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Rich B replied to Rich B's discussion Feature Request: Dynamic Home Point
"I forget where I submitted it. At one point they had a method to submit ideas and requests, perhaps it was an email I received, or a feedback method? Sorry that I don't remember.
You could always submit a support ticket, but they may not take that…"
Mar 15, 2016
Rich B commented on Justin M's blog post FLIR introduce new thermal camera Vue Pro
"Need an easy way to get this video from the analog USB to a digital micro HDMI so this can also be used on the Solo."
Nov 19, 2015
Rich B replied to Eddie Tun's discussion how solo gimbal works in 3DR SOLO
"Pan of your camera is controlled by yawing your Solo left and right in flight. So if you are testing things on the ground, you won't see the gimbal move.
There is no separate pan control on the gimbal on the controller. The wheel on the right corner…"
Nov 6, 2015
Rich B replied to Randy's discussion Copter-3.3 beta testing
"Thanks for the hints. I'll try this again with my flight battery. But other tests with the USB cable seem to be ok now.
I've powered it up from the same USB cable a few times now and I haven't been able to repeat the issue.

I can't say that it's…"
Oct 28, 2015
Rich B replied to Randy's discussion Copter-3.3 beta testing
"I guess no one seems concerned, I deleted my logfile."
Oct 27, 2015
Rich B replied to Randy's discussion Copter-3.3 beta testing
"OK that was strange.

More on the 3.3.1 accel[1] not healthy messages
So trying to figure out what was going on. I decided to clear my logs, then try again.
I did the following:
I turned on my RC transmitter (It was not turned on previously)
I…"
Oct 26, 2015
Rich B replied to Randy's discussion Copter-3.3 beta testing
"Thanks for all the Dev's work on the new release.

So I previously was using 3.2.1 and it was working.

I now loaded 3.3.1 on my PixHawk on my desk, only using my USB cable for the power to the PixHawk (as I have often done).

The firmware flash…"
Oct 26, 2015
Rich B replied to REAPER's discussion Connecting a FLIR VUE infrared camera on a solo in 3DR SOLO
"Thanks for the report!"
Oct 24, 2015
Rich B replied to 2jepdubb7x2ie's discussion FrSky not so free.
"I suppose the big question, is was this a bad initial load of firmware from FrSky, or was it a course of updating the firmware with several versions of OpenTX?

If you are convinced that this could not be an OpenTX issue, then I can only agree with…"
Oct 24, 2015
Rich B replied to 2jepdubb7x2ie's discussion FrSky not so free.
"It seems you guys have determined that the root cause of this issue was that somehow the FrSky transmitter was messed up and a factory reset was required to solve it.

With this in mind, have you reported this to the OpenTX firmware team? Perhaps…"
Oct 23, 2015
Rich B replied to Craig P.'s discussion Simple Solution For Extending The Range of The Solo in 3DR SOLO
"Solo doesn't use any type RC receiver, it uses fairly standard WiFi cards for control.I would love to see if someone could provide a mod to the Solo to allow use of an RC transmitter/receiver for flight controls. IMHO this would be much more robust…"
Oct 23, 2015
Rich B replied to Randy's discussion Copter-3.3 beta testing
"Yes, thanks for the tips!!
As an old time RC heli pilot, I always take off with the tail pointed at me, it's an old habit that is hard to kill!"
Oct 19, 2015
Rich B replied to Randy's discussion Copter-3.3 beta testing
"Thanks for sharing this!

I always thought the only place that simple / super simple modes would be confusing was if the operator was trying to use downlinked video from the aircraft. In this case it could be very confusing.
Otherwise, I would…"
Oct 19, 2015
Rich B replied to Randy's discussion Copter-3.3 beta testing
"Leonard, thanks for the reply. This is as I thought also.
I only wanted to use simple or super simple to help when/if the aircraft is too far away to visually see what is going on.
As as example, years ago, when I first started learning to fly…"
Oct 19, 2015
Rich B replied to Randy's discussion Copter-3.3 beta testing
"Ok, you two are worrying me now! LOL

SuperSimple mode says it works even if the bird goes behind you "The advantage over simple mode is that the controls are applied from the pilot’s point of view even when the copter flies behind the pilot/home…"
Oct 13, 2015
Rich B replied to Randy's discussion Copter-3.3 beta testing
"Why does simple or super-simple mode reverse the sticks?
I have been using these settings turned on (super simple mode), in case I'm far away and can't see the orientation of the quad, I increase the chance of getting the quad back to me.If these…"
Oct 13, 2015
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