Newbie with questions

[K5IJD]

OK. Yes I am new to all of this and just getting started. I bought a M2P with a smart Controller from a friend and have questions. I have searched this forum and others but can't find any definitive answers...

As in plain language. Anyone out there speak Newbie??

1. DJI Fly does not work and says device not supported. Do I need that?
2. All the instructions that I have seen say to bind the controller and aircraft to my account with DJI Fly. Is there another way?
2. DJI Go 4 seems to work fine. Is that all I need?

Sent 2 emails to DJI Support but no response.

 

[Starz]

M2 series aircraft do NOT use the fly app, they use the GO 4 app. Also, the M2 series are NOT in the product line of DJI products that are “bound” to a specific DJI account. If you purchased from a friend, you can certainly delete his account information and add in your own account information.
Some reading material here.

https://dl.djicdn.com/downloads/Mavic_2/Mavic_2_Pro_Zoom_User_Manual_v2.2_en.pdf

 

[Cafguy]

Welcome to the Forum From Bakersfield!

 

[MA2 317]

As mentioned above, use the GO 4 app available from the DJI Download center.

DJI Go 4 - Download Center - DJI

Capture the world from above. Compatible with the Mavic Series, Spark, Phantom 4, and more.

www.dji.com

Don't use the apps from the Playstore.

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[Conservative Nihilist]

OK. Yes I am new to all of this and just getting started. I bought a M2P with a smart Controller from a friend and have questions. I have searched this forum and others but can't find any definitive answers...

As in plain language. Anyone out there speak Newbie??

1. DJI Fly does not work and says device not supported. Do I need that?
2. All the instructions that I have seen say to bind the controller and aircraft to my account with DJI Fly. Is there another way?
2. DJI Go 4 seems to work fine. Is that all I need?

Sent 2 emails to DJI Support but no response.

With your questions fully addressed, I would like to congratulate you on purchasing the most versatile DJI drone available. The geographical tethers and registration lockout booby traps that plague newer DJI drone models only kicked in after the M2P was in circulation, so you have yourself a diamond in the rough that you would be well advised never to sell. I speak as a self-appointed authority figure on the M2P and M2 Zoom, of which I own four pristine specimens.

 

[Felix le Chat]

OK. Yes I am new to all of this and just getting started. I bought a M2P with a smart Controller from a friend and have questions. I have searched this forum and others but can't find any definitive answers...

As in plain language. Anyone out there speak Newbie??

1. DJI Fly does not work and says device not supported. Do I need that?
2. All the instructions that I have seen say to bind the controller and aircraft to my account with DJI Fly. Is there another way?
2. DJI Go 4 seems to work fine. Is that all I need?

Sent 2 emails to DJI Support but no response.

As per the other posts: DJI FLY is only for drones from the Air2 onwards. The Mav. 2's use DJI GO4 (which is what DJI FLY wants to be when it grows up and loses weight). GO4 is arguably the single finest drone control app created so far.

I own and regularly use both the Mav. 2 Pro and Zoom which are well rounded, polished to the degree that there isn't anything left that needs tweaking or correcting as well as being fully featured 'pro-sumer' level drones. I doubt you'll be disappointed.

 

[K5IJD]

M2 series aircraft do NOT use the fly app, they use the GO 4 app. Also, the M2 series are NOT in the product line of DJI products that are “bound” to a specific DJI account. If you purchased from a friend, you can certainly delete his account information and add in your own account information.
Some reading material here.

https://dl.djicdn.com/downloads/Mavic_2/Mavic_2_Pro_Zoom_User_Manual_v2.2_en.pdf

OK. Yes I am new to all of this and just getting started. I bought a M2P with a smart Controller from a friend and have questions. I have searched this forum and others but can't find any definitive answers...

As in plain language. Anyone out there speak Newbie??

1. DJI Fly does not work and says device not supported. Do I need that?
2. All the instructions that I have seen say to bind the controller and aircraft to my account with DJI Fly. Is there another way?
2. DJI Go 4 seems to work fine. Is that all I need?

Sent 2 emails to DJI Support but no response.

With your questions fully addressed, I would like to congratulate you on purchasing the most versatile DJI drone available. The geographical tethers and registration lockout booby traps that plague newer DJI drone models only kicked in after the M2P was in circulation, so you have yourself a diamond in the rough that you would be well advised never to sell. I speak as a self-appointed authority figure on the M2P and M2 Zoom, of which I own four pristine specimens.

Thank you! I appreciate the reply!
Simply a case of "even a Blind Pig finds an Acorn sometimes". He needed dental work and wouldn't accept the cash as a gift or charity so here I am.

 

[K5IJD]

M2 series aircraft do NOT use the fly app, they use the GO 4 app. Also, the M2 series are NOT in the product line of DJI products that are “bound” to a specific DJI account. If you purchased from a friend, you can certainly delete his account information and add in your own account information.
Some reading material here.

https://dl.djicdn.com/downloads/Mavic_2/Mavic_2_Pro_Zoom_User_Manual_v2.2_en.pdf

Thank you for the answers. That helps a lot. especially the manual.
I will start learning to fly the M2P and be back with more questions.
Thanks again.

As mentioned above, use the GO 4 app available from the DJI Download center.

