How to make your GoPro WiFi working underwater
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2014
- Very simple and cheap solution to get your GoPro cameras wifi working underwater :)
***UPDATE** tested that method now in depht of 20 meters and its working. Anyway, witht cable i used, it seems to be very close to limits. You need to find perfect place on your mobile device where fix other end of antenna.
Absolutely brilliant, You solved 2 days of my searching and problems! I'm going out right now to make this!
Outstanding! Initial (controlled) testing on the TROP MkIII are complete thanks to you!!
I just did this using someone elses 'how to'. I used 'Wire wrap' wire, wrapped around the gopro housing like 10-15 times, and attach both end of the wire wrap wire to the RG174. I hot glued everything I could on the GoPro housing.
I also tried wrapping the wire wrap wire around my ipad, but it didn't work, but it did work with just a bit stripped like in this video, and taped to the ipad or iphone.
I'm using 40 feet of RG174, and was getting signal below 2 feet of ice down to 14 feet of water.
I mounted the GoPro to a tin can, and filled the can with stones, and attached rope to the can. I just let the can sink and turn it by twisting the rope if needed .
I suspect the writer of the 'how to' I read, watched this video before trying to improve on it. Thanks for sharing.
I should add that my signal wasn't the greatest, and had to play around with it a bit to get signal. Also, connect the GoPro to your phone or device, before putting it underwater, as it wont connect once its down there.
Also I wonder if using another length of RG174 might improve signal strength?
This is brilliant!! Going to try asap. I bet you could use a wifi signal analyzer app on your phone to find the best place to tape the wire.
Hi, did you ever try the signal analyzer?:)
Loved the shot at the end! 👏🏼
I just discovered this video and can confirm, it works. I used regular coax, about 15ft worth. My mod to this will be to add a 10db tv signal amplifier, powered by a 9v rechargeable battery, into a BNC antenna in hopes of being able to separate my phone a bit from the end of the cable. This is a great hack sir, thank you for posting it.
does the amplifier work ?
Ja, do tell!
Brilliant video - I was able to get this to work using an Olympus Tough TG4 camera and an LGG4 phone. Got the coax from Maplin in Southampton UK. Off to try on rock pools next!
I just ordered a 20 m long RG6 cable. Can't wait to test it! I'll give you an update when I have had time to try it out.
Tested it yesterday with my GoPro Hero4 Black. I Attached the cable to the front of the house under the lens (with Sugru) and it worked like a charm at 20m depth with my iPhone 6 - even if the cable was 10-15 cm from the phone!
not tried yet but must work. you hardly imagine how you may have saved the day after 2 heavy duty, hardwired, uw/cctv systems were damaged.
gracias.
Thanks this works very well. My cable had a plastic housing on the other side of the shielding. I kept the plastic housing on because it is more water proof and superglued the end. I am only working in 6 feet of water but it works great.
I liked the last footage when you filmed the ice drilling from underwater...pretty cool
that was without wifi...
Thank you! Wish I had known about it when you first published it. Great!!! Idea.
Brilliant, a simple relay antenna, very good hack!
Awesome video! What if you put a little fractal antenna on the GoPro side of the wire and attached that flat to the back plate of the device, do you think it would show any improvement? Interested in doing something like this without building a custom housing, but looking for ~30m depth.
I like the accordion! Great melody!!!
Just wanted to update those less than electrical savvy people as I am lol. This method does work! I just bought and tried it on the session 5. The first trial it didn't work for me at about 18 ft of cord using a rg6 coax cable because nowhere in town had the rg174. It could have been many factors in which it didn't work but what I did was cut both of my coax ends larger than the 2 1/2' they recommend (I left about 5 "), I cut my coax down to 10 feet, and It worked great. I'm excited to get out ice fishing and try this out!
Nick Kamp is coax rg6 regular cable tv cable?
Super, vielen Dank für die Anleitung! Hab ein Samsung S9 mit einer Akaso Brave 4 über die "CamKing" App nach dieser Anleitung gekoppelt. Hab einen knapp 2mtr tiefen Koiteich + Wasserschildkröte, wollte die Unterwasserwelt ohne Wahnsinnsinvestition filmen, klappt ohne jedes Problem! Als Führungsstab fungiert eine gut 2mtr. lange Zeltstange, das S9 hab ich mit einem Fahrradhalter montiert, die Cam hat ja eh das komplette Befestigungszubehör. So verrutscht nichts, jeder Positionswechsel ist bei laufender Aufnahme möglich. Klasse!!!
I have just tried this with my Firefly 8s cam using 15 meters of RG174 and works fine....Thanks for the vid.
do you think is it working 300 meter?
