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Yes. If I remember right, it detects boot failures and reinstalls from a "gold" partition. That, of course, is a good thing for the most part, but anything you changed on the main partition will be lost.

@ktechdev Are you wondering if the sololink software could be ported/upgrade and used on another device or on the Solo hardware? If it's the latter, it would probably require a bootloader (uboot?) upgrade, and almost certainly a kernel upgrade, which would be challenging. If that were done, I...

I've been flying since well before there were apps to learn how to fly, and before drones flew themselves. There's only so much you can learn from apps, and, IMO, this drone is designed to fly automated. You really shouldn't be trying to fly this drone manual unless you know what you're doing...

Last year I flew FPV with a 360 camera on the Solo: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1uVzRnLljyL370cy6FAI1g Started working with it again, now that the brutal summer has passed and it's safe to go outside again.

TBH, I don't think there's anything to practice. This drone pretty much flies itself. You just push it around in the sky. Just push the "Fly" button to start the motors, Push it again to put it into hover, and then up, down, left, right, rotate as necessary. Push the home button to bring it back...

I already have the cameras, but might be interested in the mount if you might consider selling that separately. I've been using the cameras to experiment with 360(ish) degree FPV:

Oh, I've seen herelink, but is that open source? Can I modify it? It's also way more expensive than what I can pick up the equivalent parts for from soolink.

What other platform? The one unique (as far as I've seen) feature of the Sololink is the integrated HDMI encoder. Having an integrated high-power wifi is also pretty unique. Do you know of anything else that has all the features of the Sololink? If so, I would love to see it.

Just a minor update. So far the self healing embedded in the Solo has defeated my attempts to resize the partitions without removing the sd card, but I'm not finished yet! Some of the issues that I ran into: mkfs.ext3 is not on the standard image. It must be somewhere in the recovery...

I'm just about to try it in-place so that it can be done (with some risk) on a Solo without pulling out the sd card. I think it will work, but not 100% sure. Fingers crossed! Of course, it's on a copy of the sd card that that I have easy access to, so no risk to me... this time... :)

To follow up on this. I was able to increase the partition size using the following process: Copy (dd/win32diskimager) the original 8G sdcard to a 32G sdcard Insert the sdcard into another linux system Mount each of the 4 partitions and copy them to a separate subdirectory using "rsync -av...

I had hoped that, since there's a settable variable in a script that specifies the size, that it would figure that out for me. The only constraint that I saw was 4k alignment, which shouldn't be an issue, since I just tried doubling the size. I did not try making a bootable image without...

Anyone know how to build an image with a larger partition size. The current default is 90MB, which is very small. I'm trying to install some additional software that will not fit in the current partition size. I changed the "BOOT_SPACE" variable in image_typpes_3dr.bbclass, and it made a larger...

Have you tried the Alpha patch antennas yet, or are you still using the stock antenna? I would try these (or something similar) at least to start: Amazon.com: Alfa APA-M25 Dual Band 2.4GHz/5GHz 10dBi high gain Directional Indoor Panel Antenna with RP-SMA Connector (Compare to Asus WL-ANT-157)...

Are you wanting to replace the antenna on the quad, on the tx, or both? Are you planning to do aggressive flying? The antenna that you mentioned are circularly polarized (at least the ones that I saw), which aren't going to work as well with the stock antenna on the solo, and aren't really...