Connex ProSight Review 

Really good episode. Great testing and reviewing. This is the first commentary on the Connex that I feel like accurately captured its pro's and con's.

Guys this is the best video you have done this far. So much real world situations and tests, loved it. Also Chad awesome job asking the right questions and describing exactly what we have all been wondering. Thanks for testing and your honest feedback. Keep up the awesome work Rotor Riot. Happy flying yes more tests, lots more tests, range tests, how multiple pilots, etc.

Dear Rotor Riot Crew, Just wanted to say thank you for being super awesome dudes and promoting quad racing with a happy and enthusiastic state of mind. I went to Drone Nationals 2016, the second day, and had so much fun. By now I have been flying for about a year and am currently comfortable to start using my FPV goggles. (Up to now I've flown LOS) I met Chad and had him sign my goggles, which was awesome. After watching you guys freestyle and numerous races, you guys inspired me to go home and push my self to fly better. Today I attempted my first flip and roll and was very successful, I didn't crash once! Thank you for making my summer awesome, that's saying a lot considering I just got back from 3 weeks in Europe and my birthday was a week ago! You guys rock, Owen P.S. Chad, not sure if you remember me, I asked you to sign my goggles inside the "aquarium", my Dad also explained how much he loved Australia when he was there. Thanks again for being super cool, your kinda my idol.

Best rotorriot episode ever...no Steele! Tommy and Chad are natural presenters and not boring at all to watch. Please keep it that way!

Guys, thanks for a great review. Many points taken, and will certainly be working on it. Charles, cool setup on your quad, was glad to see ProSight still working like that with one antenna down.

Thanks for a straight forward, honest, no fluff look at this system. Nice job.

I like chad stepped in with info and his input he keep it as real as he could

We would love to watch more on the Connex Prosight . Great video , I can see this being the future of FPV. Thank you for this !

You have 5 rubber ducky antennas there. If you point all of them up then diversity is doing absolutely nothing. How about if you cover all 3 axis and 2x 45deg? would this eliminate freezing issue? The range at which freezing happens is really putting off, especially when you consider the price-tag of Connex system...

The content is so professional and great the channel deserves at least 10 times its current subscriber count

I would like to see more videos like this about new products. You guys are always the first to see and touch new products and its nice to see a review from top pilots rather than Billy Bob whos been flying for 3 months trying to tell you if a product is good or not.

Thanks guys... Been waiting for this. I'd definitely like to see more extensive testing with your points of view see if it gets better with experience.

The noise looks much better now in HD.

You guys should look into flying the goat canyon trestle in the deserts east of San Diego. It's abandoned, it's HUGE (largest curved trestle in the world), and it's secluded. Heck of a hike to get in there, but would make an EPIC day of flying. There's also a bunch of railroad tunnels to shoot - some up to 150 feet and curved. Keep up the great episodes!

13:56 Good one lol! Cool episode I'm been curious about it glad you guys finally got around to giving it a shot it.

Def want to see some distance testing and real world mix of racing and freestyle with this setup. Thanks for doing this!

Real world testing of technical limits of the hardware you guys use, I think, is a great idea. It would allow others to know what to expect when getting into the field.

Nice meeting you guys at the drone national yesterday. You guys rock.

Looking at the part where they were doing an interference test. When it blacked out, i noticed that the battery dipped to 5.5 volts then cut out.

Nice review. I have a HD setup too and 30fps is a bit weird with fast motion.

Surprisingly good for early tech. Since there is an apparent data budget with the 720p30 vs 720i60 I would love to see a 480p60 mode where the extra data is used for image redundancy to extend range / reduce breakup.

im sure its dull to film for you guys but the reviews every now and then are great. even the talk comparing your setup to this gives in site to both systems.

Loved the video!! Great insight on how you guys test new tech coming into the hobby. Great feedback without bashing the crap out of it like some people would. Would love to see more of that!

Nice real world testing!! I would love to see you guys really put this product to the test!! Do some actual racing with analog in the mix!! I'm still waiting for people to say that they have completely changed over to using this product 100% of the time before I pull the trigger!

Great video. Just finished my 180, 160, and 400 quad.

Thank you all so very much for your honesty =) Shows real character, bravo. Fly shiny and chrome into Valhalla! o7

Yes, more reviews on the Connex guys!

one of the best episodes yet, very informative great real world review, guess its safe to say its just not there yet for racing or freestyling, but im sure it will find its place in the market. Great job guys!

Good exposure. Thanks guys.

Very nice guys... The "ding" at 8:09 made me check my phone... Lol!

Yes, more tests with pro sight please!

Definitely enjoyed watching! I'd love to see you guys run the Connex a bit more. Feedback from you lot could do a deal of good.

More tests please. Zero/low latency HD fpv is the future..... since the first time I flew analog I've longed for a zero latency HD fpv setup. I mean who wouldn't want 1080 details and crispness while flying zero latency am I right??? For this "sport" to grow HD fpv setups are a MUST for both pilots and spectators. After watching your video it appears there is more work that needs to be done to get us all there. HD is where we need to be. But if it's not there yet it's not there. Thank for your honest reviews, looking forward to more.

