Wow so the info is final out there and I can finally talk about it. I have been testing both the new firmware and app update for the last 6 or more weeks. The other testers and my self did everything we could to make sure this roll out was a solid as it could be. We were able to get a small percentage of suggestion taken care of, but not all of them. One of my suggestion was of the few that got included. It was the addition of a "Adjustable Pause Setting" added to the Waypoint and POI features. Prior to my suggestion the aircraft way just fly right through each waypoint and in most cases if you didn't know a waypoint was at a certain point, you would not known a waypoint was even there. Also with it's original setup, only the video function could really be used because of it not stopping. So now it has opened up to both the video a camera formats. You can adjust the amount of pause time it will have at waypoints.
Let me for warn everyone before hand, at least 90%+ of us did not like any part of these new features when we were 1st introduced to them. The POI feature in my opinion is the best of all of them. The Follow Me feature again in my opinion is only good for following a slow moving car as some of the testers actually did. It will not follow you that well while walking around the block or your house ect. My opinion on this is the majority mmay try it once or twice and never use it again. It is very dependent on good gps reception for the device being used, as in your phone or tablet. The Waypoint feature you noticed I left it last and done so for a reason. We told the Beta Admin's on a number of occasions that you guys were going to have High Expectations on this feature with it coming from DJI. With there being a Ground Station in the P2V+, and the fact that DJI has changed the name from Ground Station to now "Intelligent Navigation Modes System" will give the impression that something outstanding is coming their way. But Do Not get your hopes up. The Waypoints two main drawbacks are, as with all these new modes you can not do anything until you have the aircraft in the air. Meaning you can not make up a flight map or flight schedule as most want to do when they think of waypoint setups. You Have To fly the aircraft to the exact spot you want a waypoint at and select record. Then fly to the next waypoint spot and repeat the process. Once you have everything to your liking, you then press to start the mission. It will go through the mission and hover at the last one. And Yes you are going to use up the battery having to do it like this but there is no other option with this system. My favorite thing to do is set up the waypoint like the known cable-cam you may have seen on other setups. But as I say, the POI is the best of the best on this go around. I hear additional modes will come in the future.
So that rounds it up for me. Most important thing I want to cover again is, this app and firmware are really good. We didn't finish the project at 100% and what was remaining could be taken care of by the admin themselves.
Oh...and the reason why this update didn't before now is all because of apple taking their sweet time on approving the iS0 version. As of yesterday it still has yet to be approved to my knowledge. But believe it or not DJI did everything they possibly could to get things taken care of but their hands were tied on this one.
Let me know if you have any questions.
