FPV Out Turns Your Raspberry Pi Into a Video Output for DJI First-Person View Drone Goggles
Using a Raspberry Pi as a host, this simple feature fix connects to DJI's goggles over USB and sends a live view out over HDMI.
The FPV Out Club has released software for the Raspberry Pi family of single-board computers, which aims to resolve a drawback with DJI's first-person view drone headset: the lack of HDMI output.
"DigiView SBC is a Linux image that allow you to get a live preview from your DJI FPV goggles (V1 & V2) on a single board computer," the software's authors explain. "The Pi image is based on [Raspberry Pi OS] Lite. The core components that make DigiView SBC are fpv-c, Gstreamer and Hello_Video."
The software, which is compatible with a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B, Raspberry Pi Zero, or better, is designed to work around what its creators see as a design flaw that drone maker DJI is unwilling to fix: The inability to display video from its FPV headset on an external display. Once installed, the software connects to the headset over USB then duplicates the image on the Raspberry Pi's HDMI output.
"This does not require you to make changes to your DJI goggle in any way," the project's maintainers explain. "The goggle is working as intended by the manufacturer."
For those looking for step-by-step instructions on using the software, which is currently available for alpha testing, maker Jérôme Demers has written up a guide to flashing a microSD card, booting the software, connecting the headset, and streaming the video.
More details, along with software for Android devices and web browsers, can be found on the FPV Out Club website; the software itself is available to download from GitHub, where it's made available under the reciprocal GNU General Public License 3.