Nice job Gareth. Good to know about the little icon of a person - I've had problems with active track recognizing me on a motorcycle. Going forward I'll have it identify me first off the motorcycle and hope it will recognize me when I'm on and riding.
HI Gareth great tip about moving the record button. I watch a lot of videos but you are the only one that has shared that gem . As they say I have liked and subscribed
@@garethbutton Update homepoint. It'll fly towards your last location. I'm not sure the DJI app ( or Litchi or Maven or Dronelink) has a true return-to-controller (phone) or auto-update-homepoint?
@@garethbutton Not sure if the Mini 3 has this but on my first generation Mavic Pro, you can choose to have a "dynamic home point" when you set it and, as others have said, this sets your controller to be "home" rather than where it took off from. The example they give in the marketing bumpf at DJI is someone on a moving boat flying the drone off the back of the boat. Hope the Mini 3 has this and that this comment helped you find it if it's there!
The mini 3 Pro is such a capable drone, I've been thinking along the lines of flying it out a few hundred metres along a path that you won't to cycle down use that as the start point press return to home then cycle back to the home point having First point the camera down. So in effect you will be racing the drone back to the home point.
I really like your Mini 3 Pro videos. What makes this channel better than the other, more "professional" ones is I can see that you are learning how to use and pilot this drone. You are showing your mistakes and it's great way to learn. For example, I wanted learn how to land the drone on my hand and the other channels just shown it like "fly down and grab it" and I didn't know how to stop the rotors by only using one hand. Thanks to your videos I now know how to do it. Subscribed.
I like the straps, but I often had the problem, that the two buttons on the side underneath were hitting my body while walking or riding my bicycle and using active track.
Yeah I had that issue as well. Have to make sure my knees don’t bump controller. Maybe there is a way of mounting to handle bars safely that would be cool.
I crashed my mini 3 pro when I was using active track. I was fiming following the grand children then they stopped and ran backwards towards me, instead of the drone just turning on the stop and following then back it went round in an arch and hit a tree. If i do it again I think I will turn off sideways movement. The drone just fell in to grass and I had to replace two props. So beware.
Thanks for heads up. Yeah I’ve had to replace one prop so far. I will, I’ve got an adapter to put my controller in my handlebars hoping to try that tomorrow
I was going to say the same thing adamwharmby4864 just said. I have not tried resetting the home point to the controller’s location and then taking off down the route. Theoretically the home point would then move with the controller so the drone would follow you, regardless if your max distance setting, until it’s battery died. Has anyone tried this?
Just had an idea of how to test this theory. Take the drone to an open space, launch it, set the home point to the controller’s location, and move off a ways. When it wants to return home because of low battery, move a short distance further and tell it to return home. Theoretically it should come back to the controller.
Hi bro, I run a small shop in my native village and I am crazy with drone. I have a mini3 pro and mini2. How can l contact you for sharing experiences each other.
I really like your presenter styles, but the resolution of the footage is too compressed/pixelated. If you uploaded in higher quality, it’d be spot on.
Hi, so it’s recorded and uploaded as 4k. However the remote controller footage is 1080p as that’s all it can output as. Phone footage and drone is 4k. When I zoom in on phone or even remote controller that will pixelate it. Is it that or is all of it pixelated?
Active-track is great on the Mini 3. But it is ridiculous it doesn't have follow-me as well. It's more reliable, often more practical, and you often get better smoother shots. It is also safer as you can have the drone fly in front of you so you can see what it is doing without having to watch the screen. Why DJI believes they have to cripple their products by leaving out follow-me I have no idea. Probably has to do with warranty if the sensors don't work in combination with follow-me. Then again the Mini 3 Pro lacks side sensors, which to me is far more a problem. The reason why so many crash their $1000 Mini 3 Pro. But maybe Litchi or Maven will work with the Mini 3 Pro soon? If so try it. And you will find out follow-me is not inferior. On the contrary. A good drone should have both.
@@garethbutton First you need 'compass' type follow-me. Which mean the drone will stay north south east west of you. If the drone is in front of you and you take a left turn, it will be on your right. And right turn on your left. Most drones have 'string' type and only follow from behind. Litchi and Maven have compass type so that's good. Then you must be able to use the sticks in follow-me mode. So you can reposition it and avoid obstacles. and also do nice fly-by's etc. The obstacle avoidance may not work together with GPS follow-me. I'm not sure about that. People with a DJI Air 2 and Litchi or Maven can tell you that. But since with compass type follow-me you can have it in view you don't need to watch the screen. You can watch the drone itself and where you are going. Much easier of course. It won't lose you either. You can be blocked by trees or houses or the Great Pyramid but it just looks at your (phone's or controller's) GPS location. But you do want the drone to have an update homepoint so you don't have to race back like a freaking idiot to where it took off if auto RTH kicks in for some reason. That a properly programmed GPS follow-me has littler to do with the price of the drone is shown by my €130 LYZRC L109 Pro. It does everything exactly right. I wish the camera or in particular the gimbal was better! Visit my channel. Again I have nothing against active-track. It has its advantages. But if you are on a bike trip you are probably going to use follow-me 8 times out of 10. It's just easier and quicker to be practical. You can ride faster too. The best GPS follow-me drone ever was the Fimi A3. Look up some videos on TH-cam. If I move 1mm it moves 1mm. The F11 does it reasonably good. But it's not as responsive or stable. The worst thing is it lacks the the update-homepoint. I was in panic couple times. Luckily it hovers at take off-point for a while before it decides to come down. But panic it still is. Whereas my stupid funny L109 Pro automatically disables geo-fence(distance) and RTH when using or after using follow-me. And it's all in the app. The L109 will fly back at low battery when not using the app on the phone! Again few drones these days have to follow-me feature right. Older drones with older apps were often programmed correctly. Hubsan for example. But the guys at DJI don't have a clue. Now Fimi and Hubsan also try to add active-track and remove GPS follow-me. What a shame. Ask people cycling the world. Active-track will never be reliable enough. It's a nice feature if you have time. Not if you are on the move. In that case you fly the drone either manually, or use follow-me.
