Usage Guide

Menu System

Main Screen

• Connect (disabled if no saved connections)
• Scan
• Delete (disabled if no saved connections)
• Settings
• Off

Connect

Display a list of saved targets. Once a target is connected, the following menu system is accessible:

• Remote
  • Shutter
  • Focus
  • Shutter Lock
• Interval
  • Start
  • Stop
    • Count
    • Delay
    • Shutter
• Disconnect

Scan

Requests a scan for target devices. Connectable targets will appear as a list. If the target successfully connects, the entry is saved and the 'Connected' menu system is displayed.

Delete

Saved entries are displayed for deletion.

Settings

A variety of options for customising furble. The settings menu contains the following menu system:

• Display
  • Backlight brightness
  • Inactivity timeout
• Features
  • FauxNY
  • Infinite-Reconnect
  • Multi-Connect
• GPS
  • GPS
  • GPS baud 115200 (if GPS enabled)
  • GPS Data (if GPS enabled)
• Timer
  • Count
  • Delay
  • Shutter
• Theme
• TX Power
• About

Off

Power off the device.

Navigation

Touch Screen

At time of writing, only the M5Core2 has been tested. All user interface widgets are touch responsive:

• in menus
  • touch the desired entry
  • drag up/down to scroll entries
• in rollers (ie intervalometer configuration)
  • drag up/down to adjust entry

For M5Core2, the 'hardware' touch buttons are active and operate identically to the M5 Core.

During shutter control:

• press 'Shutter' button to release shutter
• press and hold 'Shutter' button for continuous shooting
• press and/or hold 'Focus' button to auto-focus
• press and hold 'Shutter Lock' to lock shutter open
  • press and hold 'Shutter Lock' again to release

To activate screen lock:

• double click the PWR button
  • a message box will open
• double click the PWR button to unlock

Hardware Buttons

All supported controllers have three buttons designated:

• previous
• select
• next

For M5StickC format controllers:

• previous == power button (Button C)
• select == big M5 button below screen (Button A)
• next == right side button (Button B)

For M5 Core controllers:

• previous == left button
• select == middle button
• next == right button

Basic Navigation

• previous == highlight up/previous/right entry
• next == highlight down/next/left entry
• select == action

For slider and roller elements (eg. brightness control, intervalometer numbers):

• highlight the desired element with previous/next
• press select to 'edit' the element
• press next/previous to up/down increase/decrease
• press select to 'confirm' the change

Features

Individual features are enabled under Settings->Features. Features modify the system behaviour in subtle ways with specific purpose.

Auto-Connect

When enabled, the first saved camera connection is automatically connected when furble powers on. This is useful for rapid use with a favourite camera by avoiding initial menu navigation.

FauxNY

A pun on 'Sony' and 'phony', this is primarily a debug tool for testing. FauxNY is a fully virtual target camera that will:

• always appear when scanning
  • targets appear as FauxNY-n
• always connect

It has proven incredibly useful for testing changes to the user interface without requiring an actual camera.

Infinite-ReConnect

This is useful for using furble as a passive, always on GPS data source. With this, furble will attempt to reconnect to the camera indefinitely. You don't need to turn on this setting if you are actively using the remote.

Warning

This will not be kind to battery life

Multi-Connect

Multi-Connect enables simultaneous connection to multiple cameras to synchronise remote shutter control. Up to 9 (ESP32 hardware limit) cameras can be simultaneously controlled.

To use:

• Pair with one or more cameras
• Enable Settings->Features->Multi-Connect
• In Connect select one or more cameras
• Select Multi-Connect
  • Selected cameras will be connected in sequence
• If all cameras are connected, the standard remote control is shown