Great test guys! I've been interested in this HD FPV gear to see what it looks like and this was a cool review, nice job! 👊👊😁

have been waiting for you guys to do a video about this!!! so cool:)

That is sick mate. That rite there is the future of fpv quality 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

Perfect video and review that´s what I was hoping to see, thank you guys

I'd really like to see more of the HD technology. It's very intriguing to me because I know a lot of people that won't get into it until HD equipment is cheaper. I personally fly analogue and don't mind the quality at all because I can go back and watch the footage from my other camera later.

Yes please! More vids like these.

I was just thinking about buying this! Thanks, love the videos!

Can y'all do a beginners guide(s) to quad components i.e. -Flight controllers (Taranis Pro, etc.) -Software (Clean Flight) -Board components -FPV gear (FatShark,etc) Just basically a component tutorial of sorts for us new kids who are getting into the sport because of your vids and the term "shredding balls"!!! Thanks guys!

Lol this is so funny to look back on Now that digital FPV has come so far.

yes, I would like to see another video with 4 of the connex flying at the same time. Put it in 60 fps and race. And throw a couple analogs in there too. See how many you can have at one time. And I wish steele was there too, I know he was very leary of the prosight. It would be great to see what he says about it.

Awesome content, really well put together episode. Thank you for the time and energy you all put into making it.

Guys. The added "lag" you feel is not due to the lower frame rate. It's just extra latency due to HD processing of 720p at full bitrate. You're not flying 60 frames per second analog either. Yes, NTSC transmits 60 interlaced fields per second, but you're using CCD cameras that capture whole frames at only 30fps and LCD displays which display at 30 frames per second progressive (also whole frame at once). There's just less latency between the time the analog frame is captured, and when it's displayed. If you tried to fly with something like an analog Effio V camera, it would feel very much like Prosight in HP mode. Just extra lag. Otherwise your observations pretty much match my own. HQ looks great, but the added latency is too much for aggressive flying (freestyle, proximity and racing). HP mode has very little latency, but the light handling is dreadful. BTW, you should not have seen *any* breakups in the signal with clear LoS, especially at short range. That was probably due to the broken antenna (or antennas). I had a similar experience.

yep a range test would be nice,great show as usual

Nice review guys. Came at a really good time to

Yes test more of the system!

I agree with Chad 100%, I would love to put this on my 450 quad for cruising and getting some nice AP but it's another couple of revisions away from being mini quad acceptable...I wouldn't even put it on a wing because the range is only 1500 feet I believe?

When you do the in depth review, be sure to include the weight difference and battery drain vs analogue - I'm curious to know if the quad would be giving up flight time, and I'd so how much.

Great review I am a newbie and have been looking at the whole package with the Falcor quad Still a bit undecided but it looks like it is a good one to get up and racing around right out of the box

Waiting for Range test and Metal obstacles test.

Guys thanks for the honest review. Cant vait for ver 2.0 of this system and hopefully a reduced cost as well

Nice video and comparison! The Connex ground station is a tad big, I'm sure an analogue system would benefit from a truck mounted Yagi antenna as well.

Perfect review! Thanks guys! !

Very informative session (warts and all without the manufacturer marketing hype that you sometimes have to put up with in these type of "test" vids). Well done.

Hah watching the video and my son comes running up when Chad went on about Minecraft ;)

@5:55 Citation needed. According to the manual, the device supports FCC and HAM compliant modes and I didn't see anything indicating Part 15 FCC compliance, presumably because of the HAM mode.

possible direction for future tests, different goggles. Compare whatever these were with fatshark, headplay, etc. How much of the feeling and fov comments were due to the different goggles and how much the camera+link. Also how well does it interop with analog if you manually set frequencies (both in the normal bands and outside).

That was a good watch ⌚️Thanks for the knowledge.

I'd definitely like to see some range testing with HD Connex.

yes to everything your said at the end.

Nice job Christian! My main issue with the Connex is that you need a tripod for the receiver, and I just love the portability of FatSharks. Say, I challenge RotorRiot to have a Tiny Whoop competition? What do you say?

Great work guys, thanks!

I would love more Connex ProSight testing, get steele and charpu trying it as well! Would be nice to try different headsets, maybe specially the FatShark HD V2 or Dominator V3 because (I think) they are the most widely used FPV headsets out there :D

I wonder if the ProSight has channel hopping, much like a wireless router in auto channel mode. This would explain intermittent interference when introduced to another signal. If so pre-selecting an unused channel if possible might resolve the any interference issues. Also pre-selecting 100mw mode persistent may also help as the adjustment may not be quick enough for sudden signal degradation vs the gradual degradation of just getting further away.

You guys gotta try wifibroadcast with an Oculus Rift. It does add 150ms or so latency but you get full flexibility, you can change resolution, fps, aspect ratio, FOV of the goggles freely, for example you can simulate the fatshark's fov but with high resultion.

I would love to see more testing I am trying to decide whether to get one or not.

