Received my new GoPro 3 Black editions on Friday and spent most of the weekend playing with all the settings and learning the new menus. The iPhone App is awesome. You basically can change and view all the available settings of your camera through your iPhone or iPad without touching the camera.
Unfortunately in my rush to get outside for a few minutes to test some aerial footage and view from iPhone, I forgot that the GoPro transmits via 2.4 just like my Aurora 9 radio. The video shows what happens next...
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Hi Graham. I have am Aurora 9 and a gopro 3 on order – o dear.
I know the Aurora has an alternative TX mode, claimed to be better when the 2.4g band gets busy but I don’t think I will be experimenting with the wifi turned on.
Ground based range checks are not proof against freq conflicts.
Once you are in the air, the signal strength obviously becomes lower, and this is when any possible same-band conflicts show up... usually too late.
Also, spread-spectrum freq hopping technologies do not protect against broad spectrum transmitters which flood the whole band.
I've also discovered to my detriment that the Aurora 9's signal is not nearly as robust as one is led to believe. I feel that they really could've done better and made it a little more bullet-proof, I flew behind some damp trees and my FPV plane became a lawn dart, was a weird feeling to crash hard while viewing from the plane's perspective.
Another problem was my quad attempting to fly off by completely by itself in a very remore place with my phone attached (see my blog post)
All were using the Aurora 9 Tx and Optima 7 Rx
The wifi won't stream recording video above 1080p and it is lagged a bit. You can view live but not while recording. 1080 and below you can view both live and recording. I drove around a bit with it inside the car looking out and the lag seemed to be 3-5 seconds in most cases. I'll mainly be using the viewing options for set-up in my full size aircraft. Plus battery life seems to go pretty fast with all the options on.