Posted by Taylor Thomas on October 7, 2015 at 11:30am
An upcoming project requires that I be able to provide a URL with a live video from the Solo's GoPro.Since the solo app uses the solo's wifi network, a second tablet connected to the Gopro would likely not work..? If it would, I could use an app such as livestream to send the live feed directly from the Gopro to the web.In other words, the controller and tablet 1 would connect to the solo while tablet 2 would connect directly to the Gopro.Does anyone here have any ideas on whether this or something else could work? Thanks!
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I can confirm this. We have the VidiU Pro encoder here that also works pretty good. We grab the video from the hdmi output of the controller and ingest it into the internet directly through the encoder, via WiFi or LAN. But the encoder is expensive.
We made also a video streaming tool for the Solo, see here http://go.pilotanywhere.com/help. Works good. But you need a Raspberry for that tool. The idea was to make the video streaming from the Solo as affordable as possible, with the toolsame on hand.
By the way, you can do the live video streaming to out platform, http://go.pilotanywhere.com/ and also conroller your solo using our platform.
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First, I'm using a laptop that I have connected to the Internet via my mobile phone acting as a hotspot. I use a tablet on my controller connected to the Solo.
I purchased a game streaming device called Elgato (www.elgato.com) to make this work. There are several models. I picked up the HD60, though the HD will suffice as you are limited to 720p at 30 frames anyway. You connect the Elgato to your controller via an HDMI to microHDMI cable. You connect the Elgato to your laptop via a miniUSB to USB cable. You use the Elgato software which you download. This latest version provides for streaming directly to Facebook Live, YouTube Live, and half a dozen other services.
You power up the laptop first so the Elgato is powered up from the USB cable before you turn on the controller. Then turn on your GoPro and then your Solo. In this order, the microHDMI port on the controller will get its video out config from the Elgato and you will see the live video coming from the GoPro on the Solo. You simply then add your accounts (Facebook, YouTube, etc.) to the Elgato software and pick the one you want to stream to and start streaming.
It works like a charm but is not nearly as elegant a solution as DJI's "Go" app, but it does work and gives you much more flexibility, features, and streaming services options.
I am trying to stream the video from the solo controller to browser. Is this somehow possible over UDP? Since no public APIs for video streaming are currently available, I tried to pass the video feed from the controller to the computer using netcat and VLC (as described here), but I am unable to re-stream the video from VLC to the browser.
While trying to figure out the jerky video performance on my Solo (turns out it's the tablet), I hooked up VLC so it was watching the Solo's video feed. VLC can live-stream, so something along those lines should work.
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We made also a video streaming tool for the Solo, see here http://go.pilotanywhere.com/help. Works good. But you need a Raspberry for that tool. The idea was to make the video streaming from the Solo as affordable as possible, with the toolsame on hand.
By the way, you can do the live video streaming to out platform, http://go.pilotanywhere.com/ and also conroller your solo using our platform.
First, I'm using a laptop that I have connected to the Internet via my mobile phone acting as a hotspot. I use a tablet on my controller connected to the Solo.
I purchased a game streaming device called Elgato (www.elgato.com) to make this work. There are several models. I picked up the HD60, though the HD will suffice as you are limited to 720p at 30 frames anyway. You connect the Elgato to your controller via an HDMI to microHDMI cable. You connect the Elgato to your laptop via a miniUSB to USB cable. You use the Elgato software which you download. This latest version provides for streaming directly to Facebook Live, YouTube Live, and half a dozen other services.
You power up the laptop first so the Elgato is powered up from the USB cable before you turn on the controller. Then turn on your GoPro and then your Solo. In this order, the microHDMI port on the controller will get its video out config from the Elgato and you will see the live video coming from the GoPro on the Solo. You simply then add your accounts (Facebook, YouTube, etc.) to the Elgato software and pick the one you want to stream to and start streaming.
It works like a charm but is not nearly as elegant a solution as DJI's "Go" app, but it does work and gives you much more flexibility, features, and streaming services options.
Photos from my test tonight.
Solo Streaming.jpg
Steaming from Solo.jpg
Facebook Screen.jpg
Hi,
I am trying to stream the video from the solo controller to browser. Is this somehow possible over UDP? Since no public APIs for video streaming are currently available, I tried to pass the video feed from the controller to the computer using netcat and VLC (as described here), but I am unable to re-stream the video from VLC to the browser.
I used:
nc 10.1.1.1 5502 | vlc params.sdp --sout='#transcode{vcodec=theo}:http{mux=ogg,dst=localhost:8080/stream}'
And on the browser client:
<video src="http://localhost:8080/stream" autoplay>
mark burtle said:
Erik Graham said:
Erik Graham said:
While trying to figure out the jerky video performance on my Solo (turns out it's the tablet), I hooked up VLC so it was watching the Solo's video feed. VLC can live-stream, so something along those lines should work.
This should help. I have not done exactly what you described, but it should be fairly straightforward.