Walkera recently released a the new QR W100 FPV quadrocopter (see video for an review). What makes it stand out is that it uses WiFi for video transmission, making FPV very easy to set up, as you do not need a special FPV receiver.
When powered up the Quad will create a WiFi named WKxxxxxxxx, where xxxxxxxx is a random 8 digit number. Note that this is not a full fledged access-point – while multiple devices can connect to it, only the first one will get the video stream. So if you do not get any video, check your other devices.
Receiving with VLC
While in theory you could any WiFi capable device to receive the stream, Walkera unfortunately only has released an iOS app so far.
However as they are using a standard HTTP MJPEG for the video, one can use any video player, like VLC for receiving.
The address of the Quad is 192.168.10.123 and the video is sent over port 7060, so the video URL is http://192.168.10.123:7060. If you want to do FPV also make sure that you disable any buffering as it introduces latencies (1s by default in VLC)
Recording
You can also take pictures and record video with VLC – for this enable View -> Advanced Controls and the according buttons will appear in the UI
What is missing
Unfortunately VLC on android does not allow disabling network-caching or video recording, so you cant quite use the QR W100 with Android yet. Furthermore the iOS app also allows controlling the Quad over WiFi, which obviously requires more than a video player on the PC.
sharing: for w100s edition, they use mjpg-stream for the video, so you can stream the video to your browser through http://192.168.10.1:8080/?action=stream and snapshot through http://192.168.10.1:8080/?action=snapshot
i am still trying to figure out how to control the RC from computer through the WIFI.. currently only can detect that communication is done through the w100s TCP port 2001 at 192.168.10.1… however still can’t successfully control from pC yet. anyone hacking this can share?
http://www.deviationtx.com/forum/protocol-development/1676-walkera-qr-w100-wifi-controlled-fpv-quad#16168
sean i also have the w100s and when i type http://192.168.10.1:8080/?action=stream it request username and password do you know them?
W100S video stream in VLC(changes):
link: http://192.168.10.1:8080/?action=stream
user: admin
pass: admin123
info:
https://github.com/pallando/QtW100S/releases
The resolution is 352*288 pixels. Low quality.
thanks 060as do you know if the quality depends from software or is the actual from hardware? can we replace the camera module only to the present wifi module?
do you know if it is possible to set the channel of the wifi hotspot, or the frequency range that the devo uses when talking to the w100? I’d like to control the quad with the devo while streaming the video to pc or phone, but when I try to do so there is strong interference which makes it impossible to control to quad. so I thought changing the frequencies (non-overlapping bands) might help…