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✈️ 7 tips for simplified travel with lithium batteries✈️
Travelling with batteries has never been more difficult, however there are a number of things you can do to prepare and make the process much smoother. Read more...
New telemetry overlay feature in QGroundControl!!
QGroundControl now outputs a subtitle file, which allows telemetry data (including GPS) to be overlaid on the video file from your drop/tow camera or ROV. Learn how to use VLC to hard encode batches of videos with the telemetry subtitle file, to create a professional video, ready to publish or send to clients Read more...
️️ Displaying GPS position in QGroundControl for ROV or towed camera operations ️️
Here we show how you can use a topside GPS and software to get positional data displaying in QGroundControl for when you're using a Spot X ArduSub based tow camera or Blue Robotics BR2 ROV. Read more...
Live Streaming With Minimal Hardware
In this video we discuss how you can use an RTSP video feed to livestream using almost any simple IP camera and a laptop Read more...
Live Streaming Hardware for Field Based Applications
Check out how you can use an ElGato CamLink (or other similar device) to live stream your video feed, even in the field. Read more...
Live Underwater Streaming Using a BlackMagic Web Presenter
Check out how to setup the BlackMagic Web Presenter to live stream your underwater footage Read more...
Setting Up Your GoPro to LiveStream on Facebook or YouTube
Use the GoPro app on your phone or tablet to stream directly to Facebook or YouTube. Use our underwater housings to get live streaming underwater in minutes Read more...
GPS / Data Overlay Using an AeroMax OSD board and PixHawk Flight Controller
Use a PixHawk flight controller, Blue Robotics depth sensor, and AeroMax OSD board to overlay GPS and other data to your videos Read more...
TECH TIP TUESDAY #20 GARMIN CUSTOM TIME-LAPSE SETTINGS
TECH TIP TUESDAY #20 GARMIN CUSTOM TIME-LAPSE SETTINGS
The Garmin Virb Ultra 30 has a host of customisable settings to simplify (and improve!) the time-lapse procedure. Read more...
GPS data overlay primer
GPS data overlay primer
Once of the most common queries we have at Spot X is how to/the best/cheapest way to overlay positional data to a video survey. In this post we discuss and... Read more...
Underwater live streaming on the net (private or public platforms)
Spot X Underwater Vision can assist with the topside and subsea equipment for broadcasting your real-time video on the web Read more...
Researcher Profile- ID Ocean
Researcher Profile- ID Ocean
In the next episode of our Researcher Profile series, we chat to ID Ocean about their work in a remote spot in the Indian Ocean. Read more...