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A bug prevents long takes more than one hour and 22 minutes or so in several video modes fixed.
As of today modified modes in the newest MewPro Iliad software version 1.3.7 1.3.8 for Hero 4 are
If you don’t shoot any long continuous takes more than an hour without a pause then updating your Iliad or Bastet is NOT NECESSARY.
The way to update MewPro Bastet’s firmware is shown in this post.
We designed MewPro Bastet to be easily updated in the same way as the MewPro 2 board: To do so should require only the following.
However, since the current Arduino IDE doesn’t have supported Bastet’s microcontroller ATmega328PB yet, a rather complicated preparation is required.
The detailed instruction is here.
Once the IDE is ready in your PC then the actual updating can be done in the same way as what you usually do with your MewPro 2 boards.
MewPro Bastet is a small device that enables us to control/genlock GoPro Hero 4 cameras. Unlike our monolithic MewPro Iliad, it simply listens broadcast by the master and provides sync signals for all of cameras while recording.
MewPro Bastet is ready to purchase in our shop, however, its product description is still under construction (I’m now editing it…).
The following video shows the three Hero 4s are synced and controled by Wi-Fi RC. (Power on — change mode -(video)- start recording — stop -(photo)- take a photo — power off.)
To make the footage we used:
The white PCB is Bastet, the blue PCBs are MewPro 2s.
In the photo above you’ll also find bulky RJ45 Ethernet receptacles or “Stackable Hub with Buffer”, however, these parts are not always necessary for syncing cameras in, for example, weight restricted environments such as shooting videos from the sky.
In Fig. 1 the number of GoPro Hero 4 cameras is five for example. Of course, any number of cameras can be synced in this way.
MewPro Bastet is put between the master camera (GoPro #0 in Fig. 1) and the slaves (GoPro #1, #2, #3, #4 in Fig. 1). It wiretaps the command packets that the master sends to the slaves. It understands all commands and changes its internal states accordingly. And once master’s shutter button is depressed then it begins to generate sync signals (VSYNC/HSYNC).
In the diagram above “Hub (optional)” can be either solder joints of wires or our Stackable Hub with Buffer or some kind of DIY octopus cable or a strip board with 6 lines in parallel or something. We only offer a solution with Stackable Hub with Buffer but you can do it yourself in place of this in order to reduce the space.
For your information the following is a brief comparison table between Iliad and Bastet.
| Iliad | Bastet | |
|---|---|---|
| Size | larger than Hero 4 | equal to MewPro 2 |
| MCU | ATmega2560 | ATmega328PB |
| LCD | 16 x 2 | none |
| Switches | 3 | 0 |
| Infra Red | 1 | 0 |
| Wi-Fi | no | master camera (*) |
| Software | MewPro_Iliad | MewPro_Iliad |
| MewPro 2 | all slave | all slave but one master (**) |
Note *: All the cameras are controlled by the master regardless of whether the change is made by using Wi-Fi or master camera’s button press.
Note **: The MewPro 2 board attached to the master GoPro must have MewPro 4 firmware that is compiled with #define BASTET_MASTER compiler directive. While other boards should have the default MewPro 4 firmware.
In the next blog post we’ll explain how to connect wires between Bastet and each MewPro boards.
Hero 4 has a new I2C command set incompatible with old Hero 3+ Black. This post gives a demonstration of controlling a standalone Hero 4 camera from Arduino Monitor.
Here is the list of the commands for Hero 4. You can send these commands from your PC’s terminal or Arduino Monitor to MewPro 2 (or MewPro Cable) board or MewPro Iliad through the default UART lines.
In order to use MewPro 2 as a GoPro Hero 4 controller you need the following hardwares:
Softwares:
MewPro 2 is shipped with optiboot as well as MewPro4 software for genlock installed. If you like to modify/update the software you will need to prepare the following IDE and core. To install each software please refer their documentations.
Lastly grab the MewPro4 application:
On your PC launch Arduino IDE that was installed as described in the above. In Arduino IDE [File]→[Open...]→ then open MewPro4.ino.
Connect MewPro 2
to your PC w/ FTDI board and the temporary header.
Connecting FTDI please refer the pinout image below:
Then connect them to GoPro Hero 4 Black/Silver (The photo below is stolen from our old blog post and connecting to Hero 3+ Black, but I think you will understand where you should connect to. 🙂 ).
In Arduino IDE application, select [Tools]→[Board]→[ATTiny1634 (optiboot)] and [Tools]→[Port]→[(the port where you connected the FTDI cable)]. (B.O.D. and Clock settings are “don’t care” as these values are only effective when you burn a bootloader to the microcontroller by using an ISP programmer.)
The MewPro4 source code is originally targeted to users with multiple cameras, so for standalone usage please edit/change the following line in MewPro.h at line 8
...
// undef if MewPro 2 board is used as standalone
#define USE_GENLOCK
...to
...
// undef if MewPro 2 board is used as standalone
#undef USE_GENLOCK
...Now you are ready to compile/upload the source code. Click on “check mark” icon at the top left of Arduino IDE window compiles the code. And “Right arrow” icon at the right next uploads the compiled binary to MewPro 2 board.
#undef USE_TIME_ALARMS in MewPro.h to #define USE_TIME_ALARMS, and also remove two comment-outs ‘//’ located at these two lines:
#include <TimeLib.h> // *** please comment out this line if USE_TIME_ALARMS is not defined ***
#include <TimeAlarms.h> // *** please comment out this line if USE_TIME_ALARMS is not defined ***Then edit d_TimeAlarms.ino to set your alarms.
Open “Serial Monitor” in Arduino IDE window (click the the top right “magnifier” icon). Set [57600 baud] using the bottom right pulldown, [Newline] the middle pulldown, [Autoscroll] the left box checked.
Type ‘@‘ (one letter representing at sign) in the input area of Serial Monitor, and hit return key.
The message “camera power on” is shown and your GoPro Hero 4 turned its power on.
The messages on “Serial Monitor” shows communication details between Arduino and GoPro. And now you can type in any of I2C commands found in “List of GoPro Hero 4 I2C Commands“.
Try typing “YY000101000100” (change camera mode to video) and hit return key unless your camera is in video mode. Then type “YY00021B0000” (and hit return) and “YY00021C0000” (and hit return). (Start recording! Stop recording!!)
If you finished type “ZZ00030101” (and hit return). (This should power off your GoPro Hero 4.)
Enjoy!