Python Bluetooth controller for GoPro cameras starting from the HERO5 Black (successfully tested with the HERO5 Black, HERO6 Black, HERO7 Black, MAX, HERO9 Black)

GoPro released a proper BLE documentation over at opengopro and it matches what I've reverse engineered in the past. But they've done so much stuff I missed, such as getting the status of the camera and doing Protobuf decoding. Their examples are extremely well programmed too.

Enable Wireless Connections on the GoPro and go to connect > connect new > GoPro APP

Then connect your device to the camera via Bluetooth.

On Windows, make sure when you connect to wait for the PC to successfully pair with the camera:

The camera should return to the last mode and exit the pairing screen.

Then run:

python main.py

Then enter the commands.

>> record start
[recv] ...

Commands available:

• record start
• record stop
• mode video
• mode photo
• mode multishot
• poweroff
• tag
• wifi off
• wifi on
• set (will prompt you to enter settings)
• exit (disconnect && exit)

Settings are parsed as constant strings from my library gopro-py-api.

Settings available:

• video:
  • resolution
  • framerate
  • fov
  • lowlight
  • protune
  • white_balance
  • color
  • iso_limit
  • sharpness

Video demo

Pass a list of Bluetooth MAC addresses in the --address parameter to control multiple cameras.

By default this script runs in interactive mode, but to control camera aspects via the command line or a bash script pass --address and/or --command

Commands can be passed using the --command parameter (multi camera supported)

python .\main.py --verbose --address "XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX" --command "record start"

python .\main.py --verbose --address "XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX" --command "wifi on"

It relied on gatt library and bluetooth library, and it was a PITA to work on and install. I decided to move to bleak which works perfectly on Windows and Raspbian.

https://github.com/KonradIT/goprowifihack/blob/master/Bluetooth/Platforms/RaspberryPi.md

https://gethypoxic.com/blogs/technical/gopro-hero5-interfaces