I've bought coaxial TV cable from ASDA (10m for £8)
I used it with Go Pro 7 White and iPhone X.
REMEMBER TO CHANGE CONNECTION from 5Ghz to 2.4Ghz on your newer GO PRO
I connected cable on the top of Go Pro and to the back of the iPhone X case.
Works like a charm!
Thanks for this Jan. Me and a colleague tried this hack to view a live stream underwater. 8 meters underwater, with a cable 30 meters long. Tested it with a GoPro Hero 3 and 4 with no problems and no lags. We used an RG6 cable with about 5cm of the core bared for the GoPro and 10cm for a Asus 7 inch tab.
Just wanted to share that this works, you are limited only by the battery life of the GoPro.
+dagone Did you use the same cable's reference?
+Andrés Nuñez nope.. I used an RG6 coaxial cable and bared the core about 3-4 inches from each end. No measurements.. :p
do you think it work on 300 eter rg 59 coaxial cable?
@@luishnk3983 300 meters is stretching it. That would be over 30dB loss on the 800MHz frequency alone. In terms of rg59 the loss is about 15% more than rg6 as it is a lower core thickness. If you can share a bit more detail of the setup you are trying to achieve i might be able to suggest more. The GoPro itself supports only a depth of about 40meters.
This is brilliant! Any ideas what would be needed for 80' depth?
Thank you! Works perfect :)
its just heat shring tube to make cable end waterproof . You dont need it but it makes cable last longer and look nice.
That's pure genius 👍, thanks so much!!!
Tnx! This works very well. I have tried 8 meters down in the sea, works very good. I used a random coax cable. Tnx :)
JovePove so regular tv coax cable works too? Thats what i have available and dont want to waste money on RG174 cable
How is the delay?
it works ! thank you very much!
Thank you for the great idea! I have a problem under my boat and I was hoping to use a live GoPro feed to try and fix it without going under. Is there a significant time delay when you do this?
Yes, there is small time delay about 3 sec. Delay is same like on land with gopro wifi.
Worked like a charm had it taped up to my iPad found some fishing rods and stuff lol
Thanks for this!
I followed your advice and can report that it works (somewhat erratically) in salt water to 10 meters depth. It was essential to reduce the GoPro Hero 3+ resolution from its highest quality video settings in order for live Preview to work while recording video. This GoPro does not allow Live Preview over WiFi when doing time lapse. The system is somewhat finicky to keep working, possibly due to the cable flooding at depth, or to the placement of the ends of the cable relative to the WiFi antennae on camera (and iPad). The 6 cm length of the antenna is a half wavelength at 2.4 GHz I presume? In salt water the speed of light is less than in air, so you might get a small gain if the wet end antenna was shortened (to 4.6 cm I think).
Thanks for reporting it, this can be very useful
Спасибо чувак, очень помог! Hello from Russia!
Beautiful place!
1 hour later: it works. GoPro in the bathtub and other end of cable moved around to see where best on my Mac. Just beautiful.
Now, have to test down to 100ft/30m.
Pure thinking out of the box! Thanks.
Did you try your 30m test? I want to take it that deep as well but not feeling confident...
Thanks alot. Great idea. attached my cam to a standard TV cable and lowered it at least 5 meters in the ocean and it was still transmitting) I'll share some vids when the winds cool down. peace
do you think it work on 300 meter rg 59 coaxial cable or etc?
@@luishnk3983 I don't think you need to overspend and the coaxial has so many wires in it. th-cam.com/video/F_gZDUKoUug/w-d-xo.html this was taken with the standard TV cable at 7-10 meters depth
Thanks for the video! Will try asap :).. what's the glue thing you use at 1:03?
Its to make cable waterproof, it just lasts longer then. You can allso cover removed part completely with glued heat shrink.
Thnx for sharing This video !! ... Just made one!!
Thanks a lot, you are a genius.
Great video ! Is it a must that I have to attached the other end of the wifi cable to the phone to get the wifi signal?
its not a must if you have short cable but if you have longer cable, then signal will be weaker and it must be as close as possible to mobile device built in wifi antenna.
Thank you for saving me $300 on an underwater camera
Wow! This is really cool and exactly what I was looking for!! I'm working with a group that is trying to build a gopro setup for doing deep water ecology work in the Gulf of Maine (up to 500ft). We have an underwater case that will go to that depth. But we'd really like to be able to stream the video to the surface. When you say that 20m is pretty close to the limits of your design, do you mean you only have 20m of cable? Or do you mean that the signal starts to break up. I would greatly appreciate any advice you can share!
yes, i meant that the signal will be too weak with longer cable.