Love the Technics T-Shirt Tommy haha :-)

Want to see range tests and fly with more analog VTX-Systems and Prosight!

Honest review and great comparison vs analog! Thanks, just wondering if you could do a head to head of the 5.8 modules for Fatshark goggles including the new diversity units.

I want to see a setup with 6+ pilots in a race situation where more people randomly plug in. It's the biggest thing holding the sport back, we need reliable 6+ pilots in the air.

great review, been interested to see the current state of top tier video tx rx equipment.

Hi RR team, just a thought about the diversity antennas, I thought the antennas should be set each at different angle to get good reception in all quad orientations, I maight be wrong too. Like the video good stuff.

More! I'm really interested in digital feeds.

You guys need to make a trip to the UK and meet up with Team Green Prop :)

More testing with the Prosight please.

Has anyone thought about the cut off problem could be from a truckers very powerful CB radio . I have a buddy that lives next to me and I was flying while he keyed the radio it caused my analog video to cut out on me.

Are you guys coming to the RMRC FPV Fest in Willard Ohio?

Yes, I want to see Chad push it to the limits.

It would have been cool to jack in a set of Dom v3s to take the Vuzix Goggle solution out of the equation. They'll also do the 16x9 picture and accept an HDMI 720p input. This is also more along the lines of what we're gonna fly with, even if they aren't a true 720p video solution. Im betting the quality difference will still be noticeable. Those Vuzix are a pretty sweet home theater solution but it's a whole lot of head gear in the field / outdoors. Thank you SO much for this video as I think it truly shows the capabilities of the system. I'd love to see the additional test flying 100+ yards out as well as say 5 FPV ships in the air mixing the analog and digital. Is this system FCC certified for operation without a Ham License in the US? If it is you'd think it would be all over the web site.

Stonekap needs to spring for 4 of these setups! :-)

I would be worried that the interlace mode (720i60) flown fast and low (racing?) would show the typical interlace problems with the picture beeing "half updated" and "torn"... not sure how to describe it :D

I'm thinking some better antennas i would try a full range of whatever you can throw at it

I would very much like to see more testing. 10 At the same time will be cool

The breakup could be the quad flying near the concrete which has rebar in it.

I would love to see more digital tests, really I would like too see digital system one vs digital system two vs analog. In distance tests high speed tests etc

thanks for the review

should try out Connex mini, apparently it is 1080 60 no latency

Good review and testing. The only thing that bugs me is the digital pixelation and the breakup vs. analog static breakup. It seems that dealing with interference with analog is easier than digital as digital freezes. I'll still stick with analog for now before moving to digital. Plus Connex is too bulky compared to analog systems at the moment.

this looks amazing

Full (TRUE) HD FPV has been a LONG TIME COMING! Please, PLEASE someone prefect this technology, after the bugs get worked out I guarantee it will be the next big craze in FPV racing.

Oh, and 30 fps is what I get with the analog systems? right? with the price tag it has It would be quit the investment. However being new still to fpv, I'm thinking this sounds great with the true 16:9 HD image and a much cleaner image than the best 5.8ghz analog. Distance testing, tree testing, backside of barns testing would all be great :)

this is great stuff!!! workin together!!!

Interesting. Looks like you guys had pretty much the same experience I did...

These new digital transmission systems are certainly interesting, but what makes me hesitant is that it's a digital trasmission. Let's suppose you're flying over a bridge and the signal goes down, if you have digital trasmission you get black screen. If you have analog trasmission you still can see sometimes a little picture that can help you locating. Remember also that if you loose signal, in analog you can just stand up ( if you were sit down ) or rotate your goggles ( let's suppose you have a patch antenna ) to get back the signal. I mean.. you can recover the signal much faster than a digital trasmission. Last but not least.. digital trasmission are more likely to interference.. I'd like to try.. but i think it's too early to use them as fpv racing/freestyle system. If you use it, for example, to see what your big quadcopter is recording through his 1080p/4k camera this would be best solution and would be very useful to drone videomakers. I'm sorry for my "scholastic" english.. i hope you can understand what i want to say. Anyway, as always, great video Rotor Riot :)

Hm. Not much different from my Gen 1 Lightbridge setup from 2-3 years ago really. I'll hold out for 1080p at 60fps with rock solid reliability. Still very interesting from a tech perspective so YES - let's see you guys push these things hard. I'd like to see some range tests, indoor/outdoor and trees vs urban stuff and DEFINITELY a test of some 6-8 up head to head racing. Considering how HUGE of an issue FPV links are at big races I think that's where the immediate benefit of this thing would be...the 60 FPS version if not the 30fps. Will it hold up to that and if so will we see better racing due to more people being able to fly to the finish? Do it!

I would like to see more of distance and some more acro.

Any chance you guys could review the Dquad RefleX please? You guys are awesome and there's no decent review on it yet, in english anyway.

I would absolutely to see more in depth testing for this or other (if there is any?) digital setup! Would really like to try out digital... But afraid that it is just quite not there yet??? At 500$ the kit... It better work well?