operating systems, and Google's mobile operating system. Third-party free software exists to enable Eye-Fi cards to be accessed from Linux but the platform is not officially supported.[8]</div><div></div><div></div><div>The Eye-Fi Mobi connects to a mobile device or computer strictly via its own wireless network. In fact, the connection setup is easier with the Mobi card than it is with the Pro X2. I had no trouble connecting to an iPad or iPhone with the Mobi after following the necessary steps.</div><div></div><div></div><div>First I had to download the Eye-Fi application for my phone from Apple's App Store (also available for Android on Google Play). Then I placed the Mobi card in my Mark III, and enabled Wi-Fi transmission in the Mark III's menu. I disabled the Auto Power Off feature on the Mark III because the Eye-Fi Mobi gets its power from the camera's battery, and auto sleep disrupts the Wi-Fi connection. Then I joined the Mobi's wireless network on the mobile device and opened up the Eye-Fi application. As I began shooting, the JPEGs I captured began uploading to the gallery in the Eye-Fi application, which were subsequently saved to the camera roll on my device.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>Like my experience with the Pro X2 card, I was highly impressed with the performance of the Mobi card in conjunction with the mobile device application. Everything is simplified and easy to use, including a nice gallery with sharing options for Facebook, Twitter and email. As with the camera, it was important to disable Sleep on the mobile device to retain a solid connection. This ran down the battery life of the mobile devices I tested significantly. I found the best setup was to keep the iPad, iPhone, or MacBook plugged in during long shoots.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Fortunately, the Eye-Fi Mobi gave me a nearly identical performance to the Pro X2 card. The Mobi was solid and reliable, and I never had any issues with the card not being recognized by a computer when hard-connected via an SD card reader. Aside from running down the battery life of my camera and mobile device or computer, the Mobi was rather flawless.</div><div></div><div></div><div>In terms of speed, the Mobi could upload a 5.5MP (2MB) JPEG in approximately 5 seconds. This test was carried out on my iPhone 5, iPad 2 and MacBook Pro, and I came up with approximately the same results on all three. Now, keep in mind that while shooting with the Mobi, I was able to see the image I just took pop up on my mobile device or laptop in around 5 seconds. That's fully uploaded, and not just a preview. And, if 5 seconds was too long, I could always capture a smaller JPEG. When I shot in 'S2' and VGA sizes on my 5D Mark III, the transfer was almost instantaneous. This is the time it took from shutter button to full upload, as there is a slight delay while the Wi-Fi signal transmits. The actual transfer time was much quicker, but I wanted a real-world sample of what can be expected while out in the field.</div><div></div><div></div><div>I will post my research of the Eye-fi card here hoping that somebody would have the same problem.</div><div></div><div>I'm developing surveillance camera and I want to use eye-fi card as a wireless option for it. I see that the card work good in a short term conditions but I don't see that somebody would use or test it continuously 24/7 like me. First of all the memory card stops working after a few hours and continues after re powering. That's ok, it's supposed to work in this way. But after a month or two the memory card stops working globally and nothing helps. The only things that helps is to reformat the card. Some time ago I addressed this problem to eye-fi developers and I generated some "debug" file for them. Unfortunately they did not pay attention to it and didn't fix it. </div><div></div><div>I would appreciate if somebody will contact me about the same problem.</div><div></div><div></div><div>I could not disagree with a review more than I do with this review based on my personal experience with the 32GB Mobi Pro card I bought recently. </div><div></div><div>A key aspect to the Mobi experience is that the Mobi card connects to your home or studio wi-fi network - uploads images to Mobi in the cloud and then your devices download "automatically" or not images into the eye-fi mobi app on your computer or Ipad etc. Unlike the X2 Pro card, the Eye-fi Mobi Pro card was, in my experience, singularly unreliable in direct mode (ie when you connect to the card's wifi signal directly) AND I have been entirely unable to transfer images from the Mobi Card to my Ipad Pro in the field when there is NO other Internet Connection available. </div><div></div><div>I am on line to a Senior Support Rep in Eyefi Customer Care to determine if I have either a "crap" card OR if I have correctly diagnosed the issue.