The Tello I have and used successfully for a few months went nuts this late afternoon.
Outdoors, no wind. Getting near sunset but still over an hour away and plenty of light.
I was trying out TelloFPV for the first time, trying to use it with Gamesir d version. I was flying outdoors in front of my house. I couldn't get the Tello to launch using the controller. I later figured out why: although I had connected the controller, I didn't enable it as a master or student.
I instead clicked takeoff and land a couple times from screen. The last time it hovered but didn't maintain height very well. Then all of a sudden it shot up as high as it could go, then drifted out of sight. Fortunately a neighbor saw it land in an empty lot across the street.
So I abandoned the use of TelloFPV and went to the stock app that I've always used with the game controller.
It started out OK, then flew up like a shot again. Fortunately one of the props flew off so it didn't go far this time.
I thought it might be the controller sending uncommanded throttle, as once I had uncommanded slow yaw which I could counter. Only restarting the controller would fix that.
The controller being the cause of the fly up would explain the symptom with the stock app, but I don't think I had enabled the controller with TelloFPV. Or maybe I had just found the setting to enable it and that's when it shot up on its own.
Any ideas? If it flies up on its own like that, how do I stop it? I just tested killing Wi-Fi connection but it then hovers rather than landing.
If it was the controller, how do I prevent a recurrence?
Outdoors, no wind. Getting near sunset but still over an hour away and plenty of light.
I was trying out TelloFPV for the first time, trying to use it with Gamesir d version. I was flying outdoors in front of my house. I couldn't get the Tello to launch using the controller. I later figured out why: although I had connected the controller, I didn't enable it as a master or student.
I instead clicked takeoff and land a couple times from screen. The last time it hovered but didn't maintain height very well. Then all of a sudden it shot up as high as it could go, then drifted out of sight. Fortunately a neighbor saw it land in an empty lot across the street.
So I abandoned the use of TelloFPV and went to the stock app that I've always used with the game controller.
It started out OK, then flew up like a shot again. Fortunately one of the props flew off so it didn't go far this time.
I thought it might be the controller sending uncommanded throttle, as once I had uncommanded slow yaw which I could counter. Only restarting the controller would fix that.
The controller being the cause of the fly up would explain the symptom with the stock app, but I don't think I had enabled the controller with TelloFPV. Or maybe I had just found the setting to enable it and that's when it shot up on its own.
Any ideas? If it flies up on its own like that, how do I stop it? I just tested killing Wi-Fi connection but it then hovers rather than landing.
If it was the controller, how do I prevent a recurrence?