#Eye fi card not connecting to wifi update#

On a privacy policy page, the company assures customers that 'Eye-Fi is committed to protecting the confidentiality of your personal information.'

#Eye fi card not connecting to wifi update#

'It seems all I should need is the Eye-Fi card, and perhaps to download a firmware update if applicable-as is the case with all other hardware I have-is that not the case with this?'ДЄlthough Eye-Fi has a 'Direct Mode' that transfers photos directly from the card to your mobile device without an Internet connection, this can't be used until you have an online account with Eye-Fi, the company's user instructions note. Do I need to connect to Eye-Fi for that? An account with Eye-Fi?' one person considering an Eye-Fi purchase asked on the company's forums.

'One detail I don't quite get: I'll only use the card (Pro X2) to transfer files from my camera to my laptop, and not to sharing sites/services. To make sure I wasn't misunderstanding how Eye-Fi works, I did some searching to see if it can be used without first logging on to the company's servers. There are already 7 billion photo sharing services-I don't need another one. For that, I don't need to connect to Eye-Fi's servers in some big data center somewhere, and I don't need the company collecting and storing any of my personal information. In those instances, I want to be able to transfer the picture to my phone no matter where I am. I may occasionallyВ take a picture with my new awesome camera and want to e-mail or text it to someone. I probably won't even use it all that often. You know how often I intend to connect my wireless SD card to the Internet? Never. I opened the app and was greeted with this screen: I didn't have a card to use it with, of course, but I figured I could navigate the interface and see whether transferring pictures would be easy and intuitive. I started thinking about what size card to buy, but before pulling the trigger I wanted to see how the system works in practice. (Yes, some cameras have wireless built in these days, but mine doesn't.) I read some customer reviews, and most everyone had good things to say about Eye-Fi. Since Eye-Fi memory cards have Wi-Fi built in, you can shoot pictures on a camera and send the images to a phone, tablet, or computer right away, over the air. To me, Eye-Fi was synonymous with wireless SD cards like Google is synonymous with search. The first name that popped into my head was ' Eye-Fi,' so the company's marketing is obviously working. Taking an SD card out of a camera and jamming it into the appropriate slot on a computer? That's so 2009! I'm no peasant. If a piece of hardware is physically capable of performing its most important task without logging on to the Internet, there's no reason it should always be phoning home to some company's servers or forcing me to sign into a cloud service.Д¬ase in point: I recently bought a new camera and decided it was time to get some wireless syncing capability. One thing I hate is the trend of gadgets that force you to sign up for a new Internet service just to unlock features that are offline-only. I hardly know what to do with myself these days if there isn't some sort of touchscreen device or glowing screen attached to a keyboard at my fingertips.Д«ut I don't love everything about technology-or the decisions made by tech companies.