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From the FAQs: Does SOLOSHOT2 work indoors? Not yet. SOLOSHOT is currently an outdoor only product due to some of the technologies involved. Anybody know why
by adpd 11y ago
From the FAQs:
Does SOLOSHOT2 work indoors?
Not yet. SOLOSHOT is currently an outdoor only product due to some of the technologies involved.
Anybody know why this is the case?
- ortuna 11y agoIt's using GPS to figure out where the camera should point.
- jamesshorten 11y agoAn educated guess would be that it uses GPS for location. It is often not possible to get a lock on the satellites indoors.
- Someone1234 11y agoThey're working on it however: http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/126843-think-gps-is-cool-ips-will-blow-your-mind http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/126843-think-gps-is-cool-...
- discardorama 11y agoIs GPS really that accurate, though, that it'll locate you with enough accuracy to allow a camera to center on your position? If it is indeed using GPS, I'm guessing it's using a GPS in the camera base too, to figure out the correction.
- makomk 11y agoShort-baseline differential GPS with a base station can have cm-level accuracy, if I remember correctly.
- discardorama 11y agoThat's what I was thinking. Both are viewing the same satellites, since they're close to each other. The base, since it knows it's stationary, can derive the corrections itself, and figure out where the object is.
- StavrosK 11y agoI would theorize that they have GPS in both units, and the tag sends its position to the base. Along with a compass, you can pretty accurately tell where the camera is looking, and you can probably gauge the distance between the tag and camera by the time it takes for the signal to travel to the camera, but I'm not sure how that's useful.
- arianvanp 11y agoWhy not use bluetooth low-energy for this stuff? Or would you need to have three beacons to triangulate?
- cbhl 11y ago1) range 2) clock precision (you can't measure time fast enough to actually measure position using bluetooth)
- tripzilch 11y ago> clock precision (you can't measure time fast enough to actually measure position using bluetooth) Interesting, why is that and how fast would that be, then? Also what's different about triangulating via WiFi APs signals, that bluetooth doesn't work?
- jjwiseman 11y agoGPS alone isn't really accurate enough by itself, but it's thought that SOLOSHOT integrates both GPS and an inertial system.
- Vexs 11y agoAccording to some of the amazon reviews, it doesn't work within 50 feet. I suspect it does in fact use GPS, as 50 feet would be far enough that you're going to be somewhere in the frame. Couple that with just measuring the delay time, and possibly a compass or something and you'd end up with what they have.
- Vexs 11y ago