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Mini 5 Pro is Broadcasting RID with ALL Batteries, Including the Mini 5 Pro Standard Battery

That was main reason I bought this was because I thought standard M5P battery would not need RID or reg!😡 Don't need bad actors trying to beam it out of the sky by using drone tracker app because RID is on.
Same here! I'm as PO'd as you are! I not only thought it, but also completely relied upon the veracity of the DJI Mini 5 Pro online User Manual published on September 15, 2025 which explicitly stated,

"The aircraft using the Intelligent Flight Battery does not activate Remote ID system."

After I confronted DJI Support about this contradiction, the User Manual was conveniently and quietly updated this last Monday, October 13, 2025, to simply delete this statement, while still not explicitly stating "The aircraft activates RID no matter which battery is used," to prevent anyone else from still falsely assuming that using the standard battery would prevent RID broadcasting. They have now still deliberately left it ambiguous!

DJI's response, "We're sorry."
 
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Don't need bad actors trying to beam it out of the sky by using drone tracker app because RID is on.
Yeah, that's not really how those work. Unless you would describe a small blue dot appearing on a tiny map as 'beaming it out of the sky'... nobody with one of those apps can do anything more than see where you and your UAV are at the time they activate it. They can't make it go anywhere or do anything.
 
Yeah, that's not really how those work. Unless you would describe a small blue dot appearing on a tiny map as 'beaming it out of the sky'... nobody with one of those apps can do anything more than see where you and your UAV are at the time they activate it. They can't make it go anywhere or do anything.
Maybe you haven't see this video before and I'm not saying this is the way it is today, but tech is not going to be stalled forever and one day, it's going to be normal (and inexpensive) to easily track drones....for everyone including commercial entities. Our drones will never stop transmitting and one day (sooner than later), there will be plenty of interest in our drones but the tech (and the quantity of drones) has to come first.

Someone keeps asking if there are any incidents....and I keep asking are there explosions on Mars. Who knows? It's irrelevant until the tools are widely available and in use. The available apps don't work today but one day, they will. And it won't stop there at simple "detect and identify." When AI comes along, the sky is the limit.

There's a reason no one has detected RID over the skies of New Jersey. Right now it's a mostly failed technology.

So for now, this is about all we have and it's not much (not me, not my video):

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Maybe you haven't see this video before and I'm not saying this is the way it is today, but tech is not going to be stalled forever and one day, it's going to be normal (and inexpensive) to easily track drones....for everyone including commercial entities. Our drones will never stop transmitting and one day (sooner than later), there will be plenty of interest in our drones but the tech (and the quantity of drones) has to come first.

Dronetag RIDER costs $1100. It looks like really cool tech, but that price tag takes it out of the hands of John Q. Public. You are not going to see that kind of radio tech in a consumer phone. Not any time soon.

Someone keeps asking if there are any incidents....and I keep asking are there explosions on Mars. Who knows? It's irrelevant until the tools are widely available and in use.

Using a flawed logical fallacy argument doesn't address why we are here. You have to take into account the incidents that forced RID upon us. All of the idiots who interfered with LEO and First Responders. That helped create the demand for the tracking of drones. And, as far as we know, NASA's Ingenuity helicopter was not equipped with RID, despite weighing 680g on the surface of Mars

There's a reason no one has detected RID over the skies of New Jersey. Right now it's a mostly failed technology.

Well, there was that one time over Yoyodyne Propulsions Systems in Grover Mills, NJ....
 
Yeah, that's not really how those work. Unless you would describe a small blue dot appearing on a tiny map as 'beaming it out of the sky'... nobody with one of those apps can do anything more than see where you and your UAV are at the time they activate it. They can't make it go anywhere or do anything.
An automated beam one can track it fast from your RID guy.
 
Found this in a discussion on the web. Is it correct?

How the DJI Mini 4 Pro handles Remote ID
The standard DJI Mini 4 Pro, weighing 249g, does not need to broadcast Remote ID if flown purely for recreation. However, this changes if you use the heavier Intelligent Flight Battery Plus or add any accessory that puts the total takeoff weight over 250g. Accessories like strobe lights, prop guards, or special mounts will add weight. Even a few grams can push the total takeoff weight above the 250g limit. Internal RID activation: When the Mini 4 Pro's weight exceeds 250g (e.g., by adding a light or using the Plus battery), its internal Remote ID system will become active.

My Mini4P with the addition of strobe lights and a landing gear tops out at 261 grams. Does that mean I'm RID broadcasting all the time?
 
Found this in a discussion on the web. Is it correct?

How the DJI Mini 4 Pro handles Remote ID
The standard DJI Mini 4 Pro, weighing 249g, does not need to broadcast Remote ID if flown purely for recreation. However, this changes if you use the heavier Intelligent Flight Battery Plus or add any accessory that puts the total takeoff weight over 250g. Accessories like strobe lights, prop guards, or special mounts will add weight. Even a few grams can push the total takeoff weight above the 250g limit. Internal RID activation: When the Mini 4 Pro's weight exceeds 250g (e.g., by adding a light or using the Plus battery), its internal Remote ID system will become active.​

My Mini4P with the addition of strobe lights and a landing gear tops out at 261 grams. Does that mean I'm RID broadcasting?
Which battery are you using?

Someone else might have a different idea but I find it hard to believe the M4P drone is smart enough to determine it's own weight at lift off to decide whether it is going to transmit RID or not. Instead I believe when the standard battery is used, RID is OFF and then the extended plus battery is used, RID is ON.
 
Which battery are you using?

Someone else might have a different idea but I find it hard to believe the M4P drone is smart enough to determine it's own weight at lift off to decide whether it is going to transmit RID or not. Instead I believe when the standard battery is used, RID is OFF and then the extended plus battery is used, RID is ON.
I'm using the standard battery. What the poster alleges is RID is activated based on weight. But I agree it's a stretch to believe the M4P has the ability to weigh itself.
 
My Mini4P with the addition of strobe lights and a landing gear tops out at 261 grams. Does that mean I'm RID broadcasting all the time?
The M4P has ways to detect if plus batteries ae used, and possibly if the prop guards are fitted, but not, as far as I know, to determine if anything else is attached to the machine. Therefore I would guess you are not broadcasting RID.
 
OK, got it. I am 107 but wouldn't use the M5P for commercial work. I am sure it is very capable but doesn't have the professional drone appearance. This is my first mini and trying to get over its toy like look.
Anything that is not "purely recreational" is Part 107. It's not about "commercial" work.
 

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