Well, I ordered 3DR’s FPV/OSD kit, but wanted to go back and read more information on it…and now I can find NOTHING on 3DR’s website. It is almost as if it never existed. I will call on Monday to see what is going on, but hoping someone on the site can help. Here is how this shows on my invoice: (VID-KIT-0007 3DR Video/OSD System Kit 1 $189.99). But any search for this by item number, description, etc., gives me no results.
Until I can figure out what is up with not being able to find it on their website, please allow me to ask the questions I was hoping to get answered from 3DR’s website:
Can someone explain briefly how one receives the video feed. Will I be able to use a tablet/smartphone, or will I need to get some type of specialized monitor or headset, like the Fatshark makes?
If the answer above is that I will be able to use a tablet/smartphone, I assume that if I am also trying to use Andropilot or other GSC software, that I will have to have a separate monitor (tablet or smartphone).
Anyway, just thinking I might have acted too quickly in buying that kit, so hoping someone can help me decide if I should cancel that part of the order. I was hoping to use it with the 3DR iris.
[quote=“AUsome”]Well, I ordered 3DR’s FPV/OSD kit, but wanted to go back and read more information on it…and now I can find NOTHING on 3DR’s website. It is almost as if it never existed. I will call on Monday to see what is going on, but hoping someone on the site can help. Here is how this shows on my invoice: (VID-KIT-0007 3DR Video/OSD System Kit 1 $189.99). But any search for this by item number, description, etc., gives me no results.
Until I can figure out what is up with not being able to find it on their website, please allow me to ask the questions I was hoping to get answered from 3DR’s website:
Can someone explain briefly how one receives the video feed. Will I be able to use a tablet/smartphone, or will I need to get some type of specialized monitor or headset, like the Fatshark makes?
If the answer above is that I will be able to use a tablet/smartphone, I assume that if I am also trying to use Andropilot or other GSC software, that I will have to have a separate monitor (tablet or smartphone).
Anyway, just thinking I might have acted too quickly in buying that kit, so hoping someone can help me decide if I should cancel that part of the order. I was hoping to use it with the 3DR iris.
Thanks in advance.[/quote]
You need an appropriate monitor screen sir. This can be either the Fatshark goggles or a suitable FPV monitor screen.
I am not too sure about using it with the GCS. You have to read up on it and scan through the forums.
Sorry i couldn’t help much.
I am using an FPV system and have found a way to pipe through the video to my Boscam goggles and Mission Planner.
I receive the signal from the transmitter using a Boscam receiver which I then split it up between a video capture device such as the Diamond vc500 USB as well as a 2.4 ghz transmitter that transmits to my goggles. That way I dont use my goggles to receive the signal then have to have a lead going down to my laptop.
I then use Mission Planner to use the captured streaming video for the VC500 to replace the blue/green background on the main gimbal. Works a treat and mimizes the cables coming out of my goggles.
You dont need the goggles but they make for a good FPV experience. Having streaming video on MP also allows you to view where the quad is and how it is travelling on missions.
[quote=“GCBrentA”]I am using an FPV system and have found a way to pipe through the video to my Boscam goggles and Mission Planner.
I receive the signal from the transmitter using a Boscam receiver which I then split it up between a video capture device such as the Diamond vc500 USB as well as a 2.4 ghz transmitter that transmits to my goggles. That way I dont use my goggles to receive the signal then have to have a lead going down to my laptop.
I then use Mission Planner to use the captured streaming video for the VC500 to replace the blue/green background on the main gimbal. Works a treat and mimizes the cables coming out of my goggles.
You dont need the goggles but they make for a good FPV experience. Having streaming video on MP also allows you to view where the quad is and how it is travelling on missions.[/quote]
