Updating a Wingsland S6 with problems.

Posted on 23rd April 2019 by graz27

After trying out a different S6 camera firmware, my quad started to have issues connecting and staying connected and to start a fresh again I thought it be a good idea to update a fresh.

And as I not wrote anything before about doing a update and it may? help others having strange issues with there Wingsland S6.

What you need:-

Usb cable from pc to micro usb type which plugs in the S6 next to the sd card.

A Windows pc

Wingsland S6 updater util

Camera firmware

 

First follow instructions in the Wingsland S6 updater util link above from what you will also get the file from at the bottom of the page.

Now after about a few mins the updater will be done and S6 will have stopped flashing, so power off S6 by removing the usb lead.

Then run Wingsland S6 app on phone and it will tell you of a firmware update to install the lastest firmware version (because version in the Wingsland updater is a older one), so do this next.

Then download the camera firmware file above and unzip it and place the Wingsland.bin file from it onto the SD card.

Then put battery in S6 and power on and wait for a few mins until its finnished installing the camera firmware.

Then power off the S6 and take out the SD and delete the Wingsland.bin file from sd card and put it back in the craft.

Then once S6 powered back on , go to the camera settings on the app on phone and reset the camera settings.

I would also reformat the SD to cover all bases (Make sure you saved your videos first)

Hopefully all this might have helped.

Although doing this still will not cure the fact that at times when I start app there is no video and have to exit app and back in a few times. This only seems to happen on my iphone6 and iphone 5, the app on android dont seem to have this issue and so assume this is another bug.

Happy flying!

 

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Wingsland S6 camera firmware S6X70807

Posted on 22nd April 2019 by graz27

I have added another Wingsland S6 Camera firmware – S6X70807 to the camera firmware downloads
There are a lot of issues for some with video freezing not showing up in app and dropping out etc.
Just maybe a different version might improve it for someone.
You can downgrade and if not happy you can upgrade back to latest version.
As always although I have tested this , you do it at your own risk .

Read the info at top of page of downloads please.

Wingsland S6 Camera Firmwares

**Update**
This version of the camera firmware caused me all sorts of problems with video locking up even more than normal and terrible lag etc.
So would not advise to try this unless you are curious and dont mind the risk!!

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Wingsland S6 Range test

Posted on 21st April 2019 by graz27

Another range test using R6 with S6 and got to 300 metres distance and could see it as a dot , and just as well I could see it, and using a android phone this time and video kept locking up and was lagging around 20 seconds! Most of this due to it being a old android phone I feel though.
Also on the Android version it shows a wifi strength signal icon top right and the ios version does not have this.
Think I see why its missing from ios version, it does nothing!!! Did not change strength in all the flight, so obviously another feature Winsgland never fininished to add to the list.
Wingsland should have released the sdk for this so maybe others could have made a better app for it!
Anyway, got out to 300 metres about 984 feet and video was still working , apart from locking up and the lag.
Then as I was at 50%, decided to bring it back.
Was flying out against the wind, so expected it to get back okay with tail wind.
But for a tiny quad, quite good distance and I think the max you can go with controller is 500 metres max which I think is hard coded into firmware, and to get far if possible it will be tricky to get back with short a short flight time we get on these.

Also the app seems far more stable on a apple phone vs android one.

The phone screen recording is not good quality as had to turn that down because this is a old phone and dont have the needed cpu power.

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DJI Mavic pro dummy controller teardown

Posted on 17th April 2019 by graz27

Got hold of a Mavic pro dummy remote to take apart this time.

Some photos of the insides

There were a few bits of electronics inside this, the bottom board was just a plain board

with nothing on it.

Maybe make some 2.4ghz rc controller with this shell one day.

Not much else to say really, but might be intresting for those wondering whats inside a dummy remote.

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DJI Mavic Air Dummy Teardown

Posted on 11th April 2019 by graz27

So what do you get if you pick up a dummy DJI Mavic Air ?

Picture of size of Mavic Air compared to Wingsland S6 and DJI Spark

 

These are the units normally on display.

First thing to notice is it comes with just non working dummy motors, just the bell housing.

The dummy battery case is glued in and it a bit of a pig to get apart and have to use some heat from hair dryier to get it apart.

And inside battery is a lump of metal to give the shell weight

Others pics

Photo above, just seeing if a stm32 type board would fit.

So to sum it up, the Mavic Air is 100% all dummy, no electronics or motors.

So just a shell and nothing else.

The gimbal camera housing is also a shell only and no gimbal motors etc.

Did hope it might at least have real motors , as one could always fit a different flight controller and gps etc.

But the motors are not avaviable on there own yet and only as a complete arm and motor and therefore the cost is not worth it.

The DJI Spark motors will prob fit but they are not as tall and are 1504S 2100kv motors and Spark weighs around 300 grams and the Air around 400 grams. The motors in the Air are 2300kv. Cant as yet find a motor thats close in spec.

So if you see these come along, its probably not worth it unless you just want it for your collection or having it as a spare shell for a real working unit.

The shell without the lead weight weighs 163 grams and that is with the empty battery case and the dummy bell end motors and dummy empty gimbal

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