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Also unless you enable the bluetooth part via Snapbridge then the wifi doesnt work. Doooh, who designed that?
My understanding is that simple Wi-Fi communication between camera and other devices can be both flaky and power consuming for technical reasons which are hard to surmount. I have read that the Bluetooth component is a less power hungry workaround to nudge the various devices into action when a Wi-Fi transmission is about to happen. As I understand it Bluetooth has it's own limitations when it comes to working with multiple devices and that's probably what's happening here.
I'm not a great fan of wi-fi for large scale file transmissions, much prefer hard wire for reliability and speed, although I can see benefits in some situations especially when multiple photographers are working together at an event for one organisation.
What I can't figure is why this minor snag is such a big deal. Bottom line is that they are trying to incorporate a marginally need feature which was doomed to failure in the first place. Apart from very expensive specialised commercial setups, nobody has got this working simply or reliably yet, presumably because very few people need it.
When I bought my P3, a long while ago, I chose it for it's 'Wi-Fi capability'. It never worked as advertised, was unreliable frequently only sending only some of the image files. It was much more trouble than a USB wire or an SD card reader. Lesson learnt. The base technology has hardly changed.
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