Im sure you can get few meters more with better cable then i used but just few more meters.
if you need 500 ft and you use special housing for gopro, i sugest you to use HDMI cable with some extending solution. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI look here for extenders.
Jan Siimson Thanks very much! Your replies are very helpful!
@@yxteine what do you mean extenders?
@@iklink Sorry, that ansver is 9 yrs old for now. Wiki articles are edited constantly. Just google for hdmi extending solutions if you really need hdmi connection and also remember, then you also need self made special housing for your camera
Danke for your video.
When taping the wire to both the phone and gopro must the wire be completely covered with tape?
it actually doesnt need to be taped at all but its just good idea to fix it as close as possible to the devices WiFi antenna. But its really good idea to make antenna cable waterproof with some glue.
Works with a 10m coaxial cable and phone 2m away from the dry end of the cable
So this coaxial cable is just near the gopro under water on its housing? Not plugged into the gopro in any way correct? The signal travels up the cable to your phone where it is taped to your phone? Do I have this correct? Thanks.
Yes, thats correct. Also works with any devices that can be controlled trough wifi.
What is the black matter in 1:14 which you used with the lighter to cover the cut part of the cable ?
heat shrink
heat shrink
Thanks!
hi, bro! nice job! do you know if this method works when both camera and gopro remote are underwater?
I havent try it but im sure that works allso.
This a an amazing tip,and having tried it with my gopro hero 4 silver on the linear setting it works well,it's probably better to have one person monitoring the tablet while the other person can move the camera around,got some footage of Palmated Newts using this setup.A big thanks for this tip regards Bri.
IT WORKED :D I tried with a 4 meters wire
do you think it work on 300 meter coaxial cable?
How is the delay?
How long does the battery last in the cold water? Thx
Jan. Will RJ 6 Cable work as well? And is that just simple water proof glue you used?
Dash Riprock Well RG6 (RJ6) seems to be cable for lower frequency but if you dont need long cable then it might work. Anyway you dont need to use same cable as i did. Every coaxial cable for frequency close to 2,4 Ghz should be ok. And yes, it was just simple waterproof clue under heatshrink to make end of cable waterproof.
Jan Siimson Thanx
Fantastic - I lost my Samsung S5 in 25ft (7 meters)of cold lake water maybe I can track down the spot and make a quick dive - it's insured if I can find the darn thing. :D THanks!
any copper, or aluminum wire with a coating will work
That's pretty neat how deep can you go?
really cool
It is not clear on the video, what kind of cable did you use? RG174u? Specification? pls
nice video..
Can i use a regular coax cable instead of your recommended cable of RG174?
It should work as many people have used different coax cables but i cant give any qurantee :)
Jan Siimson Jan, I made a telescopic boom for my GoPro using a 13' fiberglass cane pole. I just cut the cane pole at the right diameter, then glued the right size screw into it. The GoPro easily mounts to it using the standard GoPro tripod mount! It's about 10' long and super sturdy. What do you use for your boom pole?
I have glassfiber telescopic fishing rode (first 2 parts removed) allso glued screw in it.
Jan Siimson hi suitable videography fish?
Just discovered this thread. I’m trying to connect my GoPro7 to the iPhone via the GoPro app. I got the GoPro mounted on the front bumper of the truck. Attempting to get a bumpers eye view of the trail. Trying Belden 1695a, it’s a 3GHz video wire. Not sure why the wire matters, the ground is not being used.
How. GoPro's Live view is soooo lagged. Honestly.
nice music :-)
Спасибо за видео !
When you add the shrink tube,are you worried about reducing the 6 cm measurement ? Ta
heat shrink does not affect signal. only shielding does.
Jan; I tried this hack (brilliant, btw) but could not get this to work using an sjcam5000 and an iPad 2. What I wondered is; does this setup demand specific framerates and resolution? Or, does it depend on how well the iPad 2 can receive the wifi stream? I'd really like to get this working so I can use it with my pond as I need to 'find' various critters come winter time to overwinter inside. And just to be sure, when I strip each end of the coax, the inner wire remains sheathed, correct? At least, I think that's how I'm interpreting your video. Any help would be appreciated. I placed the one end by the buttons on the outside of the waterproof housing and the land-portion of the coax, I roamed the back of my iPad 2, looking for the best reception but didn't get anything. My coax is about 5m in length.
Hi. Framerates and resolutions does not affect anything. Only thing that is important, is wifi signal strenght. Inner cable metal core must remain as it is. Only thing that must be removed is outer metal shielding. Should work with any devices that normally can be connected trough wifi on land. 5 meters of coax should work. You may get problems when cable lenght goes over 15-20 meters because wifi signal gets rapidly weaker in longer cables.
