Impatient Mode (transfer from card reader)

[donutz]

It would be great if the Eye-Fi Manager implemented what I'd call an "impatient mode" -- if it detects the card plugged in, it should see which photos on the card still need to be transferred, and do it! That way you're not stuck waiting for a card that doesn't want to transfer all your pictures wirelessly. This way we still get the benefit of auto-uploading to any websites (great for a backup) and geotagging.

What do you think, Eye-Fi? How hard would that be to set this up?

[thormj]

Seconded!

I've been recording 2GB HD videos... WiFi G is slooow....

[me10lee83]

The photos need to go to the Eye-Fi server in order to be geotagged and for it to know where to send them to. This happens when they are uploaded wirelessly from the card. You can plug it into your card reader and the photos will upload (still wirelessly) but will save you camera's battery. If you want a photo right away and don't want to wait a few seconds for the photo to upload wirelessly, you can still manually copy it off the card as you would with any regular memory card, then also let it upload so you have a file for later with the geotag data and on your photo share location

[ykoren]

donutz: I like the feature name - very catchy

me10lee83: photos do not need to go to the Eye-Fi server to be geotagged - only the collected access point metadata needs to travel to the server for the location lookup to take place.

[tkorth]

I want Impatient Mode!!!!! I've been sitting here for 20 minutes where a normal download would have taken less than five. Eye Fi, this is a great idea!

[alexh3791]

Hmm, I know a lot of situations where I could take advantage of Impatient Mode. I think that this is a great idea!

[threeio]

I completely agree... I was recently on a trip overseas and didn't have internet access... without thinking about it I filled my card and downloaded the pictures to my hard drive manually and deleted them off the card.... assuming I could manually drag them into the Eye-Fi Manager and have them properly geotagged and shared... much to my dismay, I can't, or at least haven't found a way to.

if I was able to plug in using my SF Card reader and then have them downloaded into the eye-fi center without using the wifi, it would be useful!

[DarrellMSU]

Yes please, I have quit using Eye fi because they don't have this.

[shurhold]

YESSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!

This feature is really needed. I love the GEO Tagging, but most of my shoots have many photos of large size so remote upload is not that efficient.


Please add this ASAP.

[ZBoater]

Yes please, this would be an awesome feature.

Couldn't pictures be transferred to the pc via USB while plugged in, and from there uploaded to eyefi server or online? That way we get them off the card faster at least.

[aaaggg]

a good idea but it meens that eyefi are saying that their card is slow and a company doesent want to admit things like that

[MikeV]

a good idea but it meens that eyefi are saying that their card is slow and a company doesent want to admit things like that

Depends...

I think anyone would much prefer transferring hundreds (or thousands) of pictures via USB rather than WiFi, whether the WiFi is slow or not (and personally, my experience with Eye-Fi via WiFi is not very slow)... or how about hundreds of megabytes of AVCHD video? I would again much prefer moving it via USB rather than WiFi.

I'm more than happy to use WiFi for 40... 50... maybe even up to 100 pictures, and/or short video clips of a few seconds each, or if there's a WiFi network present while I'm taking pictures... but if I took 300 or more pictures, or had something like 15+ minutes of video that had to be uploaded all at once, there's no doubt that I'd prefer to move it via USB.

I thought I had already thrown a vote in for this feature, but I guess not... so here's my vote for it!

[zepr]

+1 !
I also vote for the "impatient mode".

I don't think it's a good idea, i think it's an obvious lacking feature.
I've just bought my explore card, only for the geotagging feature, and i'm very disappointed to find that geotagging is not done when the pictures are transfered through USB.
First, not having such a feature is stupid.
Second, not having it clearly written down on the website is robbery.

[mwjoerin]

This feature would certainly add value to me when I return to the computer environment with a full card.

[New Daddy]

+1

[ylsf]

+100 on this...

It took me a few hours just to finally confirm 100% that I couldn't do this with my card. It isn't very clear on the eye-fi forum and even googling around didn't lead me to this thread (or, maybe I saw "impatient" mode as the thread title but I didn't know what that meant).

I think if people has teh option to transfer large files/video via SD card they would go that route. I know I would. I also bought the card mainly for the geotagging.

[kiltedbandit]

I just went on a day trip, and took ~150 pictures (raw+jpg). I have been sitting here eagerly waitng to look at my pics, but I am still downloading them. (They are still coming in as I write this post). I found 'impatient mode' floating around, and would like to formally add my +1 to this request.

There must be some way to use my computers card reader to copy the photos, and then upload the data to skyhook for geolocation. I have only had my Eye-Fi card for a week, and I love the abitlity to add geolocation to my shots with my new camera, especially with travel season coming up, but if every time I go out and shoot more than a dozen pictures, it takes this long to download, well...

I love the features of this product, Eye-Fi. Please give me some hope!


