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Nicolas replied to befinitiv's discussion 3+km HD FPV system using commodity hardware
"This could be an interesting wifi stick for wifibroadcast. Relatively small, two antenna connectors (inside the case), 2.4Gh/5Ghz support and Atheors AR7010/AR9280 chipset which works with the same ath9k_htc driver as the AR9721 sticks like the…"
Jul 16, 2015
Nicolas replied to befinitiv's discussion 3+km HD FPV system using commodity hardware
"Yes, here is more info on that topic:
http://yo3iiu.ro/blog/http://www.qsl.net/kb9mwr/projects/wireless/m...

2487Mhz would possibly be a nice frequency. Still inside the ISM band, but 25Mhz away from standard wifi channels 1-11."
Jul 15, 2015
Nicolas replied to befinitiv's discussion 3+km HD FPV system using commodity hardware
"The Realtek Alfa cards are mentioned here:
https://befinitiv.wordpress.com/2015/02/22/finding-the-right-wifi-d..."
Jul 15, 2015
Nicolas replied to befinitiv's discussion 3+km HD FPV system using commodity hardware
"Yeah, there are different adaptors available to mount quality lenses. Some people even managed to mount really big zoom objectives to it: http://www.truetex.com/raspberry_pi_13.jpg

http://www.truetex.com/raspberrypi"
Jul 15, 2015
Nicolas replied to befinitiv's discussion 3+km HD FPV system using commodity hardware
"Hmm, not sure what you mean. My knowledge about linux video stuff is limited :) I thought using v4l to get the MJPEG stream out of the cam, then pipe it into wifibroadcast tx application. No de-coding or re-coding done. Then on the receiving Pi,…"
Jul 15, 2015
Nicolas replied to befinitiv's discussion 3+km HD FPV system using commodity hardware
"Does anybody know if it would be possible to use such a USB board cam that gives out MJPEG with the Raspi?

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/2pieces-1080p-hd-cmos-ov2710-sensor-...
Description says "Linux with UVC" and it can do the following…"
Jul 15, 2015
Nicolas replied to befinitiv's discussion 3+km HD FPV system using commodity hardware
"Here are some interesting links about how to change medium access strategy with ath9k_htc driver.  There already is a patched driver included which allows changing things nicely via sysfs.

https://github.com/vanhoefm/modwifi…"
Jul 15, 2015
Nicolas replied to befinitiv's discussion 3+km HD FPV system using commodity hardware
"Oh cool, I must have missed that. How did you do it, patched the tx application?"
Jul 15, 2015
Nicolas replied to befinitiv's discussion 3+km HD FPV system using commodity hardware
"I think it depends on how you want to use it.
Right now it uses inter process communication, with the tun/tap solution it would be network communication, which is more versatile.
The idea materialized when I wasn't sure if befinitiv would implement…"
Jul 15, 2015
Nicolas replied to befinitiv's discussion 3+km HD FPV system using commodity hardware
"Hey befinitiv, I have seen you have started implementing FEC from udpcast. Thanks, thanks, thanks.
Now I feel bad, because I haven't had time to dig into the buildroot stuff further. But I will do that sometime :)
But I have looked into the other…"
Jul 14, 2015
Nicolas replied to befinitiv's discussion 3+km HD FPV system using commodity hardware
"Two way communication also wouldn't be very good, because it would cause collisions (=video dropouts) when the ground-station sends something at the same moment with the air-station. In this regard wifi works similarly to the "plain old ethernet…"
Jul 14, 2015
Nicolas replied to befinitiv's discussion 3+km HD FPV system using commodity hardware
"The beauty about wifibroadcast is, that it doesn't use "normal" wifi, it just sends out the packets without the whole ack/retransmission mechanism and association thing. There is also no IP or UDP in the packets, it's just the raw video stream.…"
Jun 3, 2015