During numerous flights (even while on the ground right next to the drone) i have suddenly lost the video transmission to my drone. Camera goes grey and freezes with the loss of video transmission message. Note im suing the DJI Phantom 4 Pro + (Plus with Plus Controller)
After a bit of investigation iv narrowed it down to a particular behavior of the Controller it seems, im NOT sure whether its BUG OR INTENTIONAL by design but each time iv lost the video feed i find that my custom settings under the Lightbridge settings page has been changed automatically even tho i had set the settings to MANUAL.
This happens quite often sometimes without the image being lost, but i was wondering if this is actually normal.
FOR EXAMPLE:
Ill set the video feed to CUSTOM - 2.4GHZ - Channel 15. Now the drone is still on the ground and im right next to it, ill go and pretend to change some settings in the camera like exposure, WB, file types etc and then Bang i look at the top of the screen and the 2.4GHZ icon has switched to 5.8GHZ. Now when i go back into the settings its STILL set to MANUAL but somehow its jumped.
ANOTHER EXAMPLE:
I will be flying and with my settings at again CUSTOM - 2.4GHZ - Channel 16 - All of a sudden at some point (usually im making adjust to the camera setting like filetype aperture etc) the video feed free grey out and freeze, video transmission lost - also sometimes the whole signal goes away and it starts to return to home. Now when i go to the settings quickly i find yet again that my CUSTOM settings have magically switched. Sometimes if i remember my CUSTOM settings, so in this case - i can quickly change it again to 2.4GHZ - Channel 16. Ill quickly be able to recover the video signal.
This has also happens even when the drone is only a few meters away or on the ground. Now this not my first DJI drone, I also used to own the normal Phantom 4 and flew it quite often, in that model, i never ever lost my video feed or had my CUSTOM settings overridden by-itself. It appears this automatic switching is built in because it happens quite often and it doesn’t always result in the video feed dropping however when it has got me into some unsafe situations and ruined any videography work i was conducting.
Would love to receive tome clarification on the FEATURE OR BUG, as its driving me nuts and im tempted to refund my P4 Pro+ considering who this was never an issue on my older P4.
Thanks.
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