Recent content by dmac1

Lock Beacon might be good. Thanks Ken!

Wow! Sounds very similar. I was very lucky mine stopped within earshot, and lucky it was a totally calm day so I could hear it. Theoretically, a RTH setting of 'return to point connection was lost and hover as long as possible' SHOULD result in the drone being findable. Assuming the GPS setting...

Can you please clarify what you are looking at that is indicating that 'it ain't HDR at all'? I always use VLC to review my vids and the codec info is the same for each, but what indicates whether its real HDR or pseudo HDR? See below. Skydio's response to my inquiry about why my replacement...

Thanks Chris! You're actually correct about the 'guest riders'. He is a friend of a guy who I have known for a few years. It was gonna just be me and him, then all of a sudden this other guy was coming. Theres a pretty good backstory that'll have ya shakin your head....hopefully I'll be able...

Appreciate the offer Chris! Would love to come down some day, but it aint gonna be soon. Thanks for the offer tho!! A guy slammed his bike into my left leg when I stopped quickly due to almost missing a turn in the blowing sand at WW. I didnt hear him behind me, so its not like he was right...

I have an S22. It fits into the arm, but barely, and I am afraid it will fall out, so heres what I did to make it secure. Thats a strip of drywall corner protector trimmed and gorilla glued on. Maybe you could similarly extend the top of the cradle arm with something U shaped that would hold...

Maybe you just got a faulty S2+. I have no idea, but I'd get ahold of Skydio and see what they say. May not help, but thats about all you can do to hopefully fix, your S2+ (based on this short thread's content and zero research by myself).

I asked em via chat and unfortunately the guy gave me some errant info, but ultimately, he agreed with me that to get longest hover after RTH, don't set Land Once Returned. An example, the max you can set for Wait Before Land is 300 seconds (5 min) but what if you have 10 min of battery left...

Thanks. Yeah, I too never intentionally use RTH. Its good to get everyone's thoughts tho cuz yeah, one size doesn't fit all. I don't set home point and drone is most often following me...other than a few flyoff incidents. I thought I wanted max wait before it goes RTH but my flyoff incident...

Do I understand correctly....the new beacon (S2+) and Skydio2 drone and the new beacon has connection issues even if original wifi is used? I assume the original S2 beacon still works fine? If so, glad I didn't go that route....I was thinking of doing so for possible expanded range.

Aha...obstacle avoidance....just came to me... When mine has landed (2x) due to dying batteries it actually did a pretty good job of selecting half decent spots. Maybe I just got lucky and I thought it done good. :-)

Screwed for sure if you've went any distance and it decided to go back to launch point which you set as home. If you are well over 1/2 a battery away from launch point, you're nearly guaranteed a landing somewhere besides your hand cuz it won't make it back unless it can take enough shortcuts...

I think it will likely fly into wires and thin sticks and similar. I saw a vid a year or so ago of someone who was flying their S2 though a suspension bridge and it hit a cable that it didn't see in time. If the trees are leafed out, prolly true it wouldn't rise up into it...prolly true too if...

Thanks Ken! First, good thoughs in your first paragraph for those who do that. I never even thought of it... Second, since there is no setting for it in 'return behaviors' I neglected to address the home point issue. I never set a home point and am almost always in 'follow me' mode, thus...

Below is what I have been using. If it loses me, there could be 200-300' bluffs between me and S2 (if its waaay back there) or maybe just 100' trees...or nothing much. I am assuming it will try to work around a real high obstacle if my height limit isn't enough? I don't want it to waste battery...