Wireless status¶
When cameras record to their own memory cards — on people's heads and wrists, with no phone attached — Wireless status lets you see what every camera is doing. The phone only listens to the cameras' Bluetooth broadcasts; it never connects to or controls them, and any number of phones can follow any number of cameras.
Requirements
Camera firmware 0.5.9 or newer (cameras on older firmware don't broadcast — update them first) and a phone with Bluetooth LE. The app asks for the Bluetooth scan permission, which is never used for location.
What you see¶
- Overview — every kit and camera in range, grouped by kit and sorted by distance (Near, Medium, Far, Out of range), with filters and search.
- For each camera: recording or idle, finalizing a take, memory card present, the current take number and number of recordings on the card, its model and firmware version, and when its last take started and stopped in UTC.
- Kit and camera detail screens, and a history of starts and stops.
Distance is a signal-strength hint, not a measurement.
Alerts¶
Turn on alerts to be notified when:
- a camera stops unexpectedly;
- a camera's memory card goes missing;
- a camera is idle while the rest of its kit is recording.
Background logging¶
Keep logging with the screen off during long sessions — the app keeps a history of every start and stop.
Export and UTC¶
Export saves the history (compressed JSON Lines, plus an optional CSV of takes). The wireless UTC tool combines this export with the card recordings to put every take — and optionally every frame — on UTC time.
Turning the broadcast off¶
The broadcast is on by default. Turn it off per camera in Camera settings → Wireless.