FatShark Shark Byte (COMPLETE & SIMPLE SETUP!)

[@TMacFPV]

Got any Shark Byte questions? Put 'em down here in the comments section and I'll do my best to get back with you. Thanks for your time. Make sure to check out my site at tmacfpv.com/ . 'Till next time, Journey to better & Fly Fearlessly! 💪

[@steve_beatty]

Been flying SB for a couple months now..love it.. Have it up and flying in a 7" Glide with the medium range board and sitting on my desk with a USB cable sticking out of it waiting for betaflight is a flywoo explorer 4" with the whoop board and a AIO FC that's way under 250 grams.... I've replaced the front plates on the goggles VRX with 3d printed ones that let me bring out SMA connectors (ufl on the board) so I can use different patches or CP's if I want...I ended up with a CP on one side and a Maarten Baert patch on the other where the OEM patches used to live.. Good Air , Straight Props

[@TMacFPV]

Wow Steve! Very cool!😎

[@funflyingfools3327]

Your video is the reason I ordered this. I just hope the weather clears up for me to test it for my self.

[@TMacFPV]

Congrats! Think you're gonna have a blast!💪👍

[@funflyingfools3327]

@@TMacFPV thanks for actually taking the time to make videos on the shark byte system. I appreciate all your work on this system. Bardwell unfortunately doesn’t seem to be too interested in keeping up with the latest updates and teaching about how this unit is improving. Keep up the great work. I’m hoping today to fly with my setup for the first time with all the great updates already installed.

[@agentrfr1]

Hey @TMac friendly tip: in your video editor, add a filter to the voice over audio tracks and apply a normalize to -9db (theres one in Premiere, Davinci and the sony one. There should be something similar in all others too). That should make you much easier to hear over the sound effects. Keep up the good videos :)

[@TMacFPV]

Thanks. I'll try it next time👍

[@ChrisLeeX]

Would apply "audio ducking" as well. Audacity does it for free, just requires adding an audio export step to your workflow.

[@slinkyfpv]

This setup reminds me of the Sega Genesis when you add the CD and the 32X to it.

[@scu-dub]

I'm new to fpv and I already want to build my first quad after watching this vid 😁 I was told by several fpv guys to stay away from HD but after tons of research I don't think latency is much of an issue especially for me since I'm not racing nor am I around other pilots....I think they just want the goggles for themselves lol I'm flying analog and it's not bad but I much rather fly HD and it seems like sharkbyte is a cheaper way to go HD I'm just not yet familiar with the hardware needed for sharkbyte applications this was a very informative video 👍✌

[@YourLocalIceMan]

Thanks! 6:00 that's why I am here. Seeing if I need a the included cap if I have one already installed. Its a 35v 220uf so I think I am good. It did come with 50v 300uf.

[@TheCarl1206]

Thank you for the great video. It is exactly the one I want to have.

[@TMacFPV]

Perfect👌 Happy to help Carl😁👍

[@rammyfpv7035]

beautiful spot to fly ! thanks very much.

[@justlr76]

Thank for doing this. I have been waiting for someone to do a build video for the new shark bite.. Thanks again

[@TMacFPV]

Sure thing justlr76!👍😁

[@Nine_883]

Thanks for making feel so much better about buying DJI. After all that set up the video I get from my CADDX Nebula still looks better than that by a long shot. And I don’t need all of that hardware. Now we are doing naked Vistas so Fatshark has a ton of work to do.

[@TMacFPV]

Glad to hear you're happy with your DJI setup! 👍 Fly, have fun!

[@Nine_883]

@@TMacFPV I just cannot keep track of any more modules, antennas, and VTX's. Don't forget the Air Unit is also a receiver, HD camera, and VTX. I am in a fued with DJI right now so I am not really happy with them most of the time. I am a long time customer and Aerial photographer, but it's not their products that disappoint me. It's the way they treat customers. Unfortunately we cannot deny the products as much as FPV guys have tried almost all of them own and use the DJI system now. You just can't hardly get around it. Die hard racers and Mr. Steele are about the only people holding out and even Mr. Steels has the system.

[@gmivisualsjason3729]

Would fit beautifully on some hdo2's

[@BrandonBeans]

I would love to see an uncompressed sharkbyte video. Maybe you could put a small dvr sample on a cloud drive service for us to download, because I feel that youtube is doing some softening and compression.

[@jgrudnicki]

I'm fully invested in DJI system (discovered the hobby in July 2020) and find it works great on my 3". I even have it on my daughter's sub 250g 2". Nevertheless, I found your video interesting. Great tutorial for SB installation for those who choose to go that route. My biggest concern would be range with 200mW output although I have never flown analog so I don't have a good comparison base.

