DJI Mini 2 Firmware and Fly App Updates January 2023

foreign [Music] hey everybody Marcus Crawford here with the Idaho quadcopter Channel hey today is the 6th of January uh and I am out at Julius Kleiner Park in Meridian I have the little DJI mini 2. uh the mini 2 has proven to be just a very popular drone with a lot of folks and today DJI came out with several updates not only for the mini two but for the fly app as well as the rcn1 controller so I made some notes here so I get the numbers right the fly app has been upgraded to version 1.9.1 and the Drone itself is up to version 0 1.06.0200 and then the RCN one is now zero one dot one one dot zero two hundred so in all three cases uh it says it's optimized user experience and improved overall software stability now that's pretty vague right we don't know exactly what that means and you know only DJI knows for sure where their problems with the previous software update there was a recent update for the mini 2 and the RCN one and now we get another one here today and the upgrade to the app I had just a couple of days ago plug this into the DJI assistant 2 and updated it to the I think it was zero six uh yeah zero six dot zero zero zero zero that time and now it's two hundreds so whatever happened they decided that they had some things that they needed to improve and and they did it so but what's encouraging is that a drone like the mini 2 which has now been superseded by the Mini 3 Pro and the mini three they're still giving us updates for this guy so uh I'm still thinking there's a lot of life left in this drone now why is that so important well for a lot of folks the midi 2 is all the Drone they need yeah does it have all the bells and whistles that the Mini 3 pro has no uh but however the the big thing is the price Advantage so you can buy this brand new right now for 449 dollars the fly more kit which is what you'd want is 5.99 now that's on dji's website now there's Costco deals uh I my friend Ryan Duvall I think he got a Costco deal the mini two with two batteries and a bag for like 389 I believe it was so I mean if you can get a deal like that jump on it often two batteries is plenty for most people as opposed to three with the fly more combo but now if you want to get a refurb you can buy the refurb just the Drone and the battery and controller for 359 and you can buy the refurb version of The Fly more combo for 479 now what I found with DJI refurbs is that they're just like new they appear new there you know there's really no difference so anyway you know you could buy a refurb I think with confidence and also like I said look for those deals like I know Sam's Club has a similar deal Costco has a deal so there's there's deals to be had out there keep an eye on uh on eBay Amazon Etc but enough of that let's quit messing around let's get this drone in the air and I'm just going to do our little run Brown style review and we're going to fly it around we're going to try a few things with it and just see what we see with this latest software update and see if we see any anomalies I don't think we will but let's quit messing around let's get this bird in the air okay I've turned the action 2 camera around so that you can see it if you're wondering what kind of mobile device I'm using I've got the iPhone 14 pro so that's what I'm using for this test and I made sure and updated the fly app so we've got the latest software on anything as a matter of fact let's go in and we'll look at the safety menu here real quick and you can see the Drone is saying it's ready to go I'm going to go ahead and go back into the attitude indicator instead of the map there but let's click on the three dots return to home altitude wow I've got that set Way High I don't know where oh I think it automatically does that when you do a firmware update but 35 meters is all we need where we're at right here I'm going to click that distance up to No Limit not that I'm going to fly it out that far but anyway Max altitude is 120 meters which is Max legal that's just under 400 feet and then Compass is normal IMU is normal we can look at the battery although hey that's in good shape 4.31 and let's go to that about page so you can see the uh the software uh you can see the uh the RC firmware which is the rcn1 controller and the aircraft firmware and the app version 1.91 I did update the fly safe database as well I always do that uh so yeah let's see we are going to shoot in in full auto 4K 30 frames per second you can see we've already got 22 satellites let's start recording now and so I did that on the app and let's do an automated takeoff so clicking on the app right now there's that little drone and look at how stable that little guy is it's moving around a little bit I guess it's telling us that we're in a altitude Zone 150 meters well you can't fly over 120 meters anyway but anyway let's turn it around and uh and bring it into the camera here so you can get a look at it and I see if you can see the Drone you see it bucking just a little bit yeah you can still see it you can see it just a little bit it always does that this mini 2 has done that for me since it was brand new I believe that is the IMU uh warming up but uh uh it is especially be and I the reason I believe that is because it's especially evident on cooler days it's probably in the mid 40s here right now it feels warm because the sun is out but anyway I just wanted to point that out