The intent was to hover it a low level over his back yard. All the
high-voltage lines, phone lines, and cable lines were street-side, so
the air was clear over his back yard. Should have been easy.
However, when I started up my sniffer, I was getting at least 30 WiFi
hotspots in the area (on all the available 2.4 GHz channels).
bp
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On 12/27/2015 10:37 AM, Joe Novak wrote:
No other high voltage lines or anything like that right? It makes them
act up too. If it wasn't so windy today it'd be a good day to go fly.
On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 12:32 PM, Bill Prince <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
They call it "auto-home". When you start it up, you calibrate the
compass, and it records the starting point. Then you're supposed
to just push the "Home" button, and it is supposed to fly back to
that position and hover.
When it started flying off into the distance, he pushed the home
button, and it cam back, but it was off by 20 feet or so, and it
tried to land in a tree. Not optimal. he was able to push the "up"
control to prevent it from actually landing in the tree. However,
he was not able to maneuver it to the appropriate landing spot.
As I and his other uncle were diving to avoid being hit by the
thing, he was able to land it on the roof of his house without
damaging it.
bp
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On 12/27/2015 10:26 AM, Chuck McCown wrote:
Saw a thing on the interwebs yesterday about how to not crash
your drone the first time you use it.
Apparently they have something similar to an E Stop button that
turns on the autopilot and flies them back to the starting poitn.
*From:* Josh Luthman <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Sunday, December 27, 2015 11:23 AM
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT: DJI Phantom 3 Pro, wireless protocol?
FHSS maybe? Or possibly small channel size since it needs
distance, not throughput.
Josh Luthman
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Troy, OH 45373
On Dec 27, 2015 1:18 PM, "Bill Prince" <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
My nephew got a new DJI Phantom 3 Pro model drone, and in the
process of setting it up, I was trying to find the WiFi
frequencies/protocols it was using to communicate between the
controller and drone. Nothing showed up in my sniffer, so I
wonder if it's using 802.11 at all.
The specs
(http://wiki.dji.com/en/index.php/Phantom_3_Professional) say
it's using 2400-2483 MHz, but is only 100 mW EIRP. They claim
2 KM range, but he lost control of it in his admittedly WiFi
congested neighborhood.
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bp
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