Just wanted to give a humungous thumbs up and thank you for creating this video Mr. Nuggetz! I just picked up a Solo bundle (my first drone) a week or so ago and this made learning so much easier.
Thanks so much Joey. I just worked through all this on my own, and figured out most of it, but this tutorial would have saved me lots of time and struggle. Very well done. I learned a lot that I didn't know, for example that the altitude for a ROI waypoint is where the camera points. Also really great about making sure which mission is loaded. One thing you didn't mention is that you can save a number of different missions on your device with export and import file. One addition: if you take off Solo before initiating the mission, the Auto button to start the mission will show up where the Arm/Dronie is when not yet flying. In my testing, it seems that that speed is not MPH but some multiple of what you have set in Solo. If I have Solo at turtle, 2.0 is slow, but if I have it at rabbit, 2.0 is fast.
Well done Joey. Thanks for your work here. Very helpful. I've flown a few semi-successful missions with solo but curious about the finer points. This helps a great deal.
Thanx for a great explanation and demonstration in easy to understand language. Ive flown a few auto missions with Droid Planner and a couple with tower. and am still learning.
Glad you liked it. Please ensure you set your Solo up so that you have Manual mode mapped to one of the buttons in case you find yourself in a situation where you have to take control over Solo in an emergency such as a weak GPS condition. Not sure what your experience level is but I like to tell all new users about doing that just in case.
Thanks for taking the time to share these instructions. I'll have to watch it a few more times to be more clear on how to do it all. I tried working along with the video and ended up missing some key points. I'll have to try something real short the first time. I have only had my Solo for a couple of weeks and don't want to lose it or crash yet. Trees seem to be my biggest problem. That and all the restricted flying areas. Never knew there were so many Helo Pads and small private airfields.
No questions here, just a thanks for putting together such a detailed video. i have never used tower and probably won't, but this makes me think that at some point down the road, i may get curious and try it. Thanks for showing me something I never knew existed.
+Danny Fyffe We're learning something new every day now :-) You've got me browsing around about these things now and I'm going to tell the wife it's your fault LOL :-) This was a fantastic tutorial and I think a good one for TLG to view.
great tutorial, you've answered all my questions, , in particular the region of interest , I didnt know that it would start looking at the region of interest until it reaches that point, Even 3dr couldnt tell me that,,lol
What a GREAT tutorial Joey. Many thanks for taking the time to go through all of this and posting it. I'm starting to get interested in maybe purchasing a quad-copter and the 3DR SOLO seems to have some of the best built in features. I hadn't heard of the TOWER app before. Is that built in from SOLO or is that something you added later? 1.) On the mission programming, can you just upload a blank mission to clear what was previously uploaded? 2.) If you have it set so that it will automatically return home when it loses signal and it's behind a building, or ?, will it try to fly straight back (through the bldg) or will it follow the flight path that took it to that position? Looking forward to seeing some more tutorials from you. GREAT JOB !!!
Thanks a ton for this. Directions for beginners are not easy to find. I tried to figure it out for myself and my Solo flew out of control and crashed. Luckily, it was low, and there wasn't any damage.
Again I want to say great video Joey, thank you for going to trouble of making it. There's a few questions I have that are not answered in the video and I can't find documentation on (no surprise there as you say that's why you made the video in the first place). I like that idea of utilizing Tower in setting preliminary flight paths in new locations that I have not had two opportunity to scout and set up smart shots at yet. To that end a few questions. 1) What is a Spline Waypoint? 2) What does a Reset ROI command do exactly? (I understand setting an ROI but I don't understand where the camera is instructed to point after a Reset ROI command is initiated). 3) What is Do Jump? 4) What is Set Servo? 6) What is Realtime camera footprint in the user interface? 5) Is there a way to reset the default speed of the Solo in Tower? (I found default altitude preferences in the advanced settings menu within the settings menu but nothing for speed). It seems awful fast with a lot of aggressive pitching & rolling as it changes directions between way points. I understand I can set the first command as a reset speed command but it would be nice to not have to do that for every mission but set the default to speed that lends itself to nice cinematic movement. 6) Similar to question #5 - Is there anyway to slow down or smooth panning & tilting between ROI's? To get the Solo to behave more like it does when utilizing smart shots in the Solo app, i.e. nice smooth logarithmic camera moves, nut sudden herky jerky movements. and lastly (for now)... 7) Has anyone figured a way to safely pause a Tower mission, jump to the Solo app and create and execute a few smart shots, and then continue on with the Tower mission. This was not something 3DR support recommended as their official response was "We don't recommend using both applications at the same time since that could lead to misbehavior. Doing so is completely at the customer's discretion" but I did read a thread on the 3DR forum speculating if it could be done with one android and one iOS device - but it wasn't clear if any of the members were able to accomplish it. If it could be safely done it seems potentially a great way to save flight time/battery usage at new filming locations.
