So i just got my PV a couple days ago and have only begun to start messing around with it... but have already discovered that while the user guide/release notes seem very detailed, they are missing some important stuff that someone should capture.
In my line of work (nuclear engineering), we dispassionately debrief EVERYTHING we do and find ways to make it work better, whether major procedural stuff or little refinements. SO... how bout we capture all the little lessons learned to save some other poor guy some time? See below...
I just spent several hours troubleshooting a "Cannot connect to Phantom 2 Vision" message. After resetting and rebinding, I couldn't connect to the range extender at all on the "Phantom_XXXXXX" network. It worked fine last night out of the box for a flight... so I updated all the firmware and came back to it today. When I updated the firmware last night, I just put the firmware.bin file on the camera's microSD card. After reading iDrone post that he had just dumped the whole zip file on there I tried that... and success!
So... I can only surmise that it is important for the update that the card have BOTH the firmware.bin and the version.txt file, contrary to what it says in the release notes.
Also, It took me a while to figure out that despite having the Assistant software on teh PC and the PV plugged in, they won't talk to each other unless you first install the DJI Driver that is NEVER MENTIONED ANYWHERE, IT JUST HANGS OUT ON THEIR WEBSITE ALL NONCHALANT AND STUFF.
Does anyone else have little things like that that we should watch out for?
In my line of work (nuclear engineering), we dispassionately debrief EVERYTHING we do and find ways to make it work better, whether major procedural stuff or little refinements. SO... how bout we capture all the little lessons learned to save some other poor guy some time? See below...
I just spent several hours troubleshooting a "Cannot connect to Phantom 2 Vision" message. After resetting and rebinding, I couldn't connect to the range extender at all on the "Phantom_XXXXXX" network. It worked fine last night out of the box for a flight... so I updated all the firmware and came back to it today. When I updated the firmware last night, I just put the firmware.bin file on the camera's microSD card. After reading iDrone post that he had just dumped the whole zip file on there I tried that... and success!
So... I can only surmise that it is important for the update that the card have BOTH the firmware.bin and the version.txt file, contrary to what it says in the release notes.
Also, It took me a while to figure out that despite having the Assistant software on teh PC and the PV plugged in, they won't talk to each other unless you first install the DJI Driver that is NEVER MENTIONED ANYWHERE, IT JUST HANGS OUT ON THEIR WEBSITE ALL NONCHALANT AND STUFF.
Does anyone else have little things like that that we should watch out for?