</div><div></div><div>So - my view is if you want to tether your Ipad Pro in the field away from Internet Connections using Eyefi then Buy the X2Pro</div><div></div><div></div><div>Btw, all photos saved on it is lost. I came home, stuck it in my PC, crashed windows. Everytime I put it in it crashes Windows. Can't grab files off of it and the eye-fi installer software was stuck in a loop of transferring files.</div><div></div><div></div><div>I got the mobi and it has been rock solid..... And just the features that are key: transferring the jpeg half of raw+jpeg to my phone. I don't want the raw files on my phone. Take up too much space and no need. But having the jpgs all there is great. If I want to save space I can delete some but honestly I can fit thousands at a time.</div><div></div><div></div><div>I've been using this for about a month now. It is very easy to setup, you just type the code from the back of the box into the eye-fi app and you're mostly done.</div><div></div><div>I am using this on both android phone/table and iOS (iPad3). On iOS devices you have to manually select the eye-fi network once you take a pic and the card goes active. On android the app can be set to automatically switch to the eye-fi network when one is detected. (Normally the card creates the network only if there is something to transmit and shuts it down soon after. It will still drain your phones battery faster since it will be looking for the eye-fi network)</div><div></div><div></div><div>If you don't need to transfer images from the card immediately, use your camera's menu (most cameras will show an eye-fi menu) to disable the wifi part. The card will still record the jpg and once you enable wifi again it will transmit all untransmitted photos in one go to your device. It is also a good way to save on the camera's battery power.</div><div></div><div></div><div>I use an older version of Eye-Fi. It it very handy and possibly the fastest way to get JPEG pictures off your camera to your mobile device, (and even to your computer), or cloud through your mobile device. Indeed money well spent. It gives more traditional cameras that don't have wi-fi built-in a fighting chance vs. smartphones, seriously. We live in a world that likes to brag about what it's doing on social networks, and with the advent of the smartphone a few years ago, being able to instantly upload photos taken is very much a necessity today for very many people.</div><div></div><div></div><div>most likely the posters eye-fi has some missing capability (most of their cards historically lacked one or another major feature for no other reason then to sell a higher price/larger profit margin card, its their business model, not technological limitation) where as the toshiba just does everything OOTB</div><div></div><div></div><div>The Ey-fi mobi sells for about A$50 which is same price as the MobileLite Wireless Flash Reader. Yes you have to pay about A$10 for an class 10 card, but there is one thing the MobileLite Wireless Flash Reader can do is back up to a USB key.</div><div></div><div></div><div>"Except for social media sharing via a phone when you have no laptop handy, I just don't see the point."</div><div></div><div>Setting aside pro photographers who needs to instantly review an enlarged picture of their shots, Geeks like wireless connections...It is the future for them even if it drains batteries of their cameras and mobile devices... ;-)</div><div></div><div>Personally, I give priority to battery life.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Now, looking on-line - plenty of (old) stuff. Eye-Fi was leading the pack and the Pro-X2 was the product of joice. However this is EOLand the mobi version did not work. Now, there semed to be a mobi PRO but can't find anything 5D MKIII related and as it seemed Eye-Fi entered some sort of technology exchange with Toshiba last year - which is great. SanDisk had also some sort of licencing with Eye-Fi but SanDisk got bought by Toshiba several years ago (or something in that line).</div><div></div><div></div><div>I have the eyefi mobi pro working in my Mk 3 V 1.3.5. Sorta...seems to work just fine transferring to my Android device, however, as soon as I switch to my BG-E11...the camera will not boot. Does not seem to work with a battery grip. All my stuff is Canon branded, so I am at a loss as to why. An I really cannot bug Canan as the manual pretty much says...Vendor. And they are not around any more. FWIW..it works perfectly in my 1Ds Mk 3. I have the Toshiba 32GB flash air on order to see if there is some hinky firmware issue going on.</div><div></div><div> 356178063d</div>