Canon Vixia hf r80 wi fi connection does not work. PERIOD

[Confused99999]

I just got taken to the cleaners thinking that the hf r80 would actually work in controlling it from a cell phone. But I tried everything to get it to connect but no such luck. I guess that is why canon tossed this really expensive piece of doodoo out of their line up and are not making them anymore, nor the r82, good riddance. Do I sound bitter? (I paid  $550 for it at b&h; 12/8/2021 they assured me wifi would work; good luck in me getting my $'s back) 

Other than the wifi thing the hf r800 works fine except you have to keep running from the camera to get in front of it if you are doing sit down in front of camera pontificating or get your significant other to run it (good luck on that)

[briancayko]

I used the pixela camera app, not the canon connect app, this allows control of zoom, record start/stop via wifi from the camera to the phone. Works decently well depending on the situation you are using it for. Caveat is that your video record setting must be set to 24fps for this to work. It will not work if set at 60 unfortunately, not sure why. Their literature says it will be recorded at 30fps even though camera is set at 24. I intended to record at 60 so i could have a bit smoother slow motion but this is what we are stuck with.