Wireless connection confusion

[GrendelBear]

So my X-T5 is my first camera with wifi/bluetooth and I'm trying to understand what's happening when it connects to my phone using the Fuji XApp.

I don't have any issues (as far as I can tell) on the Bluetooth side of things. The camera and phone connect fine and the bluetooth icon shows in the app screen.

But in the camera the Network setup confuses me. The camera finds my network just fine - let's pretend my network is called DingDong for today's purposes - and sets up the first slot with my network's name "DingDong" (during this setup, I chose the Access Point option BTW). The fact that I'm configuring this connection to my network makes me assume that the way things would work is that both the camera and my phone (separately) connect to my wifi network and exchange data over it.

But the part I find odd is that when I open the app (and see the bluetooth icon says it's connected) and then touch the "Get" button in the app, I end up getting a dialog box that pops up asking if I want to join the "ad hoc" wifi network that the camera sets up, NOT my home wifi network...

Files transfer fine, but when connected like this my phone drops off of my home network so it can join the camera's network.

Is this the expected behavior? It seems weird to me. I mean, why do I even have to go through setting up the camera to connect to my home network at all if it's just going to use the one the camera sets up? Why not just allow me to set up the camera's network name & a password and skip the home network altogether?

Am I doing something wrong?

 

[CanaryMango]

So my X-T5 is my first camera with wifi/bluetooth and I'm trying to understand what's happening when it connects to my phone using the Fuji XApp.

I don't have any issues (as far as I can tell) on the Bluetooth side of things. The camera and phone connect fine and the bluetooth icon shows in the app screen.

But in the camera the Network setup confuses me. The camera finds my network just fine - let's pretend my network is called DingDong for today's purposes - and sets up the first slot with my network's name "DingDong" (during this setup, I chose the Access Point option BTW). The fact that I'm configuring this connection to my network makes me assume that the way things would work is that both the camera and my phone (separately) connect to my wifi network and exchange data over it.

But the part I find odd is that when I open the app (and see the bluetooth icon says it's connected) and then touch the "Get" button in the app, I end up getting a dialog box that pops up asking if I want to join the "ad hoc" wifi network that the camera sets up, NOT my home wifi network...

Files transfer fine, but when connected like this my phone drops off of my home network so it can join the camera's network.

Is this the expected behavior? It seems weird to me. I mean, why do I even have to go through setting up the camera to connect to my home network at all if it's just going to use the one the camera sets up? Why not just allow me to set up the camera's network name & a password and skip the home network altogether?

Am I doing something wrong?

This is expected behaviour. The bluetooth connection is a simple data connection between the devices used to communicate, but it doesn't have the bandwidth to share large picture files.

But it is a good way of the camera telling the phone app "get ready it's time to transfer some images".

For the time it takes to transfer the images the phone has to connect its wifi to the camera. In effect the camera because your phone's router for a while, and that's why it drops off the home network. Most phones can only connect to one wifi network at once.

The option for connecting the camera to your home network is for other purposes such as direct upload to frame.io,

 

[GrendelBear]

Thanks for spelling that out for me - it makes me feel much better knowing this is how it;s supposed to work! Still, you'd think they could save a lot of angst in their customers by simply explaining in the manual what the expected behavior is! And I STILL don't understand why the camera needs to know the login for my home network in order to establish the ad-hoc network on the camera... Oh well I guess!

Thanks!

 

[Bruce in Virginia]

I’ve never set up my X-T5 to connect to my home network, and the photo transfer to my iPhone and iPad works fine. I don’t really like the two step process, with Bluetooth and then WiFi, since it is slow to connect, but once connected it works fine. It’s better now than in the old version of the Fuji app.


The feature I would really like to get working reliably is to have the X-T5 get the GPS location from my phone. I can get it to connect and work, but if I turn the camera off it loses the connection. When turned back on it does not remember it had a gps connection, so I have to go through the connect again.

I’ve read articles that say the camera remembers the last gps location it got, so if you are in the same general area it will just continue to use that location if there are no updates. However, I’ve never experimented enough to verify.