Maybe it should have, but I didn't see anything that might have tipped
us off.
Any idea what kind of channel it uses, and why it doesn't show on the
sniffer? Is it using 10 MHz or 40 MHz channel, or some proprietary protocol?
bp
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On 12/28/2015 5:02 PM, Ryan Ray wrote:
It should have warned you too that there was interference in the area
and to be careful. You can also go into the app and choose channels.
On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Bill Prince <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
The intent was to hover it a low level over his back yard. All the
high-voltage lines, phone lines, and cable lines were street-side,
so the air was clear over his back yard. Should have been easy.
However, when I started up my sniffer, I was getting at least 30
WiFi hotspots in the area (on all the available 2.4 GHz channels).
bp
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On 12/27/2015 10:37 AM, Joe Novak wrote:
No other high voltage lines or anything like that right? It makes
them act up too. If it wasn't so windy today it'd be a good day
to go fly.
On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 12:32 PM, Bill Prince
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
They call it "auto-home". When you start it up, you calibrate
the compass, and it records the starting point. Then you're
supposed to just push the "Home" button, and it is supposed
to fly back to that position and hover.
When it started flying off into the distance, he pushed the
home button, and it cam back, but it was off by 20 feet or
so, and it tried to land in a tree. Not optimal. he was able
to push the "up" control to prevent it from actually landing
in the tree. However, he was not able to maneuver it to the
appropriate landing spot.
As I and his other uncle were diving to avoid being hit by
the thing, he was able to land it on the roof of his house
without damaging it.
bp
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On 12/27/2015 10:26 AM, Chuck McCown wrote:
Saw a thing on the interwebs yesterday about how to not
crash your drone the first time you use it.
Apparently they have something similar to an E Stop button
that turns on the autopilot and flies them back to the
starting poitn.
*From:* Josh Luthman <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Sunday, December 27, 2015 11:23 AM
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT: DJI Phantom 3 Pro, wireless protocol?
FHSS maybe? Or possibly small channel size since it needs
distance, not throughput.
Josh Luthman
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On Dec 27, 2015 1:18 PM, "Bill Prince" <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
My nephew got a new DJI Phantom 3 Pro model drone, and
in the process of setting it up, I was trying to find
the WiFi frequencies/protocols it was using to
communicate between the controller and drone. Nothing
showed up in my sniffer, so I wonder if it's using
802.11 at all.
The specs
(http://wiki.dji.com/en/index.php/Phantom_3_Professional) say
it's using 2400-2483 MHz, but is only 100 mW EIRP. They
claim 2 KM range, but he lost control of it in his
admittedly WiFi congested neighborhood.
--
bp
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