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Permalink Reply by Peter Seddon on August 16, 2009 at 9:29am

No.

You need a video transmitter and receiver designed for the purpose that will take the analogue video signal transmit it, and generate an analogue video signal at the receiver. An Xbee is a digital networking device for transmitting data. Whilst a video signal could be digitised you would need some relatively sophisticated equipment to act as a digital video link - certainly not an Xbee.

Peter

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Permalink Reply by ANAND on March 8, 2011 at 11:53pm

Hi,

Thankyou very much for your answer.

 

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Permalink Reply by Simon on August 16, 2009 at 10:25am

Yes & no !!
Actually formatting video data in a way that would be acceptable to an X-Bee module would be tricky but not impossible; the main restriction I think would be the data rate. See the discussion at

I've been thinking along the same lines having got my X-Bee link transferring the data I need but have concluded that it would be (far) easier to use a dedicated video link.
My next problem is ' can I use a 2.4GHz video link in conjunction(i.e. parallel) with an X-Bee data link?' Conventional wisdom seems to be no, because of interference, but I might try it anyway.

Simon Warner

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Permalink Reply by Reto on August 16, 2009 at 10:28am

As long as you use 900Mhz Xbees (or similar frequency far from 2.4 GHz), video at 2.4Ghz is no problem.

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Permalink Reply by I Heart Robotics on August 16, 2009 at 10:53am

My quadrotor used a 2.4GHz bluetooth link for telemetry and the moment I turned on the 2.4GHZ wireless video the telemetry link died. I suppose if you replaced the antennas you might be able to get it to work, but my solution is going to be to use WiFi for everything since zigbee doesn't have enough bandwidth for video.

Gumstix Overo + Webcam + WiFi should allow me to send down a live video feed and telemetry. I am hopig it has enough spare processing power to do some basic computer vision tasks for automatic landing.

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ModeratorPermalink Reply by Chris Anderson on August 16, 2009 at 2:04pm

The data rate is a non-starter. Xbee is designed for serial communications at a max of 230kbps. That's too slow for any kind of decent video.

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