Who has a Pivo?

greenbean10 said:
Can you control when your phone starts recording without having to get off the horse? As I don't think I have enough phone memory to record my entire warm up too!

Also do you think this would track you over jumps and poles etc? I don't usually jump alone but would be really good actually to set it up for a lesson.
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It comes with a remote but I didn't have time yesterday to figure out which buttons do what on it :p I will try again!
There are some videos on the FB group showing polework, I don't know whether anyone has got it tracking them over jumps yet.
 
scats said:
My iPhone battery is pretty rubbish so not sure if it would be worth it. Is it difficult to set up?
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No not really, I couldn't get the pivo to pair to my phone initially but I restarted my phone and that sorted the issue ;) In terms of setting up to track the horse, just a 2 minute job.

I don't know if there's a way to conserve phone battery, the screen is active the whole time I think which is why it seemed to get through it. I'm going to maybe look into getting one of the charging cases and see if that helps.

you can get an attachment to use a go-pro or similar but I don't know whether that still needs the phone screen on.
 
I’d be interested to see one from the side of the arena. I can’t realistically put it at X for my lessons, so I’d put it at E or H. I keep getting to checkout and then not pressing buy ?
 
Didn’t know about Pivo before this thread, but... now I have one on the way too. Ooops.

I don’t have lessons and I rarely have someone to video me, so I’ve been looking into pixio for a while, but it’s too expensive. Hopefully Pivo will work ok.
I read somewhere on the Pivo riding community group on FB that they are working on auto-zoom, that would be great.
 
if it's not blowing a gale again this afternoon I will try from one side of the arena. I'm not sure how well it will work if you're approaching it head on but it did seem to find Darcy as he was snuffling at my phone instead of parking side-on like you're meant to :p
 
Alibear said:
My silver one arrived today, no horse to ride currently but I'm hoping that means I can get to grips with it before I need it.
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Yeah I was so excited to try it I literally just had a 5 min watch of something and then launched into pressing buttons :p not really knowing what I'm doing. The FB groups seem quite useful.
 
I tried searching for these and seeing price etc but I stumbled at the first hurdle - I can’t find any to buy anywhere?
 
I’m fairly impressed with they quality of the videos. What package option are people going with? I’d been trying to figure out would the starter pack be enough.
also is it possible to live stream? Or do you have to save the video
 
Bought one!

Thanks MP.


PS had to laugh, got my acknowledgement and it said 'thank you Mrs'.

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I don’t even have an enclosed area to ride in so why on earth am I tempted ?.

joanneof said:
I’m fairly impressed with they quality of the videos. What package option are people going with? I’d been trying to figure out would the starter pack be enough.
also is it possible to live stream? Or do you have to save the video
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This is just a mount that turns - you provide the camera etc so quality will be down to your phone (or GoPro). You should be able to livestream with your phone attached to it :). Edit:scratch the livestream bit, I’ve just seen that you have to use their app. You could live stream if you attached a second phone to the ‘main’ phone.
 
there is some kind of subscription thing that means you can do facebook lives etc and I think they were looking into zoom but their app is free and comes with a live doo dah. Our internet at the yard is poor so I haven't really looked into it.

I just bought the pivo silver, it comes in a little carry case and fits on any tripod with a normal screw fixing so if you have one kicking about there's no need to get a pivo one. I just plonked it on a jump block anyway.
 
They don't zoom and only have a range of about 20m . I really was interested in one for videoing dressage tests, but sadly it can't do that. Will have to keep saving or hope they are able to fix these problems.
 
Britestar said:
They don't zoom and only have a range of about 20m . I really was interested in one for videoing dressage tests, but sadly it can't do that. Will have to keep saving or hope they are able to fix these problems.
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ah this is what I was hoping for - do you have to place them in the middle then? It won’t back and forth only if you for example placed at C?
 
Britestar said:
They don't zoom and only have a range of about 20m . I really was interested in one for videoing dressage tests, but sadly it can't do that. Will have to keep saving or hope they are able to fix these problems.
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They wrote on the riding community FB that they are looking into auto-zoom, so that will probably come.

And they were asked about 20x60 meter arenas and answered that they recommended that the pivo was placed at X and that it should be ok if the tracked object took up 10% of the screen.
 
AUB said:
They wrote on the riding community FB that they are looking into auto-zoom, so that will probably come.

And they were asked about 20x60 meter arenas and answered that they recommended that the pivo was placed at X and that it should be ok if the tracked object took up 10% of the screen.
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For online tests it must be from C so in the middle is no good.
 
Mine tracked me 40m away today without an issue but struggled with extreme contrast between bright sunlight and very dark shade that was on my arena today.

I'm going to have a play in a nice open long arena on Saturday :)
 
milliepops said:
I did swear at it quite a bit today, if that helps ? and then at Darcy who buggered off while I was faffing with it, and then my phone which ran out of of battery so I couldn't see what it had captured. Better? ???
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Oh and then also my gloves, for being so worn out they are no longer touchscreen compatible. I was a bit wound up today, in fairness ?
 
milliepops said:
I did swear at it quite a bit today, if that helps ? and then at Darcy who buggered off while I was faffing with it, and then my phone which ran out of of battery so I couldn't see what it had captured. Better? ???
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A little bit but you’ve not put me off!
The only thing stopping me is that my bank card is in the car and I can’t be bothered to go and get it for the numbers ?.
 
DirectorFury said:
I finally caved and ordered the silver starter bundle ?. How long did yours take to arrive MP?
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ordered mine on 30th April, arrived the day I started this thread. so, just under 2 weeks. the silver was on pre-order when I ordered mine, not sure if that affected things. the tracking for mine was fairly useless, it said it was still on the plane until the postie handed it over :p
 
I'm going to have a play about with the predictive follow today as it's another bright day so the shade from the hedge will be a big contrast. Poor Darcy, I might just lead him about as he is owed a day off really.
 
milliepops said:
I'm going to have a play about with the predictive follow today as it's another bright day so the shade from the hedge will be a big contrast. Poor Darcy, I might just lead him about as he is owed a day off really.
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On the horse group I saw that they have an auto exposure equalisation setting, you could try that?
 
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