Move the reception away
Put the board and its antenna where the signal is good — a mast, a tripod, the roof of a parked car — and keep the screen sheltered, inside, at the end of the USB cable.
In development — not on sale yet
FPV video, over USB.
Wavelow VRX receives the 5.8 GHz analog video of your drone and presents it as a plain USB camera. Put the receiver where the signal is good, and watch on a computer, a tablet, an Android phone or in a virtual reality headset.
A receiver you put wherever you want
An FPV receiver is usually locked inside the goggles or the screen. Wavelow VRX is a separate board, linked by a plain USB cable. The few USB receivers still on sale were designed for Android several years ago; this one also works on a computer, an iPad and a headset, with its own application and firmware that gets updated.
Fly in a headset
On Meta Quest 3, the picture opens in a window you place and size as you like. An immersive mode, with an adjustable virtual screen, is in preparation.
Keep the screen you have
Laptop, tablet or Android phone: no dedicated screen or goggles to buy, and the picture can be shared by several people.
What the board does
Receive
It picks up the 5.8 GHz analog video of FPV drones, on the usual bands and channels, with automatic scan.
Plug in
A single USB-C cable. The board shows up as a standard camera: no driver to install.
Watch and keep
The Wavelow VRX application shows the picture, records it and takes snapshots. If the picture does not come, it explains why.
Measured, not promised
- 60 images/s
- Every field of the video is delivered to the application.
- 44 ms
- From the output of the board to the image received by the application, median.
- 0 re-encoding
- On Windows, Linux and Android, recordings keep the images exactly as the board sends them.
Measured on Windows with the development board. The screen itself is not counted in the latency.
Compatible devices
Video depends on what each system allows an application that reads a USB camera to do.
| Device | Video | Condition |
|---|---|---|
| Computer | Yes | Windows 10 or 11, macOS 12 or later, Linux. |
| Android phone and tablet | Yes | Android 7 or later, USB port that accepts accessories (OTG). |
| Meta Quest 3 | Yes | The application opens in a window of the headset. |
| iPad | Yes | iPad with a USB-C port, on iPadOS 17 or later. |
| iPhone | No | Apple does not let applications read a USB camera on iPhone. HDMI adapters for iPhone are not supported. |
The applications are being validated: to date, only the Windows version has been tried with the board.
Free firmware
The software of the board is free software, distributed under the GNU GPL version 3. It derives from the C5VRX project by Twotoz and its contributors. You may study it, modify it and install your own version on your board.
For every published version, the complete corresponding source code can be downloaded below, with the build and installation scripts.
Downloads
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Updating the board
With the application, over Bluetooth
- Open the Wavelow VRX application, then "Board update".
- Plug the board in. As soon as the WAVELOW logo shows, hold its BOOT button for 1.5 seconds: the screen reads UPDATE MODE.
- The application finds the board, compares the versions and installs the new one. If it does not start, the board restores the previous one by itself.
With a serial cable
With a 3.3 V serial adapter and Espressif's tools. Commands and addresses are in the instructions file shipped with every version, and in docs/firmware.md of the source code.
Installing your own version
The board accepts any firmware image: no signature prevents you from installing a version you modified and built yourself.
Licences
- Board firmware: GNU General Public License version 3 (GPL-3.0). The text of the licence is in the source code archive.
- Wavelow VRX application: proprietary software of Wavelow.
- The Wavelow name and logo are distinctive signs of Wavelow and are not covered by the licence of the firmware.
Interested in Wavelow VRX?
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