5dMkiii doesn't auto-off any more

[geohar]

Under the eye-fi firmware v5.1001 my 5dmkiii no longer auto-offs when the card is enabled in direct mode (I haven't tried other modes). My connection time and idle after shot time are set to forever.

This may be intentional, but I wanted to check. My camera auto off is set to 4 minutes. If I use the 5dmkiii menu to disable the eye-fi it does power off.

What is the interplay between camera idle time off and the two idle controls for the eye-fi?

George

[danb]

I will speak with another engineer tomorrow to make sure I give you the correct answer. In the meantime, could you please post your card log to this thread with the behavior?

[geohar]

Will do. It looks like the cardthought it was transferring - seen via the eyefi menu on camera. At the time it seems like my iPhone had picked up the network ssid but nothing was active on it to receive. It may be that it was waiting for something to pick up or something. I'll post the log.

I saw the issue once more and this time there was no active ssid on the wifi menu and nothing was connected. Yet the card menu still said transferring. Odd it can't be going anywhere without an ssid.

I'll grab logs and post them.

George

[geohar]

Here's the log file

[geohar]

To clarify. It looks like once the card has grabbed a connection and the photos that are pending have been sent, it will permit the camera to sleep. But if there are pending photos to upload, it will not.

I may be totally wrong but that's what it seemed like.

George

[geohar]

This definitely seems to be an issue when a device (iPhone / iPad) picks up the direct mode SSID and is connected via WiFi, the card has photos to send, but app is listening to connect.

In that mode it doesn't seem to timeout, it just thinks it's transferring when it's not. I think the 5dMkiii prevents auto off when it believes the card is transferring. If the card is simply attempting to find a device to connect to the same thing doesn't occur, it times out according to the direct mode timeout settings for the card.

After that, the camera wait's its own timeout period and powers off.

So I suppose the question is - why does the card keep looking for receivers indefinitely when connected to a network. It seems like it's using the 'am i connected to a network' status to determine if it should timeout or not, rather than 'I have a connection and found a receiver' - such that if it either doesn't get a connection or fails to find a receiver in the timeout period, it should go to sleep.

BTW. this happens even with the direct time-outs set to 4min, not just with indefinitely set.

George

[geohar]

My setup stats are

Operating System(including version): OSX 10.7.4
Version of Eye-Fi software: 3.4.26
Eye-Fi X2 card type: 8Gb Pro
Camera make and model: 5d Mark 3

[danb]

geohar,

Thank you for the replies in your own thread. Sorry I didn't respond, but I was definitely paying attention to what you are saying. I am hoping 5.1002 works better with the 5d Mark III. Like I said in your other thread, please let us know if you have further observations.

[alimbolar]

My 5D Mark3 too was getting Error 80.. I've given it for repairs.. it doesn't feel nice to give a brand new cameral for repairs....

Anyways is this an Eye Fi issue?.. is there any fix for it?

I like the EyeFi workflow and don't want to give it up.. but I don't want to spoil my camera too..