Neighbor bought this drone new, tried it, and it spooked him so he decided no drones for him.
Me doing alot of RC including helicopters and other drones, bought it from him a short time ago(couple weeks), and had fun flying it. I prefer thr controller over the toy like simplistic controllers of DJI. I love the 6 rotor design, etc.
So I checked for updates and only update it needed was autopilot. So I grabbed the file from YuneecSkins and ran the update. Seemed to work fine. Took it out for a flight after and all seemed well.
Tried to fly the next day and it would only beep once. Camera would center if I held power long enough but that's it. I connect USB and battery it lights up, and does the boot sound and then just sits there with a regular descending 2 tone beep like it's waiting for an update.
I have tried and tried and can NOT get this thing to connect to GUI, all the way down to this.
Fresh wipe of a Windows 10 laptop. I installed firefox, and then using links from this forum, downloaded the GUI 1.2.13. Downloaded firmware 1.28_24_9_2016.yuneec.
I then went to MS and downloaded the 2017 C++ redistributables. Installed, rebooted.
Set the installer for the GUI to run in compatability mode for Windows 7, and ran as admin. All the drivers and everything else installed correctly(I did this on another laptop without compatability mode and same difference, both Win10 and Win11).
Set compatability mode to Win7 and run as administrator, for the installed GUI.
I opened up the updater, loaded the afformentiones .yuneec file made sure battery was removed from the drone, connected the USB and it just sits there and does nothing. No matter how long I let it sit there.
Do I need to buy a Win7 Native laptop or dig up one of my old XP laptops that take an hour and a half to boot?
Sunk a bunch $$ into this thing to only fly it a few times.
I have a background in IT and 30 years experience on the tech side of computers.
Me doing alot of RC including helicopters and other drones, bought it from him a short time ago(couple weeks), and had fun flying it. I prefer thr controller over the toy like simplistic controllers of DJI. I love the 6 rotor design, etc.
So I checked for updates and only update it needed was autopilot. So I grabbed the file from YuneecSkins and ran the update. Seemed to work fine. Took it out for a flight after and all seemed well.
Tried to fly the next day and it would only beep once. Camera would center if I held power long enough but that's it. I connect USB and battery it lights up, and does the boot sound and then just sits there with a regular descending 2 tone beep like it's waiting for an update.
I have tried and tried and can NOT get this thing to connect to GUI, all the way down to this.
Fresh wipe of a Windows 10 laptop. I installed firefox, and then using links from this forum, downloaded the GUI 1.2.13. Downloaded firmware 1.28_24_9_2016.yuneec.
I then went to MS and downloaded the 2017 C++ redistributables. Installed, rebooted.
Set the installer for the GUI to run in compatability mode for Windows 7, and ran as admin. All the drivers and everything else installed correctly(I did this on another laptop without compatability mode and same difference, both Win10 and Win11).
Set compatability mode to Win7 and run as administrator, for the installed GUI.
I opened up the updater, loaded the afformentiones .yuneec file made sure battery was removed from the drone, connected the USB and it just sits there and does nothing. No matter how long I let it sit there.
Do I need to buy a Win7 Native laptop or dig up one of my old XP laptops that take an hour and a half to boot?
Sunk a bunch $$ into this thing to only fly it a few times.
I have a background in IT and 30 years experience on the tech side of computers.