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Should cut down on the amount of editing required.В Of course conversely, you also might now miss that fantastic moment if you havenвЂ™t had any warning and youвЂ™re not constantly recording рџ™‚ДЄnother advantage of the remote is that you should get be able to вЂњextendвЂќ the battery life and recording time of your camera.

Rather than having to record your entire surf session for example, you can actually start recording just as youвЂ™re about to catch that wave and stop recording at the other end of the ride.

With the remote, you can easily start and stop filming so that youвЂ™ll end up with clips of just highlights straight out of the camera. IвЂ™ve talked in previous articles about my views on video I canвЂ™t be bothered sifting through a 2 hour video to have to edit it down to the highlight moments. Buttons are big, and you shouldnвЂ™t have an issue operating them even if youвЂ™re wearing gloves. Now IвЂ™ll admit that IвЂ™ve got wimpy wrists and I also realize that you have to make the strap big enough to fit over say a wetsuit or a flight suit, but you can see above thereвЂ™s quite a lot of excess strap. It would have been nice if theyвЂ™d found a solution that still uses the standard miniUSB port. This will certainly be an issue if you lose or break the cable, as itвЂ™s not any industry standard connector. I can understand that they needed to make the remote waterproof (but remember itвЂ™s only to 3m not 60m ), and I guess thatвЂ™s what this connector is all about. The biggest issue I have is that it uses a new proprietary connector to charge with. The remote is 2вЂі X 1вЂі X 0.5вЂі in size and has a keyed slot in the side thatвЂ™s used to hold the removable keyring attachment and is also used as the charging port.

#Gopro wifi mimolive Bluetooth#

In between these two symbols is also a Bluetooth symbol, not used yet but it will be interesting to see how itвЂ™s implemented in the future. The small display shows the battery level and a Wi-Fi symbol when the BacPac is connected to the remote. The nice thing is that the you can independently turn the Wi-Fi BacPac on or off when needed. If it does go flat, it will start drawing juice from the camera battery. The Wi-Fi BacPac has its own battery, rated at 5-6 hours, which means it wonвЂ™t be draining power from your cameraвЂ™s battery. One thing to note is that it appears to be exactly the same dimensions as the LCD BacPac, so you can use the same back housing, which is nice as itвЂ™s one less backdoor change you need to make. On the right hand side is the power/menu button, and a small LCD screen is on the back. Just like all other GoPro BacPacs, hook it into the right side and push it down till the Hero-port clicks in. Nothing unusual about the Wi-Fi BacPac itself. Being on the same side may make it easier and neater to deploy some sort of split cable setup, if say youвЂ™re using it permanently USB-connected in a car. рџ™‚ ItвЂ™s a small thing, but the charge port on the WiFi BacPac is on the opposite side of the charging port for the camera. Gets a bit messy, and you almost need a dedicated powered USB hub just for charging your GoPro. One issue is that you now have three separate devices you need to charge.

#Gopro wifi mimolive upgrade#

Luckily, my upgrade went smoothly first go.

#Gopro wifi mimolive update#

That being said, thereвЂ™s a lot of noise on the GoPro users forums about people having heaps of issues around the update process. I can understand the cameras, but the BacPac and remote? This isnвЂ™t a hard procedure, and if you use GoProвЂ™s Cineform product (for the Hero2), it takes around 15 minutes. SomethingВ a bit unusual given itвЂ™s a brand new product, you need to update theВ firmwareВ all three of your items straight out of the box. For surfers or kayakers, for example, this level of waterproofness will be sufficient. The waterproof back will still support being used up to 60m underwater, but the remote itself is only rated to 3m вЂ“ and given what the range of the Wi-Fi connectivity would be underwater, itвЂ™s not really a concern. As is standard from GoPro, the Wi-Fi BacPac comes standard with 2 additional back doors for your housing, a water proof one and a skeleton case.

#Gopro wifi mimolive manual#

In the box you get an additional mounting point, miniUSB cable, wrist strap, remote charge cable, split keyring, manual and of course the Wi-Fi BacPac and remote.