can canon 6D connect to a wireless hard drive (Seagate Wireless Plus 1TB)?

as above. i just got a seagate wireless plus at their launch event, but the product manager is not sure whether it can work with wifi-enabled DSLRs like the 6D. he only mentioned that as long as the device is DLNA-certified, it is sure to work.

6D isn't right? has anyone tried it before? thinking of using it for travel photography.

I THINK you need the EOS Utility on a computer in order to transfer the files. I guess you could tell EOS Utility to save the files to the wifi drive, but I think it's still necessary to have the computer.

if you want direct transfer like that,
you need FTP transfer protocol supported,
I don't know if 6D has it,
even I am not sure my 1D mark IV WFT-E2 also support FTP to sent it direct to hard drive

hmm has anyone tried it yet? i saw on one of the reviews that 6D has an option to communicate with the DLNA device.. so i was a bit optimistic about it.

Have you poked around the 6D menus to see if anything there is applicable. Somewhere, either the drive or in the camera, there has to be some menu options that allow the two devices to talk to each other.

John from PA wrote in post #15749158
Have you poked around the 6D menus to see if anything there is applicable. Somewhere, either the drive or in the camera, there has to be some menu options that allow the two devices to talk to each other.

erm sorry for not clarifying - i don't have the 6D yet (going to buy it soon).

anyway i asked a Canon rep and he said it's not possible

yeah,
from what I see on some reviews, 6D never stated that the camera supports FTP transfer protocols,
I haven't tried 1D mark IV FTP using WFT with a hard drive,
although I think it is possible but some compatibility issues might occurs,
the device like Thecus with windows server based FTP using folder options for username and password

DLNA usually works the other way, i.e. the hard drive (like my own Netgear ReadyNAS NV+) can serve DLNA clients with pictures. So my DLNA client TV-set can display images hosted by the ReadyNAS. My 7D with WFT-E5B can also work like a DLNA server, thus allowing the TV to show images stored on the camera's memory card.

The 7D/WFT-E5B can store images on a harddrive, as you shoot, or later, as a backup, but you have to connect the harddrive via cable to the USB port. This functionality isn't available over Ethernet.

The 7D/WFT-E5B has two possibilities for pushing images to a harddrive as you shoot. One is connecting to an FTP server, with the 7D as a client. The server built into Windows XP professional works, for example. The other possibility is running EOS Utilities on the receiving computer. In either case, an independent drive, which just shows up in a network as a Windows device, will not do. It has to have an FTP server, and it has to be one the camera likes. My 7D doesn't work with the FTP server in my Netgear device. I don't know why.
Besides, last time I looked, only the 1D-series with network adapters (or the 1DX) and cameras with add-on Ethernet (like the 7D) supports FTP transfer anyway.

hmm.. so what other alternatives do i have if i need a lot of storage? (1TB.. buying CF cards is going to be impractical)

You still have options and you don't need the 6D to get it done.

I've been looking at the Eye-Fi cards with an idea to use one with the GoFlex. It didn't take me long to find out that out of the box, this combination would not work without a tablet/phone or laptop acting as a go between.

Then I found this page...

It would seem that the entire Seagate firmware package has been reworked to add features and streamline it's footprint on the device. Unfortunately, this work has not been done for free, the authors see the potential market and are charging for the replacement firmware. It will cost $35.00 on top of the cost of the Eye-Fi and the GoFlex drive.

Now the good news is that the GoFlex appears to be running an embedded http server to work it's wi-fi magic. If this is the case then a clever monkey might be able to hack their own version. It's also likely that a second firmware option "for free" might present itself in the near future.

Either way... I think this is an option I'm going to be investigating very closely.

Disclaimer: I have no connection to the authors of the firmware linked to in this post.

I Dont know the answer to your question. But, for insight into possibilities with 6D wifi, I can tell you that I transfer files from my 6D to my smartphone with the 6D's wifi all the time. Works great. You can then send the file through e-mail, SMS, or post directly to flickr, instagram, facebook, etc.
Works excellent for immediate file transfer.
For storage of mass amounts of images, I like a simple usb-to-SD card reader plugged into portable drive. You dont need or really even want wifi if you are going to move hundreds of RAW files. Too slow.

I've been doing a bit of experimenting on the 6D's Wifi abilities with the goal of using it to set up a wireless tethered backup of all my shots using my Raspberry Pi. My thread is here:
https://photography-on-the.net …/showthread.php​?t=1301198

The 6D's wifi seems deliberately gimped compared to the WFT-something. The only mode that transfers RAW photos is the EOS Utility mode, DLNA mode only transfers JPGs. You in fact have to shoot in RAW+JPG mode in order for DLNA mode to show the JPGs available.

There are Linux libraries that can connect to the EOS Utility over USB, but Canon added the extra "security" of requiring pairing before talking to anything over Wifi in the Smartphone and EOS Utility modes, and unfortunately nobody seems to know how to do that without Canon's official utility yet.

An "encouraging" paper from here: http://www.insinuator.​net/2013/02/paparazzi-over-ip/ shows that the 1D-X was able to be compromised over wifi, which means it's probably POSSIBLE to do similar things to the 6D and get more than Canon reveals, but nobody has published any code for that yet I can find and use.

So all that said, short answer is that the 6D will NOT connect to a wireless hard drive, DLNA is only good for backing up JPGs, if you want to backup RAWs wirelessly you should still get an Eye-Fi Pro.

I'm hoping to add the ability to act as a EyeFi host to my little Pi project later, as well as backup the JPGs over Wifi anyway, but it's way preliminary right now. I'll post more as I have time to polish it and publish the code/image somewhere when it's a little more mature.