ALWAYS ON
A standby card, never a black hole
Lose signal on a pack swap and the output holds a standby card instead of freezing on the last frame or dropping the source out from under your switcher.
RACE DAY AERIALS · FPVLINK
Goggles in,
clean HDMI out.
FPVLink is an always-on HDMI output for DJI FPV goggles — decoded in hardware, held live with a standby card instead of black, and measured at 37.8 ms of added latency across a live 14-race event. It is the box at the end of our own chain at every event we fly, and we build them to order for other crews.
HANDOFF
1080p60 clean HDMI
ALSO OUT
NDI · SRT + RTMP
BOX ADDS
37.8 ms median, live 14-race event
OFFICIAL AERIAL CREW · EMOTO RACING LIVE — SPRING & SUMMER SERIES
GLEN HELENPERRIS MXFOX RACEWAYLAKE ELSINORE01 — FPVLINK
The last box is one we built.
Goggles are made to be worn, not patched into a broadcast. Getting a clean, always-live picture out of them is the part nobody sells you, so we built it: FPVLink, an always-on HDMI output for DJI FPV goggles, running on an Orange Pi 5. It is not a bench project: it is the same build that ends our chain at every event we fly. What your broadcast sees comes out of it.
SEE LICENSING →HARDWARE DECODE
Decoded on silicon, not on a laptop
The RK3588S decodes H.264 in hardware and paints straight to the display. No laptop in the chain, nothing to fall over because a background update decided to run.
NETWORK OUT
NDI on your LAN, SRT or RTMP off-site
Take it as NDI into OBS or vMix in the tower, or push SRT / RTMP to a remote ingest. Streaming runs as its own process, so a bad uplink never touches the HDMI feed. All three are still in field testing — HDMI is the handoff we guarantee on a date. Every output is on every box, with nothing switched off or marked.
DASHBOARD
Someone can watch it who isn't flying
A password-protected page shows live fps, bitrate, resolution and dropped frames with a low-rate confidence preview — so your producer can check the feed without asking the pilot.
02 — LATENCY
Measured, and published.
Everyone in this category writes “ultra-low latency” and publishes no figure. Here is ours, what it covers, and — the part that actually matters — what it does not.
37.8ms
median latency the box adds — USB bytes in, to pixels handed to the panel
- Measured at
- A live 14-race event, not a bench — on the RK3588 configuration this box is built from
- Dropped frames
- Zero, across the whole event
- On that feed
- 1080p60, about 9.5 Mbps out of the goggles
- On the dashboard
- A live readout, checkable on the day
What that number is not. It is the box’s own segment and nothing else. Ahead of it sits the DJI radio link — 30–40 ms by DJI’s own published figures — and then the goggles’ USB video tap, which hands over no capture timestamp at all. Behind it sits your monitor or switcher, another 5–15 ms depending on the panel. The one thing you can add to our own segment is colour: running the 3D LUT measures +17 ms on top, also with no dropped frames.
Which is why we will not quote you a glass-to-glass number, and why you should be wary of anyone who does — the goggles make it genuinely unmeasurable. What we can hand you is our own segment, exactly, because that is the part we built and the part we can instrument. Cut it as a live camera and it behaves like one.
03 — THE SIGNAL CHAIN
Track to switcher, five links.
Air unit
A DJI O3 / O4 on the aircraft, transmitting from wherever it is on the property.
Goggles
Your pilot's goggles on the ground are the receiver. What they fly by is what you get.
FPVLink
One USB-C cable into the box. Decoded in hardware, held always-on, colour handled with a 3D LUT if your show wants it.
Your switcher
Clean 1080p60 out of the HDMI port — no overlays, no menus, no goggle UI. It's just another camera on your board.
Or over the network
If the tower is easier to reach by network than by an HDMI run, take NDI on the LAN or SRT / RTMP to your ingest instead. Still in field testing, so this one gets agreed and proved before your date.
04 — WHAT'S INCLUDED
Every feature, on every box.
One price, one build. Nothing on this list is an upgrade, an add-on, a subscription or a tier — if a box can do it, your box can do it.