Fantastic tutorial, thanks! I need to ask what might be a silly question.. In order for the camera to point at an ROI, must the camera/gimbal be controlled by the flight controller? Or if the camera is fixed straight ahead, is the 'copter rotated to point at the ROI?
Hi Joey, very useful your video. I have a question, in survey mode, does the software take into account the digital elevation model of google? assuming im going to survey an area that is 330 feet difference between the first and last point. Thanks in advance
Great video Joey. Quick question, if I set failsafe parameter to 2 and upload it to solo, then later on I'm just flying solo under my own control (using solo app) and I lose connection with controller, will solo just keep flying or initiate a RTL? Or, do the changed parameters only affect solo while using tower app on autonomous mode?
FYI I don't believe the speed changes from imperial to metric or vice versa. Default is m/s. Very good video though, i learned a lot. The other waypoint that would be good to touch on is Spline since that smoothes all the waypoints and flight paths into curves. I'm also glad you showed how to check what mission is on the solo and make sure you upload your mission. I recently activated a mission that was set up 50 miles away from where i was and sure enough solo turned and started heading that direction. a quick press of the pause button and upload of the new mission solved that quick.
+Matthew Bird Holy smokes, Matt. That could have been disasterous. I think I should have hammered that point a little harder in my video. Could you imagine that taking place AND having the return to home parameter set to 2 like I show in my video? :-) Wouldn't even return home. In your case Solo would have eventually come back assuming you didn't change the FS_THR_ENABLE parameter to 2. But that doesn't guarantee it wouldn't hit a tree or a house on the way to or from home :-)
thank you so much for this video. It helped me get an understanding of how to use tower. best video so far. I will be trying it out tomorrow. The only thing I would have added to this is how to connect solo to tower. I had to change the Telemetry connection Type to UDP.
Glad you found it informative.You're totally right about it missing instructions on how to connect Solo to Tower. I totally didn't even think about that. I guess I assumed that most people were unsure of how to actually use tower so I took for granted that people had at least connected to it. I'll add a caption to the video when I get a moment. thanks for the feedback.
Hi mate, thanks a lot for such a good, detailed video. Great stuff! Lol once I get my new solo from insurance (first real crash practically cracked Solo in half) I'll be pretty keen to get experimenting with Tower! Just curious though - if I go to do a mission, especially if I change the parameters and tell solo to continue and come to land 15km away at a friend's house - what would happen if for some reason solo lost satellite contact halfway through the journey? Would it just stop and hover until it regained satellite connection? Would it just land on the spot? Or did I read somewhere that the missions are cached and solo can even complete a mission with the routes and commands saved to the on board computer after having lost GPS signal? Cheers, Kev.
Incredible tutorial! Thanks a million for such a thorough overview. Can't wait to try it. Question... If a region of interest is not defined I an auto mission, can I control the yaw and fly sideways to more waypoints?
Joey what a brutal work! a couple of questions by the moment. How can i set up a photogrammetry mission? What is "structured scan" type of mission" And can i design a mission in the mission planner desktop aplication and the export the mission to the 3dr solo through tower app?
Thank you for the very informative video, looking forward to experimenting more with Tower. Do you have any suggestions on where to get a better understanding of the parameter list?
Good Video Joey. I think some other people have asked this. Do you have to do anything in the Solo App to run Tower. Or just Start Tower instead of the solo app, and set it to UDP? Thanks
Hi Joey, nice review thanks. I'm using the Tower app with my Walkera Tali H500 and find it great. I'm yet to get my telemetry working but when I do I'm wondering if Tower can save data logs like Mission Planner, do you know if it can? Thanks in advance. Jas
Is there any good way to keep giving a good use to our Solo drones in 2021? Since we are not able to update or download the SOLO app any more throughout Apple Store. Any good advise, please.
