z28lt1,
curious what phone or tablet you’re using? You’re the first one I’ve heard that it’s working properly.
I wonder what the GO4 app uses to get the phones position and heading? I’m using the same iPad mini 4 for both and it works perfect with the GO4 app.
This doesn’t make any sense. How is the orientation on the map correct and the orientation on the icon Wrong if they are using the same data?
And, we have all made sure the app has location services enabled, compass calibrated and are still getting wrong info on the icon on the bottom of the screen.
The GO app with the MA1 was always perfect. Now everyone is having issues with this new app. Why did dji change a perfectly good feature.
OK so two days later and the orientation icon seems to be working perfect from the exact same location. Go figure. I bought the Not 8 used Ebay because my note 4 won't work with the Fly app. No sim card, not activated and, I hate big brother, location is permanently turned off. Everything seems to be working OK now except for an ocational black screen. However I noticed when I looked at JPG photo details there are little maps with the location of the pic. Then when I enlarged the map it started showing places on the map of other older pics that got tagged in the past. I have 6,000 pics on my phone and only a few are tagged.OK so this thread sure has a lot of different opinions. So 1 month and 20 flights in, I haven't had the need to look at the orientation icon till reading this thread. I don't think I ever looked at it till yesterday and It's not working correctly. I calibrated the IMU? and the compass. It doesn't properly display orientation. The drone arrow doesn't point at me sometimes even moves down around to the bottom of the arc. Rebooting everything in the proper order doesn't help. I got it to work for about 20 sec then it was all over the place. An other thread here said he talked to DJI about it and told him they were working on it.
Worth saying on my map the drones location and orientation are correct and the controllers location AND orientation also correct. But the orientation icon bottom center on camera screen still has a red slash and does not work at all. The app is apparently getting all the information it needs for the orientation icon to work.. it just doesn't.That's easy. It knows what direction the drone is pointing. It knows where the drone is. It knows where the phone is, but not what direction it's pointing.
Worth saying on my map the drones location and orientation are correct and the controllers location AND orientation also correct. But the orientation icon bottom center on camera screen still has a red slash and does not work at all. The app is apparently getting all the information it needs for the orientation icon to work.. it just doesn't.
You have to download one. I use Compass X
[/Hello, you replied to a thread that you use the app compass X on your WiFi only iPad mini to fly your drone. Are you saying that after downloading this app and having it Opened when you are flying that the orientation Icon at the bottom of the go fly app window functions properly?
I have to say, I'm glad to find this thread. I'm fairly new to the MA2 but not to the Mavic series of drones. This has been an issue flying my MA2 using my iPhone X or my iPad Pro (Cel+WiFi). Very intermittent behavior and when it's not red, it's usually wrong (or off by some fixed amount). I've used the exact same iPhone and iPad on my old MA (using the go4 app) and it worked flawlessly. I even purchased a longer USBC to Lighting (for the iPad). The intermittent behavior continues. I'm pretty sure its a bug in the DJI fly app, or a firmware issue. Too many are having the same experience to be random so I hope DJI addresses it soon, I'd really like to be able to use it for accurate controller aiming on the longer distance flights (or behind temporary obstacles)... I wish DJI would agknowlage this so we can move on without wondering if we didn't spin the controller the right way or put on the wrong belt, or have the lightning plug flipped or... Geez...
Mama Mia, is anyone reading posts? Incorrect speculations right after posts that explain everything.
In order to indicate orientation of the AC relative to you, it needs:
Where AC is (AC GPS)
Where you are (device GPS)
Which way you are facing (device compass)
Indicator also shows which way AC is pointing from its compass.
Go had the same thing with the attitude indicator, but probably used the home point as center, maybe used device GPS if it exists and working. You might notice an 'N' at the perimeter. If your device compass is working and you're facing east, the N would be on the left. If device compass doesn't read at all, then N would be at top.
Map in both apps works the same way as attitude indicator in Go, except you can set it to heads up (depends on device compass) or North up.
Problem wouldn't be AC GPS and certainly never compass as these are critical for stable flight. Sure VPS can keep it stable, but that's through dead reconing and not location aware.
Let's put it this way. If I dropped you blindfolded in the middle of nowhere, gave you your GPS location and the GPS location of rescue but no compass and no knowledge of figuring out compass direction from nature, would you know which way to start walking? I'll even give you a map.
Well neither can the app without proper input.
I get it all the time. Just move. Recalibrate the drone's compass and rescycle the drone and the controller. Usually fixes it for me. I've never found it to be accurate though. Was standing 5 feet from the drone facing it Saturday and the little arrow was 20 degrees to the right. lol.
Thanks for taking the time to explain this a bit.
Im fairly new to flying and found it quite unnerving when it happened last week as I couldnt figure it out.
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