The picture
- Clean 1080p60 HDMI, always on — no overlays, no menus, no goggle UI
- A standby card the instant signal drops, so your switcher never loses the source
- Hardware H.264 decode on the RK3588S, painted straight to the panel
- 3D LUT colour grading on the HDMI path — upload your own
.cube, swap between LUTs with no restart - Every DJI goggle in one build: Goggles 2, 3, Integra, N3 and V1 / V2 — Goggles 2 and the N3 are the two we have measured on hardware
Off the box field testing
- NDI on your LAN, into OBS, vMix or NDI Studio Monitor
- SRT to a remote ingest
- RTMP to a remote ingest
- Streaming runs as its own process — a bad uplink never touches the HDMI feed
Watching it
- Password-protected dashboard, on any phone or laptop on the network
- Live fps, bitrate, resolution and dropped-frame counters
- A low-rate confidence preview of the actual feed
- A live readout of the latency the box is adding, right now
Your branding
- Your logo on HDMI, on NDI and in the preview
- Your own sponsor card on standby between heats
- Both fall back to clean video if anything about them fails
- Covered by the commercial license that comes with the box
The box itself
- Orange Pi 5 (RK3588S), assembled, flashed and bench-tested
- A cable into your switcher
- Perpetual commercial license in your outfit's name — verified offline, never phones home
- Updates for the life of the box, installed from its own dashboard
- Support direct from the person who built it, inside two working days
Not in it yet
- Local recording to the box
- RTSP
- Telemetry or OSD overlays
Listed here so your engineer finds out now rather than on race morning. If one of these is what decides it for you, say so — it moves up the list.
05 — BUILT TO ORDER
We build it, you plug it in.
FPVLink is not sold as software and is not licensed on its own — it comes as a box we assemble, flash and bench-test, on exactly the hardware we fly. What you cannot buy at any price is a configuration somebody has already proven at a race, so that is what we sell, and the only configuration we support.
- PRICE
- TBD — not set yet; the commercial license is included in whatever it lands at
- HARDWARE
- Orange Pi 5 (RK3588S) — the same Rockchip silicon and the same build we fly at every event
- YOU GET
- Assembled, flashed, bench-tested, and a cable into your switcher
- ONE CONFIGURATION
- Every box identical, so a fault is one we can reproduce rather than guess at
- LEAD TIME
- Coming soon — not open for orders yet; once it is, a box ships in 3–4 weeks from the day the slot is taken
- BUILT FOR
- Paid event work: production companies, and organisers running their own coverage
- SHIPPING
- $25 flat, United States only at present — a further 3–7 business days in transit once it ships
What that buys is colour grading nobody else offers, decode silicon a class above a Raspberry Pi 4, a latency figure we publish instead of describe, and one configuration we actually support. If none of that changes your show, you do not need this box — genuinely, and we will tell you so if you ask.
Mail us and we will tell you the moment boxes go on sale. Ordering is not open yet and the price is still TBD — there is nothing to pay and nothing to commit to today. When it does open we confirm your build slot the same day, build in the order slots were taken, and ship in 3–4 weeks, with 3–7 business days in transit after that. And we would rather you asked first than bought one you turn out not to need.
06 — LICENSING
The license comes on the box.
FPVLink is not sold as software and is not distributed on its own. It comes on a box we build, bench-test and support, with a perpetual commercial license for the outfit named on it — so the hardware it runs on is hardware we stand behind, and a fault is one we can reproduce rather than guess at.
Commercial
Paid events, sponsored events, client work, production companies
TBD the box, license included
PERPETUAL — NEVER EXPIRES, NEVER PHONES HOME
Assembled on the RK3588 configuration we fly, with your own logo and sponsor cards on the feed. Coming soon — built to order in small numbers, shipping in 3–4 weeks.
- Verification
- Entirely offline. No activation, no license server, no device binding, ever. A box that has never touched the internet verifies exactly like one that has — which matters, because these live at racetracks.
- What the commercial license adds
- Your own branding on the feed: your logo on HDMI, NDI and the preview, and your own sponsor card on standby between heats. You want them when a client or a sponsor is paying for the broadcast, which is who these are built for. Every output is on every box — HDMI, the 3D LUT, RTMP, SRT, NDI, the built-in standby cards, the dashboard, every goggle model, every resolution.
- Nothing in the quality path is gated
- Nothing is capped and nothing is watermarked — no limit on resolution, framerate, latency or session length, and no mark on anybody's video. None of the branding features can cost you a picture either: every one of them falls back to clean video. If the choice is ever "a feature or HDMI", HDMI wins.
