Eyes in the Sky: A Comprehensive Survey of Ukrainian Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) (www.lvivherald.com)
from Ukraineconflict@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 14 Jul 13:49
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magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 14 Jul 17:09 next collapse

DJI Mavic/fpv

Analog Video

That’s not how that works, anyone who’s actually touched a flight controller have any insight on this stuff?

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 14 Jul 22:07 collapse

www.dji.com/fpv

Compatible with Analog Video Transmission

The DJI Digital FPV System can be used with analog image transmission via a third-party receiver, allowing users to switch between AV and digital video transmissions.

All the drone footage I’ve seen has been analog, and I guess it’s possible on the FPV.

magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 15 Jul 03:03 next collapse

Huh TIL. Usually DJI locks you in pretty hard.

Either way the mavic certainly ain’t working off of analog.

inktvip@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 16 Jul 09:01 collapse

I highly doubt the mavics used in Ukraine still run the stock firmware

magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 16 Jul 12:09 collapse

That takes more than firmware, and I don’t know how much thats worth it compared to just using existing fpv hardware.

inktvip@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 16 Jul 12:15 collapse

That was about the lock in part. Most of the mavic footage I’ve seen seems to be digital at least, though I recall something about them changing the RF frequencies constantly to avoid jamming.

naur@tech.pr0n.pl on 16 Jul 22:58 collapse

I think DJI might be referring to the recently introduced “race mode”, which reduces bandwidth of their transmitter and allows other pilots (with analog systems) to fly nearby. In regular mode DJI video systems tend to interfere with analog transmissions.

I haven’t heard of any official way to get analog video from a DJI air unit.

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 16 Jul 23:33 collapse

From what I read they actually work with 3rd party analog receivers from the drone itself.

Ex: www.reddit.com/r/…/hi_dji_goggles_for_analog/

naur@tech.pr0n.pl on 17 Jul 10:50 collapse

That was a feature where you could attach an analog receiver to their Goggles v2. They have since removed it in newer Goggle versions. Their system is basically a walled garden now.

cheese_greater@lemmy.world on 14 Jul 17:17 collapse

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