Evo2 Enterprise Overview

The New Autel Evo2 Enterprise and the Autel Smart Controller appears to have a lot to offer public safety. Today we take a quick look at it and plan to do lots more public safety based testing in the near future
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[@kon8865]

I have always preferred Autel drones because they make the most advanced drones. But Autel has also been putting out incomplete drones, where features are not working as advertised. I have recently bought an Evo 2 Pro Enterprise V3. I have a few hundred flights and understand a little about frequencies and antennas and I will explain here to dissolve any confusion about those things. I have lots of experience with the Evo 2 Pro V1 as I have 2 of them and have done lots of comparing and troubleshooting over the last couple of years with them. The Evo 2 Pro E V3 which should have a 15km transmission I just got barely transmits as good as my Evo 2 Pro V1's, which have a 9km transmission. When you go to the transmission screen on the new Evo 2 Pro E V3, there are no options, the screen is empty, Autel has explained to me this will be done at some update, it has now been 5 months since the drone's been released. The drone is very obviously working on a 2.4Gz signal, that is a short wavelength and should have a 2 inch antenna, just like most all drones up till now. The reason the transmission is barely keeping up with my Evo 2 Pro V1s, is because they put a 4 inch antenna, which is optimal for 900Mhz frequency. 900Mhz Is a longer wave that goes better through walls, when they do the update this will be an amazing drone yes, for now, if you've had an Evo 2 Pro V1 in the past, you will feel quite dissapointed. I do get real flight times of a little over a half an hour compared to 25 minutes which everyone always exagerrates, so Autel did real good there yes. So Autel put out a new drone with supposed frequency switching, but it's not doing any of that yet and the antennas are optimized for 900Mhz, which the drone is not working on, because if it was working 15km with 900Mhz would be amazing in the city yes. Of course at 900Mhz you then get a slower waves, hence slower data transfer, so I'm not even sure if they can transmit data at 1080 at that frequency, I would be fine with 720 resolution at 900Mhz, I still see power lines good on the bright screen, right now it is 720, I can easily tell, they havent updated that either. Respectively, a 4.8Gz transmission or 5.8, would be optimas with about an even shorter antenna probably closer to 1 inch, with makes it easier to fit inside your cellphone as you go up with Ghz :-). This is a very disappointing thing that Autel is doing and I hope they do the update for the transmission soon. I paid 5k for this thing and that was one of the main reasons I bought it for. Autel has also released a new drone with something very important not working as advertised. They kept my drone in repair for weeks so I got my money back from Blue Skies, who I bought it through. I then got the same drone through Amazon and found that the feature is not working on that one as advertised either. I have considered sueing Autel but I have always liked and supported Autel, and would prefer not to do this. If Blue Skies does not end the bank case against me I will tell everyone here what this feature is a lot of people would be upset, and I would hurt Autel, I would prefer not to do this. I hope they do an update to fix this soon.

[@eqbviewllc7111]

Very helpful overview ! That Smart Controller indeed looks beneficial to someone using the Evo2 line ~

[@influentialdrones]

Outstanding job Garret!

[@heavyglassglass]

5:05 He said you've exceeded your allotted handling time, put that shit down 😂

[@dronevideotravel7518]

À very interesting share 👏🏻👏🏻

[@kon8865]

This weekend I flew the Evo 2 Pro Ent V3 in some stronger winds, with longer arms and larger motors you would hope it would perform better then an Evo 2 Pro V1. It did not, it would slow down and drop altitude and even gave me tilt warnings instead of wind warnings. They have not even programmed the FC good for the wind, this is terrible. They need to do a serious update for the FC. I've flown my Evo 2 Pro V1s in powerful winds that wanna knock you over, nothing can take that thing out of the sky, the winds yesterday were not even close to that strong and the Evo 2 Pro Ent V3 sucked badly. It took them till June 6th 2022 before they had the final FW update that gave us dual stability on the Evo 2 Pro V1 also, thats 2 years after the drone was released. So thats how long we might be waiting before they fix things with this one. I'm starting a drone company and I can't even do serious filming with this drone because the dual stability is what got the Evo 2 Pro V1 real close to the Mavic, as far as smooth flying for filming goes. So at this time if I was doing serious filming, I would still actually be using my Evo 2 Pro V1 drone. Autel is focused on making money pushing the Evo Max 4T now and other products and is taking their time with this drone poeple spent 5K of their hard earned money on. And lastly, can we please stop beating around the bush with these useless accessories and make a drop arm like we know that that's what everyone wants. Can someone who knows electronics please rewire one of those useless accessories they give us and make a drop arm. I would be willing to pay handsomly for one.

[@SonsoftheRevolution1776]

You seem like a bot

[@ivaneberle3972]

Two large kvetches about the Enterprise and Smart Controller v2: First, no LIve Deck compatibility with nothing on the Autel road map that is a direct replacement. The v2 chipset will not (cannot) bind to two devices at once. This means any solution for streaming or a command post has to utilize the HDMI output of the Smart Controller. Wireless HDMI solutions introduce the potential for RFI, and additional signal processing or uploading to the cloud instead of communicating directly with the aircraft will doubtless add lag. Second kvetch is that the ergonomics of the Standard Controller are actually pretty good once you get over the style issues. Changing camera settings occurs via the right wheel, which on the Standard Controller at least, is the primary menu navigation tool. If you've been using an Evo or Evo II any length of time, Autel breaks the continuity of the familiar (muscle memory) ergonomics by dumbing down the right wheel on the Smart Controller to function only as a zoom factor control for the camera. It'd be one thing if they offered customization to provide that feature, and leave the navigation function intact for those who rather prefer it, but that doesn't appear to be so. While I do appreciate the usefulness of the zoom function for LEO's, loss of the navigation means that that one hand has to come off the sticks to stab at the touchscreen to change camera settings. That is no improvement at all, it's a big step backwards

[@eqbviewllc7111]

I'm PRETTY SURE there is indeed something LIVE DECK like coming soon . . .

[@BlairAir]

All good points that people who don't follow Autel aren't aware of. There's not much hope for a new live deck anytime soon, as all their resources are tied up in the 2 consumer drones at present.

[@BlairAir]

One issue where they can't just change the function of the right wheel is it does not have a switch to select with though they could possibly reassign C1 or C2. No back button either. A serious issue is the 3 second delay on the pause button. RTH SHOULD have a delay to prevent accidentally initiating RTH. But 3 seconds is an eternity when your drone is in autonomous flight and is about to have a collision 💥 During landings... anytime you need to emergency stop/ brake the drone. As usual Autel is moving slowly on development. Just the fact that Android version of Autel Explorer has multiple feature lag vs IOS should be reason to get Android up to date to help the SC sell better.

[@edycafe]

Thanks for sharing the video. Did you guys do the test ? If so, please share the video link. I’ll appreciate. Thanks

[@dimitri_on2wheels249]

A question about the zoom: are the zoom photos saved as zoomed-in photos or is it like the DJI Mavic 2 Enterprise Advanced where the zoom photo is saved as a normal wide-angle photo?

[@BlairAir]

No longer fabricating the billet payload hook that fits in the Foxfury Lighting? Have a spare you will part with? Or a source for one? I have a V2 E2P and V2 SC, almost exchanged for Enterprise but would have cost me $600 to exchange the V2.

[@RobbyRadford]

Any results from your testing?