- Updates
- Included with the box, forever. There is no plan to buy, nothing to renew, and no entitlement to keep active — new versions go to every box we have built, and yours installs them from its own dashboard. It never checks a license to do it, because there is nothing to check.
- Nothing is gated, fixes least of all
- A release that corrects something broken — a crash, a dropped frame, anything that costs you video or gets a fact wrong — goes to every box. So do new features. There is no entitlement to lapse, which is the simplest version of a promise we would otherwise have to keep by hand.
- Support
- Every box is one we built, on one configuration, so a fault is one we can reproduce rather than guess at — with a reply within two working days. Mail it privately; you never have to put a client's setup anywhere public.
- The name on it
- When we build your box we ask whose legal name the license belongs to — your company, league or production outfit. Wrong name, or it changes hands later? Mail us and a corrected file follows within a day, at no cost.
07 — DO YOU ACTUALLY NEED ONE?
It is not for everybody.
Probably not, if
You are flying for fun, learning, or running club nights and practice sessions with no gate fee. This is a box built for people whose feed has a client on the other end of it. If nobody is paying for your broadcast, it is more box than you need — and we would rather tell you that than sell you one.
Yes, if
You are running paid, ticketed or sponsored events, or doing paid client video work, and a dropped feed costs you more than the box does. That is who we build these for, and the commercial license is included.
Somewhere in between?
Several boxes, a purchase order, an invoice, a series rather than a single date, or you are not sure it fits your chain at all — just ask. It gets worked out case by case, and we will say so plainly if the answer is that you do not need one.
08 — WHAT PRODUCERS ASK
The technical questions.
What comes out of it?
An HDMI cable carrying a clean 1080p60 program feed, straight into your switcher. That is the handoff we guarantee. If HDMI can't reach the production position, take NDI on the LAN instead, or push SRT / RTMP to an ingest you name — those are still in field testing, so prove the path on your own kit beforehand rather than reaching for it on race morning.
What happens to the feed when a pack comes down?
The source stays live and shows a standby card. Your switcher keeps seeing a valid signal, so nothing has to be re-selected when the next aircraft goes up.
What's the latency?
The box adds 37.8 ms, median — measured across a live 14-race event with zero dropped frames, not on a bench. It reports its own ingest-to-display delay live on the dashboard, so you can check it on the day rather than take our word for it. The full budget, including the parts that aren't ours, is here.
True glass-to-glass isn't a number we'll quote — the goggles hand over no capture timestamp, so anyone quoting one is guessing. Cut it as a live camera and it behaves like one.
Is this experimental?
Not by the time it reaches you. FPVLink is at the end of the chain at every event we fly — it is the only way our own feed reaches a switcher — so the configuration you are buying gets proven every race day.
What license comes with it?
A perpetual commercial license in your outfit's name, in the price. There is no unlicensed box and nothing to buy separately — it is what puts your logo and your sponsor cards on the feed, and it covers paid client work.
It never expires and it is checked on the box: no activation, no license server, no phone-home. Once a version is on your box it is yours for good — nothing is revoked remotely and no update takes away a feature you already have.
Can't I just plug the goggles into a laptop instead?
Depends which goggles. V1 / V2 have free community tools, and Goggles 3 have Cosmostreamer's free viewer — Windows-only, and by their own description G3 only. For the N3 there is nothing, from anyone: DJI's own FAQ says the goggles do not output USB-C video to a computer, and we tested it ourselves, hidden OTG toggle included.
What DJI does support is sharing the feed to a phone — the same trick the box uses, except it lands on an HDMI port, always on, with no phone tied up and no app in the loop.
Is this a DJI product?
No. FPVLink is an independent project with no affiliation to or endorsement from DJI. It talks over USB to goggles we own.
Send us your board layout.
Tell us what you're switching on and where the production position sits, and we'll tell you which output lands on it — before you order, not on race morning.
- PHONE
- 951-395-0613
- BASE
- Rancho Cucamonga, CA
WHAT WE NEED TO KNOW
- 01What you switch on — and whether it takes HDMI or NDI
- 02How far the production position sits from the track
- 03Whether anything leaves the property live, and to where
Would rather we flew it? We cover events ourselves, with this box already in the chain — see what a race day includes.