![]() Go dig out the USB C to USB connector and plug your lightning cable in and then plug your phone into the GOGGLES (not the remote, that was a big mistake). ![]() Ok here comes the strange parts, when you download the DJI Fly application from the App Store on your Mac, you will try to Connect to the aircraft but you won't see the DJI FPV drone. Now the goggles will say, the drone is not activated.To check that this all works, you go to the goggles and use the right controller to scroll down to about and then press the middle, you should see the drone, remote, and goggles serial numbers.If you are lucky then both battery lights will go to solid indicating the charge. Do the same for the remote, so turn it on and long-press the power, and the battery lights will sequence. You turn the drone and the goggles on, then you long press for five seconds on the drone and you will hear a beep, the battery lights will sequence and the yellow landing lights will blink. So to sync it all is again a bit of a mystery.Then if you bought the combo package, the goggles will be linked to the drone, but the remote control will not be.That prevents accidental turn on, but is quite different. Also, in DJI land, the way you turn something on is a short press on the button and then a long press. For the goggles, I searched everywhere, but it turns out the power for the goggles are on the battery which is pretty weird. Finally, powering and linking the whole thing is pretty mysterious.Then when you get all that charged, you need a high speed SD memory card for *both* the drone and the goggles.YOu need to charge the drone battery and the battery that is tethered to the goggles (pretty weird that unlike the Oculus, these are separately powered, not very neat and the cable just dangles) as well as the remote control and the remote wand.Given my great experience with DJI I was expecting a really great one four years after buying the Mavic Pro, but boy was I surprised, the whole FPV thing feels like a major beta project with the main issue being the instructions are far from linear, so here you go: The final sad thing is that even with an SD card loaded into it, when it came time to download videos, nothing arrived.Then the Return to Home seems pretty flaky, the drone just kind of flew off even though it said he had a firm fix.But pressing the power button kills the power to the drone and it will just fall out of the sky which isn't very comforting but it is at least instant.It is pretty unstable so make sure that you have a large space. It wobbles up and down and left and right quite a bit.If you press up on the left joy stick, then it will start to rise, but the flight is very uneven.At least on this drone, that wasn't the case, the rotors would spin but that was all. However it says that the Launch/Land button will make it take off.It will then blink and complain, but eventually the lights go green.You can also insert a microSD chip into the drone for photos.Once that is done, when you connect the battery to the drone, it just starts.You have to charge the battery first and the time is limited, also you need to put batteries into the controller.I wanted to try a very simple drone, this is just $50 or so on Amazon and it comes with GPS location and runs Ardupilot so I thought it was a nice drone to try to see how an open source one might work. Here are some installation notes on a el cheapo drone that runs open source Ardu Pilot and a really frustrating hour trying to figure out how to activate the DJI FPV Drone. Yikes, I had such a great experience installing first the DJI Phantom Pro and then the DJI Mavic Pro, that I thought this should all be easy after four more years of development how wrong I was.
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