Perfect!!! Thanks a looot dude now I feel confident to finally try Tower. One question though. At 3DR site they say it is a big NO hitting pause on the controller while it is flying a mission. How do I regain full control of Solo no matter what it's doing? Thanks again mate looking forward to more tuts from you.
crackin tutorial, many thanks for taking the time to record/upload for the public..... I take it that the Tower app is not just for the Solo? ,can it be used for any APM/Pixhawk/PX4 ardupilot?
Great Tower Tutorial!!! I have one question; after you have uploaded new waypoints to Solo, how do you return Solo back to the way it was out-of-the box, having no Tower waypoints? Thank you!
Good question, ForceFed Shelby. Did you get an answer to this question? I was wondering the same thing. Is it needed to wipe all missions out of Solo, and how do you set it back to no missions loaded?
Good video thanks! re the throttle/RC failsafe setting - what happens if it's flying in non-auto mode (ie std or ltr) when the condition occurs? I'm guessing it will "continue with the mission", but which part of the mission (beginning/middle/end)? If it goes to the last waypoint, which should be close to the launch point, then isn't that the same as RTL except maybe for the altitude?
Circle will keep the camera pointed towards the center of the circle I believe. Its been a while and its possible that it might even keep the same orientation that it was in when it entered the circle. :-)
Great video, thank you for this. Is this app also available for the Iris+. I have recently purchased the Iris+ and have only flown manually so far. I really hope this app is possible. Thanks for your support!
Love the video, learned a lot. But when I went to try it everything went well except I noticed I couldn't tilt the camera with the controller. Is there a way to adjust the camera tilt while flying a mission?
Once you attempt to control the video in tower i.e tapping the video preview then the controller gimbals are disabled. You can control the gimbals by dragging up and down in the video window. There's actually a new version of 3dr services out that fixes that. I believe once you click away or minimize the video window in tower, the controller should regain control of the gimbal now with the latest 3dr services version.
For a real estate video, can you 'circle' one time high over trees, then set waypoints to slow and turtle low across the front and then to the entry, back out to safe altitude and home? The resulting video could be spliced to one of those hand held videos where the door opens magically and you proceed inside. I want to do areal photos and videos at a cheaper cost than using a manned aircraft. I figure to charge $50 for travel time, site study, programming*, mission and travel back with the real estate agent. *So would the programming time make my idea a financial bust, once I learned the ropes? I wrote the first flight control system maintenance T.O. for the F-16, so I thought this video was clear and simple. However not for me because I am old now. I was tired so it was hard to keep my eyes focused. It was hard to identify symbols on your little tablet. I never thought to view it full screen. When I can afford a drone I hope this video is still available. Happy Thanksgiving.
WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO CHANGE IN SOLO APP SO THAT YOU CAN USE TOWER? ALSO ONCE YOU CHECK THE CORRECT BOX IN SOLO APP TO USE TOWER APP, CAN YOU FLY SOLO AS NORMAL IF YOU ARE NOT GOING TO USE TOWER? OR DO YOU NEED TO GO BACK INTO SOLO APP AND UNCHECK THE BOX SO THAT YOU CAN JUST USE SOLO APP ONLY?
Anyone know how to use google cardboard in the new Tower app update ver 3.2.1? It keeps just launching the google play store when I tap the google cardboard icon.
Unfortunately you can't have tower trigger photos yet while using survey. Never tried structure scanner though I expect that's not fully implemented yet.
David Anthony Batten you connect via wifi to your controller/drone. you can use cell service from your phone to update the maps or if you don't have that option you can download them at home and cache them for later use.
One more important Tower question I forgot to post... 8) Is there a way to pinpoint a particular location I am unfamiliar with the topography of without physically being located there, such as punching in a specific address and/or GPS coordinates in Tower? Or perhaps changing to "street view" from satellite view and using road names to find a location in an unfamiliar area? Say for creating a mission to film a house in an unfamiliar neighborhood....
I need help with the survey part with the solo I can't get it to trigger the camera it just flies and it does the mission I only see waypoints. I even put the settings for Hero 4 and no camera trigger waypoints even pop up
I dont believe the actual photo triggering part is implemented yet. I was hoping it was by now since we have GoPro controls. When I tried the same last autumn I was sad to see that the solo wasn't snapping pictures.
