Hey guys, Ben here from Authentech, and today I'll be show you how to turn your Phone, in
an FPV Monitor!
This brings some sweet benefits and features, like saving money, portability, easy video
capture, and more.
Let's dive right in!
Now first up, FPV, is First Person View, basically a video camera is mounted on your drone, or
plane, RC car, boat, wherever, and this broadcasts a live video feed to the pilot.
I made a great video in the past on "How To FPV Anything", check it out after this one.
Normally, FPV is viewed on a pair of goggles, or maybe a monitor.
There's great benefits to using these, like the goggles are perfect for drone racing,
split-second reactions, and it feels like you're flying in the cockpit.
As a few downsides, they can often be more expensive, like one to 500 dollars, also,
you lose line-of-sight visibility, so you need a spotter.
Today we're checking out these sweet little gadgets, that receive the FPV signal, and
then turn your phone, tablet, or even laptop into an FPV monitor!
I've been testing and playing with four different OTG units, each one is priced slightly different,
ranging from 38 dollars, all the way down to just 18 bucks, they're all from Banggood,
huge thanks to those guys for sending them.
I wanted to test and see if there was a big difference between each unit, and end of the
day, which one is the most bang for your buck.
My personal favorite so far... is the Eachine ROTG-02.
It seems to be the best balance between price and features.
They all come in this convenient little carrying-tin, like those old zippo-lighters.
Price on this one is currently only $24 bucks, I'll give you all the links down below.
It's a diversity receiver, with 2 antennas which can help to improve quality and reliability
of the signal.
It can also support audio playback.
I like that it includes 2 cables included, one for older-micro-usb phones, and one usb-type-c
for newer devices.
It has the scan up and down buttons, or, hold to auto scan all channels and frequencies,
it'll show you the strength of signal, and then auto switch you to the strongest frequency,
very easy and convenient, and I love the visual graph it produces.
Latency actually isn't as bad as I thought it might be.
Of course, it's not for Pro-FPV-Racers, however you could definitely fly or drive off of it,
or even better, use it as a secondary monitor for friends and family to watch, or use it
as a very easy way to record the video feed.
Many cheaper goggles and monitors out there Don't have the micro-SD card DVR feature,
this is a nice workaround.
Another great use, use an app that can split the screen into two, then slide your phone
into ordinary FPV goggles and now you have the flying-in-VR-Effect for super cheap.
I saw some comparisons online between the original 01 model, and this updated 02, and
honestly it doesn't seem to make a major difference...
Soo.. if you want to save 6 bucks, the 01 is currently down to $18 dollars, and though
it's not diversity, but some people say it works just as strong, its up to you, I don't
think you can go wrong with either.
The 01 still has the 150 channel, auto search function, worked great,... image quality and
latency looked good, and for only 18 bucks, this one is pretty awesome.
Now onto my next favorite, is the G-model, which is the most expensive, coming in at
$38 dollars, but still not that rich, and has a cool unique feature.
It's a diversity receiver, has a built-in rechargeable battery, and it has WiFi!
So, the G-model creates it's own Wifi Hotspot, download, a-semi-questionable app downloaded
to your phone, you can wirelessly connect over to the receiver for the the FPV signal...,
start, stop recording, search signal strengths...
all wireless, via Wifi.
The latency is going to be a bit higher on this one, but it's still a nice picture, and
honestly, the wireless connectivity of it all is kinda slick.
And last up, the R051, it wouldn't work well for me, I tried a variety of cables and efforts.
Finally, I succumbed to downloading the suggested semi-fishy-Eachine app to my android, which
I didn't like as much as FP-Viewer found in the play store.
Anyway, swapping out a few more cables, and I finally got the feed to patch through.
Maybe this one is better for iOS users, I mean it has a dedicated iOS switch on the
unit, anyway, this one is $29 dollars.
The micro-racing-drone that I'm using is the DYS ELF, I made a full video on this little
quads, and they are still one of my all-time favorites!
Make sure you check it out.
All links to products and videos are down in the description.
Thanks for watching, and stick around for more tech videos like this posted EVERY week.
Until next time, let's live Authentech.