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Re:Control your Canon Camera wirelessly by jacquesm on Monday October 13, 2025 @01:17PM (#45570877)
I mean, really, how hard can it be? And if they don't want to do it just open up the spec. But no, you have to use their crap software on a platform that I'm not using. Oh, and wait until you look at what the nifty USB connector really is. It just looks like USB, it uses a USB connector but there is a whole raft of secondary connections in there! You'd never know until you look at the plug with a microscope, it's that small.
Re:Control your Canon Camera wirelessly by exasperaited on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @05:59AM (#45590166)
Yes, it's the "multiport" connector; both USB micro-B and wired shutter release socket.

Never quite understood why (considering the A7II, for example, is an Android device!!) they didn't make that port a USB-OTG setup and make the shutter release a proper USB peripheral. But they didn't.

Re:Control your Canon Camera wirelessly by jacquesm on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @09:22AM (#45592086)
Yep. And more annoyingly: the people that sell this stuff don't even realize it, they think it is USB.