You need internet to sync the event on the event day. After that, your PC and iPad keep working on your own Wi-Fi when the internet drops, and texts, emails and uploads go out when it's back.
What you need | Use this | Keep in mind |
iPad sharing and printing at the venue, with texts, emails and uploads going out when there's internet | A normal event, synced on this PC, with the iPad on the PixoShare PC tab | The PC and the iPad share a local network, such as your own router (see Wi-Fi and internet at your event: router, speed and setup). |
An iPad on a different network from the PC | The PixoShare Cloud tab on the iPad | The iPad and the PC both need internet. Guests can't print from the iPad. If your PC runs the event with Auto print on, the PC still prints every photo. |
Guests download photos to their phones over your Wi-Fi, with nothing online | Offline mode on the PC | No texts, emails, online galleries, AI effects or printing, and nothing is uploaded or sent later. |
1. Sync the event on the event day
The PC gets its list of events from the internet, and it lists an event only on the days it runs. So pick the event and click Sync event on the event day, before you leave. Traveling the day before? Plan an internet connection at your destination to sync it there on the day.
A synced event can start without internet from its start day until the day after its end day.
2. The internet drops during an event
With the iPad on the PixoShare PC tab, the event keeps running over your Wi-Fi:
Without internet | |
New photos on the iPad | Keep appearing |
Printing and AirDrop | Keep working |
Text and Email | Guests can still request them. They're sent when the internet returns |
QR code | Hidden until the internet returns |
Uploads and online galleries | Photos wait on the PC and upload when the internet returns |
AI effects | Made after the photo uploads |
The PC and the iPad show Offline — queueing, and a guest who sends a text or email sees Queued.
When the internet comes back, uploads and waiting texts and emails start again by themselves within seconds. You don't have to do anything. Keep PixoShare open on the PC until everything has gone out.
3. Only a local gallery: Offline mode
Offline mode turns the PC into a local gallery. Guests join your Wi-Fi, browse every photo from the event so far and download the ones they want. No internet is needed.
1. On the PC's start screen, click the Offline mode tab, then Continue.
2. Select watch folder: the folder your booth software or camera saves photos into.
3. Choose a Wi-Fi network: the network guests will join, and type its Wi-Fi password. Its name and password go into a QR code, so use a network meant for guests, like your own router.
4. Give the event a name, then click Start event.
The PC shows two QR codes: Step 1: Connect to Wi-Fi and Step 2: Open gallery. Guests scan the first, then the second. You can also use Download QR to print the codes for a table sign. On the iPad, guests can AirDrop their photos, or tap QR Code to see the same two codes.
Nothing from an Offline mode event is sent or uploaded later. If you want photos online after the event, run a normal event instead.
To go back to normal events, click Stop event, then Events.
Good to know
Guests' phones need data for links. Texts, emails and the QR code send a link to the photos online, so guests need cellular data or a working Wi-Fi to open it.
Stopped the event with photos still waiting? They continue the next time you start that event.