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Settings Explanation

Flowshutter has many settings to allow you to use it in different situations. This page contains a short description and guide to each of the settings. Luckily, many of the settings are self-explanatory.

User Interaction System

There are two or three buttons on the flowshutter:

  • two buttons: Page Down and Enter
  • three buttons: Page Up, Enter and Page Down

To use them, you need to press, hold and release, which will trigger the short/long press event depending on the hold time. The threshold for short/long press is 500ms, longer than 50ms and shorter than 500ms will trigger a short press event, and longer than 500ms will trigger a long press event.

Reboot menu

On homepage, long press the Enter button and it will show the reboot menu.

  • Page *: toggle between different reboot options
  • Enter:: react to that option

And the reboot options are:

  • Exit: exit the reboot menu
  • Reboot: reboot the device

Battery info

On home page, short press the Page * button and it will show the battery info.

You can short press the Page * button to leave the battery info and back to homepage

Device menu

On homepage, long press the Page * button and it will show the device menu.

  • Page *: switch the submenu
  • Enter: enter the submenu

In each submenu, we have three options:

  • Leave: leave the submenu and back to overview state
  • Save: save the settings to the device
  • A setting: that can be changed to enable/disable the feature

you can short press the Page * button to switch the option, and short press Enter to apply/into that option.

When hovering over a specific setting, you can also short press Enter to enter/exit alignment changes, and use Page * to toggle options while making changes.

You can then long press Page * in the overview state of any submenu to return to the homepage.

Camera protocol

Used to specify how the flowshutter interacts with the camera.

When you change the camera protocol, please restart when you receive the restart prompt on the OLED to ensure that the relevant hardware devices are properly applied / the microcontroller is properly initialized.

Warning

Do not use the wrong camera protocol on devices that do not match. Otherwise, there may be a crash/port burnout/equipment loss of warranty or even fire!

Other protocols/mechenisms are under development.

Device mode

Used to specify how the flowshutter works with the camera.

  • SLAVE: The flowshutter is a slave device. It can passively monitor the camera recording state and toggle FC ARM/DISARM correspondingly.
  • MASTER: The flowshutter is a master device. It can actively trigger camera record/stop and FC ARM/DISARM.
  • MASTER/SLAVE: The flowshutter is a master/slave device. It can actively trigger camera record/stop and FC ARM/DISARM, or it can passively monitor the camera recording status to trigger FC ARM/DISARM.

Injection mode

Used to specify whether flowshutter injects sync markers on the camera's audio track. This is so called "Audio Injection" feature.

  • ON: Inject 25Hz sync marker on one of the audio track.
  • OFF：No sync marker injection.

Blackbox erase

Used to erase the blackbox data of the flowshutter.

  • Erase stop: Stop the erase process.
  • Erasing...: Start the erase process.

Once you hear a two short beep from the FC, it means the erase process is done.

Warning

The erasing process cannot be cancelled and the erased data cannot be retrieved!