Hover x1 Pro Max | Follow Mode with the new Beacon Low Light Test | EUC

[@KingKola_]

solid video, i was expecting the beacon to help it better. With the skydio, the drone doesn't need to see you. Nevertheless, i'm impressed with it tracking youn in such a low light. I'd love to see how it flies manually with the controller.

[@GitDatPC]

I'm still waiting on a shipping notice for my Pro Max 😔 I can't wait for the 4K/60 fps and 26 MPH speed boost 👍

[@ketowolf]

Good to see a new interesting EUC video topic with drones. I love the 360 cameras but I like the idea of using drones. This footage was pretty good! The only subjective issue I had was it would track almost “too good” when you carved, causing some motion sickness for me. I’m curious if drones have a tolerance setting to track but not sway when caving. Good job on this video, it was interesting!

[@DudeNStuff]

Yeah unfortunately with this drone, I believe the way the drone does obstacle avoidance from the front, it does some advanced tracking with the camera so it follows your actual path when following from behind. You could put it on side track or tracking from the front and it wouldn't follow your exact path if that makes sense.

[@DudeNStuff]

Maybe a setting I'm missing or something they could update in the firmware in the future though!

[@alphasportstv]

So the beacon is actually just an optical device (i.e. flashing light)? I somehow thought it was a RF signal that the drone homed in on...cool vid regardless! I'm hoping one of these new tracking drones will be able to follow me down MTB DH trails (in woodier trails) but the Neo was a huge fail, sent it back already. Hover looks more promising but no one's put out any vids with my conditions yet.

[@DudeNStuff]

@@alphasportstv my understanding after a lot of reading about it in the Facebook group, it sends a video feed back so you can monitor and also helps with tracking if it loses sight of you briefly and such

[@joselakay610]

I though the speed can only support for up to 26 miles per hour. With 30 in low light, that’s super amazing 👍

[@DudeNStuff]

@@joselakay610 yup, you're right. I confused it with "burst speed"

[@eBoard3R]

*Yewwh!* 🤙🏽⚡️🤟🏽⚡️👌🏽

[@ClassicCyclingCC]

Why would color of your clothe matter with beacon? I thought that in beacon tracking the drone uses the signal of the beacon to track you? If not then what is the point of the beacon and what is the difference with intelligence tracking?

[@DudeNStuff]

HoverLink doesn't override the visual tracking, it provides another point of data in addition to the visual tracking. In fact, in this situation, if the curve were to be cut differently (ie to copy your exact track) we wouldn't need the Beacon, it's more a matter of updating the visual tracking algorithm. Where you'll see the Beacon useful right now is if you are occluded for a period of time or if the X1 PRO/PROMAX loses you, you will get an alert.

[@TravelsByTrike]

The Hover tracks from behind really well. Will it track flying backward and facing you from the front as well? Thanks!

[@DudeNStuff]

@@TravelsByTrike it will but not as fast!

[@Reem_Geez]

Shouldn't it be tracking via the beacon regardless of your clothing? Hmmm...and if it's using both, I wonder what the true advantage of the beacon is? Can you do the same exact trial again but this time without the beacon to see if there are differences? I can't wait to get my Pro max so I can try a few things myself. Regardless, this is a great demo video, thanks.

[@DudeNStuff]

I believe it does needs both so it can do obstacle avoidance. If you think about it since it doesn't have obstacle avoidance in the front, it has to rely on the camera. I prefer it actually stay in place if it does lose me because if it relies ONLY on the beacon it may choose a shortest path to it and there may be things in between us at that point that it could run into if that makes sense. I can only image it getting better with firmware updates but these are just my observations. They may be incorrect and maybe HOVERAir will chime in haha.. I do plan on running the same test when I've got some time and without the beacon to see how it performs

[@Reem_Geez]

@@DudeNStuff That actually make sense. Unless somehow the beacon leaves an invisible digital trail path that is follows. Ha ha! High hopes but not very likely. Did you also get the joystick(s) as well? I ordered the Pro Max Ski Combo with a bicycle mount. It didn't even ship yet tho. Waiting til after this chinese holiday to pass or whatever.

[@DudeNStuff]

@@Reem_Geez yup, I also got the joysticks as well and I've toyed around with it for a little bit but the controls are like backwards... Like what I would expect moving forward would be it makes it move backwards. Maybe my brain is messed up and that's how it's supposed to be but it's weird to me. I did take a look at the three control schemes that it has pre-built in but it didn't help 🤣. Maybe something that we can fully customize later and I can correct this.

[@Reem_Geez]

@@DudeNStuff Damn, that's wild. I could have sworn that I watched one of the launch videos that stated that the controls can be adjusted like opposite of what the manufacturer set it as during shipping. I sure hope so. Were you able to get it to do a speed burst yet? I was kinda looking to see if it would do that in your vid once you got a lil further away from it but i didn't see that happen. I might have missed this, but did you have it set to far or standard or I think it's now called medium in follow mode?

[@DudeNStuff]

@@Reem_Geezso the one setting I know is true for each of these videos is that I set it for "flat". So pretty much level to me. As for the distance, it was either set to close or medium. Sorry I can't remember which ones I did for each clip. I do know I did not want to test far or high because it was dark and there were in some locations, branches and such.

[@rooketube]

I thought the max sustained speed of the X1 Pro is about 40kph/25mph. If you’re going 30mph that could be why you’re losing it.

[@DudeNStuff]

Yup, you're correct. I probably was thinking of the burst speed which is 37 mph.

[@North_Lights]

Why do you need beacon if it only works on light condition and dress color ? What's the purpose of beacon then?

[@DudeNStuff]

@@North_Lights it helps with tracking but doesn't solely rely on it. Also it has a screen so I can see what it sees and let's me know if I'm still connected.