DJI continues to launch shopper drones at a sophisticated tempo, and the Mini 4 Professional is not any exception.
Launched in September of 2023, the DJI Mini 4 Professional is a succesful replace to the modern one-and-a-half-year-old DJI Mini 3 Professional.
One of many major areas wherein the Mini 4 Professional has been upgraded is the impediment avoidance sensors.
As an alternative of a three-way impediment avoidance system discovered on the Mini 3 Professional, the DJI Mini 4 Professional has omnidirectional impediment avoidance.
This new impediment avoidance system ensures the Mini 4 Professional has 360-degree safety. With this new system additionally comes different updates and additions to the present security choices for the Mini 4 Professional.
This text and the included YouTube video will talk about the assorted security options of the DJI Mini 4 Professional and present the way to:
- Arrange impediment avoidance
- Set RTH (Return to Residence) choices
- Replace the house level
- Set the Mini 4 Professional’s most altitude
- Allow augmented actuality (AR) settings and extra
The Security Tab
To entry and modify the protection options of the DJI Mini 4 Professional, you will want to be within the Security tab to make the mandatory changes.
To entry the protection tab, each the Mini 4 Professional and DJI RC 2 or RC-N2 will have to be powered on and related to the DJI Fly app.
Go into the Fly app menu/choices within the Digital camera View display by tapping the three dots within the higher right-hand nook.
You’ll wish to be within the Security Tab. In case you are in one other tab, merely press the Security tab.
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Flight Help
The primary space we’ll be taking a look at is the Flight Help choices. These embrace:
- Impediment Avoidance Actions
- Bypass Actions
- Show Radar Map
Impediment Avoidance Motion
The impediment avoidance motion is damaged into three separate choices and determines the habits of the Mini 4 Professional when obstacles are detected.
Earlier than flying, you’ll wish to outline what the Mini 4 Professional will do as soon as it approaches an impediment.
The out there actions are:
- Bypass – When enabled and controlling the Mini 4 Professional, the Mini 4 Professional will mechanically go round detectable obstacles. If there isn’t any out there manner to take action, the Mini 4 Professional will then hover till motion may be taken by the drone pilot.
- Brake – When the brake motion is enabled, the Mini 4 Professional will mechanically cease and hover when encountering obstacles. You’ll then have the ability to decide the very best plan of action to take.
- Off – Turns off all impediment avoidance programs. With this motion, the Mini 4 Professional can run into obstacles within the surroundings. Some drone pilots, like myself, use this selection when flying in tight areas.
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Bypass Actions
Baypass Actions dictates how the Mini 4 Professional behaves when bypassing obstacles.
- Regular – The Mini 4 Professional will search for objects and obstacles earlier than reaching them, staying a protected distance from the impediment(s).
- Nifty – That is form of like Cine mode for the Bypass motion. When enabled, the Mini 4 Professional will keep away from obstacles with extra laid-back and clean actions. Nevertheless, this Bypass possibility has a better likelihood of colliding with obstacles.
Show Radar Map
The Radar Map (which may be toggled on and off) is an on-screen support used to shortly warn you to how shut the Mini 4 Professional is to things.
That is finished by way of using the colours orange or purple, relying on how shut the drone is to an object.
When near an object the radar turns orange and progressively turns to purple because the Mini 4 Professional flies dangerously near the thing.
The Radar Map is especially helpful for individuals who flip off all impediment avoidance and fly shut to things within the surroundings, or fly by way of tight areas and areas.
On the naked minimal, the Radar Map will give a visible warning of obstacles.
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Return to Residence (RTH)
Return-to-home (RTH) will return the Mini 4 Professional to the recorded house level with none extra enter from you.
On this part, you’ll wish to set the choices for Superior RTH.
Superior RTH
There are two settings out there for Superior RTH. These RTH settings are:
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Optimum Superior RTH
When in Optimum Superior RTH, the Mini 4 Professional plans the very best route for it to get house, no matter any RTH top choices beforehand enter.
It’s going to regulate its top to get above, beneath, or round any sort of impediment or interference sign within the space that would disrupt a profitable RTH.
With the optimum setting chosen, the Mini 4 Professional will use the straightest and most direct path to RTH to save lots of on battery energy, growing the period of time the Mini 4 Professional can fly.
