Hi all
Yesterday I got my P4P+ from advexure.com - and I must say their communication, support and responsiveness is stunning. I highly recommend them.
Unlike earlier direct purchase attempts from DJI directly, and that was a nightmare. :-(
Anyway - my P4P+ took a long, long time to get going. It needed lots of reboots, it froze a lot, it sometimes could not communicate with the bird, it was frustrating, glitchy and slow. Even after I had set English, it offered up Chinese characters. Even after I had signed into my pre-existing DJI account, it wouldn't let me register the bird multiple times, even after multiple reboots. It was a lot of time……. painful.
Finally it was all talking to each other, and the firmware was updated on the remote and the bird, and also on all 3 batteries. The compass was calibrated first time outside (it requested this) but it did NOT request an IMU calibration ever. I had read somewhere else to not do it unless it asks for it.
I have not even seen the place to do that in all the menus. :-/
I few some short flights in beginner mode today, and my questions and issues are:
1) Sometimes when getting ready to fly, the remote says “firmware update needed” but then after about 10 seconds that goes away. Any ideas on this?
2) Sometimes Auto Take Off was presented as an option, but mostly times not. Any ideas why the variance?
3) In very light wind (3 mph maybe?) the bird is not stable at all, and it wanders around a bit, and drifts a bit. As mentioned above - The compass was calibrated (it requested this) but it did NOT request an IMU calibration. I had read somewhere else to not do it unless it asks for it.
Any ideas? It is not behaving as i have seen others do on YouTube. (rock solid)
4) When I land it manually on a firm surface, at the end of the power down it shudders quite a bit. Any ideas why?
5) I did briefly try to fly in Simulation mode, and it was connected, but I could not figure out how to actually take off. Any guesses?
6) At one point when flying it, i somehow must have hit a button, and suddenly all I could see was what the camera sees, with 0% graphical overlay. I was flying blind. A reboot fixed this. Any ideas what happened?
7) It must be from a small toy quadcopter that I flew in the past, but on the P4P+ I find that the stick orientation of Mode 2 makes sense to me, and feels natural. Is there any reason to NOT fly in Mode 2?
According to this - most drone quadcopter prefer mode 2.
Drone School 2: Know your transmitter
8) Any recommendations on decent color profiles for video - for right out of camera, for tests, to put up on YouTube?
I’ll shoot manual exposure, manual white balance, and a shutter speed about double the frame rate.
I had read to knock down the sharpening -1.
Thanks for any and all advice.
John
Yesterday I got my P4P+ from advexure.com - and I must say their communication, support and responsiveness is stunning. I highly recommend them.
Unlike earlier direct purchase attempts from DJI directly, and that was a nightmare. :-(
Anyway - my P4P+ took a long, long time to get going. It needed lots of reboots, it froze a lot, it sometimes could not communicate with the bird, it was frustrating, glitchy and slow. Even after I had set English, it offered up Chinese characters. Even after I had signed into my pre-existing DJI account, it wouldn't let me register the bird multiple times, even after multiple reboots. It was a lot of time……. painful.
Finally it was all talking to each other, and the firmware was updated on the remote and the bird, and also on all 3 batteries. The compass was calibrated first time outside (it requested this) but it did NOT request an IMU calibration ever. I had read somewhere else to not do it unless it asks for it.
I have not even seen the place to do that in all the menus. :-/
I few some short flights in beginner mode today, and my questions and issues are:
1) Sometimes when getting ready to fly, the remote says “firmware update needed” but then after about 10 seconds that goes away. Any ideas on this?
2) Sometimes Auto Take Off was presented as an option, but mostly times not. Any ideas why the variance?
3) In very light wind (3 mph maybe?) the bird is not stable at all, and it wanders around a bit, and drifts a bit. As mentioned above - The compass was calibrated (it requested this) but it did NOT request an IMU calibration. I had read somewhere else to not do it unless it asks for it.
Any ideas? It is not behaving as i have seen others do on YouTube. (rock solid)
4) When I land it manually on a firm surface, at the end of the power down it shudders quite a bit. Any ideas why?
5) I did briefly try to fly in Simulation mode, and it was connected, but I could not figure out how to actually take off. Any guesses?
6) At one point when flying it, i somehow must have hit a button, and suddenly all I could see was what the camera sees, with 0% graphical overlay. I was flying blind. A reboot fixed this. Any ideas what happened?
7) It must be from a small toy quadcopter that I flew in the past, but on the P4P+ I find that the stick orientation of Mode 2 makes sense to me, and feels natural. Is there any reason to NOT fly in Mode 2?
According to this - most drone quadcopter prefer mode 2.
Drone School 2: Know your transmitter
8) Any recommendations on decent color profiles for video - for right out of camera, for tests, to put up on YouTube?
I’ll shoot manual exposure, manual white balance, and a shutter speed about double the frame rate.
I had read to knock down the sharpening -1.
Thanks for any and all advice.
John
