Remote trigger phone app

Hi all, I am pretty new to posting in these forums (more used to soaking up the amazing information) so please forgive me if someone else has covered this - I looked but did not find.

I have a Samsung Galaxy S4 phone which I noticed listed amongst it's features the ability to use it as a remote control for a TV, which got me thinking. I don't have a remote trigger for my KR or K5 so thought I would find out if I could use my phone to do the job.

Well it turns out I can! Admittedly I had to resort to finding an app to do it (and trying several of those that didn't work!) but I can thoroughly vouch for this one!

It's called DSLR Remote (Samsung with IR) by ALNAQEEB and it works with pretty much all major brands. It allows you to swap between them by swiping too if you use different ones, even allowing bulb release. It costs a pound via the play store, but I can report it works great on both my cameras.

Apologies once again if I am in the wrong place, but it's info I would have liked!

If you have access to a real Pentax remote and a TV remote with a learning function a couple of spare buttons can be programmed to remotely trigger the camera. Just to point out that the K-01 and K-3 are less forgiving of the cheaper remotes that are available to the extent that they simply seem not to work!

John K

Pentax have used the same protocol for at least the past twenty years, just get a Pentax remote which will bork very well

We should clearly be very proud of this long history of successful remote borking.