[@TMacFPV]

That's great Jan! Correct, 200mW is not for "long range" as I indicate in the video referencing FatShark's User Manual which acknowledges this. You can get about 1.5km on 200 mW which is more than enough for me

[@Clynikal]

I really hope the quality improves on sharkbyte. At the moment it’s just chalk and cheese with DJI.

[@AdrianoCasemiro]

Shark bite looks good and promising for smaller models. Small and lightweight, just like we want it to be. Now I'll need a decent goggles to go with it. And some flowers to the lady to let her know that she is the one I love more... What about the range? Is it good?

[@TMacFPV]

Haven't tested range with it yet. Haven't had any issues flying around objects (like my house low to the ground with me on the other side of house). Better reception than analog. I'm using the single board that has max output power of 200mw. I've heard of a few folks getting a few km out of the dual board VTX without issue

[@PeppyFpv]

Bravo

[@CarbonGlassMan]

That's awesome. I also have skyzone 03o goggles and I've decided to get the shark byte system. The thing I don't like is that its inky 200mw. I hope they upgrade that soon.

[@TMacFPV]

I was very happy the fan shroud fit! Didn't have to rig something up and could use "tilt option" available with shroud mount. New firmware should be coming out soon too👍🌅

[@gabrielaltea]

Hello, how about the 4:3 aspect ration on SKY03O and the 16:9 from SB HDMI feed? How does it look on googles? Thaks

[@CarbonGlassMan]

@@gabrielaltea You know, I'm not sure. I don't know what aspect ratio my goggles are set at and I've never bothered to change it because I like how they look out of the box.

[@Kheine89]

You must have been working as a teacher. Very pedagogic. Very Nice to see some oldschool teachingstyle in KZbin.

[@TMacFPV]

Thank you Kheine89, that's very insightful of you. Yes, I've got some experience in the field tmacfpv.com/

[@peculiarhumanbiped]

Really nice video! I will definitely give it a try. But I just can't find it yet in my country.

[@TMacFPV]

oh noooo! Keep an eye out for it!

[@trustinjesuschrist6933]

just wanted to let you know that Jesus Christ loves you so much no matter what you done or been through. and He will save us from our sins if we put our faith and trust in Him! because we all sinned and fell short of Gods perfect glory (romans 3:23) and the wages of sin is eternal death! (romans 6:23) but the gift of God is in these 3 verses and you should google them and find out what they say if you don’t know already! john 3:16-21 romans 5:6-8 romans 10:9-13 also there is a youtube channel called “Christ forgiveness ministries” you should check out God bless you 😃💟😄

[@wilfredocampo4215]

Hello TMac, just wondering what kind and brand is that black tape you use to secure the wire? Do mind providing the link on where I can buy it please?

[@TMacFPV]

Sure Wilfred, it's EMax fabric tape, but any brand 8mm wide fabric tape should work the same. Here's a link to some I found in I believe U.S. I've not purchased from this shop before, so I just don't know their history. Only other places I could find it is on EBay, Banggood, and EMax itself (which is where I got mine). team-legit.com/EMAX--Fabric-8mm-wide-adhesive-tape_p_2005.html

[@PowerThumb]

LOOOOOOVE your vids!!!!

[@TMacFPV]

😁

[@h2o-fpv623]

Yes sir thank u for this video really nice im just saving some money to buy this system I think its a really good one. Thank u Tmac.

[@attomicfpv122]

I'm having issues with mine. Do you know if the vtx still outputs a signal without a connected camera?

[@erlandfpv]

I will try use sharkbite... because i dont like dji digital fpv. For a while...

[@TMacFPV]

I like it better than I thought I would 👍

[@erlandfpv]

@@TMacFPV I've test dji digital so many time, and i don't like it, so i decide to buy HDO2 in 2021 preparing my saving for sharkbite, sure .

[@LeRainbow]

Honestly after watching this I still favor DJI. Their implementation is much cleaner, of course since they "discovered" low latency FPV on 5.8GHz was actually possible. I still wish fatshark all the best and hope they don't fail. I mean fatshark refused to give us an on-off button for years!!!! :p

[@clean1566]

That's fine for people that started with DJI.But a lot of us have invested thousands in analog gear and goggles. I'm going down the Shark Byte/HD Zero route because of fiscal reality for us retired folks. I'm also rooting for shark, I mean HD Zero to continue development, which they have done at a brisker pace than Sharkbyte did. The plus being, it's on an open source technology, available to all of us, unlike DJI, which is all proprietary, and still insists on telling you where you can fly your Drone:-)

[@justinblee]

TMac, have you experimented with different external antennas? I'm very interested to hear how well a good directional setup compares to a comparable analog diversity setup. Thank you.

