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You could do what I did, get an app that casts the phone screen to a chromecast (Lots of them out there, I used Replica), use goggles with an HDMI input (DJI goggles), and cast the phone image to the goggles that way. Slight latency, so racing would be out, but great for scenic flights as well as allowing someone else to witness the video. Of course you would need a USB battery pack to power the chromecast, as well as wifi for both the device and chromecast to connect to. Not the best for remote operations, but great for backyard fun.Has anyone ever tried to use FPV goggles with the skydio2? How can you connect them? I would need to use the controller to have any decent range. Drone FPV Racers do it, why can't we? is there a USB hub for cellphones to connect both the controller and the FPV goggles?
All I ever connect to the SDs Parrot controller is an android phone.Since Skydio has decided to forget about ever supporting Android phones to be connected to their Parrot controller, has any hardware hackers taken matters into their own hands to get the video from that controller to anything else?
Well now that doesn't work anymore more a huge number of people through no fault of their own.All I ever connect to the SDs Parrot controller is an android phone.
You haven't looked in the right threads. when I surveyed users asking who had what kind of issues, over 30 people replied.as for it being a widespread issue that's false, I've seen it on here twice in 2 years.
btw, i don't particularly endorse this. tried it once or twice, not really that impressed.
Seriously dude!!!You haven't looked in the right threads. when I surveyed users asking who had what kind of issues, over 30 people replied.
They have dropped a few updates since then so even my old phone which used to work with the controller no longer does.
If USB is a standard then why should there be incompatible implementations of it? it should be "Standard" in how it connects and interacts with the devices OS. Any device that is not 100% compatible with USB standards should be pulled from the market and fixed.
That's like having a car where he brake is on the left and the gas is on the right as a standard and here comes one with a gas peddle but no braked peddle, it's now a button on the dashboard.... It may work but its not 100% compatible with US car standards and would never be allowed to be sold in the US until they installed proper brake peddles and they have to be on the left.
Last weekend I took my S2 to a park and tried to launch it and see what kind of range I could get w/o the controller. It was very difficult to connect. When it finally did connect, I was able to get it up to 20 feet directly above me when it bitched about not having any GPS, said to fly around to get GPS, disconnected RTHd and then would never launch again. and this was AFTER getting a replacement back from having sent my original one in due to a legit crash that was partially my fault for trying to grab it from in front of a hilo. This "New" one has a crazy internal fan noise that my original one never had.
Imagine taking your car to the dealer for a water pump and instead of fixing the water pump they gave you someone else's car with a good water pump but a whole range of other issues?
I bought this think hoping to get good footage of breaking news stories. Under these conditions that will never happen.
OK now spit Skydios D**** out, stop defending their screw-ups and either help with a solution or bow out.
You haven't looked in the right threads. when I surveyed users asking who had what kind of issues, over 30 people replied.
They have dropped a few updates since then so even my old phone which used to work with the controller no longer does.
If USB is a standard then why should there be incompatible implementations of it? it should be "Standard" in how it connects and interacts with the devices OS. Any device that is not 100% compatible with USB standards should be pulled from the market and fixed.
That's like having a car where he brake is on the left and the gas is on the right as a standard and here comes one with a gas peddle but no braked peddle, it's now a button on the dashboard.... It may work but its not 100% compatible with US car standards and would never be allowed to be sold in the US until they installed proper brake peddles and they have to be on the left.
Last weekend I took my S2 to a park and tried to launch it and see what kind of range I could get w/o the controller. It was very difficult to connect. When it finally did connect, I was able to get it up to 20 feet directly above me when it bitched about not having any GPS, said to fly around to get GPS, disconnected RTHd and then would never launch again. and this was AFTER getting a replacement back from having sent my original one in due to a legit crash that was partially my fault for trying to grab it from in front of a hilo. This "New" one has a crazy internal fan noise that my original one never had.
Imagine taking your car to the dealer for a water pump and instead of fixing the water pump they gave you someone else's car with a good water pump but a whole range of other issues?
I bought this think hoping to get good footage of breaking news stories. Under these conditions that will never happen.
OK now spit Skydios D**** out, stop defending their screw-ups and either help with a solution or bow out.
I will try to give it more flight time now that the weather is decent. It was kind of gusty the other day and the battery was low I only took it up and flew a couple moves with it and landed. Good news: it did actually land on the case for the 1st time in a long time.Well all I can say is you are in a minority here with the issue you are having. You can search this forum see how prevalent your issue is. It's sounds like wherever you're going to to find 30 others with the same issue is where you should be investigating this problem. They got far more skin in the game then a the bunch on here who apparently aren't having the same problem. Many of us have had gps issues and connectivity problem when the drone is new, recently updated or reset. If it's a new drone or refurbished drone it's likely that it doesn't have a lot of successful flights in it's memory nor many successful gps connections since it's last full reset. Take it out somewhere where there's very little if any risk of interference and good gps reception, it's been noticed by more than one person on here that the drone does better the more times it's successfully flown and some can be problematic at first. I've seen that also and I do know it self calibrates periodically but it has to have successful flights to get to that point where there's good data to calibrate off of. Best place to do that is a very open place without other cell phones around and get some basic flying in like on a farm. I doubt it'd work worth a crap if you launched it downtown right now expecting it to cover a news situation with all the other outside RF that accompanies a event of that type.