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Experiencing Issues with Your Seeker Kit?

Explore common scenarios and solutions you can try.

These cover problems that show up in use. If your camera won’t connect to the app at all, start with GoPro Support or DJI Support.

Connection drops when the camera goes underwater

If the live view is fine until the camera goes under, it’s the fit at one end or the other.

1. Receiver against the case. The receiver must sit flat and snug against the back of the waterproof case, with nothing caught between them. Fasten the camera tightly so it can’t move. Check you’re using a compatible case, as a different one changes the spacing.

2. Camera WiFi on 2.4 GHz, not Automatic.

GoPro Hero 13, Mission 1, Mission 1 Pro: Preferences > Wireless Connections > WiFi Band
GoPro Hero 11 and 12: Preferences > Connections > WiFi Band
DJI Osmo Action: System Settings > Wireless Connection > WiFi Frequency

Full instructions: Setting Camera WiFi Frequency to 2.4GHz

3. Transmitter against the phone holder. Flat, with full contact, and the phone seated properly in the holder. Don’t hold the phone away from it.

4. Cable. Check for kinks or damage, particularly near each end, and make sure it’s seated properly at both ends. Always unwind and pack away using the under and over method.

5. Firmware and app both on current versions.

Picture glitching, then losing connection

If the picture starts stuttering or going blocky and then drops out altogether, that’s WiFi interference. It’s the most common cause we see, and it’s the environment rather than your kit.

Your camera uses the 2.4 GHz band, which is shared with a great deal of other equipment. When the band gets busy, your camera has to wait its turn to send, the picture stalls, and eventually the app gives up.

Common sources

Other phones on board, and anyone’s personal hotspot. The most likely cause on a small boat
Your chartplotter or fishfinder WiFi, and any onboard WiFi router or repeater
Starlink or other onboard internet
Bluetooth speakers, smart watches and earbuds
Wireless microphones, including camera mics such as the DJI Mic and GoPro wireless mics
A second camera or a second Seeker kit running at the same time
In a marina, every other boat’s WiFi as well as your own
A microwave in the galley. Worst offender of the lot when it’s running

What to do

Move away from the source where you can, or switch it off
Turn off Personal Hotspot on your own phone and any other phone nearby
Turn off Bluetooth on the viewing device once you’re connected
Before you deploy, if you’re somewhere busy, switch the camera off and back on. It re-scans when it starts up and may settle on a clearer channel. You can’t do this once the camera is in the water
When the picture starts glitching, switch WiFi off and back on on your phone or tablet. That gives you a clean connection and usually restores a good picture for a while

Worth knowing

This affects every device to some degree. Phones generally cope better than tablets, so if you have the choice, use a phone for live view in busy places.

Live view drops or freezes while you're using it

Often it’s your phone deciding to do something else while you’re watching the water instead of the screen.

Set these before you go out.

iPhone and iPad

Settings > Display & Brightness > Auto-Lock, set to Never
Settings > Battery, turn Low Power Mode off. It forces Auto-Lock to 30 seconds and switches itself on automatically at 20% battery
Settings > Privacy & Security > Local Network, make sure your camera app is switched on

Android

Settings > Apps > [camera app] > Battery, set to Unrestricted. On Samsung, add it to Settings > Battery and device care > Battery > Background usage limits > Never sleeping apps
Increase your screen timeout
When your phone asks “WiFi has no internet access, stay connected?”, tap yes

Both

Aeroplane mode with WiFi switched back on. Your camera’s WiFi has no internet, and the phone will keep looking for some unless you stop it. This matters most offshore. Note that on a WiFi-only tablet it does very little, because there’s no mobile radio to switch off
Keep the camera app in the foreground. Don’t switch to another app
Force close any other camera app. Running Quik and Mimo at the same time causes conflicts

Freezing rather than disconnecting?

When it happens, check Settings > WiFi before closing anything. If your phone is still joined to the camera’s network, the link is fine and it’s the app. Force close the app and reopen it.

Lag in the live preview

Update your software. Latest firmware on the camera, latest version of the app.

Optimise your phone. Close background apps, use aeroplane mode with WiFi on, keep your operating system up to date.

Adjust the camera settings. Turn off RockSteady or HorizonSteady to reduce processing load. Lower the recording resolution and bitrate if you’re seeing stutter while previewing and recording at once.

Use a high speed microSD card. The card doesn’t affect live preview directly, but a slow card causes lag when recording and previewing together. Use a UHS-I U3 V30+ card such as Samsung PRO Ultimate, SanDisk Extreme Pro or Lexar 1066x, and format it in the camera.

Long 4K sessions. Running a live preview while recording increases the camera’s heat and power draw, which shortens recording time and can trigger a thermal shutdown that looks like a dropout. For long sessions, drop from 4K to 2.7K and turn off stabilisation you don’t need.

Consider better hardware. A higher performance phone gives more processing headroom, and budget handsets struggle with live preview. Later model cameras such as the DJI Osmo Action 5 Pro, Osmo Action 6 or GoPro Hero 13 have stronger radios than earlier models.

DJI cameras

A DJI wireless mic blocks the app .When a DJI Mic transmitter is connected and the camera is on 2.4 GHz, Mimo can’t connect at all. Your Seeker kit needs the camera on 2.4 GHz, so disconnect the mic while you’re using the kit.

GoPro cameras

If the app freezes rather than disconnects, try deleting the videos you’ve downloaded into the Quik app. A single corrupted clip causes freezing. Your footage stays in GoPro cloud.

Tablets

Tablets work, and everything above applies to them, but phones cope better with WiFi interference. In a busy environment a tablet will glitch and drop out before a phone does, so if you have the choice, use a phone for live view.

Compatibility also varies by model. A tablet that worked with one camera won’t necessarily work with a newer one, so test your exact combination before relying on it for a job.

Normal behaviour, not a fault

The exclamation mark over the WiFi symbol. It means the network has no internet, which is correct for a camera. Nothing is wrong.

A stuttering preview in timelapse modes. In GoPro TimeWarp, Time Lapse and Night Lapse, or DJI Timelapse, Motionlapse and Hyperlapse, the camera only captures a frame every so often. The live preview shows those frames as they’re taken, so it looks like it’s glitching. That’s how the mode works. Switch to standard video mode for a smooth preview.

Live preview isn’t available in every recording mode. Some cameras don’t support live preview while recording, and some don’t support it at higher resolutions and frame rates. See our Camera Compatibility guide.

Camera lens fogging up

Keep the camera and case dry. Before placing the camera in the waterproof case, make sure both the camera and the interior of the case are completely dry. Moisture inside the case is the main cause of fogging
Use antifog spray. A thin layer inside the case prevents condensation forming on the lens
Use antifog inserts. Place three inserts inside the case at different points around the camera
Avoid sudden temperature changes. Let the camera and case acclimatise when moving between different environments
Store in a dry environment when not in use

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a reference in this Agreement to a statute or a section of a statute includes all amendments to that statute or section passed in substitution for the statute or section referred to and incorporating any of its provisions;
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