Well, it didn't take long, but I have CHDK running accessing the Eye-Fi Card. For now, I just had it dump the firmware version string, but the sky's the limit! I should have it scanning and adding networks in no time.
As a commenter noted, CHDK requires that the lock switch be flipped before it can be run off an SD card. The Eye-Fi has no such switch. So, I took a chunk out of mine with an X-Acto Knife. Here are some pictures. I've also taken to sticking clumps of electrical tape over my new hole if I need to stick the card back in a non-Canon camera.
I also stuck some foil into the Eye-Fi reader to fake the lock tab because, with that chunk out, all the readers think the card is read-only. I could have done that with any reader, but my "official" Eye-Fi one was already taken apart. I wonder if I can override that in software. Anybody know offhand?
It took hacking my Eye-Fi Config program up quite a bit to keep it from using some of the facilities like abort() that are not available in CHDK. But, most of the code essentially stayed the same, and I integrated it pretty well. Now I just need to get some menus coded up to navigate the various options.
Now that I have bits of aluminum foil, electrical tape, razor blades ant toothpicks (for digging bits of tape out of SD card slots) I really feel like MacGyver.
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I got CHDK working on my camera this morning. I can't wait to get testing.
I guess we are lucky the EyeFi is formated in FAT16 to make the autostart an option.
As somebody in the other thread wrote, CHDK does *not* need the SD card to be locked to run. This is only if you want to autostart CHDK.
For the application of using a CHDK hack to change the Wi-Fi network, I would think the on-demand method of loading CHDK would be perfectly acceptable.
To load CHDK on-demand, you must turn on your camera in play mode (not record), then go to Update Firmware and select Yes.
I can do this on my Canon SD630 with my Eye-Fi with CHDK loaded.
Darryl,
Thanks for the comment, but I do believe this behavior is camera-specific. For the newer (like my 870) models, I believe auto-loading is the only option. The firmware update menu options simply don't exist.
Please let me know if you found out otherwise, though!
Darryl,
Thanks for the comment, but I do believe this behavior is camera-specific. For the newer (like my 870) models, I believe auto-loading is the only option. The firmware update menu options simply don't exist.
Please let me know if you found out otherwise, though!
Aw, I see, newer cameras running DryOS (since 2007, I guess) must load via auto-load. Bummer.
http://forums.photographyreview.com/showthread.php?t=44439
http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK_for_Dummies#Odd_and_Tricky_cameras
Any progress on the CHDK code? Could you release it? I have CHDK working on my camera, and don't have access to a linux box. Thank you for all of the work you have done on this project.
Hi,
I have a Canon A470 and am trying to get CHDK working on it, with an Eye-fi card. I carved the slot and loaded the CHDK, however, now when I put the card in it starts loading the CHDK, stops and gives me a Memory card error. Anybody experience this before? Any solutions?
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