Fatdog
lvl.2
Flight distance : 216070 ft
United States
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Today (10/4) I made a concerted effort to fly indoors. This house is VERY well-lit but it does have some dark wood and paint colors in certain spots. I can now replicate the behavior on demand after crashing at least four times.
It goes into suicide mode so quickly that you can't react with the pause (orange) button on the MC3. In the goggles, the N "Normal" mode indicator switches to red (for Nuts? ... because the drone goes insane until it crashes). A "CAUTION: No satellites/vision ..." warning also appears but, by then, it's already too late. I tried once to pause it when it clearly got confused and gave me just a moment to react, but that didn't work. After trying to pause multiple times I guess I'd hit the orange button four times and the motors just stopped, dropping the drone hard on a tile floor. I checked in the Goggles 3 and the "4-time press to emergency stop" option is disabled. C'mon DJI!
Obviously, this firmware version is lacking and an immature work-in-progress. Until they fix these issues, I think the drone is not suitable for indoor use unless you're skilled enough to fly manual mode with the FPV controller. I haven't verified this but it's the only method by which I've seen others successfully fly indoors even though I've scoured the U of Tube. I am quite disappointed as my use case for this tiny drone was mostly indoors and confined spaces. I'm going to have to rethink that.
In another note, this environment is MUCH brighter than could be delivered by any flashlight that the Neo can carry. I have the OriginalDobo light mount for the Avata 2 which works well, but that's not going to be the solution for Neo. I believe you'd have to illuminate both the camera's FOV and the area below for the downward sensors. I agree with another comment I saw earlier that DJI should allow us to exert complete manual control by turning off the clearly inadequate position sensing (in its current state). Hoping that a solution is forthcoming.
Maybe manual FPV control is the only way I'm going to be able to use this as I'd intended? |
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