[@TMacFPV]

Hey Justin! Thanks for the question. I'm not sure if you're aware of this or not. The two white squares on the front of the Shark byte module are patch (directional) antennae that it comes stock with. Therefore, unless you'll be flying "directly" in front of you in a rather narrow beam width, it makes sense to add omnidirectional antennae to the other two connectors. I have a Lumenier Double AXII attached vertically to one of my other connectors and a Lumenier Stubby AXII attached horizontally to the other. This "stubby" AXII is therefore 90 degrees to the other AXII. This, in theory, gives me better reception overhead (where the vertically oriented AXII may have nulls. I4 dire3ctional antennae pointed in the same direction may give you better reception in that one direction. Also, you MAY be able to get better reception by replacing the stock patch antennae with higher gain (and therefore narrower beam width) directional antennae. Of course, this would mean you would need to know the spec's of the stock patch antennae Shark Byte comes with so you could actually improve upon them. I'm going to give you a link to a YT video of someone who has swapped out the stock patch antennae with X-Air antennae and then attached omnis to the other connectors. He believes he's getting better reception with the patch antennae swap out. for me, with the flying I do, my setup works absolutely great for me. No need for me to swap anything out. Hope this helps. Here's the link to the patch swap out video kzbin.info/www/bejne/rZiUXoStbriFhKM

[@ItzAnthony]

My osd wont work, i did everything you did, and also put rx to tx and tx ro rx

[@2000Romu]

Hi Tmac. I absolutely love your videos. I can not say how much they have helped me get into FPV and mostly on the sharkbyte aspect. So first of all thank you very much for all that. I have a question and can't find the answer anywhere. I know I can have rec auto to have the DVR running but I don't Realy like the fact that it records all the time. Is there a way to record the way I do it with my analog module and my 03o goggles? Again that you soooo much.

[@TMacFPV]

Thank you! I'm very happy you've found them useful! Yu can start and stop recording by swithcing between "setup mode" and "video mode" on your goggle module (VRX). You do this by pressing an holding the scroll wheel to the left (see page 13 of User manual you can download here fatshark.helpscoutdocs.com/article/171-shark-byte )

[@2000Romu]

@@TMacFPV oh so that meens that with the record on auto each time you power the module the first thing you do is stop the rec?? And Start it again when flying??

[@2000Romu]

@@TMacFPV I found a solution to Mt issue... I have some real pit modules lying around. I'll set one up on the vtx. Like that I can start and stop video rec by simply turning on and off my vtx... Thanks again

[@nathanaelrue7846]

What was the screen you used I'm looking for something similar

[@TMacFPV]

Here you go Nathanael. Looks like 1 left at this price amzn.to/2VV1vGQ

[@dcvshambhu]

How much clear video in comparison to analog rapid-fire module on skyzone030.....image quality is better or far better than analog?

[@TMacFPV]

On a scale from 1 to 10 (10 being best), I'd say my analog rapidFIRE is about a 5. Shark Byte is about an 8. For me, the view in my Skyzone 03O from Shark Byte is much better. What really impresses me though is how much less break-up/interference there is with Shark Byte. rapidFIRE was a definite improvement in image quality with less break-up than just using stock Skyzone goggle RXs. I'd say there's more of an improvement going from rapidFIRE to Shark Byte than there was going from SkyZone stock RX modules to rapidFIRE.

[@dcvshambhu]

@@TMacFPV thanks for kind reply

[@coltonrooster]

I didn't know analog was dying... I've spent so much already 🤬🤦 it looks waaaay better and totally worth it probably

[@TMacFPV]

The flight experience with digital Shark Byte I find to be a lot more fun and enjoyable than my "high-end" analog setup

[@coltonrooster]

@@TMacFPV My video system consists of a rush ultimate tank 2 vtx, micro foxteer t-rex camera, skyzone cobra x goggles, a axii2 omni on the quad, omni on the goggles, and a patch... It's ok but my pacer f7, I made a jst for the dji plug but I couldn't get power to the vtx when I had the camera powered through the plug 🤔... Oh well, my soldering is a litttle under par but it's working alright I guess lol... Don't really have another quad to reference the video quality so 🤷 might get dji anyways...

[@grabejud]

footage looks good. if they can bump up up the vtx power for the aio board to like 400 to 600, and that's gonna be on LR territory. i like this setup coz dji fat goggle is just too front heavy on the face.

[@TMacFPV]

I was just thinking about the weight of the module myself. It's so light, I don't even notice it👍

[@jwanda10]

i wonder if they will ever make a pair of goggles with sharkbyte integrated. i’m not really a fan of the bolt on system.

