The Guy In The Helmet
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FIRMWARE V1.4.9 is now officially released!
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I beta tested this version. Will I be prompted to update or is the beta version exactly the same as the released version?
I loaded the beta version one day before release of the final, and the final looks like the same version to me.
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If there was any revision from the beta to the final release they would have made a note about it. No way would they tell you to keep running the beta if things changed.
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The tilted horizon was a pretty widely recognized problem when the Evo was announced. Autel has been working to fix it for the last year. By the time I bought mine, it was MUCH better. It was straight most of the time, but still had occasional issues. It seems even better with this release.
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Ah I see, I haven't noticed the issue at all, maybe I need to double check but glad they are addressing it.
Up the challenge, and catch it with your teeth.
That said, I hand catch this and my spark all the time, even if I have a landing pad down if there is lots of "debris" around. But for now, it's just Sparkie for me since my Evo is on the slow truck across the country to hopefully get fixed.
I hand catch my Spark too. I have a set of skid landing gear on the bottom that makes it nice and easy.
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I wouldn't say that. Frankly I think it's pretty stable overall, at least for me. I do think the horizon has improved further, and the gimbal cal seems much quicker. Plus you now have boat mode and mission planning. The jiggly cam in boat mode goes away once you take off and the bird flies normally. My only real issue is that the gimbal resets when I land with it facing down - but as I and others have noted, I wouldn't call that serious.
The only other thing that might be worth checking (because I haven't) is the obstacle avoidance switch. I just saw a post on Facebook where someone claimed that turning off obstacle avoidance doesn't really turn it off anymore. Might be a fluke... who knows.
I still think the update is worthwhile. My opinion anyway.
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I think the update is good overall. I'm leaning towards something was weird with my drone to begin with.
My friend reminded me the zoom was not working and it gave a bunch of errors when we were at his construction site. But I switched batteries, then it seemed fine. But now I get the errors about 3/4 of the time.
As for the gimbal "restart" after landing when pointing down 90 degrees...
1. "Meh" Other than weird, it's not really "causing" any issues.
2. If it bothers you, just as you land the last 2' or so, toss the gimbal back up to 0 degrees.
(until it's patched or they say that is the goal)
@LeafPeeper Where'd you see the turning off obstacle avoidance post? That's similar to my drones issues. When it was being buggy, I couldn't change flight modes, ludicrous, precision, standard, etc... EVENTUALLY, sometimes it would make the changes after the fact. USUALLY I got a paramater config failed error. I saw that once, but could test quicker with trying to zoom, so tested with that. (Aka, could test without even taking off sitting at my desk)
I just really hope my drone makes it back and forth across the country quick, since i'm supposed to go to beach in August and be on boats a bunch.
Did the update via OTA. Also have the jittery camera in boat mode, not in normal camera mode. Haven't tried descending with the camera pointed 90 degrees down, will check it out over the weekend. I noticed something strange after the update... I tried launching from my hand, which works. However when trying to track an object, my Evo's yaw turning does not work, have to exit track mode, go into camera mode and then only does the bird turn left/right. Not sure if this is normal, also not sure if this happened before the update.. Will check whether it happens when I take off normally - not with boat mode. Also, after taking off in boat mode, my gimbal/picture was quite crooked for few seconds, and then auto corrected. Never had these issues before. Hopefully another 'solid' update is on the way soon.
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That is normal. If your Evo is focused on an object, the yaw will not work, since it would lose the object. If you roll left or right, you will notice that the drone will turn on it's yaw to keep focused on it's target.
Thanks for clarifying
will test it again over the weekend. I tried to position the evo with yaw before drawing the rectangle over my subject, but could be that I already chose my object. Will give it another try. Thanks again Ansia
Only one flight? Assuming you've recalibrated the gimbal, I've found that if the horizon is tilted when I power up and take off, it will stay tilted. If that happens, I land, reboot and it often readjusts to straight and then it stays straight. I'm convinced they've improved things, but it's still not perfect.
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