Canon EOS R1 & Canon EOS R5 Mark II announcement coming July 17

OldrockyGN said:

OK, for now I have turned off both WiFi and Bluetooth - but I think I will -need- it for something or other
sometime ... ???
However - when I turn on the camera is still prompts me for "connect this camera to your smartphone" (sic).
Perhaps there is a setting that will turn that off as well?
I also think that until the camera has been connected to the internet at least one time it won't know that it is
registered with Canon. I registered it using the document that came in the box so it is registered ... but the
camera doesn't think it is. :-(
A friend of mine has a similar problem with her HP printer. I can't wait for the mfgrs of all of our "smart"
devices learn to not do this/do it differently. I get it why they want to do this (marketing) and I accept that
as a fact of life (if you are going to own a 'smart camera' then you have to put up with this) ... but if the
camera/device can't find the web on its own - it turns a 'feature' into a major irritant.

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Michael Clark said:

If it is anything like the 5D Mark IV, the device running Canon Camera connect (your phone) must be running its own network. That is the only one the camera will connect to. It will not connect to any other network other than one hosted by the phone running the app. It's cumbersome at best.

I have to disconnect my phone from whatever WiFi the phone is connected to, tell the phone to host a network, then connect the camera to the phone's network with the App open and running on the phone. I've never tried to see if enabling the phone as a hot spot while connected to another network works, because my phone is lower tier and doesn't do hot-spot very well apart from anything to do with Canon Camera Connect.

If you want to connect directly to a WiFi network instead of a phone running the app while hosting its own network, you need a 1-series camera. The R3 might possibly also do this. I don't think the R5 series can. The 5D Mark IV with WiFi certainly could not.

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koenkooi said:

The R5 can connect to an existing wifi network, for example to connect to EOS Utility running on a computer. It can also connect to an existing network to talk to Camera Connect on your phone, but Canon makes that very difficult, bordering on impossible.
The R5II gained a lot more freedom, making that use an existing network to talk to your phone is straight forward now!
I suspect the R3 is somewhere in between.

Below is a screenshot of the R5II connected to my home wifi:

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