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Ubuntu Tip Connecting To GoPro Hero4 Silver via WiFi

Any body who owns a GoPro camera will likely know you can connect to it using the GoPro app on your tablet. You will also know that GoPro has some handy video editing software that they will give you for free. All you have to do to get it is head over to their website and download it. Unless youre a Linux user. Its Mac and Windows only.

The tablet app is Android compatible. However it would not let me download files to an SD card. It seems to want to use the tablets own internal storage. And since the videos are quite large. This can be problematic.

Now youd think the easy way around this would be connecting the camera to a desktop PC and using the USB port or simply removing the SD card. Neither of these options were working out for me. USB connectivity was spotty and irritating. Sometimes the camera would show me the files. And then nothing would happen when I tried to copy them or my PC would freeze.

Im not really sure what the issue is. But GoPro Hero4 and USB transfers are just not an option on my PC.

I had similar issues with the 64GB SD card. Which actually wasnt even recognised by Ubuntu at all. Its likely my little USB adapter just cant handle it. Whatever the problem was. Ubuntu just didnt see the card at all and so couldnt mount it.

I thought I had made a horrific error in buying GoPros. I use them while commuting to work on my bicycle. So I started looking for a solution. And found a link which described how to stream live video from a GoPro using VLC. The tutorial was for the Mac. But all it needed was a WiFi connection to the GoPro camera, a web browser and VLC. Nothing Mac specific then.

So I figured if I can stream live video. Maybe I can transfer pre-recorded videos. And I was right.

Step 1: Enable the WiFi on your GoPro using the GoPro app option and NOT the RC.

Step 2: Connect to the GoPros WiFi network as you would with any other network. It will be named whatever you named the camera when you connected to the Android app. If you havent done this yet. Do it now.

Step 3: Open your web browser and go to 10.5.5.9:8080 and this will take you to the GoPros internal web page. From here there are a number of options. Click the option that says "videos". The click "DCIM" and finally "100GOPRO".



Step 4: Click on the video file you want to download as you normally would with any other file.

And thats all there is to it.

EDIT - 07/07/2015: Some folk might prefer this method.

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Transfer Photo Files without Wire Download without USB with WiFi File Transfer Application

Wi-Fi File Transfer is great tool / application for Android and iOS users, which enables the users to transfer their photos, files and screenshots without wire to their computer or laptop. This is very easy to use, which can be downloaded for Android users from Google Play Store.

After installation, Just tap to the App Icon from your Mobile and Click START button. You will be prompted to Wifi File Transfer by giving you the specific IP / URL address like https://192.168.10.4:1234. Now go to your Computer or Laptop which has to be connected on the same Wi-Fi Network, from where your Cell Phone connected and write the given IP / URL in your PC / Laptop browser and press Enter. Now all your Mobile Phone file folders will be opened in your PC browser. Now you can copy your data between your both devices via this Tool.

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Turn on RF switch Acer Travelmate 290 WIFI

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=541953

http://rfswitch.sourceforge.net/?page=laptop_matrix

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Ubuntu No Wifi Fix

Today I moved my desktop computers SSD into a laptop. This resulted in ubuntu booting up normally, but I didnt have any wifi access. My desktop computer does not have a wifi device, so it was never configured to do so. Also, I know that I manually set a lot of network configurations for static IPs and bridges, that were no longer applicable and were probably interfering. Here are the steps I took to resolve the issue.

Wifi Blocking/Disabled

Most laptops have the ability to disable/enable your Wifi through a keyboard shortcut or a physical switch. Run the command below to check whether your wifi device has been disabled in such a way.

rfkill list

If everything is fine, you should see output similar to below

0: phy0: Wireless LAN
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: no

Network Configuration

Update your

file so that the only lines that are not commented out are as follows:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

Managed Network Manager

In

, change to .

Restart

After running all the previous steps, restart the computer and your wifi should start working with the network manager appearing in the system tray.

References

• Ubuntu Forums - no nm-applet, couldnt initialize...

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