that that the uh that that hasn't been something that has been uh ever fixed in dji's software that's you know but the Drone flies fine and everything and as soon you know when it once it's on for just a second that always stops but uh anyway let's do our droney just an observation so I'm dropping the camera down here so that we can uh get that drony going and uh holding the holding the controller to me and uh we're gonna go reversing up now reverse and up and I'm hitting pretty high on that up stick and we've got the uh the the Sun at the drones back so we're getting pretty good a pretty good view here of the uh of the park we'll back it up a ways let's kick some altitude up let's get up there about 30 meters or so 28 29 meters I guess is where we're at so here is the big pond Let's uh do my uh what I usually like to do is get out here over the pond and look around a little bit and kind of get warmed up even by doing a little uh we can do a little orbit around the around the uh Fountain here and hopefully none of those seagulls those seagulls like to sit in that one spot there let's get a little closer we can get a little bit closer and you know what I'm going to throw this guy in cinema just for the fun of it give myself a little bit more control and uh let's do our let's do our usual spin around the uh around the fountain here and I think this Fountain is mostly here these fountains are mostly here to aerate the water so that the uh the fish still live there's some ducks Just landing and then you see those seagulls right there now if those seagulls take off right now I'm probably in trouble but they won't they're just sitting there on the ice I uh I don't know I don't think I I have not had very many close calls here at all I've seen a few birds fly by the lands but uh uh yeah anyway but it is something to be aware of Let's uh let's grab some altitude and uh pick up that camera and boy we have a tilted Horizon I can see that for sure of course I've been spin I was spinning in a circle there and I'm seeing it start to flatten out here but uh but we definitely had a tilted Horizon there the Drone is uh you know the Drone is flying great let me throw it back in normal mode here so I wondered why I was going so slow let's pick up a little speed drop that camera down let's try another orbit there's no people here so we we're safe let's try an orbit around the uh and this is in normal mode instead of cinemode so and I like to uh pinch the sticks rather than uh rather than thumb them that's when I'm doing stuff like this gives you a little more control my opinion at least and you can see we got a little lens flare there when we as we went looked into the sun uh so yeah I've I've uh let's see if there's anybody over here playing uh pickleball let's take a look at this it's funny how the landscape changes you know just a week or so this was really a winter landscape looks like what do we got here we got one of the mowers he must be just picking up leaves yeah he's picking up leaves yep okay let's take a peek over here and uh wow there's nobody oh yeah oh yeah we got a couple folks playing pickleball here we could get down and in and see how they're doing here and we can zoom with this guy hold down the function button and with that same scroll wheel that you move the the camera with looks like a husband and wife team here yeah gotta grab that that ball against the net okay yeah they've had enough oh no maybe they're just switching sides I don't know anyway we'll quit bugging them and we'll uh we'll move on here probably got hot there taking off a jacket is what it looked like to me let's grab some altitude here and and go back across the uh across the park kind of a nice day because there's not so many people in the park here and uh you know you're not so worried about flying over the top of people so let's get down a little lower here and I this this Main Avenue is you know I don't show you guys this much because because of the trees and so forth and because often this is where people are so so I kind of stay away from it but uh yeah maybe we can get down here a little bit yeah I gotta watch out for the we got we got branches encroaching on all sides here so this is a little uh this is a little nerve-wracking but uh yeah this question is the better part of valor I'm gonna go up and away here we'll uh look down at Julius Kleiner there while we're doing it let's see if we can get on the other side of Julius and uh back away but I'm going to grab some more altitude as I do it and there is the Julius Kleiner statue right there let me back away a little bit more like I said I get nervous around these uh around these trees you know there's just a lot of branches sticking out there that could give you cause you to have a bad day but let's uh let's zoom in on Julius here yeah we yeah I didn't I didn't line that up very well anyway you're not getting a very good shot there but that's that's the namesake for this park okay back out let's pick that camera back up enough of that nonsense but the Drone is flying fine now you know we got a perfectly stable Horizon right now uh AF you know once we uh once it's settled down and of course I was doing an orbit there so the Drone was flying sideways let's kind of keep moving this way and ease the Drone around and we've got the other and I see some people there so we're going to avoid them let's get over the other Pond here and drop it