Triggering Run/Stop on Red

[Josh With]

I was wondering if anyone has come up with a way to trigger run/stop on the Red camera a far distance, ie. 1000+ feet, away from the camera? I need to trigger 8 cameras at the same time and it may or may not have to be wired! It sounds impossible to me but hopefully someone knows something.
I am trying to figure out a way to do this so anything will help.

 

[Tyler Stromberg]

I was wondering if anyone has come up with a way to trigger run/stop on the Red camera a far distance, ie. 1000+ feet, away from the camera? I need to trigger 8 cameras at the same time and it may or may not have to be wired! It sounds impossible to me but hopefully someone knows something.
I am trying to figure out a way to do this so anything will help.

Funny - I'm currently working on just such a thing: wireless, 8 cameras, 1000+ feet away...

 

[Rich Schaefer]

Are you guys bidding on the same job or something?

I would suggest 8 people/PAs with walkie-talkies

Prost,
Rich

 

[Tyler Stromberg]

Are you guys bidding on the same job or something?

Nope. I'm building it just for the heck of it.

 

[John Marchant]

This would be easy to accomplish using hobby RC gear. A standard 2,4ghz transmitter will talk to multiple receivers. You'd need to use a servo-channel operated electronic switch on each receiver wired to the GPIO port of the camera. Budget under $1000 to put together the whole system, including the tx, rx's, switches, rx batteries, cable and 4 pin lemo connectors.

The red ops guide lists the pinouts, and most any hobby rc store would advise you on the use of the transmitter and receivers. (I'm an rc flyer and my local hobby store tell me I'm by no means the only one using hobby rc equipment for all sorts of professional purposes.)

 

[Josh With]

This would be easy to accomplish using hobby RC gear. A standard 2,4ghz transmitter will talk to multiple receivers. You'd need to use a servo-channel operated electronic switch on each receiver wired to the GPIO port of the camera. Budget under $1000 to put together the whole system, including the tx, rx's, switches, rx batteries, cable and 4 pin lemo connectors.

The red ops guide lists the pinouts, and most any hobby rc store would advise you on the use of the transmitter and receivers. (I'm an rc flyer and my local hobby store tell me I'm by no means the only one using hobby rc equipment for all sorts of professional purposes.)

Thank you very much John but unfortunately this job went away....actually red is providing the cameras for free and there can be no wireless or wired triggers of any kind... they will just have to hit record on a red drive and walk away

 

[John Marchant]

No worries Josh - I'm ten steps removed from what you were looking at doing, yet that's more courtesy than most of my clients give me when I hash out a tech concept for them and the job drops off the radar. LOL!