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iPhone 3Gs, DSLR Remote and Ad-Hoc Networks

September 8, 2009 by Mike Wong • 7 Comments

One the ways that you can connect  your iPhone or iPod Touch running our DSLR Camera Remote app to your computer is over an established Wi-Fi network. But what if you're out on location and there is no established Wi-Fi network? For that scenario, you'll want to create an Ad-Hoc Network like we did for our basketball video where we didn't have an existing wi-fi connection.

Now for the most part, using an Ad-hoc network works just fine, but I found out the hard way during a press meeting, that if you have an iPhone 3Gs, connecting over an ad-hoc network requires an extra step in order for it to work. I haven't researched this in-depth, but I'm guessing that somehow when you connect to an ad-hoc network that the iPhone is still on the 3G network and those two network connections interfere with each other somehow causing a less than reliable connection between the DSLR Camera Remote app on the iPhone and the server (this may not be confined to just our app, but I haven't explored it any further than our app).

Here's what I did to get around the connection problem.

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