down very cool okay let's drop that camera down a little bit and we can uh maybe we can try a one of the quick shots here we're still at 69 battery which is good so let's see if we can do I'm going to stop recording now I'm going to click on the film strip we're going to go to quick shots and I have to draw a box around so we're going to draw a box around that and uh let's see if we can if we maybe I'm going to grab some altitude just to be on the safe side because I want to make sure that I'm a above uh every tree and everything but we're going to do a helix here and yeah so it looks like we lost our point of interest there we got that again so uh 10 meters let's we can do more than that let's kick it up here heck how far will this guy go it will do it will do a 120 meter we're going to do the max here so we're going to click Start and we're going clockwise and what will happen is the Drone will raise an altitude as it as it moves around and now I'm starting to get a little uh chicken here am I far enough away from uh like the sculpture there and everything uh yeah we are it's raising an altitude real quick so so that's good uh but that's the one thing this drone has absolutely no obstacle avoidance so the reason you want to be careful is what you don't want to do is fly the Drone sideways into something because it you know it doesn't know that there's something in front of it it just knows the instructions that you're giving it and what I was worried about was that sculpture over there dude could I was I high enough that I was above that sculpture as the Drone was moving around and this is the max that you can do with the uh with the Helix so this is a big one and when it's done and we're only heck we're not even three quarters of the way through we're now we're exactly three quarters of the way through so it's really given us a good view here this is pretty cool uh so we'll be out we'll be out of ways and once it's done it should return to its starting spot and there we are at a hundred percent so it's returning to the task starting point right now dropping an altitude on its way down to the uh back to the beginning and we're still at 58 battery so we're in good shape you can see it's a beautiful day here today I'm going to pick up the camera well no I was trying to pick up the camera as we went down uh pick up the Gimbal and it wouldn't let me do it so it's it's got that stuff stop till it returns now I could have I could click on X on the right hand side there to uh to get it to uh to stop that return and then you could just fly it away from there okay we'll we'll try some more stuff here uh in fact let's uh you know one of the things I don't know that I've ever done is a panorama of the park here so let's try that right now in fact I'm gonna back it off here some more grab some more altitude yeah okay that's about right and let's get I'm going to click uh on that the uh the Helix thing there get out of quick shots I'm going to go where it says Pano and uh let's uh let's do a couple of them let's do a 180. and I'm going to click Start and we'll get a 180 degree view of the area here it's so cool that that's built into just a you know I mean I'm definitely going to call this a bargain drone so yeah that's it let's click on that again and let's do a wide angle that's going to take a few more pictures I believe or maybe not maybe it's only maybe it's less it's click Start boom okay let's go back into video Mode start video and move off here to another location we are still at 49 battery not very far from home here so we're in great shape I was uh like I said I always enjoy showing these sculptures and I see some people walking towards it there so we're going to be cognizant of them but this particular one they have a a labyrinth at the bottom of it that you see people walking around and there's three of these identical sculptures in the park and this is one of them with the Labyrinth and you'll see people kind of get a kick out of that Labyrinth I'm going to grab some altitude there I saw some branches of a tree that looked like they were kind of reaching out to touch me there so so I don't want to do that uh okay I was gonna do a a little yeah they're kind of standing there but I was going to do get over the top of the the sculpture here and do my one of my one of my other favorite tricks which is the straight up shot yeah they're messing around there I'm gonna back off uh we'll get out of their way they move off maybe we'll try that are they going to go out the other side maybe looks like they are okay we're good let's go back we're gonna go down I'm gonna go into Cinema mode here point the camera straight down and the point of it is here I'm going to try and get right over the top of the of the sculpture here drop some more altitude and I'm gonna go I'm going to get pointed this direction and as I spin I want to lift up lift up the camera and so I want to do a kind of a reveal on the park so there we go so I'm going to do all of this on the on the left stick and then using the the scroll wheel to pick the gimbal up so I'm going to go I'm going to move the left stick up and to the left and we're going to get a spin a counterclockwise spin and as I move around I'm going to pick up slowly pick up the camera see if I can do this and get a reveal of the park boom yeah that worked out okay okay 38 battery let's go let's come back to us let's click it into sport mode