My only concern is that this mechanism requires DJI to continue as an ongoing financial entitiy. If they go out of business these craft no longer work.
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That did not happen to me. Perhaps it was fixed before I connected to my bird with 2.5 which was late yesterday evening and today. There are a boatload of yellow zones on the DJI GEO beta site and none show in my IOS 2.5 version of
The Beta is open, all you do is install the app and run with it. I played around with it and found it to be totally reasonable and there was ZERO evidence from experience that DJI has any plans to charge money for unlocking of zones. You can unlock zones with your cell phone, and do not even have to have a credit card on file. Not sure how they would charge you if zones are being updated via cell number that is tied to the serial number of your aircraft.
The point of having a validated cell number or credit card on file is so that if you do something stupid DJI can provide the data requested by the authorities. Keep in mind that they have been logging our flights since the release of the P3 and because of this logging it creates a possible legal burden of expectation to provide data when requested by authorities.
ISP's have to do the same thing, as do telco's and many other companies also. My belief is that DJI is trying to get ahead of a deluge of legal requests. A lot of these were sold, and a lot of people are doing really stupid and dangerous things with them (a quick search of youtube will reveal the magnitude of the problem). The reality is we are living in the wild west of UAV's right now and I would prefer to not get hung.
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Will Dji go 2.5 mess up zones even if the drone's firmware is 1.4? Or does it only screw things up if you are running 16 or the 1.7 beta?
That did not happen to me. Perhaps it was fixed before I connected to my bird with 2.5 which was late yesterday evening and today. There are a boatload of yellow zones on the DJI GEO beta site and none show in my IOS 2.5 version of
1Yes there will be those that steer away from purchasing DJI products due to the GEO System.
Other companies would NOT include such a system unless it promoted sales.
DJI will soon realize that restricting any of it's aircraft where there is no written law is a mistake.
So... What will it take to get DJI to make any changes from the current path they're on? It would take a combination of current customers to a couple of things. They. or we, would need to post in large numbers in the DJI forum expressing non approval as one thing. The other would be to contact DJI customer support and request refunds, or from where the aircraft purchase was made.
Simply put, DJI should not be doing anything other then those things that increase their overall sales. It's just a matter of time that enough people get pissed off and do something legally that reminds DJI that people have the right to make their own decisions.
I'm guessing DJI must feel like if they don't do what they're doing, then some careless user's may come along and screw it up for everyone
Nope - as it's beta and I'm not the tester. But he assures me this is the way they're going. I find it hard to believe, but I'm not in direct contact with DJI - and I trust this guy totally.
The Beta is open, all you do is install the app and run with it. I played around with it and found it to be totally reasonable and there was ZERO evidence from experience that DJI has any plans to charge money for unlocking of zones. You can unlock zones with your cell phone, and do not even have to have a credit card on file. Not sure how they would charge you if zones are being updated via cell number that is tied to the serial number of your aircraft.
The point of having a validated cell number or credit card on file is so that if you do something stupid DJI can provide the data requested by the authorities. Keep in mind that they have been logging our flights since the release of the P3 and because of this logging it creates a possible legal burden of expectation to provide data when requested by authorities.
ISP's have to do the same thing, as do telco's and many other companies also. My belief is that DJI is trying to get ahead of a deluge of legal requests. A lot of these were sold, and a lot of people are doing really stupid and dangerous things with them (a quick search of youtube will reveal the magnitude of the problem). The reality is we are living in the wild west of UAV's right now and I would prefer to not get hung.