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Better way to connect iPhone to Nikon D7100

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#1 samuelphoto
Hi,

I did a lot of research to find the best way to make beautiful timelapse and then I found LRTimelapse and your video of qDSLRdashboard. I just bought qDSLRdashboard and I was wondering what is the best way to connect my iPhone to my Nikon D7100 with using the less battery as possible.

I travel and I often hike and recharching the battery is not always easy. I have two battery but anyways during a timelapse you dont switch battery.

I saw that you can use the Wifi (with an adapter for my d7100), a TP DLINK (something like that) or a cable.

It was making sense to me that the cable option is the cheaper and also the one that save the most the battery.

I just wonder what kind of cable do I need to plug my iPhone to my camera?

Can I use the cable that comes with my phone and then buy an adpter to plug it in the camera?

Thanks to let me know !

Sam
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#2 hubaiz
On iOS devices you can only use wireless connection. You can either use the WU-1a adapter with the D7100 or use the TP-Link MR3040 or MR3020 portable wireless router running the OpenWrt firmware with the ddserver package.
The MR3040/MR3020 has it's own battery so it will not use the camera battery while the WU-1a will use the camera battery.

Regarding the powering the camera Gunther can give you better options but I found that using the 'Case relay' system ( https://www.tethertools.com/product/case...er-system/ ) with an 23000mAh external battery gives you very good results.
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#3 samuelphoto
Thank you for the quick answer. So with the adapter WU-1a the battery will last less time. I wonder how long it will last tho...

If I get the TP-Link MR3040 do I need something else to run the app with my camera? I don't get what is the OpenWrt Firmware with the ddserver package. I found this Tp-Link : https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/8...wered.html

I'm looking for the cheapest and more effcient way to make it work.

Thank you for letting me know!

Sam
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#4 hubaiz
OpenWrt is a special operating system that will replace the original TP-Link.
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#5 samuelphoto
(2017-04-09, 20:49)hubaiz Wrote: OpenWrt is a special operating system that will replace the original TP-Link.

Yes I found your video about it! I will wait for the answer of Gunther to answer my questions as well.

So I need to get the TP-Link and replace the operating system and then how do I connect it the camera?

If I understand properly the Tp-Link creat a wifi so I can connect my camera and my phone togheter?
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#6 Gunther
You will connect the camera via USB to the TPLink and the Tablet via Wifi. Exactly as I showed in the video
https://lrtimelapse.com/gear/dslrdashboard/
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#7 samuelphoto
Perfect! I will do so. Last question for you. Do you know if with that système the battery last for long? For example to make a day to night time lapse or a night to day the battery will last long enough. The TPlink affect the battery of the camera or not really?
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#8 Gunther
The TPLink does not affect the camera battery. But I'd recommend using an external power source for the comera, like the case relay from teathertools: http://amzn.to/2oXRPps
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