DJI Go 4 - Download Center - DJI

Capture the world from above. Compatible with the Mavic Series, Spark, Phantom 4, and more.

www.dji.com

Don't use the apps from the Playstore.

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Thanks for the tip. I will avoid doing that

 

[KB9Radio]

If GO4 is installed and working, use it. That's the correct DJI app to use with a Mavic 2 aircraft. There's also some 3rd party apps that will work, but as a newbie GO4 is definitely the one to use.

 

[K5IJD]

If GO4 is installed and working, use it. That's the correct DJI app to use with a Mavic 2 aircraft. There's also some 3rd party apps that will work, but as a newbie GO4 is definitely the one to use.

If GO4 is installed and working, use it. That's the correct DJI app to use with a Mavic 2 aircraft. There's also some 3rd party apps that will work, but as a newbie GO4 is definitely the one to use.

Thank You.

 

[Cymruflyer]

OK. Yes I am new to all of this and just getting started. I bought a M2P with a smart Controller from a friend and have questions. I have searched this forum and others but can't find any definitive answers...

As in plain language. Anyone out there speak Newbie??

1. DJI Fly does not work and says device not supported. Do I need that?
2. All the instructions that I have seen say to bind the controller and aircraft to my account with DJI Fly. Is there another way?
2. DJI Go 4 seems to work fine. Is that all I need?

Sent 2 emails to DJI Support but no response.

An Important Setting Tip: I too have the M2Pro and it has been a great little drone all this time, for me. I have one little tip for you that you may not know. When you go into the return to home settings section, be sure to choose at least 60m as the height your drone will climb to, before it sets course for home.

That way if you are out amongst trees a house or two and you lose signal and can't get it back; the drone will climb straight up to 60m and then turn to find a direct line to fly home. This will ensure you are at a safe altitude to fly a clear path to home point.

If you don't set that minimum altitude, when it loses signal and waits for you to rejoin it and that does not happen, it will simply return to home from the altitude it was lost at. That means it could possibly smash into a structure or fly through a tree top or something, that is between the drone and your home point. You want to be sure it gets above anything in the way, before it sets a straight-line course to come home.

 

[Cymruflyer]

Ohh, one more tip for you. Don't go flying when you Smart Controller is showing the second to last charge light flashing. It starts to go down hill quickly from that point and could shut off while you are out and about with your drone well away from you.

I made that mistake once and it took of and very soon the last light started to flash but I thought I still had some time. Suddenly I had no further control with the sticks. I was no longer in control and the drone just sat there way off in the sky.

The drone will not initiate a return to home immediately if the controller runs out of battery. When the screen went blank the S.C. turned itself off, I panicked. The drone just sat there in the sky for a while.

Then it slowly started to fly away from me and I thought I had lost it. It then stopped again and started going in a different direction then stopped. It then started to head to me and then stopped and flew away again, so I thought this really was the end. Then it stopped one last time and began to return home, came around a little at height and then started to descend and landed right on the picnic table, about an inch away from where I launched it.

What a relief, so that taught me to never again fly if I did not have at least 2 or more solid lights showing for a charge, on the controller. And that flight I described, was only going to be about a 5 minute flight. Therefore, I thought with one solid and one flashing light, that would have been plenty of charge to do that short flight. That was the only time it has ever done a full return to home flight and landing. It works amazingly well.

 

[Conservative Nihilist]

An Important Setting Tip: I too have the M2Pro and it has been a great little drone all this time, for me. I have one little tip for you that you may not know. When you go into the return to home settings section, be sure to choose at least 60m as the height your drone will climb to, before it sets course for home.

That way if you are out amongst trees a house or two and you lose signal and can't get it back; the drone will climb straight up to 60m and then turn to find a direct line to fly home. This will ensure you are at a safe altitude to fly a clear path to home point.

If you don't set that minimum altitude, when it loses signal and waits for you to rejoin it and that does not happen, it will simply return to home from the altitude it was lost at. That means it could possibly smash into a structure or fly through a tree top or something, that is between the drone and your home point. You want to be sure it gets above anything in the way, before it sets a straight-line course to come home.

This caution about the Return To Home (RTH) altitude is a timely reminder that could save the drone. In my neck of the woods, the highest cellphone tower and high-tension electric cable pylons rise 220 feet above ground level, so I set my RTH altitude to 240 feet, which is about 80 meters.

 

[AMann]

I have two M2P’s, one has a modified full-spectrum camera. These are great little drones and you’ll be very happy with it!

One suggestion- I don’t know about doing it with the smart controller, but see if you can do this with it:

I bring a power bank as a backup power source in case my standard controller ever needs a jump . I also set the controller so it’s not charging my phone during flight to extend its battery.

 

[waynorth]

I also set it so it’s not charging my phone during flight.

Are you using an Iphone? I have never figured out how to do that on Android.

 

[waynorth]

OK. Yes I am new to all of this and just getting started. I bought a M2P with a smart Controller from a friend and have questions. I have searched this forum and others but can't find any definitive answers...

Congratulations with one of the greatest drones DJI ever made. You have already received good answers.
I have 4 of them, or actually two Mavic 2 Pro and two Mavic 2 Zoom (the only consumer drone with a zoom lens
Fantastic flying cameras!

 

[AMann]

Are you using an Iphone? I have never figured out how to do that on Android.

The controller, not the phone, has a setting to this. But yes, I am using an iPhone.