So I was doing my usual flight to check my property about 500m away. I fly from a rooftop, never a signal issue at about 40-50m above ground level. I'm not in an urban location.
I've done that tons of times since I got the mini.
Today I'm headed out, line of sight straight line to the drone and as it's going (S mode, battery 96% at take off) I just lose all signal (Galaxy S7 edge exynos phone, 1.5.0 latest DJI fly installed)
For about 6 mins I get no connection back at all.. I can see the drone still (it's about 120m away) but it's just hovering in place no change. Panicking a bit I end up double pressing the RTH button at which point I get the RTH annoying beep over and over but now I lost sight of it completely.
As I go downstairs to take my car and go to where it was last seen on the map I hear it above my head about to land at which point I swerve it to me at ground level BUT my RC was STILL saying it had no connection at all.. ?
SOOOOOO a few things:
Usually when I lose signal within 11 secs the drone turns around to RTH
Did it RTH because it got the remote's RTH signal or because I was in the house definitely out of connection for 25secs
But most of all why did it happen at all? Low GPS sats? I can understand if it would make the drone drift but lose all signal.. nope
Anyway a bit scared now to fly and would love to hear opinions/theories on what happened. Thanks!
If you guys want any logs let me know.
I saw mention that it could be an issue between RC and phone.. In fact after I got the mini back I still had nothing on screen until I turned off the RC and turned it back on..
Would anyone advise I disconnect the USB cable and reconnect if that happens again??
I've done that tons of times since I got the mini.
Today I'm headed out, line of sight straight line to the drone and as it's going (S mode, battery 96% at take off) I just lose all signal (Galaxy S7 edge exynos phone, 1.5.0 latest DJI fly installed)
For about 6 mins I get no connection back at all.. I can see the drone still (it's about 120m away) but it's just hovering in place no change. Panicking a bit I end up double pressing the RTH button at which point I get the RTH annoying beep over and over but now I lost sight of it completely.
As I go downstairs to take my car and go to where it was last seen on the map I hear it above my head about to land at which point I swerve it to me at ground level BUT my RC was STILL saying it had no connection at all.. ?
SOOOOOO a few things:
- There's a chance the control was still working even though the display was basically what you see when the drone is off
- Looking at the logs it didn't pop anything about signal issues but it did say I had 10 GPS then 11 which is when it stopped. I realise that's low now, usually I get ~15 GPS sats where I fly so I definitely will keep an eye on that next time
Usually when I lose signal within 11 secs the drone turns around to RTH
Did it RTH because it got the remote's RTH signal or because I was in the house definitely out of connection for 25secs
But most of all why did it happen at all? Low GPS sats? I can understand if it would make the drone drift but lose all signal.. nope
Anyway a bit scared now to fly and would love to hear opinions/theories on what happened. Thanks!
If you guys want any logs let me know.
I saw mention that it could be an issue between RC and phone.. In fact after I got the mini back I still had nothing on screen until I turned off the RC and turned it back on..
Would anyone advise I disconnect the USB cable and reconnect if that happens again??