GoPro Bargain

[JoeBailey]

No, the tx he's using is a 5.8ghz one. You can't use 2.4ghz radio and 2.4ghz video they swamp each other and the aircraft promptly crashes.

[Grant85]

One rx for the video link and one rx for the model.
Rx for video is on 5.8GHZ
And rx for model is on 2.4GHZ




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[Andy from Sandy]

Why does the GoPro need WiFi for FPV? I thought there was a direct video out that you would connect to the video down link transmitter.

[David Drew]

Scuse my ignorance on these things. is he using a separate wifi Tx?

Appreciate the thing about control and wifi frequencies being different.

The Gopro has wifi built in presumably not on 2.4ghz. I assume the Aee Magicam needs a separate Tx module to downlink pictures.

[JoeBailey]

Nope the go pro uses wifi on 2.4ghz, there's a mountain of threads on rcgroups about it causing crashes. And the range is crap to boot so it's pretty useless.

[Andy from Sandy]

This is the question I am asking. Wouldn't you disable the WiFi anyway and just use I assume its video out socket.

[David Drew]

Nope the go pro uses wifi on 2.4ghz, there's a mountain of threads on rcgroups about it causing crashes. And the range is crap to boot so it's pretty useless.

Thanks. All explained now.

Cheers

[Grant85]

Wifi may be used to stream the videos that were recorded wirelessly from the Go Pro to your computer so you don't have to faff with the SDS cards. But on the setup in the video that I have posted that bloke I know has the video downlink from the AEE Magicam to a seperate monitor at a base station and the video footage/flight footage gets recorded whilst he is flying. So he using the AEE to see for FPV aswell as using it to record the flight.



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[JoeBailey]

This is the question I am asking. Wouldn't you disable the WiFi anyway and just use I assume its video out socket.

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[David Drew]

Or even better get one of these:
AEE MagiCam SD23 1080P HD Video Camera w/Waterproof Case

Took your advice. Dipping my toe into this type of kit. $219 'offer'

Thanks

[JoeBailey]

I'm putting a quad together myself but I want to get my head around the multi wii and ardupilot stuff before I load one up with cameras and stuff.

[Andy from Sandy]

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This is why I have struggled with others when saying the WiFi cocks up our rc transmitters. I hopefully assume the WiFi can be disabled on the GoPro?

[r4nd0m]

This is the question I am asking. Wouldn't you disable the WiFi anyway and just use I assume its video out socket.

not necessarily Andy, you might want to use the gopro remote to turn on/off, shutter etc this still requires Wifi - but its the wifi video that seems to flood 2.4ghz and causing issues not the gopro remote which only sends short messages ...

for the gopro3+ there seems to be some issue that it somehow still floods and you should shield it Shielding a GoPro's EMI / RF Noise - Hovership

[Andy from Sandy]

Thanks Sev.

[rich-6]

Or even better get one of these:
AEE MagiCam SD23 1080P HD Video Camera w/Waterproof Case

A bloke that I know has just got one of these little beauties and they p*55 all over the Go Pros AND.....AND......At a fraction of the cost! The quality is unreal and it's awesome for FPV! No blurriness or juddering etc....And it even comes with an attachable LCD screen. The Go Pro doesn't have that does it

Go Pros are good bits of kit don't get me wrong.....but way overpriced IMO!

Cheers,
Grant.

£119 over on fleabay, they look very good value for the money.

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