You should always select an open grassy area when doing a compass calibration. Stay away from buildings, concrete, fire hydrants, electrical transformers. Any steel near the H will affect the cal.
When doing a cal on the H, I always remove the camera prior to turning on the H. And when you turn it on, it should be sitting on level ground and not disturbed until it finishes booting up.
Once you get a good calibration it isn't necessary to do it again. In fact, frequent compass cals increases the likelihood of getting a bad cal. So just avoid it unless there is a very good reason to repeat it.
Thank you. That is sensible.
Now in this scenario, any idea what may be the culprit to address?
Again in summary:
1) ST16, drone and camera connected up just fine.
2) Went to test the drone, binded all fine.
3) Before flight, the ST16 gave a warning to land immediately in Angle mode and do a compass cal.
4) Attempted that about 3-4 times with camera on (understood it should have been removed, and understood that the cal should be done in an open, grassy field away from all said items.) It also kept saying to redo it on the ST16.
4A) One thing that I found to be a bit strange and I don't understand is that after the calibration, when we angled the drone 2Xs to 60 degrees to put it into bind mode, it started rapidly flashing blue instead of the normal orange to indicate it was in bind mode. I couldn't find what that was.
5) ST16 then jammed up, saying the messages above of "Camera type is not match! Please select right camera type.", kicks me back to the camera select screen then says "Connection failed camera not connected!" no matter which camera is selected over and over. I cannot go anywhere else in the android device, besides the system settings screen. (As a note, originally when this started coming up, I was still able to control PTZ on the camera with the ST16 for a short time.)
6) Opened up the ST16, disconnected the black, orange and yellow wires from the wifi module and reconnected, nothing happened. Also tried keeping them disconnected and booting up the ST16 and no change. Same error. I did not try to really do anything with the gold connector as I was less familiar with that and did not want to break anything.
A) I have trouble understanding how a compass cal would damage the wifi module in the ST16.
B) I could imagine that possibly there was trauma to the camera itself by doing the compass cal, but I have no real evidence of that and no way that I know how to check it. I can't imagine that any real damage was done if the drone is supposed to fly around.
Now when I try to put the typhoon in bind mode, it flashes what looks to be 3 blue 2 orange v fast. (anyone know what this means?)
Okay correction, I am able to put it into bind mode and connect to the drone and receive telemetry data, battery voltage, # of sats, altitude, etc.
When I go to update the ST 16 (in the about controller screen) it doesn't find any nearby wifi...
Next thought is if there is any way to reset the device manually?
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