Hero 8 requires BT connection to enable WiFi. about goprocontrol HOT 7 CLOSED

Quick update: I didn't realize that with the Hero 8, the phone app requests the camera to turn on WiFi via Bluetooth. This is now working great if I start the app, go to the "preview" window which forces the camera to enable WiFi. Then I can connect to the camera with the ESP32 or ESP8266 fine and fully control it as expected.

Perhaps with the ESP32, there would be value in reverse-engineering the bluetooth exchange by which the app enables WiFi, and then we can do the whole pairing process directly from the ESP32. There's a small discussion on BT here: KonradIT/gopro-py-api#122

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Ah, I see you have this listed in the "known issues". Closing.

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Hi Willem,

Yes unfortunately the wifi is turned on via BLE. The BT code is now maintained by the ESP team (https://github.com/espressif/arduino-esp32/tree/master/libraries/BLE), something can be tried but I don't have a lot of experience with Bluetooth. This is the request to turn the Wifi on: 17, 01, 01

If you try something please let me know

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Thanks for giving me the ble request to turn on the wifi, but I'm wondering where you found that out - I looked for ble documentation and most of what I could find was some logs with little analysis. Wondering if you found that out somewhere or did you reverse-engineer that yourself?

Thanks!

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http://github.com/konradit/goprowifihack

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Yes Willem, all commands came from Konrad's repo

This seems very interesting KonradIT/goprowifihack#191

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Will there ever be a solution to wake up the camera and start recording via BLE? Or is this just not possible due to the hardware? I need to have the camera off, very low power for a long time and be able to wake it up when a trigger happens. At the moment I soldered a wire to the Hero8 trigger and using quikcapture. that works but it's a lot work to modify the cam and I don't get the status to verify if it's recording

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