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Remote will not work with new Fujifilm updates #46

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adrianuseless opened this issue Jul 14, 2023 · 24 comments
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Remote will not work with new Fujifilm updates #46

adrianuseless opened this issue Jul 14, 2023 · 24 comments
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I have heard from other users who have updated their Fujifilm cameras that the remote has stopped working

Can this be corrected so to will work?

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gkoh commented Jul 18, 2023

Thanks for the report.
As noted in the discussion, this is a known issue.
However, I need to find time to analyse the changes in the latest firmware.

One of the challenges is once I update my X-T30, I can no longer test the older protocol.

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gkoh commented Jul 25, 2023

@93RichardB and @adrianuseless
I upgraded my X-T30 to v2.01 and confirmed the existing implementation still works.
A quick look at the Bluetooth traffic log with the new Xapp suggests the protocol has not been changed.

Can either/both of you please elaborate what exactly no longer works?

NB. I had to delete furble from the camera pairing then scan and pair again after updating.

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93RichardB commented Jul 29, 2023 via email

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gkoh commented Aug 7, 2023

@93RichardB Thank you for the reply!

I would like to confirm the following items:

  • previous pairing connections were deleted
    • on both camera and furble
  • a smartphone is not nearby and/or bluetooth is disabled
    • with my Android device, the new X app aggressively pairs in the background with no human intervention 😐
    • this had me really confused for a while
  • the target camera shows up when a new pairing request is started (ie. it appears in the Scan menu)

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93RichardB commented Aug 7, 2023 via email

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gkoh commented Aug 9, 2023

Deleted Bluetooth connections on phone and furble. Entered pairing on phone, selected scan on furble.

I assume when you say 'phone' you actually mean camera?

Scan found 4 identical instances of the XT4 (all same serial), chose one and selected connect.

Woah, that's weird.
I will see if I can reproduce this, that is unexpected.

It connected! Pressed shutter release button on furble, and furble lost connection and went back to Connect/Scan/Delete menu. No photo taken. Under delete it still shows the XT4 as present, but connecting fails, unless I delete pairing first, then same sequence of events. Hope that helps.

This is progress of sorts, definitely useful.

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gkoh commented Aug 20, 2023

Scan found 4 identical instances of the XT4 (all same serial), chose one and selected connect.

Woah, that's weird. I will see if I can reproduce this, that is unexpected.

@93RichardB
I cannot reproduce this behaviour, it's not supposed to be possible.
The underlying Bluetooth LE library filters out duplicate advertisements during scanning.
Is there a bug here ... or perhaps we are seeing non-duplicate entries ... hmmm.

This leads to further questions:

  1. During scanning does the 'Found' message box say 4?
  2. Are you able to access the serial port to see the debug output?

If you can access the serial port, I can generate a debug build to see if we can get some more insights.

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gkoh commented Aug 21, 2023

How could I access the serial port? Let’s me know how to do it and I will try. Richard Richard Sent from my iPad

Sure! Thanks for helping.
Firstly, what operating system would you be using?

The serial port of the M5StickC is same USB-C cable connection used to program the device, so we just need to get you an app to connect and read from it during a scan & connect.

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gkoh commented Aug 22, 2023

I can use Windows 10 or Linux (mint). Most comfortable with Windows.

@93RichardB Excellent, thank you!
OK, let's try the simplest option first, using some online browser based tools, through Windows.
I haven't had great success with this, but ... here goes:

It will either work and you will see readable output.
Or it will issue an error about being unable to connect (if this happens, we probably need to use a specific app).

Let me know how you go.

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gkoh commented Aug 22, 2023

@93RichardB
You should output like the following during a scan:

Name = 043DX-T30-043D
Address = 3c:ff:ff:ff:53:6b
Token = 103450

Then something like this during a successful connect:

Connecting
Connected
Pairing
Token = 103450
Paired!
Identifying
Identified!
Configuring
Configured
Adding new entry
Saved 3CFFFFFF536B
Index entries: 1

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gkoh commented Aug 23, 2023

Also, note that I have created a new discussion (#47) to try and capture more data points from the community.

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gkoh commented Aug 24, 2023

Result of scan:

@93RichardB Woah, that's excellent, thanks for the output!
I will likely ask for a few more rounds as we debug this, I hope this is OK.

This is totally unexpected, it's a full system crash and reboot.

I think there are 2 problems, separate but probably related:

  1. The scan has multiple identical entries
  2. It crashes in the "Remote Control" loop

Give me a bit to review the code. I will probably build a debug image for you to test.

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gkoh commented Aug 24, 2023

@93RichardB
Please try v1.1.0-debug here:
https://github.com/gkoh/furble/releases/tag/v1.1.0-debug

There are no code changes, but I have rebuilt and added the elf image so I can debug the stacktrace dumped on the serial port.
It will be very interesting if it doesn't reproduce.

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gkoh commented Aug 25, 2023

@93RichardB Please try v1.1.0-debug here: https://github.com/gkoh/furble/releases/tag/v1.1.0-debug

There are no code changes, but I have rebuilt and added the elf image so I can debug the stacktrace dumped on the serial port. It will be very interesting if it doesn't reproduce.

@93RichardB
Just to be clear, about what I need:

  • Please reimage your M5StickC with the debug .bin
  • Please repeat the serial port stuff you did before with the debug image
  • Please paste the serial port output here again

With the associated elf image, I should be able to work out where it crashed.

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gkoh commented Mar 13, 2024

No further reports have been received, closing this issue as stale.

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93RichardB commented Mar 13, 2024 via email

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gkoh commented Mar 14, 2024

Sorry for not getting back to you. Lent my camera to my son for a few weeks and then didn’t pick back up. Will try again this week.

No problem, please use the pre-release v2.0.0-beta and the web installer to ensure your device is properly programmed.

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gkoh commented Sep 17, 2024

Sorry for the delay. Eventually I was unable to test the XT-4 again, but I can confirm that the X-H2 works!

No problems @93RichardB, thank you for the confirmation and glad it works for you now (albeit on a different/new camera).

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