Black Hole
May contain traces of nut
I have a couple of these "GoPro-alike" Shenzhen-originated action cams - the first branded SJCAM, and now Morrisons have a Black Friday stock of 4K units (unusually, complete with a 8GB microSD card) branded Bresser/Discovery Adventures for £40 (so I bought one out of interest).
Note the Morrisons offering is not identical to this link, but very similar. It does not include all the adapters.
Externally they are almost identical (except the 4K has a larger LCD on the back). Apart from the SJCAM being only HD, they operate practically identically (with a few minor differences in the menus). One of the more interesting things about them is that they have a WiFi interface, which (when turned on) devolves the camera user interface to an Android/iOS app (including live view of camera output). The WiFi is an access point or ad-hoc connection, so the tablet has to disconnect from another WiFi network to access the camera.
One downside of this Bresser-badged unit is that its WiFi network can't be renamed (unlike the menus on the SJCAM), so there will be a problem if more than one are operating in the vicinity.
But at least the "XDV" iPhone app (for the Bresser unit) works. The SJCAM app used to work great, but they updated it to focus on social media and now it's crap. Flakey, wants to log on (how, when the WiFi has been monopolised?)... Maybe, just maybe, the XDV app would operate the SJCAM - but with the WiFi network name to access the camera fixed, I need to change the network name of the SJCAM to match (thinking out loud... now there's an idea).
However, in parallel with that line of investigation, I was wondering if there's anything I can do to peek what's what from my PC. What are the chances there's a standard video stream there somewhere? OK, I can connect my PC WiFi to the camera's WiFi, but what do I do then?
Note the Morrisons offering is not identical to this link, but very similar. It does not include all the adapters.
Externally they are almost identical (except the 4K has a larger LCD on the back). Apart from the SJCAM being only HD, they operate practically identically (with a few minor differences in the menus). One of the more interesting things about them is that they have a WiFi interface, which (when turned on) devolves the camera user interface to an Android/iOS app (including live view of camera output). The WiFi is an access point or ad-hoc connection, so the tablet has to disconnect from another WiFi network to access the camera.
One downside of this Bresser-badged unit is that its WiFi network can't be renamed (unlike the menus on the SJCAM), so there will be a problem if more than one are operating in the vicinity.
But at least the "XDV" iPhone app (for the Bresser unit) works. The SJCAM app used to work great, but they updated it to focus on social media and now it's crap. Flakey, wants to log on (how, when the WiFi has been monopolised?)... Maybe, just maybe, the XDV app would operate the SJCAM - but with the WiFi network name to access the camera fixed, I need to change the network name of the SJCAM to match (thinking out loud... now there's an idea).
However, in parallel with that line of investigation, I was wondering if there's anything I can do to peek what's what from my PC. What are the chances there's a standard video stream there somewhere? OK, I can connect my PC WiFi to the camera's WiFi, but what do I do then?