Today I decided to film myself mowing the lawn - boring, yes, but still something I thought would look neat. So, I took the P2V+ up to about 150' to get the entire property within the frame, and the put down the controller. Since I was listening to a podcast (locally stored on my Android Galaxy Note 2), I took the phone from the mount, and started to mow. Everything seemed to go great for about 8 minutes. Then, suddenly the quad moved back over the home location, and started to descend. I saw it coming down and took control back before it landed. Battery was at 65%, sats were 11, and the video screen was black. I could still start/stop the recording, and change settings on the camera, but the video feed was black.
In any case, I landed it, shut it down, and finished mowing the lawn.
So I have a few questions:
1) When hovering for extended periods of time (i.e. >10 min) without any control input, will the firmware see that as a loss of control signal, and initiate a RTH?
2) If the wifi-repeater loses contact with the phone, does that initiate a RTH? While I was in the back yard mowing, I was within 30' of the controller. It was only after moving to the front yard that the RTH initiated. Coincidence, or does the loss of Vision App communication trigger that?
3) Several times now I have tried to fly the quad, and when I bring up the app, I get all the telemetry data, and can change camera settings, make waypoints, etc - but the video feed is completely black. A power cycle of the quad and repeater usually fixes that. Is this a known issue? EDIT TO ADD: Ok, I'm the guilty noob who didn't search first. Clearly this is an issue. You can ignore this question. Sorry...
In any case, I landed it, shut it down, and finished mowing the lawn.
So I have a few questions:
1) When hovering for extended periods of time (i.e. >10 min) without any control input, will the firmware see that as a loss of control signal, and initiate a RTH?
2) If the wifi-repeater loses contact with the phone, does that initiate a RTH? While I was in the back yard mowing, I was within 30' of the controller. It was only after moving to the front yard that the RTH initiated. Coincidence, or does the loss of Vision App communication trigger that?
3) Several times now I have tried to fly the quad, and when I bring up the app, I get all the telemetry data, and can change camera settings, make waypoints, etc - but the video feed is completely black. A power cycle of the quad and repeater usually fixes that. Is this a known issue? EDIT TO ADD: Ok, I'm the guilty noob who didn't search first. Clearly this is an issue. You can ignore this question. Sorry...