Fly App 17 my M3P satelite acquisition takes a loooong time
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More info ?
How long is it taking?
Has this just happened once or multiple times on the same day?
How long was it since you flew previously?
Confirm that the drone has a clear, unobstructed view of most of the sky?
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If you moved a significant distance that would be normal. If you just flew from the same spot that would be odd. I get fast acquisition if I'm flying at the same spot I recently flew at, otherwise the GPS has to "find" the sat patterns. Heavy cloud cover also causes a delay.
I only benchtested this at home after the FlyAp update. But this was at the same spot where I normally test at home (not flying) and it definitely did not take that long before. Moreover the drone only connected to 9-10 satelites after about 3 minutes of searching where before it was always 16 to 18 and much quicker. I will test it again and report back. It's been raining so I can not do much outside atm
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The gps should download ephemeris data which give it a forecast of the satellite patterns for hours, days, weeks in advance with reducing accuracy the further away it’s looking. If you’ve not started your drone for a good long while that will be out of date.
A long time is not a defined time so is insufficient to describe your wait.
Facing south east, sited at the edge of a field with a dense wood behind me, my m4pro (which I’d started first)had 27 satellites by the time I’d added my phone to the rc n2, started the app, started the remote, screwed in the joysticks and done the preflight checks. The drone was last flown a couple of days ago a few miles away.
A long time is not a defined time so is insufficient to describe your wait.
Facing south east, sited at the edge of a field with a dense wood behind me, my m4pro (which I’d started first)had 27 satellites by the time I’d added my phone to the rc n2, started the app, started the remote, screwed in the joysticks and done the preflight checks. The drone was last flown a couple of days ago a few miles away.
Yaros
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Why DJI feels the urge to tinker with something which has worked well and screw it in the process with the update, I wonder? In my case the App shows 0 satelites for first minute.
On the bench at home ??
I asked a number of specific questions back in post #2 which you've ignored and left unanswered/
Your mention of On the bench at home, suggests that you are indoors somewhere, which is the most obvious factor that would cause delay acquiring sats and the one that needs to be eliminated first
If you really want assistance, get back to us when you can answer simple but very pertinent questions.
You'd think that if this was the case, hundreds of users would be affected and the forum would be fulll of complaints .. but?
Why you jump to conclusions and make unfounded assumptions is puzzling.
The reason DJI tinkered with the Fly app and brought out version 1.17 was to support the new features of the new drone.
That they would have also tinkered with satellite acquisition times is beyond unlikely, especially when there aren't a bunch of others complaining about it as well.
I hadn't noticed any problems, but just did a test beside the brick wall of my house, blocking ~50% of the drone's skyview.
The drone recorded a home point in 35 seconds.
I switched off and restarted a minute later and had a home point in 15 seconds.
I thought I answered most of the questions. Summing up:
For first minute 0 sats
3 to 4 minutes to record Home Point
I tried several times during the day yesterday and today with the same result.
Yes, it is indoor but on exactly the same spot where on the previous FlyApp satelite acquisition was much faster. So I am comparing apples with apples. Before the update straight after turning ON the drone and RC Pro controller satelite number started showing sats and within a minute H.P. was registered and sat number was 17 or 18.
I flew last time 3 days ago with similar results. Home Point took almost 4 minutes to register etc..
Anything else?
Not exactly.
Those apples are being juggled like this:
and are not uniformly distributed and the number visible through whatever windors etc that might be available won't always be the same.
To properly tell if you have a problem with sat acquisition. you need to go outdoors to a place where your drone has a clear, unobstructed skyview.
That's the first and most important factor.
Ok. I get that but I have been bench testing various things with my M3P on the same bench in the same room for over a year. I can only share what I see. After the update to FlyApp 1.17.0 the satellite acquisition time has changed significantly. Nothing else has changed as far as environment or the drone or whatever. So, how can you explain that if the FlyApp update is not responsible for the sudden change? The satellite number keeps drifting between 9 and 13 and the color from white to amber and red. The warning "Take off with caution (no satellite positioning)" keeps popping up constantly.Not exactly.
Those apples are being juggled like this:
and are not uniformly distributed and the number visible through whatever windors etc that might be available won't always be the same.
To properly tell if you have a problem with sat acquisition. you need to go outdoors to a place where your drone has a clear, unobstructed skyview.
That's the first and most important factor.
If you really want to see how your drone acquires sats, take it outside.
If you just want to complain and confirm the whinging you've done already, just keep doing the same thing.
Thank you. I will when the rain stops. I am not whinging just sharing my new experience with 1.17.
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