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    Solo Development Area

    Has anyone considered or working on a replacement motor pod solution? Sharing my 2 cents: Situation: Parts for Solo unavailable – specifically motor pods Background: 3DR is longer supporting the consumer market Assessment: Parts availability is scarce – Current UAS reports having enough...
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    mRobotics M8N GPS

    I'm still a fan of this original GPS ... I get 8 satellites with Solo sitting on the kitchen table in from of the window. 12 is the norm with reasonable acquisition ... HDOP around 1.5 ish with occasional <1 I'm waiting on a shield and M8N so I can hang with the cool kids
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    mRobotics M8N GPS

    I've been shipping stuff to Italy via UPS ...
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    BLACK FRIDAY $99 Solos?? (yeah right)

    I'm on the wrong side of the pond ... I may be going out on a limb here but I don't think the US market has as many progressive thinkers as our friends on your side of the world I presented this concept to a huge concrete company for measuring materials - they looked at me like I was crazy...
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    BLACK FRIDAY $99 Solos?? (yeah right)

    I got to "wow" ... where's home base for you?
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    BLACK FRIDAY $99 Solos?? (yeah right)

    I am married to someone who happens to work in the design industry and works with Autodesk. I've spoken with several of her colleagues in regard to the usefulness of "Site Scan" I gave her people a basic presentation using models and images I received from 3DR. I even have the Autodesk suite at...
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    Another Solo Maiden Flight

    ok so I'm sad that 3DR is not what I believed or hoped it would be ... Regardless, Solo is everything I expected. Yes! Another successful Solo Maiden Flight. Fresh from Best Buy this one is a back-up for my back-up, which backs up Solo 1 Obviously not the first Solo box I've opened but I have...
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    New Solo- And down she goes!

    My first Solo experienced a motor pod failure ... took about 7 days for a door cause analysis. They rebuilt my existing Solo and sent a new gimbal. I wouldn't sweat it
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    Solex for Solo

    See below for quote from Solex documentation... Of course I have a Samsung Tab S 8.4 and I want run Solex. Any work around or patch for the fatal error mentioned below? "The Android APIs explicitly allow for an application to make use of multiple networks at a time, as of Android 5.0. On all...
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    Wearing Solo Out

    Well ... looks like we will have to hunt for motors for now. I have a pair of Solos now as "spare" ...
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    Wearing Solo Out

    I was told by Ben at Currect UAS that Solo's motors should be replaced at 150 hours ... so I'm thinking the failure I experienced was related to environment or simply a failure Good thing I have several now
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    Peau Productions Software

    Ok I understand now! Thanks for the awesome breakdown. Aside from the obvious savings by having Peau modify my existing GoPro, is there any reason I should choose a Peau "factory" GoPro over sending mine in? Thanks!
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    Peau Productions Software

    Questions for the Peau Production users: I've read on their site that Peau removes the GoPro software and replaces with theirs. Does this affect control of the GoPro via 3DR's app in any way? Affect control with Tower?
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    Solo WiFi tech support - HELP 3dr

    "No internet connection" You're ok ... this information is correct. The OS will report no internet connection when connected to Solo wifi
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    BLACK FRIDAY $99 Solos?? (yeah right)

    My local Best Buy as of last night has 1 new Solo and 1 open box. I was told they will no longer stock 3DR once sold out, however they will bring Solo in from another Best Buy if available