Insitb
 lvl.3
Singapore
Offline
|
Hello everyone.
Good to see some familiar faces after a year away.
I've been flying my Vision 2+ regularly and it's been a fantastic source of fun and useful data. But the camera is acting up and I wonder if anyone recognizes the symptoms.
These symptoms are as follows:
1. Basically everything works, apart from the camera preview in my mobile phone. When I click the camera icon in the app, the sliding "shutters" do open, but it just shows black. In other words, I'm flying blind; I record stuff by visually having the camera aimed at the object to be recorded. It gets the job done, but it's awfully hit-or-miss.
2. So yeah, the camera itself records, both video and stills, so it works fine. It just won't send what it sees to my cell phone display. By the way, it has always worked on this (Samsung) cell phone, no worries. It also always worked on my (Samsung) tab, but it's not showing the preview on this tab anymore either. The clips and pictures that are recorded are flawless, just not always as on-point as they would have been if I'd had the use of the camera preview obviously.
2. The little LED indicator on the camera works the same as when the preview was still working. It's not showing a signal that there's a malfunction.
3. There are no other issues with Wifi or anything else. Everything works as before, just not the camera preview.
Some added details:
1. All firmware is the latest, for both copter and RC. I've even re-installed all firmware to make sure that there was no corruption issue.
2. I haven't crashed, or hit anything hard, or dunked the copter in water, so I doubt that anything is jarred loose or corroded. The problem just suddenly appeared.
3. I've tried changing the "Iris" setting of the camera, because I'd heard this might have something to do with it. But it didn't resolve the problem.
4. I've also re-set the camera setting to factory settings altogether. Also, to no avail.
5. Everything else in the display works, the battery power indicateor, sat indicator, wifi indicator, all telemetry, it all works great, apart from the camera preview signal.
6. I've lowered the resolution of the preview to minimum, but it didn't resolve the problem either.
7. I've reformatted, even changed the SD card to other cards, but no joy.
8. Changed batteries (I have 4) but no joy here either.
9. Did the binding process, no change.
10. Made sure the 3 pin cables from copter to camera unit are snug.
11. Pinged the wifi unit with 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.2 -- both worked fine.
Frustratingly, about 1 in every 10 tries, the camera preview does suddenly work. But when I do a copter reboot immediately afterwards, it will then just as suddenly not work.
Clues, tips and suggestions are more than welcome.
Cheers.
Bry
|
|
Second Officer
New
First Officer
