I have been having intermittent problems with the camera stopping (R2A) after about 1-2 minutes.
It typically happens about 1 in 4 or 1 in 5 flights. All the LiDAR data will be there but only about 25-40 pictures.
I am on all the latest firmware.
I always format the USB as per instructions.
I always shut off the wifi and start the unit manually.
This makes most operations take at least 2x as long as they should because I have to re-do segments all the time.
To be honest. I have never had a reliable experience with the R2A. It’s been back for repairs twice and I have never been able to rely on it enough to leave a job before uncompressing and processing the RTK at least.
We are just about to enter our busiest season and have several jobs lined up in the next few weeks. Yesterday was a total fail. We had a corridor operation of about 20km. This should have been a 3 flight operation.
The first leg worked as it should. The second leg worked fine. Then on the 3rd, the camera stopped. We spent the rest of the day charging batteries and running flights but all were the same. The camera would stop within the first few minutes and of course there’s no way to know until we land the drone and sadly the camera isn’t running.
It’s like an awful lottery. Every time I touch down I’m terrified to approach an not hear clicking.