Firing the Gopro with the Gimbal from Tower

nexxypoo · Sep 22, 2015

Hi all,

First post for me, apologies if I'm re-hashing old stuff.
So I want to run aerial surveys with my Solo, Gimbal and Hero4Blk.
I can't get Tower to make the camera take shots at specific intervals. Cant get Tower to get the camera to do anything. I noticed when using the Solo app, if the Gopro is set to take stills, hitting the fire button in the Solo app makes it switch over to video... grrrr.
Any ideas?

neX

Acroduster · Sep 22, 2015

I understand the 4 has the capability to record video while taking periodic snap shots. You may want to look through your GP literature for this feature and see if it works for your needs.

Jubalr · Sep 22, 2015

nexxypoo said:
Hi all,

First post for me, apologies if I'm re-hashing old stuff.
So I want to run aerial surveys with my Solo, Gimbal and Hero4Blk.
I can't get Tower to make the camera take shots at specific intervals. Cant get Tower to get the camera to do anything. I noticed when using the Solo app, if the Gopro is set to take stills, hitting the fire button in the Solo app makes it switch over to video... grrrr.
Any ideas?

neX

Hey Nex,

Welcome to the site. I have done aerial surveys with the Solo and GP, but until additional features are released you will need to set the GP to take video/photos simultaneously. At 1080p video you can shoot full res photos and set it for photos every 2-5 seconds. Set the survey up in Tower and you are good to go.

nexxypoo · Sep 23, 2015

Thanks for the quick feedback fellas.
I have been employing similar workarounds already, but ideally I'd like to have control over the frequency of the shots (gopro vid+pic has very limited time interval options) to keep processing of the orthos efficient.
I also have to add that unfortunately I am one of the many who has a Gimbal which works physically, but the live feed is non-existent. Hopefully it's a software issue and an update will fix it.

neX

timzee · Sep 24, 2015

Acroduster said:
I understand the 4 has the capability to record video while taking periodic snap shots. You may want to look through your GP literature for this feature and see if it works for your needs.

Can a GP 4 owner confirm (or deny) that it's possible to record video AND stills in the same flight?

Jubalr · Sep 25, 2015

timzee said:
Can a GP 4 owner confirm (or deny) that it's possible to record video AND stills in the same flight?

I have the H4 Black and use that feature for aerial surveys.

Timmytimetravel · Sep 27, 2015

So I tried the tower beta for the reason of seeing the video feed from solo. Once you've got that going (you have to enable it in settings tower ui per other thread) you get video in tower.

With that comes two buttons, photo and video. Hit photo, switches to photo mode, hit it again, it takes a shot, again, takes another shot. Hit video, switches to video, hit again, starts recording, hit again, stops recording. Etc. Not quite mainstream yet, but there is your photo control.

Flying Squirrel · Sep 28, 2015

I've had decent results allowing GoPro to take stills along with video.

You can also pull stills directly from video ... I use Adobe Lightroom and I am pleased with the results

timzee · Sep 28, 2015

Timmytimetravel said:
So I tried the tower beta for the reason of seeing the video feed from solo. Once you've got that going (you have to enable it in settings tower ui per other thread) you get video in tower.

With that comes two buttons, photo and video. Hit photo, switches to photo mode, hit it again, it takes a shot, again, takes another shot. Hit video, switches to video, hit again, starts recording, hit again, stops recording. Etc. Not quite mainstream yet, but there is your photo control.

Where does one get the Beta?