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Widget: BLE remote control for Insta360 One R 360° Action Cam

ars.fabula
over 4 years ago

[updated 2023-04-05]

A widget to remote control (via Bluetooth) Insta360's One R & X cameras.

https://apps.garmin.com/en-EN/apps/bb53f4bb-6c8c-4369-bca9-84cc09b25526

Also available as a data-field for touch based Edge device

https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/f0cdaa9c-5733-4748-ba66-1c7a3b008922

Insta360 Remote Control

Features:

  • Start / Stop Recording
  • Select  video or photo shooting mode (Standard, HDR, Time-lapse, 24-25-30 fps, etc).
  • Send GPS telemetry to the camera to be stored in the video file.
  • Add a "Highlight" marker in the video file (not available in the DF).
  • Add a "Track That" marker  in the video file(not available in the DF).
  • Last state is saved, so will resume where it was if the widget exits or was disconnected.

Known limitation & issues:

  • Users have reported that this widget also works with the One X, X2 & X3, but the menus for the various shooting modes are only the ones available one the One R
  • Same goes with the 4K & 1inch module of the One R: only the shooting modes for the 360° module are availbale
  • The widget will auto exit after some time (depending on your device). This is a limitation from Garmin.If you have a newr watch (starting with Fenix 7) you can use the widget as an app, and it won't exit,
  • The widget can be launched from within one of Garmin's official activity (but not if you are in Glance mode) by pressing & holding the back button.
  • There is no countdown / delay option
  • While the widget is active, if the recording is started or stopped from the camera, the widget will react accordingly but will not know in which mode the camera is in.
  • When starting the widget, if it indicates that the camera is still recording and it's not the case, got to the menu and re-select a shooting mode. This will reset the widget.

This thread is to discuss problems with the widget and also possible future functionality.

Have fun!

Greg

  • Former Member
    Former Member over 2 years ago in reply to ars.fabula

    just let you know photo has gps data

  • over 2 years ago in reply to Former Member

    Try looking 10-20 seconds in the footage, someone is not at the beginning. You do have the 3 green chevrons when recording?

  • Former Member
    Former Member over 2 years ago in reply to ars.fabula

    Hello my friend,  pls say officially you app support feeding gps to one rs both pictures and video!!!

    Great Job! I don't even need my watch to stay bluetooth on to make it work!

  • over 2 years ago in reply to Former Member

    Thanks for the feedback, much appreciated.

  • over 2 years ago

    Hi Greg, this project is a great idea and will be a big help for a little photo project I’m working on. 

    I’m using a Forerunner 945 with a One RS (using the 360 lens).  I can get gps stats in my video when using your app, but I haven’t been able to log gps data when taking interval photos (which is what I really need).  My procedure for taking interval photos is to start the widget (without an active activity).  When the camera connects, I long press the watch’s menu button and select the “One R remote” menu.  I then turn off/turn on the GPS and wait for the Three GPS bars to turn green.  Then I long press the menu button again, go into the One R remote menu and select “Photo Interval”.  My One RS then starts taking interval photos (and the GPS bars stay green), but when I export the photos from the Insta360 studio, the GPS EXIF data is empty.  The same is true if I copy the files from the camera’s memory card and rename the suffix to .jpg and look at the EXIF properties.

  • over 2 years ago in reply to Former Member

    Any tips on how you did this?  I’m not getting GPS data in my interval photos.  Thanks in advance!

  • over 2 years ago in reply to st_lupo

    That's because I'm not sending GPS info to the camera in Interval Mode.... The various Photo modes treat GPS information quite differently than the video modes. For photos, I only send GPS info in the standard Photo mode. The GPS info is embedded in the trigger command. 

  • over 2 years ago in reply to ars.fabula

    Got it.  The one feature that would make this a killer app for me is if either it could do whatever is needed to embed gps data in interval mode or a work around could be to add a additional "manual" photo mode that triggers a photo every x-seconds and embeds the current GPS coords in the command.

  • over 2 years ago

    Works on Fenix 5S PLUS with 360 ONEx2.

    But when I choose to take photos, the 360 go back to 5K/30 mode everytime after photo shooted.

    So it take too much time to take a photo because it always ...

    Shoot -> change to photo mode -> take a photo -> change back to 5K/30 mode -> shoot -> change to photo mode -> take a photo -> change back to 5K/30 mode -> .....

    I wish 360 could stay on last mode that I shoot.

    Thanks alot.

  • over 2 years ago in reply to Michael lai

    Strange... it should not revert to 5k/30 even after you exit the widget. I'll have to look into it. Does this also happen when using the other modes of just photo?