SIO2SD and WIFI SD card

[Marius]

Anyone already experience with SD card with wifi, and Sio2SD?

 

There are SD cards with wifi that need an iOS and Android app, but I suppose that there are also SD cards with wifi, that simply can connect to a PC/MAC... and then... are we able to transfer files to and from the SD card while it is sitting there in the SIO2SD (with the atari powered on)?

 

If yes... what kind of cool possibilities would that bring then! (If I think further, with a new firmware in Sio2SD the wifi connection might be used for other cool features like telnet through sio2SD over wifi).

 

any suggestions? Is this already discussed before: then sorry for my spontaneous post here.

[Stormbringer]

I just picked up a PQI AIR CARD for my Incognito. I'll need to use a CF to SD convertor but I hope to report back with some success soon

[Rybags]

In theory you could probably upload files to the card without needing to remove it.

 

How the SIO2SD firmware handles it, who knows? I would think it probably refreshes it's view of the directory at least when you progress up/down a level, no idea though if it would pick up new additions to the current directory being browsed. Probably would because the PIC doesn't exactly have lots of RAM to hold all the entries.

 

Also, on the card side - these things are intended mainly to upload files to WiFi clients like tablets or laptops. In some cases uploading is invoked by protecting a media file on the camera. You'd want to ensure that there's an easy means to do it the other way around. Probably something like FTP or a shared network folder.

 

I've got doubts that it would be able to work in a networking type scenario though (as seen by the Atari), as nice as that would be.

[Android8675]

Anyone already experience with SD card with wifi, and Sio2SD?

 

There are SD cards with wifi that need an iOS and Android app, but I suppose that there are also SD cards with wifi, that simply can connect to a PC/MAC... and then... are we able to transfer files to and from the SD card while it is sitting there in the SIO2SD (with the atari powered on)?

 

If yes... what kind of cool possibilities would that bring then! (If I think further, with a new firmware in Sio2SD the wifi connection might be used for other cool features like telnet through sio2SD over wifi).

 

any suggestions? Is this already discussed before: then sorry for my spontaneous post here.

 

I have an older Eye-Fi card (4gb, G), and what you do with the card is connect it to a PC and it'll install a basestation app on Windows/Mac which you can use to program the card with the names/PWs of active WiFi signals in the area (the card detects the Wifi so no need to have a system with WiFi already), then what the card does, when it's powered on (any device, usually a camera), it will try to connect to one of the programmed WiFi access points, find the basestation app running on a computer and it'll send any .JPG file that's on the card and has not been sucessfully uploaded. (More recent cards work with video and .RAW image files, but older cards ONLY send .JPG files).

 

If the card can't find the basestation app it'll send the images to the cloud then the cloud will look for the basestation app on the Internet and send it, so it acts like a backup relay if the card can't directly connect to the basestation on the local network.

 

My card cannot receive files wirelessly, you have to use a device to take a photo then the card sends the image/video. I really don't think any of these cards will recieve files, that's not what they are designed for, they are designed to get the images off a camera to a PC as quickly as possible, and that's about it.

 

I don't have much experience with other wireless SD cards, but I remember reading some technical articles about Eye-Fi at the time that basically said the Wifi interface is pretty rudimentary in these cards, can't recieve data wirelessly, etc.

 

I also don't like that the card seems to drain my camera battery really quickly, even a high end DSLR can't take as many photos and you really need a fast network connection for the card to send big photos before the camera turns off automatically (Camera I had didn't have an option to disable auto power-down.)

 

Maybe my card is defective... Price is the last thing I'll mention, $99 for a 4gig card, at the time I worked at Best Buy so I got it at cost, but it was still like $45 bucks.

[Rybags]

From what I've read, some cards act as host (Access Point) - so configuration can be a one-off, then you just need to do the fiddly stuff at the client side (laptop, phone etc)