Another mi xiaomi mod. But not what you'd expect...

xcrost · Jan 28, 2019

The settings I listed (1&1) are for the most stable video but with low quality. For high quality video you need to experiment a bit. The Tellofpv manual (in help) does a great job of explaining these settings.

Customerx · Jan 28, 2019

Ok cheers been working my way through that lol
still amazed by all the icons

I will get used to it.

Mikusan · Jan 29, 2019

interesting stuff, can't wait for a distance and altitude test

raulvolador · Jan 29, 2019

@Customerx

I'm really interested in your mod. Even I'm planning to buy another Xiaomi repeater

I have a question for you: How do you configure both Repeaters for working together ?

Thanks a lot.

Customerx · Jan 29, 2019

It took me a while to get my head around it lol had everything placed out with bits of paper next to them

It works in reverse.

Do the mod. (Any questions feel free to ask. Have just about have it written out, parts needed etc, how to) not hard to do at all.

Attach the Xiaomi to the drone.

WiFi =
SSID TELLO (6 digit identifier code)_plus
(Xiaomi mi WiFi 1)

Daisy chain the next repeater to connect to this SSID.

It becomes

SSID
SSID TELLO (6 digit identifier code)_plus_plus
(Xiaomi mi WiFi 2)

Connect with TELLO app to the
SSID TELLO (6 digit identifier code)_plus_plus
(Xiaomi mi WiFi 2)

Simple way to explain if you have one xiaomi mi configured already then use that to attach (physically) to the drone and set the second to link through WiFi to that one. Then always use the plus_plus WiFi connection in the app.

Hope this makes sense...

Customerx · Jan 29, 2019

With the upgrade you guys are doing on the base station this should kick ***.
This is the micro otg I used.

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Customerx · Jan 30, 2019

Took this screen grab during a test to show example.

LELET81 · Jan 30, 2019

Teeeeeeest! We want to seeee!

Customerx · Jan 30, 2019

Funny you should say that, had a quick test today, forgot to save footage doh lol but did screen grab. Will upload in a mo. Only flown a few times so am going to try distance tomorrow. Footage in a minute. It's not bad

Customerx · Jan 30, 2019

Was just testing the feed back and signal on TELLOfpv, didn't drop. Yet when connected to just the one xiaomi it was terrible.

Uploading YouTube now. So it's over to the YouTube conversion tool

see ya in an hour lol

LELET81 · Jan 30, 2019

Customerx · Jan 30, 2019

LELET81 · Jan 30, 2019

90db stable both front and rear side of Tello... Now go over 80m...really good! Thanks for sharing

Customerx · Jan 30, 2019

Planning on doing over 80m gonna go til it runs out lol (with the Mrs walking along side it of course

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LELET81 · Jan 30, 2019

Go go go

leandjb · Jan 30, 2019

Check that!
Omnidirectional antenna + Wifi extender = 5Km

Stele · Jan 31, 2019

LELET81 said:
90db stable both front and rear side of Tello... Now go over 80m...really good! Thanks for sharing

Correct me if I'm wrong but the tello will always report 90db back because it's referring to the connection to the repeater strapped to it's back.
There is no way to know how strong the link between the two repeaters is, apart from using a second phone with am Wi-Fi analyser app to monitor the signal strength of the tello repeater.

Customerx · Jan 31, 2019

Dam your good, I didn't think of that. That explains why the dB didn't drop on the footage that I quickly took, well screen recorded, I just connected to the WiFi on the mi on the TELLO. The quality dropped but I didn't get a warning. So I turned it around. Will upload this footage too.

LELET81 · Jan 31, 2019

Stele said:
Correct me if I'm wrong but the tello will always report 90db back because it's referring to the connection to the repeater strapped to it's back.
There is no way to know how strong the link between the two repeaters is, apart from using a second phone with am Wi-Fi analyser app to monitor the signal strength of the tello repeater.

Uhm... Good observation... I didn't thought at this thing... I think you are in right...