This will likely presumably even save the Mini 4 Professional if the batteries are low.
Whether it is too darkish for the Mini 4 Professional’s imaginative and prescient sensors, the Mini 4 Professional will default to a variation of Preset mode, with preset altitude choices, which we’ll take a look at.
Preset Superior RTH
On this mode, the Mini 4 Professional will return house on the preset top.
As a rule of thumb, I set my Auto RTH Altitude to 30 toes or so above the very best impediment wherever I is perhaps flying for the day.
If the Mini 4 Professional is in Optimum Superior RTH when the lighting situations are too poor for the Mini 4 Professional’s imaginative and prescient system to see its manner house, the Auto RTH Top shall be used.
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Auto RTH Altitude
The Auto RTH Altitude is a vital choice to set.
The reason being that within the occasion of an emergency (we’ll contact on this shortly), you’ll need the Mini 4 Professional to have adequate top when returning house.
As a rule of thumb, setting your return-to-home top a good bit larger than the tallest obstruction in your space is all the time good.
Some merely set their RTH altitude to the most flight ceiling in the US (400 toes) and simply go.
This may be harmful if the Mini 4 Professional is returning house and there are low-flying plane within the neighborhood.
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Replace Residence Level
Updating the house level lets you change your house level from the place it was mechanically set within the DJI Fly app upon buying a GPS sign and set it the place you need it.
That is particularly helpful if you end up shifting from one location to a different quickly whereas flying, maybe when on a ship or one other shifting object.
The house level can solely be moved as soon as the drone is within the air and has a full GPS lock.
To replace the house level:
STEP 1: Whereas within the air, press the arrow to the fitting of Replace Residence Level.
STEP 2: A map of your quick location will populate the middle of the display. Drag the display till the yellow H strikes to your new desired house level location. When finished, merely press OK, and the brand new house level shall be up to date.
In case you’d prefer to set the house level again to the place it was, merely do the above steps in reverse.
It’s also possible to set the house level to be the place the Distant Controller is at the moment situated. One situation for this is able to be when protecting areas quickly whereas in a car or on a ship.
To replace the house level to the distant controller, whereas within the “Replace Residence Level Map”:
Faucet the Distant Controller icon. The Residence Level will then be set to the precise location the place the RC is at the moment.
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AR Settings
The Mini 4 Professional advantages from the inclusion of AR (augmented actuality), displaying on-screen overlays to help with house level identification and return-to-home capabilities.
With Present AR Residence Level choices on, you will note a digital H on the Reside View display representing the Mini 4 Professional house level, which may be seen in all the map views.
With the Present AR Return-to-Residence route possibility enabled, there’s a inexperienced path displaying what route the Mini 4 Professional will take to RTH.
Lastly, when touchdown, there’s additionally a digital “Mini 4 Professional” shadow on-screen displaying the place the Mini 4 Professional will precisely land. That is known as Present AR Plane Shadow.
Flight Safety
This part is used to outline how far and excessive the Mini 4 Professional will fly at any given time. Though our intention could also be to remain inside the confines of the regulation when in flight, this is perhaps tough to take care of.
Max Altitude
In case you are in the US, as a result of it’s unlawful to fly above 400 toes, chances are you’ll select to set the most altitude to something beneath 400 toes.
In case you are in a rustic that regulates the utmost altitude you could fly, likewise, you’ll wish to set that quantity right here.
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Max Distance
Moreover, you can too set the most distance.
In case you are involved about flying too far out, you’ll be able to set the worth to any quantity you’d like. If distance isn’t a priority, this may be set to No Restrict.
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Superior Security Settings
Superior security settings decide how the Mini 4 Professional behaves when the Mini 4 Professional disconnects from the distant controller.
Disconnects can happen as a result of variants within the surroundings, comparable to tall timber, mountains, canyons, and even sign interference and loss as a result of buildings.
Sign Misplaced
Sign loss choices are as follows:
- Hover – The Mini 4 Professional will keep in a single place till it receives enter from you. You’ll have to go to the placement of the Mini 4 Professional to regain a connection.
- Descend – The Mini 4 Professional will descend and land, even when the sign was misplaced over water.
- RTH – The Mini 4 Professional will return to the house level, whatever the environment.
