Drone not responding to all controls on Controller

russianwolfe · Apr 13, 2016

Today when I went out a lunch, I plotted a mission, uploaded the waypoints, and then tried to fly the drone. It took off with no problem but would not respond to the controller when I attempted to fly forward or gain altitude. I was able to get it to rotate but it did not respond to any other controls.

What can I do to get it to respond to the controller?

Note: I did crash the drone yesterday.

Marvin

franknitty69 · Apr 13, 2016

in auto mode the only control you have is a, b, pause, fly and rtl. if you wish to control the solo before engaging the mission in auto mode, take off with the sticks or fly button, fly and then use tower to switch to auto.

russianwolfe · Apr 13, 2016

franknitty69 said:
in auto mode the only control you have is a, b, pause, fly and rtl. if you wish to control the solo before engaging the mission in auto mode, take off with the sticks or fly button, fly and then use tower to switch to auto.

Thanks, Frank, but I hadn't even engaged auto yet. I usually take off and raise to the operational altitude (150 ft minimum) and then engage auto. But after I arm and then took off, I couldn't change the altitude. There was no response when I moved either joy stick; no change in altitude, no forward motion or backward. The only think that worked was rotate. I think something must have come loose in the crash but I don't know where to look. I was hopping someone would tell me here to look.

Marvin

Marich · Apr 13, 2016

russianwolfe said:
Thanks, Frank, but I hadn't even engaged auto yet. I usually take off and raise to the operational altitude (150 ft minimum) and then engage auto. But after I arm and then took off, I couldn't change the altitude. There was no response when I moved either joy stick; no change in altitude, no forward motion or backward. The only think that worked was rotate. I think something must have come loose in the crash but I don't know where to look. I was hopping someone would tell me here to look.

Marvin

Auto is the default, so unless you put in manual you're flying in it.

Pedals2Paddles · Apr 13, 2016

So you took off in FLY mode I presume? Pushed the button and it took off, then ceased responding. Was this repeated? How did you land? Did any buttons work?

Marich said:
Auto is the default, so unless you put in manual you're flying in it.

No it isn't. Auto isn't even a mode available on the solo controller or solo app. In order to engage Auto mode, you would need to open the tower app and change to auto mode via Tower. It certainly isn't a default of any kind. FLY is the default mode, which is not the same thing.

franknitty69 · Apr 14, 2016

in tower you have to the option to take off and switch to auto or 'auto' which will takeoff and go to waypoint 1 provided you have a takeoff waypoint.

if you took off via the controller and didn't have control after then something else happened. we won't know unless you post logs.

russianwolfe · Apr 14, 2016

Okay, as soon as I figure how obtain the logs, I'll post them.

Marvin

Marich · Apr 14, 2016

Pedals2Paddles said:
So you took off in FLY mode I presume? Pushed the button and it took off, then ceased responding. Was this repeated? How did you land? Did any buttons work?

No it isn't. Auto isn't even a mode available on the solo controller or solo app. In order to engage Auto mode, you would need to open the tower app and change to auto mode via Tower. It certainly isn't a default of any kind. FLY is the default mode, which is not the same thing.

Yup, I know. For some reason "auto" and "fly" are right next to each other on their shelf in my mind.

SPP · Apr 14, 2016

Pedals2Paddles said:
No it isn't. Auto isn't even a mode available on the solo controller or solo app. In order to engage Auto mode, you would need to open the tower app and change to auto mode via Tower. It certainly isn't a default of any kind. FLY is the default mode, which is not the same thing.

Dang, I will call it FLY from today onwards....I tot FLY = AUTO HOLD POSITION by GPS, and me mind call it as AUTO. I forgot if Tower is used Solo can do true AUTO-nomous.

Must change this habit.... FLY is the word, many thanks P2P

russianwolfe · Apr 15, 2016

Yesterday, I went out to see the extent of the problem and for some unknown reason, there was no problem. The drone responded to the joy sticks and acted normally. I'm still going to file a trouble report.

Can anyone point me to instructions on retrieving the logs so I can look at them?

Marvin

franknitty69 · Apr 15, 2016

russianwolfe said:
Yesterday, I went out to see the extent of the problem and for some unknown reason, there was no problem. The drone responded to the joy sticks and acted normally. I'm still going to file a trouble report.

Can anyone point me to instructions on retrieving the logs so I can look at them?

Marvin