Hi guys,
I just registered here, got my new 3DR Solo (with gimbal and Hero 4 black) two days ago.
There seems to be very little information available from the official channels so I spent whole weekend reading various topics on this forum instead of flying (well I managed to get the Solo in the air 3 times but the battery doesn't last 20 minutes as they advertise, not even 15mins, 12-13mins per fully charged battery was my experience so far, anyway that's another topic).
I came across few discussions here about logs, some report crashes and were able to retrieve logs or even determine where and how the Solo crashed from those logs. This data logging, is it enabled by default or is it something we need to enable, and then hack the firmware to retrieve it ? I noted some discussion about emailing the logs to "yourself" from the support ticket screen but I see no such option there. I'm on Mac so I cannot install Mission Control, there is the APM Planner for Mac - is it any good and simple to retrieve/save logs (without understanding the linux commands)? If the logging is enabled by default, how many flight hours are stored before it starts over-writing old data (in other words how often should I retrieve and save data to be certain not to lose any older logs) ?
I just want to be certain that if it ever happens that Solo disappears in the distance and goes down, that I have a way to retrieve and analyze information of what actually happened and to be able to determine GPS location of the crash site if I cannot locate it myself. Somewhere on the forum it was suggested to install GPS location device (like SPOT) but surely this is not necessary if the GPS location is already recorded on logs on my controller.
Secondly I would like to keep historical logs in order to determine total flight hours for the maintenance purposes, sure I can use my stopwatch and write this on piece of paper every time I fly but eventually I'll forget I'm sure. So much discussion about failed motors that makes me think to buy a new set every now and then and replace them, although when to replace them is a real question, either way the official info about 150 hours is obviously a non-sense, there wouldn't be so many failures of fairly new copters if this was true.
I will probably post few additional questions in next few days so I apologize before hand for that. This forum is really great source of info, before the weekend I had about 20 questions to ask but it seems most of it was already covered here so now I'm down to about 3 remaining things that I'm still not clear on.
I just registered here, got my new 3DR Solo (with gimbal and Hero 4 black) two days ago.
There seems to be very little information available from the official channels so I spent whole weekend reading various topics on this forum instead of flying (well I managed to get the Solo in the air 3 times but the battery doesn't last 20 minutes as they advertise, not even 15mins, 12-13mins per fully charged battery was my experience so far, anyway that's another topic).
I came across few discussions here about logs, some report crashes and were able to retrieve logs or even determine where and how the Solo crashed from those logs. This data logging, is it enabled by default or is it something we need to enable, and then hack the firmware to retrieve it ? I noted some discussion about emailing the logs to "yourself" from the support ticket screen but I see no such option there. I'm on Mac so I cannot install Mission Control, there is the APM Planner for Mac - is it any good and simple to retrieve/save logs (without understanding the linux commands)? If the logging is enabled by default, how many flight hours are stored before it starts over-writing old data (in other words how often should I retrieve and save data to be certain not to lose any older logs) ?
I just want to be certain that if it ever happens that Solo disappears in the distance and goes down, that I have a way to retrieve and analyze information of what actually happened and to be able to determine GPS location of the crash site if I cannot locate it myself. Somewhere on the forum it was suggested to install GPS location device (like SPOT) but surely this is not necessary if the GPS location is already recorded on logs on my controller.
Secondly I would like to keep historical logs in order to determine total flight hours for the maintenance purposes, sure I can use my stopwatch and write this on piece of paper every time I fly but eventually I'll forget I'm sure. So much discussion about failed motors that makes me think to buy a new set every now and then and replace them, although when to replace them is a real question, either way the official info about 150 hours is obviously a non-sense, there wouldn't be so many failures of fairly new copters if this was true.
I will probably post few additional questions in next few days so I apologize before hand for that. This forum is really great source of info, before the weekend I had about 20 questions to ask but it seems most of it was already covered here so now I'm down to about 3 remaining things that I'm still not clear on.