Alykhan
Olympus XZ-1, EyeFi Pro 8GB X2, Sony VPCZ1 PC

[michaelk]

Like this too!

[oneseventeen]

NOT Impatient Mode!!!

USABLE In Non-WiFi Areas Mode!

I am in the hospital right now trying to share all the photos I took on my card, but my assumption is if I upload them all now manually through my laptop and web browser as though I was using a regular SD card then when I'm home again I will get a second copy on flickr and my first copy on my desktop at home.

WiFi here requires you to agree to their terms before connecting, and they apparently aren't a partner with any of the Eye-Fi services that can bypass that. (boo) Plus there are tons of places I visit that have poor WiFi but stellar wired network. (i.e. at work, 100Mbps up on Wired!)

Because I have Eye-Fi software installed on the same laptop that can access the photos from the card I'm surprised this isn't a feature already. (obviously I don't know what goes on under the hood, there is likely a valid technical reason this is difficult to accomplish)

Thanks for the great product, just bummed to find that the #1 reason I bought the card (photos during our 4 day stay in the hospital) isn't working out.

[derekmak]

Hey Alykhan, the card works on you XZ-1? I thought they are not compatible?

[lkrammes]

+1

[danb]

NOT Impatient Mode!!!

USABLE In Non-WiFi Areas Mode!

I am in the hospital right now trying to share all the photos I took on my card, but my assumption is if I upload them all now manually through my laptop and web browser as though I was using a regular SD card then when I'm home again I will get a second copy on flickr and my first copy on my desktop at home.

WiFi here requires you to agree to their terms before connecting, and they apparently aren't a partner with any of the Eye-Fi services that can bypass that. (boo) Plus there are tons of places I visit that have poor WiFi but stellar wired network. (i.e. at work, 100Mbps up on Wired!)

Because I have Eye-Fi software installed on the same laptop that can access the photos from the card I'm surprised this isn't a feature already. (obviously I don't know what goes on under the hood, there is likely a valid technical reason this is difficult to accomplish)

Thanks for the great product, just bummed to find that the #1 reason I bought the card (photos during our 4 day stay in the hospital) isn't working out.

Do you have an Eye-Fi Pro X2 card? If you do, you can connect to your laptop via adhoc to transfer pictures. That would bypass the hospital network splash screen. If you have a smart phone you can also use direct mode with any X2 card.

[MikeV]

Still holding out hope that this will someday surface... Perfect case today... 82 pictures, RAW + JPEG (164 total)... Over 900MB of images in just RAW files alone... then one video file that itself was almost 500MB. When I can transfer the RAW pictures in 2 minutes or less via USB, I'm not going to wait for them to transfer via WiFi. PLEASE make this feature a reality!

[adam_lang]

I am just flabbergasted that they forgot to include this as a feature. And IMO it makes the card less valuable than recording locations on my iPhone and transferring them manually later. Which means that the lack of this feature makes me wish I had never bought the card in the first place. So yes, I'd vote for this damn feature.

[KCAstroTech]

+1
I like the name and feature! Good idea!

[Hastarin]

I totally agree. I wondered why it was taking so long to just copy files from the SD card to the PC. I had just assumed that when I plugged the card in to the SD reader it would have been doing a local copy and then an upload. Not an upload AND download of every image/video I've taken!

It should simply copy the files to the PC directly and geotag and upload them when it has Internet connectivity.

I'm starting to see the card more as a gimmick and less as an actual useful device and it's mostly due to the buggy, limited and slow desktop application.

[d-fens]

Please, Eye-Fi: Fix this annoying bug. I wouldn't even call it a feature request since it's so pointless transferring 8GB of pictures via Wifi..

Real-life example: I'm currently on vacation in California. My 8GB card is filling rapidly and I want to offload pictures onto my MacBook to free up some space. Now luckily my current hotel has an open Wifi - try using the card with one of those (very common) logon splash screens..
But unfortunately it's a 802.11g network and I'm not the only one using it. So now it takes around one minute PER PICTURE (!) - instead of seconds if I could just plug the card into my cardreader (most computers nowadays have one built-in). Oh, and of course the batteries of my camera drain rapidly - which means I can dowload around 100 pics before I have to recharge.

Srlsy, there must be some Eye-Fi SW engineers reading this (and the many other threads) - how can you live with that??
(Besides going down the Adobe road - but that's probably not your choice)

Don't get me wrong - the card is great and the price is more than fair. But please, fix this problem!!

[anna23]

Yea, this feature would be to the point

[Xyzzy01]

Yes please! Multiple gigabytes of material when I get home after a vacation is not a good match for wifi.... (raw + video)

[AlanD]

+ Another.

I bought the Eye-Fi card to make protecting the card data easier, but I keep finding issues and limitations like this. Transferring gigs of data wirelessly when USB is available is madness.
Also need a way to switch WiFi OFF to save the battery when not needed.