hello I'm Graham and I do hope everyone's on a great day welcome to
this tutorial video where I'm going to show you how to extend the range you can
get between your camera and your tablet using the Panasonic remote app in this
case I'm using the Panasonic episode 300 or 330 which will normally connect to
the tablet or smartphone over a distance of about 10 meters or 30 feet but if
you're shooting through double-glazed windows which you've got the energy
saving coating on them you might find that that is reduced even further so I
needed a method to extend the range of the camera to the smart tablet so I came
up with the idea of using a old router as a local access point now normally the
Ruta will be veins part but I'm using here a palm bank and USB to nine volt or
12 volt in this case switch unit so this is a USB to DC 9 volt or 12 volt this
particular Rooter is a d-link which is powered by 9 volt so I'm going to pile
it from the 9 volt operation of this unit you can get dedicated power
supplies which are USB to the usual 5.5 by 2.1 connector which all going to the
back of the modem so if you've got a 12 or unable to one then king just get a
USB to 12 volt power adapter which are fairly cheap so this was an old wireless
network that I had before we upgraded to fibre broadband so any Rueter will
actually do you can actually get a USB pod rootless and which would even be
better than having to use an adapter but that would it incur a net additional
cost where I had this of lying around and are not covered you can see here now
they've got the route of being piled from the USB power bank via that 9-volt
a converter from USB to 9 volts so the reuters now powder you might have to go
up into your setup menu of your route so depends on the type so that you can use
the local wireless network without connecting to the internet obviously
there's no internet connected to this we're just using the Wi-Fi side of this
and the fact that you can use it as a local area network the first thing to
do is to set up the tablet to communicate with the router now assess
of the router with its own password which is a simple password because
you're going to have to enter it from your smart tablet so you don't want a
complicated password you just need one that you can access your router with
obviously you're not going to go to the internet with the router so security
really isn't an issue in this case impacting good set it up without a
password if you wanted to so I'm going to connect the tablet to the router by
going into the settings option looking at Wi-Fi it's currently connected to the
house Internet so I need to change that connection over to this particular
router which is the d-link so I'm going to just click on the link it's going to
ask me to enter the password so I'm going to enter the password for this
particular router we've got the tablet now communicating with the router now we
have to establish your connection between the camera and the smartphone by
the router I'll show you that next so to connect the camera to the tablet via the
router we need to go into the Wi-Fi menu so that's on the setup menu page 105 we
want to look at the Wi-Fi function or to set up a new connection remote shooting
and view and now we need to change the method of connection so instead of
applying the direct connection to the tablet we're going to choose the network
so you press the Display button to bring up the via network option press menu set
to change that and then we're going to look for it in the list of Wi-Fi
available hotspot so from the list you can see that we've got our d-link router
there we need to select that press menu set it says please enter the encryption
key so that is the password again for the router so this is where you need to
have that simple password
so now the camera is connected to the tablet we need to launch the image up on
the tablet so if I launch the image app
let it go through its operation you can see that it's connected to the F sub
3:30 with its own identifier now we're going to select remote operation ones
whether the lens may extend and now find smoother than view we got the tablet
communicated to the camera via the winter so I can change things like the
few white balance that will respond on the camera use the return key to come
back to the home menu change the ISO
of course you can record video or you can shoot stills so that is how you
would connect the camera to your tablet over an extended range using the router
to get your total distance you've got something like 30 metres between your
tablet and router and then providing the router is within the 10 metres of the
camera you'll find you've got something like a 40 metres total distance overall
that's why we use the power bank to power up the router so you can have that
Ruta set in between the camera and your smart tablet perhaps so in the garden or
on a location they don't have to go through that linking procedure every
time you want to use the camera and your router all you have to do is establish a
connection between the tablet or your smartphone on the router and you'll find
in your history list so I'm just going to click on d-link
so we'll remember the password you've set it will connect to the router so we
got d-link connected and now I can start the camera by going into the Wi-Fi menu
but this time instead of a new connection we want to select a
destination from history and here I've got the d-link
connected to the smart tablet which is the SMT 710 so I'll just need to press
the menu set button on that it will ask me to start the image app so here on the
tablet just need to start the image up one more time
the tablet will find the camera ignore the fact that it's looking for QR code
it's going to look for the direct connection through the router so it's
now connected to the camera and we're now again connected in the recording
mode so again I can take pictures or I can shoot video so hopefully that's been
useful and I'll put a link to the setup in my photographic blog I'll put that in
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