DJI continues to launch client drones at a sophisticated tempo, and the Mini 4 Professional isn’t any exception.
Launched in September of 2023, the DJI Mini 4 Professional is a succesful replace to the revolutionary one-and-a-half-year-old DJI Mini 3 Professional.
One of many predominant areas by which 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 how one can:
- Arrange impediment avoidance
- Set RTH (Return to House) 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’ll need 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 should be powered on and related to the DJI Fly app.
Go into the Fly app menu/choices within the Digicam View display screen by tapping the three dots within the higher right-hand nook.
You’ll need to be within the Security Tab. If you’re 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 embody:
- Impediment Avoidance Actions
- Bypass Actions
- Show Radar Map
Impediment Avoidance Motion
The impediment avoidance motion is damaged into three separate choices and determines the conduct of the Mini 4 Professional when obstacles are detected.
Earlier than flying, you’ll need to outline what the Mini 4 Professional will do as soon as it approaches an impediment.
The obtainable actions are:
- Bypass – When enabled and controlling the Mini 4 Professional, the Mini 4 Professional will robotically go round detectable obstacles. If there isn’t any obtainable manner to take action, the Mini 4 Professional will then hover till motion might be taken by the drone pilot.
- Brake – When the brake motion is enabled, the Mini 4 Professional will robotically 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 methods. With this motion, the Mini 4 Professional can run into obstacles within the atmosphere. 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 easy actions. Nonetheless, this Bypass possibility has a better probability of colliding with obstacles.
Show Radar Map
The Radar Map (which might be toggled on and off) is an on-screen help used to shortly warn you to how shut the Mini 4 Professional is to things.
That is performed by the usage of the colours orange or crimson, relying on how shut the drone is to an object.
When near an object the radar turns orange and step by step turns to crimson because the Mini 4 Professional flies dangerously near the article.
The Radar Map is especially helpful for individuals who flip off all impediment avoidance and fly shut to things within the atmosphere, or fly by tight areas and areas.
On the naked minimal, the Radar Map will give a visible warning of obstacles.
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Return to House (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 need to set the choices for Superior RTH.
Superior RTH
There are two settings obtainable 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’ll modify its top to get above, under, or round any kind 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 may occasionally 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 have 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 may be flying for the day.
If the Mini 4 Professional is in Optimum Superior RTH when the lighting circumstances are too poor for the Mini 4 Professional’s imaginative and prescient system to see its manner house, the Auto RTH Peak will likely be used.
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Auto RTH Altitude
The Auto RTH Altitude is an important 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 greater than the tallest obstruction in your space is at all times 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 House Level
Updating the house level lets you change your own home level from the place it was robotically 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 transferring from one location to a different quickly whereas flying, maybe when on a ship or one other transferring 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 correct of Replace House Level.
STEP 2: A map of your fast location will populate the middle of the display screen. Drag the display screen till the yellow H strikes to your new desired house level location. When performed, merely press OK, and the brand new house level will likely be up to date.
In the event you’d prefer to set the house level again to the place it was, merely do the above steps in reverse.
You can even set the house level to be the place the Distant Controller is at present situated. One state of affairs for this may be when masking areas quickly whereas in a car or on a ship.
To replace the house level to the distant controller, whereas within the “Replace House Level Map”:
Faucet the Distant Controller icon. The House Level will then be set to the precise location the place the RC is at present.
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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 features.
With Present AR House Level choices on, you will notice a digital H on the Stay View display screen representing the Mini 4 Professional house level, which might be seen in the entire map views.
With the Present AR Return-to-House route possibility enabled, there’s a inexperienced path displaying what route the Mini 4 Professional will take to RTH.
Lastly, when touchdown, there may be 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 may be troublesome to keep up.
Max Altitude
If you’re in the US, as a result of it’s unlawful to fly above 400 toes, you might select to set the most altitude to something below 400 toes.
If you’re in a rustic that regulates the utmost altitude which you can fly, likewise, you’ll need to set that quantity right here.
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Max Distance
Moreover, you can even set the most distance.
If you’re involved about flying too far out, you possibly can 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 resulting from variants within the atmosphere, resembling tall bushes, mountains, canyons, and even sign interference and loss resulting from 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 might have to go to the situation 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.
