Helicon Remote with Samsung s8
Posted: 06.01.2018 05:31
Works great and I bought it. There seems to be a few hiccups when connected to a D800E but I'm learning how to avoid them. Stuff like turning off Live View while changing certain settings. No big deal - the app works fine. Note that this S8 is new and coming from a Blackberry Q10 there's a lot to learn.
Two questions:
1) When I Exit the app using HR's Exit menu option it continues to run in the background and I need to close it a second time by accessing the background apps and sliding HR off to the side to unload it. Is that simply a 'feature' of Android?
2) Is there a way to simply trigger the camera without invoking Live View? It would allow me to also use HR as a simple remote trigger and avoid installing another app. I found an "Activate live view when taking a shot" setting in the Shooing menu and set it to "No" but that did not work and the camera still toggled Live View ON/OFF when I pressed TAKE PICTURE.
BTW the video with live view feature is an unexpected bonus and will be very useful in situations where the camera is in a hard to reach spot.
Russell
Two questions:
1) When I Exit the app using HR's Exit menu option it continues to run in the background and I need to close it a second time by accessing the background apps and sliding HR off to the side to unload it. Is that simply a 'feature' of Android?
2) Is there a way to simply trigger the camera without invoking Live View? It would allow me to also use HR as a simple remote trigger and avoid installing another app. I found an "Activate live view when taking a shot" setting in the Shooing menu and set it to "No" but that did not work and the camera still toggled Live View ON/OFF when I pressed TAKE PICTURE.
BTW the video with live view feature is an unexpected bonus and will be very useful in situations where the camera is in a hard to reach spot.
Russell