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GoPro Hero5 Black/Session Bluetooth or wifi Connection to Sena 20s or newer

Dimitri Tympanidis

May 25, 2018 12:32

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Please please make this available. No backpacks that go on the gopro or anything like that. Bluetooth connection should be fluid and simple enough to do with a firmware update on the Sena 20s and above. Not being able to utilize an already expensive and popular action camera with a well known bluetooth headset for motorcycles is disappointing.

Reason why there should be no bluetooth backpack: it makes the helmet heavier than it already is with the go pro on and the Hero5 black/session easily connects via bluetooth or wifi.

 

Reason this should be done: GoPro is a well known action camera and most people go for their latest and greatest, so why shouldn't Sena be able to connect to a bluetooth capable device? Makes no sense why it shouldn't. Also it will put Sena in the lead with the leading action camera in the market.

 

I am more than happy with the 20s but the drawback of it not being easy accessable to connect to the GoPro 5 Black via bluetooth and without a backpack is a drawback.

 

Please fix this, I am sure more moto riders have had to downgrade to the Hero4 (or use their older gopro) in order to be able to record their experiences along with a dialog. 

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  Will White May 25, 2018 12:52

  Hey Dimitri, I actually looked into this quite a bit when I bought my GoPro Hero 5 Black.  The issue isn't on Sena's side, it's with the GoPro.  The camera will not allow bluetooth microphones to connect as audio devices.  That is a limitation of the camera itself, not of the Sena headsets.  The folks at GoPro would have to enable audio over bluetooth for this to get fixed.  The chipset in the camera has the capability, but if GoPro doesn't write firmware that supports it we're out of luck.

   

  I know the Garmin VIRB xe can do it:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq5AC4eqxnk

   

  GoPro is really driving themselves out of the action camera market with their anti-consumer actions (eliminating 3rd party support, backpacks, pricing, etc).

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  Dimitri Tympanidis May 25, 2018 13:10

  Interesting, here i thought it was the Sena bluetooth that was the issue. Good to know.

  Do you know of a way to be able to connect the Hero 5 with the sena? 

   

   

  That garmin is also 800 bucks, not sure if i am willing to spend that much $$ for a camera that may or may not be able to withstand a fall if it so happens that it does fall from either a drop from a small height or high impact.

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  Will White May 25, 2018 13:28

  I agree, it's expensive.  I haven't really looked too far into other cameras since my GoPro still works any my only real option would be to ebay it off to buy a new camera from a different manufacturer....with how little I use it I tend to just record audio on a different device (like my phone) and then sync it up on the computer afterward...just have to get a video and audio cue to help out with that like a movie clapboard. :-)

   

  So, if you want to do audio into the GoPro hero 5 series, they sell an adapter which will plug into the USB C port and will give you a standard 3.5mm audio jack.  The adapter costs $50 on their website.

  https://shop.gopro.com/accessories-2/pro-3.5mm-mic-adapter/AAMIC-001.html

   

  From there you could connect it to something like a Sena SR10 which accepts audio from bluetooth...you could then use a 2.5 to 3.5mm conversion cable to hoop the SR10 to the GoPro accessory.  A bit cumbersome and unwieldy.....plus the GoPro wouldn't be waterproof because the door would have to be open to plug in the adapter.

   

  OR, if you search "3.5mm bluetooth audio adapter" on amazon you'll get a bunch of results.  There are some highly rated sub $20 adapters on there that may do the job, but I've never tried it so YMMV.  You could try one of those with the GoPro accessory cable since you already won't be using it in wet weather with the door off of the GoPro, the adapter wouldn't' have to be super waterproof.

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  robert v June 10, 2020 13:23

  Just found this thread and revisiting for 2020 as newer cameras come up and technology advances. 

  I've submitted a new feature request for the GoPro Hero 7/8 and Insta360 One R. It seems it should be possible on the camera side as the Insta360 One R can allow pairing of Apple's Airpods to record audio/voice to the camera thus overriding the built-in mics. GoPro has a labs feature which seems their engineers are doing some awesome stuff and think they can maybe come up with a way to pair the Hero8 to a Sena 20S/50S or whatever variant.