Yesterday I was flying my MP while casting my tablet display to the TV inside the house. Here is the setup:
1. Verizon mifi as wireless internet router, past data cutoff for throttling. The connections to the tablet and TV and therefore the casting are a bit flakey.
2. I was outside the house, further complicating the tablet's connection to the mifi.
3. The MP was about 1000 ft away, where I had descended below tree level over a clearing to inspect the brush-clearing needs. In addition, the the clearing was beyond a small rise in the ground.
I got a weak signal message, followed quickly by an RC connection error. I ran up the rise a bit to try to improve the connection, whereupon DJI GO displayed "disconnected" as the fpv went black and white and froze. I think that the tablet was overloaded with struggling to maintain wifi connection and casting. Now I was completely blind with no Go4 control, and a drone in the air 1000 feet away, below tree level. Suddenly, the rc began beeping, but in my anxiety, I never looked over the tablet to the rc screen. I must have regained rc connection, and the drone was in failsafe rth, because as I was still running up the rise, I heard, then watched the MP returning and land itself.
The tablet never reconnected to the rc untill I rebooted and restarted the rc and drone.
All is ok, but I learned a few lessons. One is to make sure the rth height is properly set. Another is that the MP failsafe system is one of its best features.
1. Verizon mifi as wireless internet router, past data cutoff for throttling. The connections to the tablet and TV and therefore the casting are a bit flakey.
2. I was outside the house, further complicating the tablet's connection to the mifi.
3. The MP was about 1000 ft away, where I had descended below tree level over a clearing to inspect the brush-clearing needs. In addition, the the clearing was beyond a small rise in the ground.
I got a weak signal message, followed quickly by an RC connection error. I ran up the rise a bit to try to improve the connection, whereupon DJI GO displayed "disconnected" as the fpv went black and white and froze. I think that the tablet was overloaded with struggling to maintain wifi connection and casting. Now I was completely blind with no Go4 control, and a drone in the air 1000 feet away, below tree level. Suddenly, the rc began beeping, but in my anxiety, I never looked over the tablet to the rc screen. I must have regained rc connection, and the drone was in failsafe rth, because as I was still running up the rise, I heard, then watched the MP returning and land itself.
The tablet never reconnected to the rc untill I rebooted and restarted the rc and drone.
All is ok, but I learned a few lessons. One is to make sure the rth height is properly set. Another is that the MP failsafe system is one of its best features.
