Recent content by anthonys

Right - this poor performance of the current crop of free phone apps means RemoteID isn't going to be very useful for the general public. However, see my post above, a cheap dedicated receiver performs dramatically better, and I think in the context of the post that started this thread, security...

I have tried a couple of phone apps and found them to be very slow and short range. I bought an ESP32-based RID receiver from milehighdroneservices.com and it detects a drone in a couple of seconds and has a range of nearly a mile in tests I've done with a Mavic 3. That was using the tiny...

Mini 3 - all the time. Air 2S - only if I really need to. Just throttle down with my hand underneath, it announces "landing" and slowly descends onto my hand and the props stop. I keep my hand open and parallel to the ground until the props have stopped. Never try to catch or grab it while props...

Phones are probably not going to be great Remote ID receivers for the general public. They have limited range and are slow to pick up the signal. IMO the more likely long term primary use of Remote ID is in systems like the recently awarded ANRA contract to develop networked monitoring stations...

Not showing in the iOS app store, so presumably not. There's an iOS app called RID Receiver in development that's available from iOS TestFlight.

I think this is a valid observation. I live in Seattle. I typically spend at least an hour every day walking in the neighborhoods and parks. In the past ten years I've seen exactly three drones. Two of them where being tested close in with the operator next to them. Only one (an Inspire) was...

Interesting that you seem to be saying the DJI Fly app will allow the drone to take off even if the app is denied location information on the phone. I wonder if that's something that will change once Remote ID is required next year? At the moment the app checks for this at install time, but not...

AFAIK, in order to conform to Standard Remote ID (i.e. built-in, not an add-on module) the drone is required to broadcast the dynamic location of the operator at 1Hz as part of the Remote ID information. This presumably means that if DJI has passed Remote ID certification for a particular drone...

The RC Pro spec says it has GPS + Galileo + GLONASS. The OpenDroneID app reports operator location as well as the drone's location.

I'll second that. I was flying my RC Pro and Mavic 3 (both fully updated) yesterday in a location with no Internet connectivity. Everything worked fine, including Remote ID.

Nice writeup, thank you for reporting all that. I've done some testing too and also found the time to pick up the beacon is usually 1-2 minutes, even when the drone is close. Just curious, did you do any testing with the tablet in developer mode and scan throttling disabled to see if that made a...

There was definitely some latency. I don't know which components between the lens of the camera and the screen in the goggles were contributing to that. The drone was flyable, I just didn't think it was fun or useful. It's also not easy to change camera settings while wearing the goggles...

I was able to get this working with HDO2s. Just a matter of getting the correct cable. I didn't find it particularly satisfying compared to flying a low latency fpv drone in acro mode with a larger field of view. Maybe if you aren't used to flying fpv drones it would seem ok.

Can I ask which apps you are using? I've been wondering which are the apps people think are the better ones.

I think if you make a commercial flight under 107 then even a 249g drone needs to be registered and it needs RID because it's registered. Pretty sure that's how it works.