eyefi discontinued

[retrosi]

I have seen that 'eyefi' has stopped making these cards.
And then stopped support but has since continued 'some sort of support' for the older cards.
I thought I would buy one of the newer Mobi (pro) versions.
On searching the web during this several american companies show in the results and one main company here B & H photo video show the most up to date eyefi mobi pro as being 'discontinued'!
I had a 'live chat' with them and they inform me that eyefi are no longer making these cards and the support in place will be short lived.
B&H also have sold out of these cards and went on to say that you can set these cards up yourself but I am very non techie.
I am at odds about now ordering this as I am not fully aware of these and from what I have read they need to be set up even for a direct to laptop/pc (windows) transfer via the eyefi website or have I (hopefully) got this wrong and there is supplied software on the card that configures the computer with the card.
Any guidance on this please, thank you.

 

[Swissy]

Mine worked straight out of the box.

Sure you can connect it to your pc and change certain settings but I never needed to for my usage.

Not happy that they're being discontinued, I could never get the alternative Flashair to work consistently.

 

[Hugh Jarse]

Mine worked straight out of the box.

Sure you can connect it to your pc and change certain settings but I never needed to for my usage.

Not happy that they're being discontinued, I could never get the alternative Flashair to work consistently.

Blasted nuisance for you both.

I had problems with the eye-fi cards and no problems with FlashAir cards. (As you know Swissy.).

There are the Transcend cards but I know very little about thdm.

http://www.transcend-info.com/Support/compatibility/product/401/

The future is WiFi/BT/NFC but for me the retrofit needs more development.

 

[retrosi]

Thanks for the replies.
I have spent a few hours this evening trying out the tethered style of connecting.
I have a Canon 1D X MK II and this has an Ethernet port and this works okay.
However, I also have a Canon 1D MK IV and want to use this instead as it has only 130k approx use to date.
This has the mini usb and I have a short 1 metre cable and this works fine loading into Picassa although I needed to load Canon utility and Canon Photo professional at the same time.
I minimised both Canon programme windows and also realised that within the Canon utility programme the remote shooting window within that app needed to be active albeit minimised before a photo taken would appear directly in the Picassa main window.
Perhaps there is a way to configure Picasa to except direct transfer without having to open both Canon apps.
Anyone know of how I might set Picasa to do this?
Cheers.

 

[rickyp]

I had an eye-fi card and it never worked reliably, I gave up and just waited for cameras to have native Wi-Fi/NFC support. Even then I still tend to just take the SD card out most of the time because the transfer times are faster and I don't drain the camera battery whilst waiting for the transfer.