Great ideas. Is Autel listening?

[Jayar]

I've seen a lot of great ideas in this forum for improvements to the EVO. I hope Autel is monitoring and sees it as free research on their product. Almost everything that I've read seems like a relatively simple software fix. For the EVO! Not EVO2! I'm guessing that many of us bought the EVO at least in part to support competition to a company with some really bad business practices. Hopefully Autel will return our support

 

[HiloHawaiian]

Hope springs eternal!

 

[The Guy In The Helmet]

I've seen a lot of great ideas in this forum for improvements to the EVO. I hope Autel is monitoring and sees it as free research on their product. Almost everything that I've read seems like a relatively simple software fix. For the EVO! Not EVO2! I'm guessing that many of us bought the EVO at least in part to support competition to a company with some really bad business practices. Hopefully Autel will return our support

I personally think so... they make it very hard to wait for the next firmware update...

???

 

[GLEvideo]

I've been watching this market and researching various multicopters for years and I specifically bought the EVO because of:
1. The demonstrated flight characteristics
2. The promises of the company for various features (some that have not yet happened)
3. The U.S. based customer support team
4. The geographically unrestricted flight capabilities
5. The ability to upgrade firmware and add features

I support Autel Robotics in their efforts to handle customer concerns and develop future features and upgrades. They appear to be very active in training and educating customers and potential customers and seem to take steps as quickly as can be possible to resolve issues. I would hope and suppose they do listen to customer suggestions such as seen on this forum. My biggest hope is that they maintain loyalty to EVO customers by continuing to support and provide upgrades and deliver on marketing promises. They would be leaps ahead off their competitors if they demonstrate and acknowledge their listening and acceptance of customer suggestions. And they would maintain their success as long as they continue their support of EVO and not abandon it for a newly developed model as some other companies do with their products. I for one do not plan on laying out the cash for a new model after I've made a major investment in the current model. There is still a lot of capability in EVO to yet unlock and I plan on keeping it around for a very long time.

 

[The Guy In The Helmet]

I've been watching this market and researching various multicopters for years and I specifically bought the EVO because of:
1. The demonstrated flight characteristics
2. The promises of the company for various features (some that have not yet happened)
3. The U.S. based customer support team
4. The geographically unrestricted flight capabilities
5. The ability to upgrade firmware and add features

I support Autel Robotics in their efforts to handle customer concerns and develop future features and upgrades. They appear to be very active in training and educating customers and potential customers and seem to take steps as quickly as can be possible to resolve issues. I would hope and suppose they do listen to customer suggestions such as seen on this forum. My biggest hope is that they maintain loyalty to EVO customers by continuing to support and provide upgrades and deliver on marketing promises. They would be leaps ahead off their competitors if they demonstrate and acknowledge their listening and acceptance of customer suggestions. And they would maintain their success as long as they continue their support of EVO and not abandon it for a newly developed model as some other companies do with their products. I for one do not plan on laying out the cash for a new model after I've made a major investment in the current model. There is still a lot of capability in EVO to yet unlock and I plan on keeping it around for a very long time.

Very well said!!!

 

[AtomX]

I've been watching this market and researching various multicopters for years and I specifically bought the EVO because of:
1. The demonstrated flight characteristics
2. The promises of the company for various features (some that have not yet happened)
3. The U.S. based customer support team
4. The geographically unrestricted flight capabilities
5. The ability to upgrade firmware and add features

I support Autel Robotics in their efforts to handle customer concerns and develop future features and upgrades. They appear to be very active in training and educating customers and potential customers and seem to take steps as quickly as can be possible to resolve issues. I would hope and suppose they do listen to customer suggestions such as seen on this forum. My biggest hope is that they maintain loyalty to EVO customers by continuing to support and provide upgrades and deliver on marketing promises. They would be leaps ahead off their competitors if they demonstrate and acknowledge their listening and acceptance of customer suggestions. And they would maintain their success as long as they continue their support of EVO and not abandon it for a newly developed model as some other companies do with their products. I for one do not plan on laying out the cash for a new model after I've made a major investment in the current model. There is still a lot of capability in EVO to yet unlock and I plan on keeping it around for a very long time.

I said it before in this jungle of threads and say it again.
Autel, give us control of the flight parameters. When consumer drones worth buying first hit the shelf you could, they didnt fly as well as they do now out of the box but still, let us tweak.
Anyone who does it should understand the risks. Create a user interface console that goes beyond Expo settings. Allow use to switch between factory and custom flight parameters with a switch in the App or the (remote !@#? ) even if it has to be grounded first. The chip sets in these new drones are way more advanced there should be plenty more switches to throw with more software. I bet only 20% is used with current firmware. Just a guess. Put some imagination into it leave DJI behind and open up the parameters. My old Phantom with Naza 2 FC can do it. You have to hack the MPro if you want to tweak.

 

[Apollo11capcom]

I said it before in this jungle of threads and say it again.
Autel, give us control of the flight parameters. When consumer drones worth buying first hit the shelf you could, they didnt fly as well as they do now out of the box but still, let us tweak.
Anyone who does it should understand the risks. Create a user interface console that goes beyond Expo settings. Allow use to switch between factory and custom flight parameters with a switch in the App or the (remote !@#? ) even if it has to be grounded first. The chip sets in these new drones are way more advanced there should be plenty more switches to throw with more software. I bet only 20% is used with current firmware. Just a guess. Put some imagination into it leave DJI behind and open up the parameters. My old Phantom with Naza 2 FC can do it. You have to hack the MPro if you want to tweak.

Great idea, I second this whole heartedly!

 

[xspwhite]

My guess is it will be discontinued within a year, and you will be left with a crappy firmware that will never be updated again. When I first got my XSP, the firmware was very nice. Then the update came out and ruined the drone. It was then abandoned to work on the EVO. I wont buy one.

 

[AtomX]

My guess is it will be discontinued within a year, and you will be left with a crappy firmware that will never be updated again. When I first got my XSP, the firmware was very nice. Then the update came out and ruined the drone. It was then abandoned to work on the EVO. I wont buy one.

Either way its still a good drone for the money and good luck building one that folds at this price, not to mention the time and risk of damage while testing. I prefer my old Mav Pro to scout around because of the DJI headset and flight performance but the Evo has its place.Too bad they cant shrink the Kestrel to a lower weight and go 900mhz. You can by stuff like Dragon Link and TB Crossfire. Yea most everyone is breaking FCC rules. If anything puts them out of business it will be restrictions or lawyers going after them. Lets hope Autel can survive without NFZs and all those people messing things up for those who respect the safety and privacy of others need to just find another hobby.

 

[xspwhite]

Either way its still a good drone for the money and good luck building one that folds at this price, not to mention the time and risk of damage while testing. I prefer my old Mav Pro to scout around because of the DJI headset and flight performance but the Evo has its place.Too bad they cant shrink the Kestrel to a lower weight and go 900mhz. You can by stuff like Dragon Link and TB Crossfire. Yea most everyone is breaking FCC rules. If anything puts them out of business it will be restrictions or lawyers going after them. Lets hope Autel can survive without NFZs and all those people messing things up for those who respect the safety and privacy of others need to just find another hobby.

They wont be going out of business anytime soon, but it's hard to say if they will decide to keep making drones or not, or if they decide to just jump to something else. One thing for certain is: what ever they do make; their customer service is top notch.