Windows 10 Adhoc to Nikon D5x00 wifi

[Marsbar]

Hi

My wife wants to replace her old Sony a200 DSLR (it's seen better days); one of the things that she wants is tethering to her laptop.

Her birthday is coming up and I'm looking to buy either the Canon 750D or the Nikon D5500: they're almost exactly the same price and the Nikon seems to win in almost all of the feature comparisons (size, weight, battery life, autofocus points, colour resolution etc etc etc) but the Canon does have one advantage in that it can connect to a laptop via a wireless router with its built-in app, whereas the Nikon wifi is intended for smartphones etc, unfortunately the cheapest equivalent Nikon model that supports this kind of thing is almost double the price (obviously you know this already, since that's one of the advantages of dslrdashboard! :p ).

Now I was hoping that with dslrdashboard we could connect her laptop to the D5500 and go from there; however there are many suggestions across the 'net that Windows 10 really struggles to connect to adhoc networks (although supposedly it's possible with some command-line hackery, eg https://globalcache.zendesk.com/entries ... t-solution ) and it seems from the Nikon manual that the only wifi connection available is an adhoc one created on the camera.

Now I would consider myself a geek - I've 20 years Linux experience and I've been a software developer for 20 years - but she isn't. If connecting to her shiny new camera involves more than a couple of clicks then I know it will frustrate her to the point where she simply won't do it, so I would rather buy a camera that is in almost every other respect inferior.

So my question: does anyone have experience with using Windows 10 with DSLRDashboard and a Nikon adhoc wifi connection? Is it possible at all? If so, is it possible to set up a couple of shortcuts on the desktop to script the adhoc connect/disconnect? It seems like it ought to be but I don't want to make an expensive mistake finding out that I was wrong.

If it's not a simple thing to get Windows 10 to work, is it possible to use (eg) a Raspberry Pi with a Wifi connection to bridge the adhoc-wifi to the Nikon to pass the networked PTP through to an infrastructure-wifi-connected laptop? I looked at ddserver but that seems to be for USB->wifi connection.

I don't mind spending a little money and some of my time and effort on this to get her to a point where she can just turn things on and run the app...

Any insights very much appreciated!

Apologies if this is answered elsewhere, I did try searches but couldn't find anything.

Thanks!

[hubaiz]

I only have the D7100 and WU-1a and this works without any problems on Windows 10 (tested on Windows 7 and 8 to)

[Marsbar]

I only have the D7100 and WU-1a and this works without any problems on Windows 10 (tested on Windows 7 and 8 to)

Thanks for the reply.

Isn't that one of the advantages of the D7xxx series over the D5xxx though?

Thanks again

[hubaiz]

The only advantage/difference of the WU-1a/1b that movie recording.

[Marsbar]

there are many suggestions across the 'net that Windows 10 really struggles to connect to adhoc networks (although supposedly it's possible with some command-line hackery, eg https://globalcache.zendesk.com/entries ... t-solution ) and it seems from the Nikon manual that the only wifi connection available is an adhoc one created on the camera.

For anyone searching with the same question: I needn't have worried. Windows 10 connects to the camera's wifi with no complaints and dsld is working perfectly. Now I just have to work out how to use it

[jypy650]

I have d5500 and i download qdslr today and i work great. I was not able to work with airnef . and i just find qdslr and it work great at the firt try

excuse my english

[jypy650]

I have a d5500 and qdslr work great. Airnef not work for me , eye-fi card work great but it more expensive .
It is the 3 wi-fi connection I try with my d5500