@@garethbutton The F8 'Monster' drone used the same RC GPS app and did everything exactly the same. It's all in the app! The drone has noting to do with it. There was someone in the comment section asking about a motorcycle. Well a Mini 2 (SE) with Liitchi or Maven may actually be a better drone for the job using GPS follow-me. It's much faster. And you can watch the drone in front of you or put it high and far enough to keep i away from hazards.
Nice job Gareth. Good to know about the little icon of a person - I've had problems with active track recognizing me on a motorcycle. Going forward I'll have it identify me first off the motorcycle and hope it will recognize me when I'm on and riding.
HI Gareth great tip about moving the record button. I watch a lot of videos but you are the only one that has shared that gem . As they say I have liked and subscribed
You're welcome!
Great video, clear no waffle, real examples of how to do things thanks for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it!
You can set the return to home to the remote not a location in the settings
Wow no way, I’ll try that! That’s perfect probably exactly what I need.
Only after you have taken off I believe
@@garethbutton Update homepoint. It'll fly towards your last location. I'm not sure the DJI app ( or Litchi or Maven or Dronelink) has a true return-to-controller (phone) or auto-update-homepoint?
@@garethbutton Not sure if the Mini 3 has this but on my first generation Mavic Pro, you can choose to have a "dynamic home point" when you set it and, as others have said, this sets your controller to be "home" rather than where it took off from. The example they give in the marketing bumpf at DJI is someone on a moving boat flying the drone off the back of the boat. Hope the Mini 3 has this and that this comment helped you find it if it's there!
@@topdazzle I’m going to check this out thanks!!!
Some serious Michael Caine vibes going on here, mate. Thanks for these tips. Well done.
Brilliant thanks
Nice job Gareth easy to understand thank you
You're welcome!
WOW amayizing 👍👍💪
Great drone good starter one I think as well. Still practicing 😁
dji, one of the best drones👍👍👍 greetings one hobby
It really is!
Great video. Thanks for sharing the “distance from home” vs the “distance from the controller” tip.
Glad it was helpful!
Packed full of useful information. Tks
Thanks very kind! I still have loads to learn
@@garethbutton Another short please, the straps / neck strap you use?
Thanks for sharing 👍
Thanks for watching
The mini 3 Pro is such a capable drone, I've been thinking along the lines of flying it out a few hundred metres along a path that you won't to cycle down use that as the start point press return to home then cycle back to the home point having First point the camera down.
So in effect you will be racing the drone back to the home point.
That sounds like fun! Let me n ow how it goes in really interested!!
Great video - thanks
Glad you enjoyed it, thank you
You can set your home location as the controller, exactly for this type of flying
Good to know I’ll try that soon thanks
❤ active track, used it following me but not anything else at the mo. Great video, liked and subscribed 👏👏
Thanks!!
Thanks Gareth!
I really like your Mini 3 Pro videos. What makes this channel better than the other, more "professional" ones is I can see that you are learning how to use and pilot this drone. You are showing your mistakes and it's great way to learn. For example, I wanted learn how to land the drone on my hand and the other channels just shown it like "fly down and grab it" and I didn't know how to stop the rotors by only using one hand. Thanks to your videos I now know how to do it.
Subscribed.
Thank you means a lot!!!!
I like the straps, but I often had the problem, that the two buttons on the side underneath were hitting my body while walking or riding my bicycle and using active track.
Yeah I had that issue as well. Have to make sure my knees don’t bump controller. Maybe there is a way of mounting to handle bars safely that would be cool.
What mic are you using?
Hi I’m using the Rhode GO 2 wireless mic.
@@garethbutton thank you 😉
I really like your videos, your have a nice presenter style, easy to follow. Keep making more :)
Wow that’s nice thanks. Makes all the difference when people give feedback. 🙏
I crashed my mini 3 pro when I was using active track. I was fiming following the grand children then they stopped and ran backwards towards me, instead of the drone just turning on the stop and following then back it went round in an arch and hit a tree. If i do it again I think I will turn off sideways movement. The drone just fell in to grass and I had to replace two props. So beware.
