The app (which runs on iOS) seems pretty well designed and the device itself is ridiculously small (think of a guitar pick with two nickels glued to one side to represent the device's battery). It seems to work, which actually surprises me given its modest cost and all of the things it does. I got my MaxStone IR/Bluetooth remote today from Amazon and I'm testing it right now with my Sony NEX and Nikon DSLR. It's the solution that seems easiest and most reliable for me.Ī sincere thank you to all for your time.Įdited by bobzeq25, 17 November 2014 - 10:06 AM. It'll be a bit, but I'll post in this thread when I've gotten it up and running. In any event I'm going the Phidget route, tazer (Mark) has been kind enough to send me his program. I didn't explore wifi solutions simply because I've used and understand the IR remote, I've never used the wifi.
Except that I have a wifi enabled NEX 5T. You only need the app and a easy-to-make IR-dongle that plugs into the headphone port on an iOS/Android device.
You can get iOS apps and Android apps that can turn any such device that has an audio out port (for headphones) into an IR-based intervalometer for a NEX-5 camera. He needs something that can operate as an IR-based intervalometer (without wires, using just the NEX-5's built-in IR remote functionality). He can't use WiFi and he doesn't need a simple IR remote and he doesn't need to extend the range. What the OP is trying to do with his NEX-5 camera (and thus what this thread is about).
I'm done with this particular issue, feel free to have the last word.Įdited by bobzeq25, 16 November 2014 - 10:55 PM. No doubt some Android apps use wifi, but some use IR. I knew apps like these existed, was hoping to find someone who'd used them for AP. I have no idea whether they'd work for AP. Here are four more Android apps, that use IR. Here's the iOS app, but admittedly, it doesn't do Android. Nexremote appears to have multiple meanings.
I put it on my phone, and it seemed to do what I wanted, but my cheap phone didn't have an IR blaster. DSLR Remote is an Android app, that uses either an IR blaster on a cell phone or a dongle connected to the cellphone's headphone jack. I really don't want to make a big deal of this, but that's at least partly incorrect. Hope this clarify why sometimes we talk over each other without intersection.ĭSLR Remote and Nexremote (Celestron?) are not Android applications. Again, it's another set of combination and permutation. Then the camera owner wants to decide what type of remote control device it is. Yes, there are 5 options, from easy to difficult (some not possible.) Example: shutter control only, shutter control with BULB, adding the camera setting changes, adding move files in between, and finally adding LiveView. It is also important to know what features the camera user want to "remote it". This is why it is essential that one has to know the exact camera model number. If you count the above flavors, there are 5 ! Yes, five of them. There is no "wired shutter cable" control, no "USB shutter control", no "full-featured (such as LiveView over USB) USB tether" capability, and certainly has no WiFi remote tether access capability.
SONY NEX (now rolled into Alpha family) Mirrorless (ILC) over the years have gone under multiple iterations of designs which have different constraints and features.įor example, NEX-5 (as teh OP has) is rather limited.