Anyone familiar with reading CSV data?

[Texas Mavic]

I’m trying to figure out how to read flight, motor performance data, and battery data. However I don’t know what app to download to check the data in the CSV file. Any insight and information will be greatly appreciated. Thanks-
Jake

 

[msinger]

CsvView (by the great @BudWalker) will allow you to build bar graphs from the flight log data.

 

[Texas Mavic]

CsvView (by the great @BudWalker) will allow you to build bar graphs from the flight log data.

Maybe this is a normal problem.... I couldn’t get windows 10 to work with it. Heard of that problem?

 

[msinger]

I'm running it on Windows 10. What exactly doesn't seem to be working for you?

 

[Texas Mavic]

I'm running it on Windows 10. What exactly doesn't seem to be working for you?

Give me just a few, I’m soldering XT60’s on some proteks.

 

[Texas Mavic]

I'm running it on Windows 10. What exactly doesn't seem to be working for you?

It’s a Java Error. My sub par laptop...

 

[msinger]

If you aren't able to figure it out, then post a screenshot of the error message here.

 

[Texas Mavic]

I am in the middle of obsessing over these protek 4100’s being too heavy for sideboard mount. They weigh 446 grams together. Wondering if I would be overweight and should run one bottom mount.
About to throw the towel in on that and fire up the laptop.

 

[Gryphon962]

I think the controller gives you a warning if you overload the power system. So you could determine max weight by taping various weights to your MP, hovering it for a couple of minutes, then raising the weight until you either cant get off the ground or you get the power warning. That's found the max weight without having to open a csv file.

 

[Hegemone]

You can open comma separated value sets in Excel but you would need to create your own graphs for it. If you can get a simpler solution to work.

 

[Texas Mavic]

I think the controller gives you a warning if you overload the power system. So you could determine max weight by taping various weights to your MP, hovering it for a couple of minutes, then raising the weight until you either cant get off the ground or you get the power warning. That's found the max weight without having to open a csv file.

I think the controller gives you a warning if you overload the power system. So you could determine max weight by taping various weights to your MP, hovering it for a couple of minutes, then raising the weight until you either cant get off the ground or you get the power warning. That's found the max weight without having to open a csv file.

If I’m 7 miles from the take off point, and I’m let’s say 40 grams over what my motors can handle, I may not know until it lands in a bayou because of motor errors I could have prevented had I seen data from shorter flights with equal weight. Not carry a gallon of milk 5 feet for 30 minutes and see if it burns motors up the main ESC for that matter.

 

[Texas Mavic]

If you aren't able to figure it out, then post a screenshot of the error message here.

Opens a version of excell that insists I purchase it. Then displays data. Lots and lots of data. Beyond my knowledge and ability to interpret.

 

[BudWalker]

Opens a version of excell that insists I purchase it. Then displays data. Lots and lots of data. Beyond my knowledge and ability to interpret.

Try using CsvView. It does all the plotting for you.This plot shows Watt Seconds / Distance for each motor.


Take a look at
Official Mavic Pro Range Leaderboard

 

[Texas Mavic]

Try using CsvView. It does all the plotting for you.This plot shows Watt Seconds / Distance for each motor.
View attachment 74807

Take a look at
Official Mavic Pro Range Leaderboard

That’s what that is, I downloaded this and that’s what I get, and when I open dat files it opens in a awful version of excel.

 

[BudWalker]

That’s what that is, I downloaded this and that’s what I get, and when I open dat files it opens in a awful version of excel.

The screen dump in post #12 shows you using DatCon. Try CsvView

 

[Texas Mavic]

When I click on “view it” for anything that available it opens excel

 

[BudWalker]

When I click on “view it” for anything that available it opens excel

You're running the wrong app. You're not running CsvView. Do you see in the upper left corner where it says DatCon?

 

[BudWalker]

When I click on “view it” for anything that available it opens excel

I get it now. Try this link
http://datfile.net/CsvView/CsvView.3.6.5.zip

When it's installed and run the app will look like

 

[Texas Mavic]

Fantastic. Works. Only issue now is I just don’t know what I am looking at with the graphs. And maybe some of the data I’m selecting isn’t appropriate. I would like to know motor information. I selected it but all I see is graph that is hard to interpret. I guess I will pick back up tomorrow my brain is shot from a long work week. Thank you for getting me to the graphs, I was beyond frustrated. Had to download explorer because the explorer “edge” version on my laptop wasn’t jiving with java. How I navigated through that is a Christmas miracle.

 

[Gryphon962]

Fantastic. Works. Only issue now is I just don’t know what I am looking at with the graphs. And maybe some of the data I’m selecting isn’t appropriate. I would like to know motor information. I selected it but all I see is graph that is hard to interpret. I guess I will pick back up tomorrow my brain is shot from a long work week. Thank you for getting me to the graphs, I was beyond frustrated. Had to download explorer because the explorer “edge” version on my laptop wasn’t jiving with java. How I navigated through that is a Christmas miracle.

I'm new to csvview too. I'm very impressed by it. It opens the door to a lot of performance data that we would otherwise not be able to see. I'm just a regular flyer, taking pictures and trying to not lose the drone. However, as you are trying to do extreme long range missions I think it would be worth investing a lot of time into cssview to review the missions youve done in the past and figure out how to push the envelope out to where you want to get to. Else its just trial and error/(lost drone).