Is the Mavic 3 Multispectral controller compatablie with Mavic 3 Thermal Drone?

[baddog]

Hello Fellow Mavic 3 Enterprise Series Owners,

I currently own a Mavic 3 Multispectral with the combo battery kit, D-RTK 2 mobile station, the M3M already comes with the RTK antenna included. What I want to include in my current fleet, is a thermal drone and although the Matrice 30T is tempting, with its added weather resistant features, the 6x Optical Zoom, and Range Finder, I just cannot justify the costs. It needs 2 batteries for a single flight, so I would need the whole combo deal if I went the Matrice 30T route. Those extra batteries are not cheap.

So, I found out through a close friend that his M3E RC Pro controller works with his M3T as well. Now, I am wondering if my M3M RC pro Controller will work with M3T.

Has anyone here had the ability or the right equipment to test this? I am having a difficult time fishing through all google search results for a solid answer.

Thank in Advance

David T.

 

[AstroNoot]

Yes. The M3M, M3E, M3T, Matrice 3D and Matrice 3DT all use the same remote. The RC Pro Enterprise (model RM510B)

 

[Dogpilot]

It is a nice thought to use one controller for two or more drones. Unfortunately, you need to bind the new drone to the controller each time. When you switch to another, bind again. You can only pull this off if you have good cell connection with data. It is also mildly time consuming. It would be super, having a 3T and 3E myself, to bind to one controller and select which drone I'm using. As it is, I have to put colored stickers on the controllers to tell them apart, so I don't accidentally mix up the controllers.

 

[DesecratedClown]

It is a nice thought to use one controller for two or more drones. Unfortunately, you need to bind the new drone to the controller each time. When you switch to another, bind again. You can only pull this off if you have good cell connection with data. It is also mildly time consuming. It would be super, having a 3T and 3E myself, to bind to one controller and select which drone I'm using. As it is, I have to put colored stickers on the controllers to tell them apart, so I don't accidentally mix up the controllers.

I'm a combat pilot in Ukraine. This is not true. We fly our drones unbound. When we lose one, we just pair the new one with the controller hooked up to amps.

I'm even using a hacked RC Pro so I can use both flight apps, and thus fly 3, 3C and 3Pro with my RC pro as well, and I liberally change between drones depending on if I bomb, recon, day flight, night flight.

 

[DesecratedClown]

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It is a nice thought to use one controller for two or more drones. Unfortunately, you need to bind the new drone to the controller each time. When you switch to another, bind again. You can only pull this off if you have good cell connection with data. It is also mildly time consuming. It would be super, having a 3T and 3E myself, to bind to one controller and select which drone I'm using. As it is, I have to put colored stickers on the controllers to tell them apart, so I don't accidentally mix up the controllers.

I'm a combat pilot in Ukraine. We switch drones constantly depending on bombing, recon, day flight or night flight etc.

We fly them unbound.

We just pair the new one with the remote and go to work. This prevents us carrying multiple remotes with antenna connection modifications.


My RC Pro is hacked, so it can use both flight apps even. I can fly all Mavic 3 type drones with it.

 

[Dogpilot]

It is interesting you mentioned hacked controllers. I have seen them advertised out of China that will work with both programs and multiple drones. After I queried them, turns out there are a few catches. First off, the hacks, for some reason do not work with the Mavic 3 Cine, which I also have. Then there are some issues doing the survey work with the RTK logged into RTCM networks.

Now this kind of lunacy of controllers and commonality is not just in the drone world. I test flew aircraft in the Navy, everything from helicopters to combat jets. I had no fewer than 6 different audio systems for my helmet. I was lucky as I had a stupidly expensive custom helmet from Gentex in kevlar with an easy to modify audio. So I could rip out my ear sections and swap the innards and also hook boom mics into my O2 mask bayonet attachments. Then there was the small bag of audio converters to actually physically attach to the aircraft's audio cables. You would think the military would have some kind of standard for the overpriced hunks of aluminum and plastic. Nope.

 

[DesecratedClown]

It is interesting you mentioned hacked controllers. I have seen them advertised out of China that will work with both programs and multiple drones. After I queried them, turns out there are a few catches. First off, the hacks, for some reason do not work with the Mavic 3 Cine, which I also have. Then there are some issues doing the survey work with the RTK logged into RTCM networks.

Now this kind of lunacy of controllers and commonality is not just in the drone world. I test flew aircraft in the Navy, everything from helicopters to combat jets. I had no fewer than 6 different audio systems for my helmet. I was lucky as I had a stupidly expensive custom helmet from Gentex in kevlar with an easy to modify audio. So I could rip out my ear sections and swap the innards and also hook boom mics into my O2 mask bayonet attachments. Then there was the small bag of audio converters to actually physically attach to the aircraft's audio cables. You would think the military would have some kind of standard for the overpriced hunks of aluminum and plastic. Nope.

I haven't tested with RTK modules or anything, obviously I fly anonymized, unassisted and hardware modified drones to avoid getting batteried to ****.

Obviously Cine has little military use compared to 3, Classic, Pro and E and T, so I've never even seen that.

I know that the hack that was done to my controller was a bit special, and done by professional drone mechanics/hackers.
The first controller I had though, had a firware that was too new, so it had to be replaced with an older RC Pro.


Essentially, it's an app. If I run the Mavic 3 app, it will reboot, and then automatically launch the correct software, and the other app will be nowhere to be seen, if I launch the Enterprise, it will reboot, and then from that point, only the correct flight app will be shown, until I do it again.

Best I could tell, they essentially put a dual boot system on it, where an app selects which mode it boots into.
I would love to show you, but I can't for 2 reasons. 1, I'm in rehab because I got smacked by an FPV little over 3 weeks ago.
2. I have several apps that are not for public knowledge which we use for mapping, secure streaming etc etc.

 

[Dogpilot]

Yes there is a lot of secret squirrel stuff in the military that is not for public consumption. You do have some fine programmers in the Ukraine and your engineering is top notch as well. I have flown some of your equipment, most notably the Antonov 32B. Good luck in your fight and I hope you get better soon.