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Letter to GoPro support.

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Go Pro and their support issues. When you contact the support team of a company what you're after is assistance. Sometimes this would be assistance with using their product or diagnosing a fault. Other times it could be to report a bug in their software. You put yourself in the hands of the companies skilled support staff and trust their knowledge that they know what they are talking about. I have an example. I use a GoPro Hero 3+ Silver camera and I use GoPro's android software 'GoPro Quik' to control it. Most of the time I use it for setting the cameras time and date after a battery swap. This has worked perfectly well for many years. Recently when I tried to connect the app to the camera the software errored. Later I contacted GoPro via their support chat on their website. I clearly explained my issue: John Lyndon (9/18/2023, 4:14:09 PM): Yeah sorry... that's it ---- Is this the first that the Quik app does not connect to your phone?  Me (9/18/2023, 4:14:58 PM):
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Adventures in RGBLED backlighting

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EErgerbleds maintainence I have a DIY system that illuminates the wall behind my TV with the colours displayed on the edge of the screen. This has been in place for a couple of years now. This is achieved with a Raspberry Pi, ws2812 LEDs and some open source software . It occurred to me last night that I should probably update the software as it would probably fix the odd bug I've been seeing. I thought I'd leave the job until today though as it was bound to be more complex than running a simple software update. Yep, yesterdays Nigel was wise in this respect. Software issues I found latest update to the software was 15 (minor) versions ahead of where I was. The upgrade procedure was to simply to download the new .deb file and install the new code. There wasn't any guarantees the config would be preserved so I made a backup of that first. I ran the update and things seemed to keep working apart from one config item was lost. I reset the item and the LED backlighting sprang b
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Resetting the WiFi on a GoPro Hero 3+ Silver

Guess what, this is NOT the same as a GoPro Hero 3+. I've just spent far too long trying to work out why this wasn't working and figured I'd document my findings here to hopefully save others (and possibly future me) hassle. To reset the Wifi name and password on a hero 3+ silver you need to put the following files on the SD card. UPDATE\settings.in UPDATE\update.10.txt It seems this is exactly the same as the standard gopro hero 3+ files apart from the second file is called update.10.txt and not update.11.txt. The contents of the files are as follows: settings.in { "current_password":"", "token":"", "wifi_ap":{ "ssid":"WIFINAME", "password":"WIFIPASS" }, "wifi_networks":[] } update.10.txt # Camera upgrade rules file OPTIONS:6
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A tale of two car jump starters.

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My car has battery has been running low/flat since I've not been using it regularly during lockdown so I figured it was time to grab a car jump starting battery pack to help me get it started.
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Cheapo USB capture device

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I recently realised that HDMI capture devices had got cheap. Until recently you would expect to pay around £80 for one, but then some adverts for sub £20 ones started appearing (sub £10 if you're happy to wait for shipping from China). "USB 3" HDMI capture device I found a cheap USB 3 one that claimed to capture 1080p@60 and a USB2 one that was very similar but only managed 1080p@30. I don't particularly have a use for one but figured for such a cheap price it might be handy to have one kicking around my box of bits. USB 2 HDMI capture device After a brief amount of googling I discovered the "USB 3" device was actually made by a company called WiiStar . The chipset used is Macrosilicon as displayed by running lsusb under linux. dmesg output when attached to linux What modes does it support ? Thanks to the linux command v4l2-ctl we can ask it. Is it really USB 3 ? No, not at all. It's USB 2 with a blue connector. There
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