[@TMacFPV]

hmmm . . .🤔

[@SILVIOFRANCO1]

Thanks, TMac

[@smoke2584]

Hey man, is it normal to have noises in SB system on 6s? Cause i do have on my setup.

[@TMacFPV]

You may want to put a larger capacitor on your build to mitigate it somewhat

[@zulfikarkoto5655]

Wowww......i want its 😀😀

[@TMacFPV]

🤩

[@Schlaegel]

That firmware looks like a messy mix of layers of firmware. I hope they get it worked out and lower the cost to something more reasonable.

[@profex85]

Thanks for The info ! Good job you deserve a sub from me :)

[@TMacFPV]

Appreciate it Sander! Welcome aboard your TMac FPV Team! 💪👍

[@profex85]

@@TMacFPV thank you sir :)

[@AHTOH4uk1979]

Osd telemetry working?

[@TMacFPV]

Not sure how familiar you are with Shark Byte OSD or not. The User Manual shows what OSD elements are supposed to be available (think I show them in this video also). The elements that display for me with this VTX (TX5S.1) are RQLY (for Crossfire), which is enabled through "RSSI," battery voltage, GPS Sats, GPS Lat, GPS Long, GPS distance from home, GPS home direction, and OSD Warnings. I am currently not getting VTX channel or power, nor am I getting Craft Name. However, there's a firmware update Fatshark is currently working on (to be released this Spring?) which is supposed tofix some OSD elements and also give the Shark Byte system 1080p HDMI out.

[@093dourado]

👌👌👌

[@Realestitanes]

Byte vs dji ??

[@TMacFPV]

I've not flown DJI and from what I understand, the DJI image quality is currently better than Shark Byte. However, there's also other aspects of each to consider. Such as, I believe Shark Byte system has less latency. Its screen also doesn't "lock up" all of a sudden when your video signal gets weak and take a long time to recover (meanwhile you're flying blind). Shark Byte will slowly "pixelate" to let you know you're losing video signal (although I haven't had any video reception issues with it). Shark Byte has a lightweight, single-board VTX for smaller quads (4" props & less, to include Whoops). If you already have a nice pair of analog goggles, the Shark Byte video receiver module (VRX) which can be used with those goggles is only about $250-$270, rather than needing to purchase another new $570 goggles. New firmware "coming soon" I've heard for Shark Byte system with some improvements also. Maybe this Spring?🤔I'm not disparaging DJI. To each, his own. Whatever works for you and makes your flying fun!😁👍

[@Realestitanes]

thanks friend for your reply new subscriber

[@TMacFPV]

@@Realestitanes Sure thing, Robert Racing 👍Welcome aboard your TMac FPV Team!

[@trustinjesuschrist6933]

Jesus Christ loves you so much and He will save us from our sins if we put our faith and trust in Him! because we all sinned and fell short of Gods perfect glory (romans 3:23) and the wages of sin is eternal death! (romans 6:23) but the gift of God is this john 3:16-21 "for God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him. whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God's one and only Son. this is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposes. but whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God." and romans 10:9-13 "if you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord" and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. for it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. as scripture says, "anyone who believes in Him will never be put to shame. "for there is no difference between Jew and Gentile - the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on Him, for, "everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved." so God is coming at a time we least expect, and if we put our faith and trust in Him He will gift us His grace and clothe us with the righteousness of His blood (but of course death could not hold Him, He is risen!) and we will have eternal life in His kingdom where there will be there will be no more death, or sorrow, or crying. there will be no more pain, for the former things have passed away. because He loves you so much! (romans 5:6-8) but if we deny and reject Him and don't repent from our sins to follow God, then we will have our part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death. because no liar, no thief, no blasphemer (using Gods name in vain as a cuss word to express anger or disgust) and no adulterer (Jesus Christ says in matthew 5 that anyone who just looks at someone to lust for they’re an adultery at heart) will enter the kingdom of heaven. so hear these words, repent and believe the gospel! accept Jesus Christ and confess your sins to Him so that He will forgive you and give you a life with truth and real love and joy and peace that this world can never give you or fulfill in you you! and the love and joy and peace that He will give you will never fade away or perish. this is all if you haven't done this yet and Jesus Christ hasn't saved you yet, also when you have time please you should watch this channel here on youtube called "Christ forgiveness ministries" and hear what they have to say, glory to God. God bless you! 🙌👑💟 .

[@theocrate_fpv6202]

thanks but dji is much better than bytefrost sorry haha

[@creationlabsinc.189]

Your correct it is. However if your gonna be a ding dong at least name the product your slamming correct. This is shark byte.

[@techx8075]

My Fatshark Hd3 core seems not to be able to give me and hd image. My analog stuff is better than this.