Ninja Star not auto starting, but Assassin does

[Anaconda_]

Yo all,

I own an Atamos Ninja Assassin, and it's great. Start recording when I press the button on the camera and stops when I press it again. For an upcoming project, I've borrowed a Ninja Star. There's a lot of walking about, and having a monitor on the cam just isn't practical. Anyway, it was my understanding that The Star should start recording when I press go on the camera, but for the life of me, I can't get it to work.

I've checked all the settings in the camera, including the HDMI timecode stuff, but it's just not working. I also tried going from camera to Assassin then output from Assassin to Star, to see if that kind of chain would work, but it still doesn't start the Star recording.

Could this be an issue with the cable I'm using? Am I missing something? 

Just to clarify, in all of the above situations, I could press record on the Star and it would record the file, so I know that it does record. I just need to it take the cue form the camera. Otherwise I have to press record on the camera and the Star for every shot, which opens up the possibility of missing footage here and there.

 

EDIT: The Star also isn't showing me any audio levels, but there is sound on the file on the CFast card. I wouldn't exactly base my audio off the LEDs anyway, but it's certainly a nice thing to have if it can work.