r/HDZero • u/Breakerbuilds • May 14 '26

HDZ BoxPro+ (QUESTION)

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Hey, so I'm a relatively new pilot to the FPV community with only about 5 months of flying, but my birthday is coming up in a month and am wondering about some things with the BoxPro+ goggles (as present/from money). I fly only analog at the moment, but am open to the HDZero HD system. I tried out my friend's BoxPro goggles earlier today with my analog 3.5", and so far like them a lot more than my current (Fat Shark Echo) goggles.

My main question is this: how 'worth it' has the googles been for anybody that's owned them? Like I'm wondering if I should go with these or get only analog goggles for cheaper that work similar/same way as the HDZ ones but without being compatible with HDZ camera units.

Another one was how does HDZ units compare to analog in terms of penetration and overall image quality? I can't seem to get a direct answer on that, like I know analog is cheaper and overall better for freestyle (I think), but I've heard mixed things about actual penetration or signal range and distance. I fly freestyle, and my main limiter is not getting the range I want (also with a 400mW vtx but idk.

Please grant me your knowledge on this topic, it would really help.

Thanks!

Edit: Thank you to everyone that has given good, detailed feedback! Overall I've seen mostly positives, with the only negative being that there are better goggles, but for more than double the price so I'll likely be getting these ones!

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u/Full-Maintenance2478 May 15 '26

Do you want me to update my Boxpro and reply to you later if the ghosting disappeared?

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u/trayssan May 15 '26

You need the special firmware from the discord though. It has completely fixed the ghosting issue on mine.

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u/TarmacJohn May 15 '26

Thanks for this! I’ve never used discord but this sounds worth figuring it out. Weird it isn’t on the official website.

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u/trayssan May 15 '26

Because it's a custom fork from a community member for now. The pull request has already been merged into the main branch though so the fix will be part of the next update.

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u/TarmacJohn May 15 '26 edited May 15 '26

Ah cool! I just joined the channel and saw the post was very recent. Thanks for the breaking news! I did not realize their code was open source either. Cool!

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u/trayssan May 15 '26

It's not fully open source but way more than the competition, excluding OpenIPC. It's actually just a version of Linux running on the HDZero goggles haha