Uncontrolled hover? Video included

artyswiss · Aug 31, 2017

Anyone having these issues? Everything is calibrated -IMU AND COMPASS, had some mag interference in the morning but I fly low in this area around my house often. I have had this happen in open fields before too. When it does I bring it down and try again later.

What gives?

artyswiss · Aug 31, 2017

It's also not very responsive when this happens. Sometimes hard to land as well.

tracer bullet · Aug 31, 2017

Is the downward camera on?

There's a chance there's a problem, there's also a chance it's fine and you are expecting too much?

artyswiss · Aug 31, 2017

tracer bullet said:
Is the downward camera on?

There's a chance there's a problem, there's also a chance it's fine and you are expecting too much?

I mean I've taken it on like 60 flights and it doesn't behave like this typically. It's responsive.

artyswiss · Aug 31, 2017

artyswiss said:
I mean I've taken it on like 60 flights and it doesn't behave like this typically. It's responsive.

I went to an open field and the compass is all in the red at like 1600. What's going on? There was never this much mag interference here? It's like everywhere I go today.

Big Fil · Aug 31, 2017

Looks pretty normal given the wind conditions. You can see the plant in the background moving. That's hardly what i'd call an uncontrolled hover.

artyswiss · Aug 31, 2017

Big Fil said:
Looks pretty normal given the wind conditions. You can see the plant in the background moving. That's hardly what i'd call an uncontrolled hover.

**** think so? Any idea why i might be getting mag interference everywhere I go? It's all in the red.

Big Fil · Aug 31, 2017

Your status LED was blinking green. If there was magnetic interference indicating a compass calibration was needed you would have a red/yellow blinking LED on the back and also notification on the APP. Where are you when your reading the red compass readings? Is it reading red on both compasses?

artyswiss · Aug 31, 2017

Big Fil said:
Your status LED was blinking green. If there was magnetic interference indicating a compass calibration was needed you would have a red/yellow blinking LED on the back and also notification on the APP. Where are you when your reading the red compass readings? Is it reading red on both compasses?

It's just red on the one compass and the other one is fine it looks like. But it does prompt me to move the craft. Anywhere I move it one compass fills up red. Grassy field, cement, its yellow when I lift it off the ground. Am I living on a iron mine?

Big Fil · Aug 31, 2017

There is rebar in most concrete so if taking off from a sidewalk or other concrete that is not surprising. If your next to a car that'll usually throw the compass off as well. Either way I don't think your hover video has anything to do with the compass. It looks like what the mavic does when it's trying to hold position in a windy situation.

artyswiss · Aug 31, 2017

Big Fil said:
There is rebar in most concrete so if taking off from a sidewalk or other concrete that is not surprising. If your next to a car that'll usually throw the compass off as well. Either way I don't think your hover video has anything to do with the compass. It looks like what the mavic does when it's trying to hold position in a windy situation.

Hmmm. Alright il try again tomorrow. Thanks!

artyswiss · Aug 31, 2017

I went like 5 miles from the mag interference and still mag interference. Something is up.

JeepDSL · Aug 31, 2017

What are you carrying with you? Do you have any accessories installed on your Mavic?

dbyantis · Aug 31, 2017

Big Fil said:
There is rebar in most concrete so if taking off from a sidewalk or other concrete that is not surprising. If your next to a car that'll usually throw the compass off as well. Either way I don't think your hover video has anything to do with the compass. It looks like what the mavic does when it's trying to hold position in a windy situation.

Agreed, and I have found that if the MP is "wabbling" in the wind, a switch to sport mode ends the wavering hover, gives the MP the juice to hold position.

TreeburnerCT · Sep 1, 2017

My Mavic does this after sunset when I'm flying close to the ground and it's unable to get a good reading from the bottom VPS. Controls get a little wonky too until I get it up to 15-20 feet, then it's stable.

-Joe

artyswiss · Sep 1, 2017

Something is for sure going on still. It's claiming there's extreme mag interference wherever I go. Can't calibrate compass at all....is it possible since this wasn't happening at these locations of flight before?

JeepDSL · Sep 1, 2017

If you haven't crashed the drone or started carrying a magnet around in your pocket, there may be something wrong with your Mavic.

Have you operated or stored it around any strong magnetic/electromagnetic fields? Has anything changed that would be around all the locations you've tried to fly (new car, new phone, new cell tower in your back yard)?

artyswiss · Sep 1, 2017

JeepDSL said:
If you haven't crashed the drone or started carrying a magnet around in your pocket, there may be something wrong with your Mavic.

Have you operated or stored it around any strong magnetic/electromagnetic fields? Has anything changed that would be around all the locations you've tried to fly (new car, new phone, new cell tower in your back yard)?

I went on a bike tour for a few days where it was in my bike pannier. My bike is steel. It flew fine when I got it back for a few days. And then last two days just mag interference popping up all over town.

artyswiss · Sep 1, 2017

I think part of it is the wind and another part is something being weird. My firmware seem up to date, but I did get a failure once I tried to update and then it showed the correct firmware. Couldn't revert the firmware on the remote to factory settings