The screen recorder app? I think it was called screen recorder for android. The mission app was called tower but not sure if its still being maintained. Solex app on Android has a similar waypoint feature and is actively being developed.
@@joeynuggetz sorry I was talking about the tower app because I couldn't find it on the play store. I did some research and found out that is not available anymore and a good substitute is qgroundcountrol. What do you think about it?
Does anyone here handle the TOWER application to generate orthophotomosaic? Can publish a manual how to use it and the tips I see on youtube a connected antenna a tablet is for (amplify the signal?) Then the SOLO Control is not used? Please your comments and help alguien de aquí maneja la aplicacion TOWER para generar ortofotomosaico ? pueden publicar un manual de como usarlo y los tips veo en youtube una antena conectada una tablet es para (amplificar la señal ? ) entonces no se usa el Control del SOLO ? porfavor sus comentarios y ayuda
Wonderful video ,but it's this is an App??? And please forgive me for my Incompetent knowledge of this wonderful Drone, which if God's Willing I am going to get .
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Glad you enjoyed the vid. If you have any questions, feel free to email me. If you haven't already, there is another app that lots of people have moved onto called "Solex". Gotta pay for it and its sorta expensive ($30) and then another $20 for the "mission" part of the app but at least the app is supported and the author keeps adding features and fixing issues. There's also a facebook group dedicated to it. Only available on Android.
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Just wanted to give a humungous thumbs up and thank you for creating this video Mr. Nuggetz! I just picked up a Solo bundle (my first drone) a week or so ago and this made learning so much easier.
Joey, We all thank you for taking the time to create and post this video. It has cleared up a lot of confusion. Great job!
You know if a video is any good when it has 50min and it feels short after you see it. Wow, awesome work dude!
If I could thumb this up multiple times I would. There is so much to remember, I've watched this tutorial multiple times. Very nice job mate. 👌
Thanks so much Joey. I just worked through all this on my own, and figured out most of it, but this tutorial would have saved me lots of time and struggle. Very well done. I learned a lot that I didn't know, for example that the altitude for a ROI waypoint is where the camera points. Also really great about making sure which mission is loaded. One thing you didn't mention is that you can save a number of different missions on your device with export and import file. One addition: if you take off Solo before initiating the mission, the Auto button to start the mission will show up where the Arm/Dronie is when not yet flying. In my testing, it seems that that speed is not MPH but some multiple of what you have set in Solo. If I have Solo at turtle, 2.0 is slow, but if I have it at rabbit, 2.0 is fast.
Well done Joey. Thanks for your work here. Very helpful. I've flown a few semi-successful missions with solo but curious about the finer points. This helps a great deal.
Thanx for a great explanation and demonstration in easy to understand language. Ive flown a few auto missions with Droid Planner and a couple with tower. and am still learning.
This was very helpful, i just got my solo today and i had never heard of Tower. Thanks a ton.
Glad you liked it. Please ensure you set your Solo up so that you have Manual mode mapped to one of the buttons in case you find yourself in a situation where you have to take control over Solo in an emergency such as a weak GPS condition. Not sure what your experience level is but I like to tell all new users about doing that just in case.
Very long, but very nice tutorial mate. Well worth a watch. Thanks
Thanks for taking the time to share these instructions. I'll have to watch it a few more times to be more clear on how to do it all. I tried working along with the video and ended up missing some key points. I'll have to try something real short the first time. I have only had my Solo for a couple of weeks and don't want to lose it or crash yet. Trees seem to be my biggest problem. That and all the restricted flying areas. Never knew there were so many Helo Pads and small private airfields.
Thanks for taking the time to explain everything so completely.
No questions here, just a thanks for putting together such a detailed video. i have never used tower and probably won't, but this makes me think that at some point down the road, i may get curious and try it. Thanks for showing me something I never knew existed.
+Danny Fyffe We're learning something new every day now :-) You've got me browsing around about these things now and I'm going to tell the wife it's your fault LOL :-)
This was a fantastic tutorial and I think a good one for TLG to view.
I wil happily take the blame. Tell your wife it is to live your 2nd childhood and she'll understand.
+Danny Fyffe
LOL :-)
I just sent the link to this to TLG. Maybe he'll get converted also LOL
We can all get our own Solo Nationwide network going. It is lots of money still anyway you slice it, but it sure is fun.
You are the man! Thanks for the great tutorial and happy flying.
