750D 760d T6i T6s - Does not support remote control over WiFi from PC :(

xaphod2 wrote:

Hi, I'm a mobile developer. I wrote an app called The WiFi Booth (http://thewifibooth.com), including writing my own PTP/IP stack for Canon DSLRs. PTP is the old protocol that cameras use to transfer photos over USB. PTP/IP is the (terrible) adaptation of this protocol to make it wireless. It is not supported by Windows or Mac without additional software, because it is a cruddy old protocol that sucks.

I can see that there is a lot of confusion about how wifi works, and that there is no app available to copy photos from the Canon T6i (and T6s) to your computer over wifi. At high level, I agree with the sentiment that it is simply product differentiation. I also agree that this is bullfu**ens**t, and Canon should be slapped around for this. There are (however) technical reasons, including the ability to use a cheaper chip in the camera (less processing power, less memory, less chips) that would lead to PC-like protocols not being supported. Specifically, the amount of overhead to run a PC-friendly session for files to be copied is much less trivial than Canon's PTP/IP protocol implementation, which is a fairly simple (read: hardware-cheap) thing that PCs (and Macs) do not support at all, but Canon's mobile apps do.

Nevertheless, perhaps i can help. Shameless disclaimer: I smell the possibility to make money. I am not a rich man, and this is my job

The fact that the T6i/T6s transfers photos to the iphone/android apps they already have, means that the same PTP/IP stack they have in the 7D, 70D, etc is in the T6i/s. That means my stack will work with it.

It isn't much work for me to port my stack over to the Mac. It is a crapton of work to do this on the PC. So my questions are:

1) is this still a problem for you Canon T6i/s owners or did you already find a solution?

2) If it is still a problem, do you own a Mac or a PC?

cheers.

Its probably not worth the effort - the DLNA workaround is a bit clunky but it works well for anyone wanting to use WIFI with the T6i/T6s and a PC.