Thanks for heads up. Yeah I’ve had to replace one prop so far. I will, I’ve got an adapter to put my controller in my handlebars hoping to try that tomorrow
I was going to say the same thing adamwharmby4864 just said. I have not tried resetting the home point to the controller’s location and then taking off down the route. Theoretically the home point would then move with the controller so the drone would follow you, regardless if your max distance setting, until it’s battery died. Has anyone tried this?
Just had an idea of how to test this theory. Take the drone to an open space, launch it, set the home point to the controller’s location, and move off a ways. When it wants to return home because of low battery, move a short distance further and tell it to return home. Theoretically it should come back to the controller.
I haven’t yet but I will try soon. Let me know if you find out before me. Thanks for the tip
Hi bro,
greetings.
I am Ranees frome India (Kerala)
Hello there!
Hi bro,
I run a small shop in my native village and I am crazy with drone. I have a mini3 pro and mini2.
How can l contact you for sharing experiences each other.
Will it follow me on my motorbike ?
I think it will, might not keep up above say twenty mph. Need to have controller with you as well but think I’ve seen it somewhere on TH-cam
I really like your presenter styles, but the resolution of the footage is too compressed/pixelated. If you uploaded in higher quality, it’d be spot on.
Hi, so it’s recorded and uploaded as 4k. However the remote controller footage is 1080p as that’s all it can output as. Phone footage and drone is 4k. When I zoom in on phone or even remote controller that will pixelate it. Is it that or is all of it pixelated?
Looks ok to me.
Active-track is great on the Mini 3. But it is ridiculous it doesn't have follow-me as well. It's more reliable, often more practical, and you often get better smoother shots. It is also safer as you can have the drone fly in front of you so you can see what it is doing without having to watch the screen. Why DJI believes they have to cripple their products by leaving out follow-me I have no idea. Probably has to do with warranty if the sensors don't work in combination with follow-me. Then again the Mini 3 Pro lacks side sensors, which to me is far more a problem. The reason why so many crash their $1000 Mini 3 Pro.
But maybe Litchi or Maven will work with the Mini 3 Pro soon? If so try it. And you will find out follow-me is not inferior. On the contrary. A good drone should have both.
So is follow me completely independent? Would you need to look at your controller? Does the Mavic 3 have it?
@@garethbutton First you need 'compass' type follow-me. Which mean the drone will stay north south east west of you. If the drone is in front of you and you take a left turn, it will be on your right. And right turn on your left. Most drones have 'string' type and only follow from behind. Litchi and Maven have compass type so that's good.
Then you must be able to use the sticks in follow-me mode. So you can reposition it and avoid obstacles. and also do nice fly-by's etc.
The obstacle avoidance may not work together with GPS follow-me. I'm not sure about that. People with a DJI Air 2 and Litchi or Maven can tell you that.
But since with compass type follow-me you can have it in view you don't need to watch the screen. You can watch the drone itself and where you are going. Much easier of course.
It won't lose you either. You can be blocked by trees or houses or the Great Pyramid but it just looks at your (phone's or controller's) GPS location.
But you do want the drone to have an update homepoint so you don't have to race back like a freaking idiot to where it took off if auto RTH kicks in for some reason.
That a properly programmed GPS follow-me has littler to do with the price of the drone is shown by my €130 LYZRC L109 Pro. It does everything exactly right. I wish the camera or in particular the gimbal was better! Visit my channel.
Again I have nothing against active-track. It has its advantages. But if you are on a bike trip you are probably going to use follow-me 8 times out of 10. It's just easier and quicker to be practical. You can ride faster too.
The best GPS follow-me drone ever was the Fimi A3. Look up some videos on TH-cam. If I move 1mm it moves 1mm.
The F11 does it reasonably good. But it's not as responsive or stable. The worst thing is it lacks the the update-homepoint. I was in panic couple times. Luckily it hovers at take off-point for a while before it decides to come down. But panic it still is.
Whereas my stupid funny L109 Pro automatically disables geo-fence(distance) and RTH when using or after using follow-me.
And it's all in the app. The L109 will fly back at low battery when not using the app on the phone!
Again few drones these days have to follow-me feature right. Older drones with older apps were often programmed correctly. Hubsan for example.
But the guys at DJI don't have a clue. Now Fimi and Hubsan also try to add active-track and remove GPS follow-me. What a shame. Ask people cycling the world. Active-track will never be reliable enough. It's a nice feature if you have time. Not if you are on the move. In that case you fly the drone either manually, or use follow-me.
@@garethbutton And no the Mavic 3 does not have follow-me. No DJI drone. Except old Phantom. Or if you can use a third party app.
@@garethbutton The F8 'Monster' drone used the same RC GPS app and did everything exactly the same. It's all in the app! The drone has noting to do with it.
There was someone in the comment section asking about a motorcycle. Well a Mini 2 (SE) with Liitchi or Maven may actually be a better drone for the job using GPS follow-me. It's much faster. And you can watch the drone in front of you or put it high and far enough to keep i away from hazards.
@@driewiel oh ok. Sounds like they should add it as you say