Bro...not all heroes wear capes. Thanks for this.
Glad you found it useful :-)
great tutorial, you've answered all my questions, , in particular the region of interest , I didnt know that it would start looking at the region of interest until it reaches that point, Even 3dr couldnt tell me that,,lol
What a GREAT tutorial Joey. Many thanks for taking the time to go through all of this and posting it. I'm starting to get interested in maybe purchasing a quad-copter and the 3DR SOLO seems to have some of the best built in features. I hadn't heard of the TOWER app before. Is that built in from SOLO or is that something you added later?
1.) On the mission programming, can you just upload a blank mission to clear what was previously uploaded?
2.) If you have it set so that it will automatically return home when it loses signal and it's behind a building, or ?, will it try to fly straight back (through the bldg) or will it follow the flight path that took it to that position?
Looking forward to seeing some more tutorials from you. GREAT JOB !!!
Thanks a ton for this. Directions for beginners are not easy to find. I tried to figure it out for myself and my Solo flew out of control and crashed. Luckily, it was low, and there wasn't any damage.
Again I want to say great video Joey, thank you for going to trouble of making it. There's a few questions I have that are not answered in the video and I can't find documentation on (no surprise there as you say that's why you made the video in the first place).
I like that idea of utilizing Tower in setting preliminary flight paths in new locations that I have not had two opportunity to scout and set up smart shots at yet. To that end a few questions.
1) What is a Spline Waypoint?
2) What does a Reset ROI command do exactly? (I understand setting an ROI but I don't understand where the camera is instructed to point after a Reset ROI command is initiated).
3) What is Do Jump?
4) What is Set Servo?
6) What is Realtime camera footprint in the user interface?
5) Is there a way to reset the default speed of the Solo in Tower? (I found default altitude preferences in the advanced settings menu within the settings menu but nothing for speed). It seems awful fast with a lot of aggressive pitching & rolling as it changes directions between way points. I understand I can set the first command as a reset speed command but it would be nice to not have to do that for every mission but set the default to speed that lends itself to nice cinematic movement.
6) Similar to question #5 - Is there anyway to slow down or smooth panning & tilting between ROI's? To get the Solo to behave more like it does when utilizing smart shots in the Solo app, i.e. nice smooth logarithmic camera moves, nut sudden herky jerky movements.
and lastly (for now)...
7) Has anyone figured a way to safely pause a Tower mission, jump to the Solo app and create and execute a few smart shots, and then continue on with the Tower mission. This was not something 3DR support recommended as their official response was "We don't recommend using both applications at the same time since that could lead to misbehavior. Doing so is completely at the customer's discretion" but I did read a thread on the 3DR forum speculating if it could be done with one android and one iOS device - but it wasn't clear if any of the members were able to accomplish it. If it could be safely done it seems potentially a great way to save flight time/battery usage at new filming locations.
Congratulations! Thank you. Best ever I found on the internet.
Fantastic tutorial, thanks! I need to ask what might be a silly question.. In order for the camera to point at an ROI, must the camera/gimbal be controlled by the flight controller? Or if the camera is fixed straight ahead, is the 'copter rotated to point at the ROI?
Hi Joey, very useful your video. I have a question, in survey mode, does the software take into account the digital elevation model of google? assuming im going to survey an area that is 330 feet difference between the first and last point.
Thanks in advance
Thanks for posting I'm having a great experience with solo.
Super video. Been looking for this. Thanks a bunch.
Great video Joey. Quick question, if I set failsafe parameter to 2 and upload it to solo, then later on I'm just flying solo under my own control (using solo app) and I lose connection with controller, will solo just keep flying or initiate a RTL? Or, do the changed parameters only affect solo while using tower app on autonomous mode?
It only affects you in Auto mode. Good question. I had the same concern but this is an auto mode parameter so you should be good to go.
Great tutorial! Watched the whole thing. No fluff.
FYI I don't believe the speed changes from imperial to metric or vice versa. Default is m/s. Very good video though, i learned a lot. The other waypoint that would be good to touch on is Spline since that smoothes all the waypoints and flight paths into curves. I'm also glad you showed how to check what mission is on the solo and make sure you upload your mission. I recently activated a mission that was set up 50 miles away from where i was and sure enough solo turned and started heading that direction. a quick press of the pause button and upload of the new mission solved that quick.