Okay, I'll give it another go. Seems then that my ipad isn't getting the signal when the cam is underwater, still. Thanks for letting me know framerate and resolution aren't factors.
would a tv cable work its only 7ft long
Will the wifi work any better underwater with a GoPro 8, or will I need to rig up something similar? Plus is there is any updates to this idea in 2019? Tks.
Hi. Wifi still wifi, so it doesnt travel truogh water what ever device or model you use. So even on 2019 you must use something similar. Anyway there probably is available some ready to use solutions for now.
is the 6 cm a precise measurement or just a rough measurement to allow to tape or whatever?
Well, basicly 6 cm is half of gopro wifi signal wavelenght, so its precise measurement. But some people has taken shielding off with no measuring it and got it working also. U must take shielding off roughly 3 or 6 or 12 cm to let wifi signal to go into cable. Theres nothing to do with tape :)
has anyone gotten this to work with the sony 6500 as I have to go into hazardous water and this is the only way I can do it , that and a radio active suite. ???
This DOES work.......amazing.
I used this basic idea to allow a live stream while i am crabbing and next is to use it while diving.
+Wayne Walter Did this end up working for you when you went diving?
im trying to understand what you did. Im not an electronic kind of guy. so did you basically extedended the signal buy putting an antenna close to the unit to connect the gopro then the wire itself was enough to use the signal to connect to the gopro?
im trying to to see if i can do the live feed from the gopro for 60+ feet.
+bugaljuice
Yes, you understand it correct. But with longer cables signal will get very weak and you cant connect it anymore.
So its quite limited in lenght.
thanks for the info. didnt realized that cable length will be an issue. i guess this kills my plan lol
Yeah, up to 20 meters it should work but i think not much longer...
+Jan Siimson thanks a lot! Also, would it work if I take both the wifi remote and the GoPro 60ft deep in the ocean?
Ok, I tested it now. I used 5 meters long cable. I switched my gopro wifi settings for remote and connected camera and remote exactly same way as shown in video with phone. All worked perfect. There was no differense if both units were under water or just 1. Also there was no difference where i fixed cable on remote. It got connection even from 5 cm away from remote. I tested it in few meters deep. But it must also work in 20 meters deep. Only problem that i can see is, if you go too deep then water pressure may block remote controls buttons.
I am going to try this and if itn works i will be looking in the river to see if there are any salmon there before i fish .
There is a difference between knowing there is a fish and being able to fish lol
@@RealLifeManFace th-cam.com/video/JrSCIVHKhZI/w-d-xo.html, and yes i has salmon for my tea.
Absolutely. I want to use for finder, and see what bait is working.
Actually I want to make under waterrobot for tasking can I controlled on wifi
It didn't work here :( I don't know if I used the wrong cable or maybe a too long cable, but as soon as the camera went 1cm under water the image freezed. Any suggestions?
Let me know what cable you used and how long is it?
Your phone or tablet wifi capabilities are also important.
Hey Jan Siimson I'm looking to do a similar modification but i was thinking about using an adhesive patch antenna on either end. like this one: www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/FXP72.07.0053A/931-1075-ND/2332702
My only concern is cable length for such a small thin cable that it comes with. I only want to go to about 30ft max
Does anyone know if this would work for an Olympus T3 please?
I am going to use this hack ice fishing
❗I NEED SOME HELP HERE!:
I bought 5 meters of Rg174, 50 Ohm (it also says 072M on it) coaxial cable. I removed 6cm of shielding and rubber tube from both ends, burned the end to seal it and did the same with the shrink tube.
I have a YI 4K+ camera capable of 2.4ghz or 5Ghz (set up to 2.4ghz) Wifi transmission and a Oneplus 3t phone. Once i lower it through the ice hole, just a little bit it loses signal. I don't think the coaxial cable is transmitting the signal or it might be placed in the wrong place. Thanks for any help!
That cable should work well. Just try other positions for cable. Signal strenght also depends at your devices wifi signal power.
hi Jan, I just went for snorkeling during the weekend. And the remote were unable to connect with cam when I was underwater.
this should be working if I link with the gopro wifi remote while both items go underwater?
Thanks!
+Wong Chris (ChrisW) If you use same solution to connect remote and gopro , bouth underwater, it should work also.
+Jan Siimson thanks!
+Wong Chris (ChrisW) did it work for you to use with the wifi remote and GoPro underwater? I've been trying to do the same thing unsuccessfully.
+Jan Siimson do you have a recommendation regarding where to place the cable on the remote wifi device?
