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Nikon D5600 WIFI and Bluetooth problems.
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<blockquote data-quote="Jon W" data-source="post: 608800" data-attributes="member: 43344"><p>I don't really know what they are thinking but I have a few thoughts. They are trying to be a little fancy and proprietary with the camera and their silly SnapBridge app. The thing only works with "Smart Devices" which seems to mean IOS devices and Android devices, well Android devices when they get around to update for the latest Android Ver. So it seems to me that they had to write some code to disable the Bluetooth and WIFI a little bit, to keep it proprietary to their apps.</p><p></p><p>Look at the way SnapBridge works, you automatically copy pics to your phone at a limited size of 2 megs, if you go to full size it takes forever, and if you want to copy a movie you need to activate WIFI. This requires coding that limits the connection to just doing a few things. Compare that to a phone where if you like you can just look at the phone as another drive on your PC and drag and drop files. You can also get various syncing software to automate the task of keeping files synced between devices. Does not seem to work out well for them, you look at reviews for SnapBridge they all say it is kind of crappy software, and it gets ratings that average below three stars. And even worse they have software that cant do a simple pairing with devices unless they spend a lot of time money and effort on a version upgrade, because they are trying to be fancy and proprietary. I suspect they are not writing modern software for this app or the camera, by modern software I mean Agile coding and SOLID principles, that makes the code easy to modify and extend without breaking.</p><p></p><p>I am wondering why there are no third party apps, at least nothing easy to find. I looked at the Nikon site and they do have SDK's, over thirty SDK's. For those who don't know, SDK is Standard Developers Kit, which is code that an app developer would use to access programmatically functions of the camera. While they have SDK's, they do not offer any kind of direct technical support for the SDK's. Searching around the net it seems that no third party has bothered to write an app. Seems no third party has bothered to write an app for any of the other camera makers either. App developers need a large user base to develop an app that has a reasonable price point. If they have to write over thirty versions of an app, or make the app configurable for over thirty versions of the SDK, they have a expensive and difficult time making an app for just Nikon cameras. (Might explain the buggy SnapBridge app). To take it a step further if you wanted to write an app for DSL cameras in general even something that just controlled a couple of basic functions like focusing and pushing the shutter button remotely would quickly become unwieldy to write as an app, and they would not likely be able to meet a reasonable price point for a simple app. I will end this rant by just saying that the camera manufacturing industry would do a lot better if they developed standards for at least the most common camera functions so perhaps third party software to access any digital camera would become feasible.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jon W, post: 608800, member: 43344"] I don't really know what they are thinking but I have a few thoughts. They are trying to be a little fancy and proprietary with the camera and their silly SnapBridge app. The thing only works with "Smart Devices" which seems to mean IOS devices and Android devices, well Android devices when they get around to update for the latest Android Ver. So it seems to me that they had to write some code to disable the Bluetooth and WIFI a little bit, to keep it proprietary to their apps. Look at the way SnapBridge works, you automatically copy pics to your phone at a limited size of 2 megs, if you go to full size it takes forever, and if you want to copy a movie you need to activate WIFI. This requires coding that limits the connection to just doing a few things. Compare that to a phone where if you like you can just look at the phone as another drive on your PC and drag and drop files. You can also get various syncing software to automate the task of keeping files synced between devices. Does not seem to work out well for them, you look at reviews for SnapBridge they all say it is kind of crappy software, and it gets ratings that average below three stars. And even worse they have software that cant do a simple pairing with devices unless they spend a lot of time money and effort on a version upgrade, because they are trying to be fancy and proprietary. I suspect they are not writing modern software for this app or the camera, by modern software I mean Agile coding and SOLID principles, that makes the code easy to modify and extend without breaking. I am wondering why there are no third party apps, at least nothing easy to find. I looked at the Nikon site and they do have SDK's, over thirty SDK's. For those who don't know, SDK is Standard Developers Kit, which is code that an app developer would use to access programmatically functions of the camera. While they have SDK's, they do not offer any kind of direct technical support for the SDK's. Searching around the net it seems that no third party has bothered to write an app. Seems no third party has bothered to write an app for any of the other camera makers either. App developers need a large user base to develop an app that has a reasonable price point. If they have to write over thirty versions of an app, or make the app configurable for over thirty versions of the SDK, they have a expensive and difficult time making an app for just Nikon cameras. (Might explain the buggy SnapBridge app). To take it a step further if you wanted to write an app for DSL cameras in general even something that just controlled a couple of basic functions like focusing and pushing the shutter button remotely would quickly become unwieldy to write as an app, and they would not likely be able to meet a reasonable price point for a simple app. I will end this rant by just saying that the camera manufacturing industry would do a lot better if they developed standards for at least the most common camera functions so perhaps third party software to access any digital camera would become feasible. [/QUOTE]
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