+Matthew Bird Holy smokes, Matt. That could have been disasterous. I think I should have hammered that point a little harder in my video. Could you imagine that taking place AND having the return to home parameter set to 2 like I show in my video? :-) Wouldn't even return home. In your case Solo would have eventually come back assuming you didn't change the FS_THR_ENABLE parameter to 2. But that doesn't guarantee it wouldn't hit a tree or a house on the way to or from home :-)
Thanks for FINALLY putting this together!!! Thanks! Thanks! Thanks!
thank you so much for this video. It helped me get an understanding of how to use tower. best video so far. I will be trying it out tomorrow. The only thing I would have added to this is how to connect solo to tower. I had to change the Telemetry connection Type to UDP.
Glad you found it informative.You're totally right about it missing instructions on how to connect Solo to Tower. I totally didn't even think about that. I guess I assumed that most people were unsure of how to actually use tower so I took for granted that people had at least connected to it. I'll add a caption to the video when I get a moment. thanks for the feedback.
Hi mate, thanks a lot for such a good, detailed video. Great stuff!
Lol once I get my new solo from insurance (first real crash practically cracked Solo in half) I'll be pretty keen to get experimenting with Tower!
Just curious though - if I go to do a mission, especially if I change the parameters and tell solo to continue and come to land 15km away at a friend's house - what would happen if for some reason solo lost satellite contact halfway through the journey? Would it just stop and hover until it regained satellite connection? Would it just land on the spot? Or did I read somewhere that the missions are cached and solo can even complete a mission with the routes and commands saved to the on board computer after having lost GPS signal?
Cheers, Kev.
Very good tutorial for this tower apps and thanks for sharing this information.
Incredible tutorial! Thanks a million for such a thorough overview. Can't wait to try it. Question... If a region of interest is not defined I an auto mission, can I control the yaw and fly sideways to more waypoints?
Joey what a brutal work! a couple of questions by the moment. How can i set up a photogrammetry mission? What is "structured scan" type of mission" And can i design a mission in the mission planner desktop aplication and the export the mission to the 3dr solo through tower app?
Tower is not just for Solo. It works with Arducopter running on Pixhawk and APM flight controllers :)
Thank you for the very informative video, looking forward to experimenting more with Tower. Do you have any suggestions on where to get a better understanding of the parameter list?
I really look forward to the offline map video because I've been having some difficulty with that.
Good Video Joey. I think some other people have asked this. Do you have to do anything in the Solo App to run Tower. Or just Start Tower instead of the solo app, and set it to UDP? Thanks
Hi Joey, nice review thanks. I'm using the Tower app with my Walkera Tali H500 and find it great. I'm yet to get my telemetry working but when I do I'm wondering if Tower can save data logs like Mission Planner, do you know if it can? Thanks in advance. Jas
Is there any good way to keep giving a good use to our Solo drones in 2021? Since we are not able to update or download the SOLO app any more throughout Apple Store. Any good advise, please.
Awesome video, thank you for taking the time to make it.
Perfect!!! Thanks a looot dude now I feel confident to finally try Tower.
One question though. At 3DR site they say it is a big NO hitting pause on the controller while it is flying a mission. How do I regain full control of Solo no matter what it's doing?
Thanks again mate looking forward to more tuts from you.
Thank you for this video! it was sooo helpful!! Solo should hire you ;)
Great Video: would you be so kind as to tell us how do you manage to draw over the APP. Are you running it on a PC?
Great vid! Have you tried QGroundControl? It looks similar but for a laptop.
If I'm at an altitude of 100 feet and I want it to lower into a valley, 30 feet below my altitude. How would that work?
Please advise how to check/set the units from Tower...I've crashed because I programmed assuming meters when the parameter was feet!
Thanks!
crackin tutorial, many thanks for taking the time to record/upload for the public..... I take it that the Tower app is not just for the Solo? ,can it be used for any APM/Pixhawk/PX4 ardupilot?
Great Tower Tutorial!!!
I have one question; after you have uploaded new waypoints to Solo, how do you return Solo back to the way it was out-of-the box, having no Tower waypoints?
Thank you!
Good question, ForceFed Shelby. Did you get an answer to this question? I was wondering the same thing. Is it needed to wipe all missions out of Solo, and how do you set it back to no missions loaded?
