i am writing in frustration with the one button design on the r3pro. i believe that this is a poor system that can lead to missed data capture.
i am out reflying because data was not stored on the drive. personally as a professional surveyor i believe that data should always be stored with no chance of missed information.
i have many flights flown successfully with this unit. not sure how many 30-50. something like that. i understand well how to use the one button method. today is the second time that the unit glitched. the first time i actually have it on video where the first press of the one button method would not initiate a change in the light. this time i did the method thought all was good but it kept on recording. so i tried to do the method a second time and it just turned off without loading data. there is only 1 g of a two battery mission. should be about 15g.
i believe that you should press the button once. the unit turns on red. initializes to green and should start recording.
when you are done. press the button once and it should go red to stop recording load last bit of the data and turn off.
it should never be possible to stop the unit without storing data. do what you gotta do to make this happen. put a second thumb drive. put a capacitor…
i am running the recommended samsung usb drives.
the other thing that is silly. you drop a battery during battery swap and loose data??? never happened to me. but on a long mission this would be aggravating. on this point, it would be hard to have your closing 5 sec straight(well this is not as hard) but then the closing 30sec static shot when you are trying to swap batteries in under 1min. it should be more time so that you collect 30sec on each battery swap and this is used in the processing adjustment.
Hello Ian,
I also do not love the light system with the button pressing dance. We start and stop the system using the Rock Pilot app on the DJI remote, this works when mapping aerial mode or for SLAM mode you can use a Android tablet connected to the wifi the R3Pro broadcast when in the slam dock.
Great thing about the above mentioned methods, you can see the number of SATs, the PDOP and more importantly the amount of data being collecting in real-time so you can confirm acquisition is happening.
I have had battery changes that last longer than 1 minute process out just fine but shorter is better. There is a saying “slow is smooth and smooth is fast”. We try to use that with things like battery swaps and calibration routines. I find it is much more important to have good fast straight calibrations in and outs with nice figure 8s than the time on the deck being short for battery changes.
We employ longer statics and the beginning and end of a log if a landing in the middle was a bit longer than 30 seconds and so far we havent had any issues getting data processed.