Recent content by Hakaman

Slightly weird thread to post that in but I'll attempt an answer: I don't know if you will damage it without a camera in there. What I can say is that if you power on the drone and gimbal without a camera in there it hangs at an angle and makes a buzzing sound. I assume this is because the...

Hi all Finally got to fly the Solo today and it was awesome! How cool to see it hang in the air. Of course I grew over confident and ended up crashing it into a tree and busting a prop. The rest of the drone looks in good shape so I think I'll be fine after getting hold of some new props...

Hey Soup How did it go? Had the same issue and unplugged the compass from the board. Compass calibration worked fine after that. I figure it must be a bad compass leg and am waiting for a new one... hope that helps

I wasn't planning on anything far or high. I need to learn to land it in manual first anyway and there's no need to go far/high t learn that. I'm giving it a go!

As a novice pilot I'm worried about flying with a compass out. Do you know what would happen if the Pixhawk compass gives up the ghost too? As long as I can land it safely then I'm okay with that... I'm dying to take it up! (Reassurance needed!)

Read above for what worked for me to isolate the problem to the leg compass. I don't know if the Here cuts out the need for the leg, the Pixhawk or both compasses. So it might not solve your problem if it's the Pixhawk compass. I disconnected the leg compass from the main board (easy...

Dude! This might be solved. Did everything as you suggested and... nothing worked. Then I went for the final step and disconnected the leg compass and re-calibrated: it worked! I am stoked. The seller has already sent me a new leg number 4 and I will install that and hopefully I'll be able to...

Great write up P2P. I will try all of that in that order and let you know how I go. Thanks

I will have a look at this today...

I quite like the idea of the Here and was planning on probably getting a GPS upgrade but I am wary of throwing good money after bad. If the problem is in the Pixhawk then a new compass won't change much...

Hey there P2P. Thanks for the reply. By parameter reset do you mean the SYSID_SW_MREV set to 0? I have tried that but without any luck. But I am learning that Solo sometimes needs a little time to get it's head around things, so I am planning to try that one more time. If you mean anything else...

Hi all So my first experience with a Best Buy return Solo (bought on Ebay) is not going well. Resetting it was a test of patience... but I got there! Problems with a button not responding (Which may have been resolved thanks @speatuk) Now I'm hit with the dreaded 'magnetic interference'...

Thanks, I'll try that next time... I'm now having a very persistent compass error and no amount of calibrating seems to solve it. The green bar gets stuck half way and it says to calibrate again...

Thanks for the feedback. I am already getting the idea that the Solo is that kind of device and needs a little patience.

I have not tried it out but for iOS there's Side Pilot. It seems to be the only app for the Solo and I intend to try it. It is nowhere near as developed as Solex but the developer seems to be active with regular updates which is improving things on a weekly basis. If you want to be a power user...