citivas
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Brought it home, checked for firmware again (but had done an upgrade before the first flight). Tried it in our backyard, which is still next to a field and open, flat space but I don't like it as much because there are typical wi-fi signals from 9 home internets in the area whereas the first field was not near anyone. This time after a bit of no RC signal it got one long enough to start the motors and go into a hover about 8 feet high and 10 feet away from us. It would occasionally flash No RC connection but recover. But the video was useless. It cycled between actually displaying video but with about a 10 second lag, to having frozen video to the screen going bacl and saying no video signal. And that was with it right in front of us.
Tried a third location and same result as the second. Intermittent no RC even when right in front of it, but enough to hover (didn't feel safe flying further with the intermittent RC loss and bad video) and useless video feed.
I live in an area I would describe as borderline rural / vey sparse suburb. If I am getting this much signal issues here, where can this safety be flown? Or is this not typical? Again, it was factory sealed in the box and has the latest firmware so not really sure what else I can do. If the issue is location then we may as well return it because it's hard to imagine even having a use for it if it requires even less populated than where we are to use it. My son's camp just did a drone camp a couple weeks ago and used the same field for their class (but we were the only ones there when we tested the Standard). People has Parrots and all kinds of other models, no issue. I have flown my 4 at all these locations we tested the Standard with no issue.
Anything else I can try?
Purchased at Target, BTW. And it was the last one in stock, according to their online inventory system, and any of the nearest 12 locations and they say they have no ETA to restock them. So if the hardware is bad we certainly can return it but it seems like we can't replace it, so either we'll just move on or try and Parrot (again, this is for my son -- I still have a 4 for myself). |
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