What Tablet has everyone found works best with the Solo? I have the IPhone 6+ but would like to switch to an Android like tablet for expanded options?
Good video thanks! re the throttle/RC failsafe setting - what happens if it's flying in non-auto mode (ie std or ltr) when the condition occurs? I'm guessing it will "continue with the mission", but which part of the mission (beginning/middle/end)? If it goes to the last waypoint, which should be close to the launch point, then isn't that the same as RTL except maybe for the altitude?
Mike Henry that value of the param ONLY applies when you are in Auto. If not in Auto, it will RTL.
Great tutorial - Thanks!
When you set a circle waypoint, does it keep the camera pointed at the center of the circle, or do you have to set a ROI?
Circle will keep the camera pointed towards the center of the circle I believe. Its been a while and its possible that it might even keep the same orientation that it was in when it entered the circle. :-)
Are there any beginner videos on this? I can't even get the drone connected
Awesome tutorial Sir!!!!!! Thank you.
Thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed it :-)
Hello you useS the SOLO, often for mapping, as been?
Thank you for a very thorough tutorial!
Great video, thank you for this. Is this app also available for the Iris+. I have recently purchased the Iris+ and have only flown manually so far. I really hope this app is possible. Thanks for your support!
Dan French good question. I’m pretty sure it is.
So how does it connect to the 3dr Drone? I know it has the capabilities but I don't have the time to watch the video if it is said in it. Thanks!
Jaffrey H you can connect to the solo via WiFi / the sololink hotspot. There is a connect Udp option in Tower
Excellent tutorial, Thanks!
I would love to see more documentation for Tower.
Love the video, learned a lot. But when I went to try it everything went well except I noticed I couldn't tilt the camera with the controller. Is there a way to adjust the camera tilt while flying a mission?
Once you attempt to control the video in tower i.e tapping the video preview then the controller gimbals are disabled. You can control the gimbals by dragging up and down in the video window. There's actually a new version of 3dr services out that fixes that. I believe once you click away or minimize the video window in tower, the controller should regain control of the gimbal now with the latest 3dr services version.
When changing fail safe parameters you should also change the ground station fail safe to 2 also (FS_GCS_ENABLE).
Nice tutorial
+Bill Clouston Why?
I have tried several times to locate this APP in Google Play etc .. I have yet to find "TOWER" for drones.
Hi Joey,
Can I download solo tower app with quad core tablet? I'm using Ipad pro.
Thank you
Good video, thanks.
This solves my problem with cable cam in the app, cause that the app will not let me set the endpoint. :-)
For a real estate video, can you 'circle' one time high over trees, then set waypoints to slow and turtle low across the front and then to the entry, back out to safe altitude and home? The resulting video could be spliced to one of those hand held videos where the door opens magically and you proceed inside. I want to do areal photos and videos at a cheaper cost than using a manned aircraft. I figure to charge $50 for travel time, site study, programming*, mission and travel back with the real estate agent. *So would the programming time make my idea a financial bust, once I learned the ropes?
I wrote the first flight control system maintenance T.O. for the F-16, so I thought this video was clear and simple. However not for me because I am old now. I was tired so it was hard to keep my eyes focused. It was hard to identify symbols on your little tablet. I never thought to view it full screen. When I can afford a drone I hope this video is still available. Happy Thanksgiving.
Well they change in the dialog box when adjusting the units in the options screen.
When the Solo is running a mission in Autonomous mode, does the fly button override it and take control back (assuming you are in controller range)?
I'm not positive. I think that sounds right but perhaps you have to hit pause then fly? I've never tried.
I'll try on a simple, low-altitude mission.
+Datta Groover Yes, it does (I tried it a month ago).
Very nice tutorial ! Thanks
thanks for doing this video ..takes the guessing out of a noobie like me
What is the name of this app within the "App store" for Ipad?
Thank you for the excellent tutorial!
This is a great tutorial, but what is Tower and where do I get it??
How can one use this app. when there is obviously no wifi outside?
WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO CHANGE IN SOLO APP SO THAT YOU CAN USE TOWER? ALSO ONCE YOU CHECK THE CORRECT BOX IN SOLO APP TO USE TOWER APP, CAN YOU FLY SOLO AS NORMAL IF YOU ARE NOT GOING TO USE TOWER? OR DO YOU NEED TO GO BACK INTO SOLO APP AND UNCHECK THE BOX SO THAT YOU CAN JUST USE SOLO APP ONLY?
if i loose connection w/ android device it will rth right ?..or let say my phone dies of of what ever reason
Anyone know how to use google cardboard in the new Tower app update ver 3.2.1? It keeps just launching the google play store when I tap the google cardboard icon.
