Sitegrader said:
I am new to the quadcopter world but I am really enjoying my flight time. I purchased the Phantom 2 Vision + with the Zenmuse 3D Gimble in December of 2014 and I installed my GoPro 3+ in the Gimble. I am wanting to use my iPhone to see what the quad is seeing
hi mate, welcome. I'm afraid there's a little confusion here as to Phantom models so I'm going to lay it all out for you:
The Phantom 2 VISION series (Vision and Vision+) have a built in camera and gimbal (the "vision camera") which is not designed to be removed or swapped. The Vision series Phantoms never come bundled with a Zenmuse gimbal. Vision series run their RC control on 5.8ghz and use wifi (2.4ghz) to broadcast to the app.
The non-Vision Phantom 2 series are the ones designed to add a gimbal and gopro, usually bundled with a Zenmuse gimbal. non-Vision series run their RC on 2.4ghz (same as wifi) and therefore is NOT designed to use 2.4Ghz (wifi) for FPV. There should be warnings all over the documentation to NOT turn on the gopro's wifi during flight as it will conflict with the RC.
For this reason those of us with non-Vision P2's must add a separate 5.8ghz broadcast FPV system. Transmitter, iOSD, PnP cable to tie it all together, a little LCD display/receiver, mount for your RC, and antennas all around (transmit and receive).
The advantage of the Vision series is ease of use and the app control giving you some cool features during flight including start/stop recording.
The advantage of the non-Vision series is the FPV Range is much better and the quality if the videos recorded on the gopro are magnitudes better than the Vision camera. We do NOT control the camera itself (start/stop) during flight. press record, fly, trim videos later.
Sounds to me like you don't actually have a Vision series since it has a gimbal+gopro... unless you bought it used and heavily modified. It IS possible to mod a Vision series over to a gimbal+gopro but you still don't get app control.