5GHZ wifi drone but 2.41 GHz phone.

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Smundye

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Hello folks.
Being new to the game I have bought my first drone which was stated as being 5G compatible.
I took that to mean 5G mobile comms but no, I found out too late it meant 5GHz wifi!!

Unfortunately, my relatively new and somewhat expensive phone has only 2.41GHz wifi.
I've searched in vain for a cheap 5GHZ compatible phone but to no avail.

Is it the case that "Never the twain shall meet" or is there any type of converter out there somewhere that will let my phone and drone talk to each other?

Regards

Stuart.
 
Hi Stuart,

Only thing that comes to mind that *might* work is using an OTG adapter for the phone and an external 5GHz USB wifi radio but would need to find one that the Android OS already has kernel modules/drivers built in for so would be able to recognize and use as a WiFi device (honestly not sure if Android even supports this but you can plug in OTG adapter and then use keyboards/mice and other peripherals so it might be possible).

Barring that you would be stuck getting a new phone or new drone one of the two, different frequencies have different length antenna and will basically never talk or interfere with each other (a signal at a given frequency with higher output will bleed out a bit into surrounding bandwidth but I don't think an antenna tuned for 2.4GHz will really "see" the 5GHz signal at all).
 
Smundye said:
Hello folks.
Being new to the game I have bought my first drone which was stated as being 5G compatible.
I took that to mean 5G mobile comms but no, I found out too late it meant 5GHz wifi!!

Unfortunately, my relatively new and somewhat expensive phone has only 2.41GHz wifi.
I've searched in vain for a cheap 5GHZ compatible phone but to no avail.

Is it the case that "Never the twain shall meet" or is there any type of converter out there somewhere that will let my phone and drone talk to each other?

Regards

Stuart.
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I also have a smartphone that can only support 2.4g wifi. I am literally shut out from recent models which come with 5g wifi.
I have looked high and low for a less expensive 5g wifi smartphone.
The only one I can find is this one from Amazon.ca...................
Samsung Galaxy A10e 32GB - Black - Unlocked
It goes for $199.99 CDN. I'm in Canada. If you are in US, same model could cost as little as $150 US.
excerpt ftom its specs................
5g wifi phone.jpg
 
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I was in the same boat you were in. I finally just had to buy another phone. I purchased the LG Stylo 5 for about a hundred bucks. I didn't want to spend the money, because I have a relatively new Samsung phone.(2.4g wifi)
 
You're SOL, however, you can borrow someone's iphone to see the video feed.

Here's the worst news: these video links over wifi to your phone universally suck and have such incredibly bad latency and frame rates (5 per minute, if you can maintain the link at all?) , it's impossible to fly with fpv them. If you are flying LOS, you can hand your phone to a friend to watch, but they won't see anything worth viewing. At least every one that I have tried. Your best bet is not to get another phone, but instead...

Here's what you do:

Get a cheap 3 in 1 / All-in-on-Camera/VTX... for example, the Eachine TX-05. Less than $20.
Add a 1s battery connector plug to it.
Hot glue it or zip tie it to your drone, or retrofit it inside if you are ambitious You can usually take off the camera that came with your drone to save weight.
Rubber band or hotglue or ziptie a charged 1s battery to it, and when you want to fly, plug them in together.

Now, you've got a legit 5ghz standard analog feed vieable by any analog goggles out there.

Get yourself a super cheap pair of Chinese analog box goggles, $35-$50.

60fpv in real time very park flyable.

I don't recommend investing too much money in either the camera or the analog goggles, as going down either road is obsolete and the digital goggles blow them out of the water. But if you want to fly on the super cheap, fpv, in real time, don't even try a phone video feed, it's impossible... add your own camera and use some 5.8ghz goggles.

I recommend everyone start out flying a sim, put a couple of hundred hours into it playing it like a video game, and not the real hardware.
Get good in the sim, otherwise you are just banging stuff into tree limbs and smoking motors until they are dead because you didn't disarm in time.
Pick out a big wide open park or field to start, no wind... not your back yard where there's everything and anything to hit.

Choppergirl
http://edgy.air-war.org
 
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