+Jay Correa Ill test it later today and let you know how it goes :)
Could you please send me a link to the website of where you got the cable from as i am having trouble finding any type of cable that would work
i bought it from here www.elfa.se/elfa3~ee_et/elfa/init.do?item=55-941-14&hst=2 but you can type in google coaxial cable rg 174 u to find any other dealer closer to you.
Yeah that was what I was trying to do but it come up with loads of other rubbish
I need it to be in the UK but I cant find any place that sells about 20 Meters but cheap
My english isnt so good to search it. I found that uk.rs-online.com/web/p/coaxial-cable/5218206/ maybe you can buy a 50 m roll and share costs with some friend who allso need same
Thanks so much
will this work with both devices underwater?
Yes
Smart Guy
Awesome
Hey Jan, just tried it and can't get it to work. I got a Alpha Wire 30 m Black PVC Coaxial Cable RG174/U 2.5908 mm, and followed the instruction on the video and still nothing. Tried it connected with the iPhone 6. Any thoughts or advice ?
Hey!
30 m is just too long cable. I have tested with 20m and barely got it working but i had mobile device with very good wifi. I just sugest you to use cable shorter then 20 meter and you get it working.
Jan Siimson Thanks man. Ok I'll try that. Also what do you think adding this 2.4GHz antenna (littlebirdelectronics.com.au/products/2-4ghz-antenna-adhesive-u-fl-connector) at the end connected to the gopro would do ? Maybe it'll boost the signal enough for 30m cable ?
Lucas Langlois it might be good idea. If you will use it, you dont need to clean gopro side of antenna cable because that cleaned part makes it work as antenna. But i cant tell you will it work with 30 meters cable or not, because 2,4 G signal will die very fast if clabe goes longer. If you will try, let me know how it goes :)
Would a speaker wire work just as well?
If speaker wire has a shielding (some form of metal coating around middle core) you can try.... never tested myself
has anyone tried this with the smart remote???
Will this work for water up to 3-5 meters deep?
If you use same cable then up to 10 meters it should work perfect. I have tested also 20 meters and got it working but it was a bit tricky.
Jan Siimson Thanks for the reply. I live in canada, and they don't sell this anywhere. We only have RG6. Do you think this will work?
@Jan Siimson Thank you so much sir! My cable arrived today and i just tried it in my fish tank. It works flawlessly. This will help me immensely in my ice fishing trips next year. Can't wait!
Mike Guo
Genius
I did this using I think a coaxial cable you know this may be the video I seen
Where did you buy the cable?
I bought it from local store that deals with TV and internet cables.
Basicly you dont need exactly same cable. Just ask for coaxial cable for ferquency between 1,5 and 3 GHz. 2,4 GHz is exact GoPro wifi frequency and that should be the best.
What's the point in having WiFi if you have to "connect" your camera to a controller using a wire?
Ok, ist not really WiFi anymore but its still almost only way to control your underwater gopro while youre surface and to see what are you filming. Or its very easy way to do it. :D
Because without the wifi jumping the waterproof housing, you wouldn't have a waterproof solution to protect your camera. Fishermen understand.
You must not realize that normally the WiFi doesn't work underwater. That's the purpose of this guide.
Live feed-
Jinnytty tried this in the most scuffed way possible.
does this work with sj7000 ?
Basicly this solution works with any device that can be controlled trough wifi.
Where would the best spot to table wire to iPhone 6?
Sorry no idea, never had any I-device.
Search pictures from google "where is iphone6 wifi antenna" and just fix it as close as possible to it.
I wondered the same thing. It seems the antenna is located on the lower left of the phone - just beside the home button.
They make something like this for it but super expensive just do this and make it
Does this work with go pro session 4?
+Jay Dee Hi! I dont see any reason why not. That cable just leads signal trough water to your phone or tablet. So it must work exactly same way.
+Jan Siimson is there a link to the wire you used
How can you get signal to your phone while underwater? There must be a way...
Ok so you don’t have to connect the GoPro to the GoPro app
I followed exactly what you did. But my GoPro Hero 10 Black will not show the preview on my phone. I get a message "Preview is not available while recording". I get this automatically when I hit record, I'm not even under the water yet! This is my first GoPro, so I'm sure I'm doing something wrong. Anyone can help?
I have not used gopro for years anymore but same problem was with some specific camera settings. Try other video resolutions or framerates for example. If you can connect with camera, to swich video on and off then theres no problem with wifi connection but problems with camera/app.
I am looking for an underwater camera with Wi-Fi that I can hang from my drone with about 20 feet of cable so I can fly over the lake in summer and bring my drone down to let the camera into the water to look in different places to see if there is fish