The FPV pack

A Bebop 2 FPV pack has four things in it, according to Parrot’s own quick start guide: the Bebop 2 drone, a Skycontroller 2 controller, a pair of Cockpitglasses 2 FPV goggles, and a battery. The names suggest more integration than there is, so it helps to know what each piece actually does.

Piece	What it does
Bebop 2	The aircraft. It carries a fisheye camera, a flight controller, GPS, and a Wi-Fi radio that makes its own network.
Skycontroller 2	A two-stick controller with a radio of its own and a clamp for your phone. It talks to the drone and passes the picture and controls to the phone over a USB cable.
Cockpitglasses 2	A plastic hood with two lenses. Your phone slides in behind the lenses, so the glasses have no screen and no electronics of their own.
Battery	Parrot quotes about 80 minutes to charge and about 30 minutes in the air.

How the pieces find each other

The drone is its own Wi-Fi access point. When you switch it on, it starts a network named Bebop2- followed by six characters that are particular to your unit, and that network is open, with no password. The drone sits at the address 192.168.42.1 and accepts one controller at a time.

The Skycontroller 2 is that one controller. Parrot’s guide says to switch on the drone, press the controller’s power button, and wait for its light to turn solid green, and at that point the two are paired. In the Skycontroller firmware image we examined, the Wi-Fi service joins the drone’s network as a client at 192.168.42.3. That is a reading of a firmware file and not something we confirmed on a controller, so treat it as a good bet and not a measurement.

Your phone does not need to join the drone’s Wi-Fi in this arrangement. It plugs into the Skycontroller by USB, and the controller relays everything. The app starts by itself when the cable goes in.

The glasses are a phone holder

This is the part that is easy to get wrong, so it is worth a paragraph. The Cockpitglasses 2 do not plug into anything. You turn on FPV mode in the FreeFlight Pro app first, then place the phone in the hood, and the app switches to its FPV view for the lenses. Parrot’s guide is firm about that order, and equally firm that you must never point the glasses at the sun or leave them standing in it, because it warns of damage to your phone and of eye injury.

The Skycontroller’s right trigger switches between the immersive view and a direct view through the phone’s own camera, which is how you check where you are standing without taking the glasses off.

The app problem

Everything above assumes you can run FreeFlight Pro, and in 2026 that is the awkward part. On 1 October 2026 we could not find FreeFlight Pro on the Play Store from the phone we used, and we did not work out whether it is delisted or just limited by region. The one Parrot app that did appear, FreeFlight 6 USA, did not detect the Bebop 2 when we tested it against a powered drone. Its setup wizard is built around ANAFI, and the bundle carries no Bebop firmware, so we treat it as not a Bebop 2 app.

That is the reason this project works from a computer. The drone does not care what is on the other end of its Wi-Fi, and the first contact page shows how to listen to it with nothing but a laptop.