500MW Radio Telemetry Kit 915Mhz Air and Ground Data Transmit Module for APM 2.6 APM 2.8 Pixhawk Flight Controller

Would give it 6 stars if I could! Works great! IT WILL WORK WITH MINIPIX 1.2 for the minipix the telemetry end of the cable the connector needs changing to fit and wires need to be reconfigured to match. Was working 5 mins after I opened the package. Instructions are available with "Rufus" ....Just ask nicely. 🙂 Does work on phone with Mission planner for Android. Will be doing range/field testing next week. ...... I am in heaven !!!.... for those whom it fails to connect (pair) should know the base station has to be connected first to the laptop....then connect the one on the plane. It is in the instructions listed here, but they don't make a big deal out of it...... It is important. That it be done in this sequence.

I spent two days trying to make it work but it didn’t. The radio wasn’t recognized by the PC even after the driver installation. The radios didn’t pair either.

Works great for what it is. I've gotten several hundred meters with the provided antennas through the treetops. Direct line of sight I'd imagine at least half a km. At the listed 20dbm, should be plenty of room for directional antennas too. To use with Mission Planner and Windows 10, you need to download the silabs cp210x universal windows driver. Once that's installed, Mission Planner recognizes it just fine, and it connects without issue. Plugs in and works fine with the orange cube too (pixhawk 2.1)

Plugged in to macOS (Monterey) / QGroundControl setup and was instantly recognized. Yet to fly with it (plan on this weekend), but initial setup couldn't have been easier. Haven't gotten it working on an iPad yet - jury is still out. One star lost due to simple heat-shrink wrap around circuit boards rather than an actual hard plastic cases.

The radios would show solid green (good pairing) but they would not connect properly with Mission Planner. One of every twenty connection attempts work work, and then only for a few seconds. Tried 1) reflashing the radios, 2) updating windows drivers and 3) using APMPlanner and QGroundControl instead of Mission Planner. Nothing helped. Then I swapped out the long antenna on the PC radio for one that was about the same size as the drone radio antenna. Suddenly everything started working! Was going to rate this product at 1 star but switched it to 2 because it works now. Learned a lot about SiK radios while troubleshooting but I would have been happier if they worked right off the bat.

Perfect for apm2.8 flight controller. I tested this with my laptop ground station and it connected fine to my flight controller with GPS. I was able to see my location on the map. Great product and price. Make sure you change the default connection settings to match what i have in the picture.

Was surprisingly easy to setup. I took the remote unit out of the case, just so I could mount it very close to the arm. I was able to get it to work with both my laptop and my older android tablet without ant trouble. The antennas are actually 915 mhz antennas, not cheaper 2.4 ghz antenna like many sellers ship which don't work as well. Highly recommend.

Had to download the drivers from the MFR website for win10. After that, they connected just fine. They work at 57.6k bps so a bit slower than a direct USB cable.