Also, someone posted this on the Facebook Solo Group, which is where I saw it.
I just installed my gimbal and have live feed from solo gimbal but no sat view,what am I missing?
If you are in the solo app then you have to swipe over to the right.
In tower?
good tutorial thanks. would be better if you put up a visible curser to follow.
Great tutorial. Thanks.
a printed manual would be wonderful!
With Structure Scan with it trigger the gopro?
Unfortunately you can't have tower trigger photos yet while using survey. Never tried structure scanner though I expect that's not fully implemented yet.
Basics--How does this work in the field when there is no Wifi in the field?
David Anthony Batten you connect via wifi to your controller/drone. you can use cell service from your phone to update the maps or if you don't have that option you can download them at home and cache them for later use.
very good video; can you do a simple first flight video; with the solo flying a short mission;
subed and liked your video going to seach your other videos!
Is there a tower app for iPad and iPhone yet ???
excellent job
One more important Tower question I forgot to post...
8) Is there a way to pinpoint a particular location I am unfamiliar with the topography of without physically being located there, such as punching in a specific address and/or GPS coordinates in Tower? Or perhaps changing to "street view" from satellite view and using road names to find a location in an unfamiliar area? Say for creating a mission to film a house in an unfamiliar neighborhood....
I don't believe there's a way to do that. Best you can do is eyeball it with google maps and then swipe the tower map to same location or landmark
+Joey Nuggetz thanks Joey. Any ideas on the previous questions I posted?
seanrmatic change the map preferences from satellite to hybrid and you'll get the street names on your map. I hope that helps.
I need help with the survey part with the solo I can't get it to trigger the camera it just flies and it does the mission I only see waypoints. I even put the settings for Hero 4 and no camera trigger waypoints even pop up
I dont believe the actual photo triggering part is implemented yet. I was hoping it was by now since we have GoPro controls. When I tried the same last autumn I was sad to see that the solo wasn't snapping pictures.
+Joey Nuggetz same here bro
How do I add a servo??
what is the name of that app ??
Joey - how did you record this video?
AZ screen recorder paid version. android
+Joey Nuggetz Thanks Joey!
thankyou for sharing
great video, thanks.
Glad you liked it. Let me know if you have any questions
What's the name of the app that you're using?
The screen recorder app? I think it was called screen recorder for android. The mission app was called tower but not sure if its still being maintained. Solex app on Android has a similar waypoint feature and is actively being developed.
@@joeynuggetz sorry I was talking about the tower app because I couldn't find it on the play store. I did some research and found out that is not available anymore and a good substitute is qgroundcountrol. What do you think about it?
Good job man!!!!
Thank you so much!
What is structure scan?
It's supposed to allow you to take photos of a structure like a building for later importing into a mapping program. Never used it though.
Thx & great job!
Does anyone here handle the TOWER application to generate orthophotomosaic? Can publish a manual how to use it and the tips I see on youtube a connected antenna a tablet is for (amplify the signal?) Then the SOLO Control is not used? Please your comments and help
alguien de aquí maneja la aplicacion TOWER para generar ortofotomosaico ? pueden publicar un manual de como usarlo y los tips veo en youtube una antena conectada una tablet es para (amplificar la señal ? ) entonces no se usa el Control del SOLO ? porfavor sus comentarios y ayuda
Wonderful video ,but it's this is an App???
And please forgive me for my Incompetent knowledge of this wonderful Drone, which if God's Willing I am going to get .
Hi Billy. Yes, the app is called Tower and is for Android devices only. It can be found on the play store.
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Glad you enjoyed the vid. If you have any questions, feel free to email me. If you haven't already, there is another app that lots of people have moved onto called "Solex". Gotta pay for it and its sorta expensive ($30) and then another $20 for the "mission" part of the app but at least the app is supported and the author keeps adding features and fixing issues. There's also a facebook group dedicated to it. Only available on Android.
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can i use tower on my iphone or how do i get tower
Sorry no, Android only. Wish there was. There's an app on IOS called Sidepilot but I've never tried it. I think its 12 bucks.