So, the with the video streaming massively improved in the recent releases of TelloFPV, I took the the little
Tello out again for the occasional fly-around to record sunsets and what not.
I use an app called ScreenRecorder to record the phone's output as well now and then. That used to work great. However, version 1.11P (or earlier?) has an odd reaction to it... an allergy? No, it's some sort of UI interference.
Here's what's happening now when ScreenRecorder is running in the background: any of the new autopilot features do no longer open the new-style dialog boxes. That also disables the gamepad controller (I can't recall if it also disabled the touchscreen controllers on the phone). The
Tello hovers and nothing happens. Only when touching the respective autopilot function again, things will revert back to normal.
I have not had the time to test if that's also happening when bc DURecorder is running. Maybe others have similar experiences?
Next, another thing I noticed (this one is going back to much earlier releases) is that when the photo feature to reencode JPG files is activated, all the EXIF data is stripped out from the JPG file. Turning this off will leave the EXIF in place. So, not a big deal now that I'm aware.
Unfortunately, even then the EXIF date/time stamp isn't populated. I realize that this is a manufacturer omission, but I was wondering if in a future release the date/time stamp (that is so well-written into the file name --huge thanks for that, btw--) could be written into the EXIF tag (I think it's called original datetime or something) when reencode JPG is activated. Other EXIF tags might be populated with other useful information as well perhaps. Ed Harvey's exiftools website has an enormous wealth of information on all of that with many code samples.
Lastly, and I have to test this some more for sure, but flying circles in autopilot seemed erratic at times. Especially at lower speeds. Almost like the
Tello was flying a zigzag pattern on the circle. As said, I need to test this again.
I love(!) these autopilots and could probably never have enough of them. That and the recent video fix: absolutely amazing! Thank you for that.
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