Let's try the speed on this guy right so uh full stick forward and you saw it kick the camera down which is perfectly normal for this drone it'll kick that camera down because as it pitches forward if it didn't do that you'd be looking right at the nose of the Drone uh but let's see we're getting up to the thing I think this thing is supposed to do 15 meters per second and we're at about 13 now so and and I can hear the Drone that's right next to me now and uh and we'll turn around we'll go the other direction just for the fun of it and see how it does see what we do for Speed let's point it to pick up that camera again and it'll probably kick the camera back down but we'll see here full the right stick full forward right now and it hasn't kicked the camera down yet and we're getting more speed up so it must have been going into the wind yeah look at there's 15.3 shoot nearly 60 will we hit 16 we hit 59 there that's pretty darn quick yeah so there definitely is a uh they're definitely must be a headwind coming back this way although I I feel barely any Breeze at all right now okey dokey we are at 25 battery I'm going to do a return to home I'm going to throw it back in normal mode and I'm going to do return to home on the controller holding that button down [Music] and the Drone will come back to us now this drone does not have Precision Landing but let's see how close it gets to the uh to The Landing Pad yeah the only uh anomaly that I saw on this flight this thing operated 100 percent other than we did have a little bit of a tilted Horizon after we did that manual orbit but it immediately flattened itself back out so you know if we're nitpicking that's that's something that I saw but other than that God I I just I just get back to what a tremendous value this drone is and it you know moving right along coming back to us so yeah low battery return to home it says they kicked that camera back up like it does there when it came to a stop look at how close it is I've got the crosshairs right on the uh and it's reorienting itself yeah now it's coming down maybe yeah now it's coming down it's pretty darn close to that pad it's going to be a little bit off but we'll see how it if it gets any closer as it uh as it comes down we'll see we'll stop at uh and we'll we'll land it on the pad if it looks doesn't look like it's going to hit and I don't think it is it's just coming straight down it's going to be a little bit off so the way you do that is you got a pause button on the controller I just hit that pause button and it stopped and of course the Drone wants to land now it's low enough on battery it's squawking at me I'm throwing it in cinemode bringing it back we'll get it right over the pad here and we'll pull the uh we're gonna what we're going to do is we're going to pull that left stick straight down so left stick straight down let's see if we hit the pad and boom picks up the camera there and you saw my uh a little uh message on my screen there telling me to get more sleep but anyway there we are let's stop recording that's one of the things you want to do on this drone is stop recording if you don't you can end up with a corrupted file it's a file that didn't close itself out so we're going to stop recording let me get everything shut down and we'll do a quick conclusion hey okay the DJI Mini 2 uh what a cool little drone and uh so cool that DJI is still putting out firmware updates and keeping this little drone current and uh and flying great that was a great flight I mean I didn't see anything problem any problems with that at all other than what I already talked about a little bit of a tilted Horizon at one point other than that it's uh it operates perfectly oh I guess I should mention yeah I get that little buck when I first start mine up some people get that some people don't mine has done that since it was brand new and I don't know I've had it for I think a couple of years now still really enjoy flying this guy it's also fairly Speedy little drone right for a little mini drone uh they can it can pitch forward enough that we got it almost up to 16 meters per second that's pretty cool that's about 35 miles per hour so so 36 somewhere around there uh so fairly quick uh anyway we tried out just a couple of little things with it to show you a few of the tricks that this drone has that Helix is one of my uh favorites one of the things that you get with the mini 2 that you don't get with like the Mini 3 is the the prop guards this thing is pretty cool and it's needed I wish I had it for the mini three keeps your props keeps it from the the props from sticking when you're pulling it in and out of the bag and so forth so and they also what they include with this that you don't get unlike the Mini 3 or the Mini 3 Pro is a charge block you get a charger with this guy you don't get that on the on the mini three so truthfully a more complete package anyway enough jibber jabber again that's about it this is Marcus Crawford with the Idaho quadcopter Channel out and if you like this kind of content please consider subscribing to my channel most of all I really appreciate you taking the time to watch this video and yeah the little DJI Mini 2 just a really cool little drone that I can still recommend all right see you guys later bye

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Length: 28min 10sec (1690 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 07 2023