So digital it is…
Ive found some dji v1 goggles for £200 whichni thought was reasonable. So now the camera… I’m looking at Runcam link. So, aspect ratio… can the goggles deal with both?
And I’ve gound some good deals with the Runcam Wasp. I think this is 4:3 which is fine, but there’s talk of having to do firmware updates, which always gives me the jitters, is this necessary? If so, is it straightforward?
Or is there a better camera? I’m just doing fairly straightforward freestyle at the moment.
The goggles V1 won’t support the DJI FPV, the Avata, the Mini 3, or the O3 system.
You can use the OG Air unit, the runcam link or the vista with them. The best camera is the Nebula Pro. I have a wasp, and I do fly my quads in 4:3 (I fly 16:9 on the wings only). The V1 DJI system is great, walksnail on par with this.
The goggles will absolutely do 4:3 and 16:9.
For £200 to get into digital FPV is great, and they very good goggles (you can get v2’s for around £300 2nd hand). I believe the link/vista will be available for a while, a good solid system. Hack it with WTFOS and you get great OSD support and no worries about updating/downgrading with butter, etc, etc.
There an OG Air Unit for sale at the moment on the forums, which gives you onboard recording (you can record on the DVR too). The OG DJI camera with that is also one of the best…
For the wasp, yes you need to be higher firmware. I run it fine with the WTFOS hacks on it. Root the link/vista/goggles on a lower firmware, update to the latest official firmware, and then install WTFOS.
No necessary at all, but allows you so much more control over the OSD, i.e. an OSD that isn’t crap! If you got ELRS working, should be quite easy, sure there’s guides on how to flash it. Also probably not worth it unless you running BF 4.4 or at least 4.3!
This is a little dated, there are more recent versions (i.e. 0608 is for Wasp support), think you can flash from there, but you can use a tool called butter to do it all anyways
Once rooted, you can’t unroot, and you can always reflash back down, etc, etc
Check if you can apply HD Fonts to your V1’s as I also feels its worth installing them too. It’s actually really quite simple (make sure you have the MSP-OSD app then copy files to SD Card) but might be worth a watch of the video as a whole to get an idea of what it does and if you are interested in doing it. (It does make the font a little smaller)
You can also overlay the OSD to the video once done too. (I believe you can do this without the HD Fonts, I’ve only done this after so i’m not sure on where the default fonts are.)
You can do it with any font after the event. I do love having an OSD and non OSD version of the video…
I use sneaky FPVs personally, but a lot of choice out there
Thanks so much for your help guys, I’ve now got Dji goggles and a caddx vista nebula pro… both from ebay - I’m hoping just a firmware update for both should do. Goggles have been FCC’d.
Then a simple pairing exercise…
Thanks dude.
Forgive the multitude of questions, but when I power up the goggles I get all 8 channels, does this FCC and 700mw transmission is up and running, even though there’s no SD card?
700mw shows you got FCC. 8 Channels not sure tbh. You can actually get 1200mw by doing something else. Maybe is some internal storage you can put the Naco on.
Either way you WANT an SD card for when you crash and look back and wonder where you crashed Record that DVR my friend!
And I’d seriously give WTFOS a go. Watch the more recent bardwell video linked above a few times. It’s not hard, should be done in 30-40 mins and boy it’s far better (inc showing the VTX temperature on the goggles!)
There is two NACO files you can use, one enables FCC mode the other is the power rating.
Its naco.txt for FCC mode (file contents the number “1” for US, and naco_pwr.txt for power upgrade (contents is the number “pwr_1” for 1000mW and “pwr_2” for 1200mW).
Once you have the files made and installed the settings are then saved so the files are no longer needed (until you firmware update or something, then you need to redo it.)
I suspect that this is what was done before you got them, they used a SD Card to unlock them then took the card out. Its a worthy investment if you don’t have one yet, reviewing your past footage if you crash is worth the cost of a small card to get your drone back.
If you have 8 channels (7 channels and the public channel number 8) youre in 25mb mode, if you select 50mb mode you will have 3 channels and the public channel number 8. 50mb mode is better for image quality but if youre flying with others youll want to use 25mb mode as it causes less interference on other channels
