Zino Mini Pro - Activating the Drone and Updating Your Firmware

In this clip I show you the process for activating your new Hubsan Zino Mini Pro and updating its firmware. Both processes are easy and I walk you the steps required. I also discuss a few gothcha’s to avoid when updating your firmware. Please let me know if you have any questions and thanks again for watching!
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[@xenomorph42]

You’re just the best. You always explain to a level where all of us beginners can easily understand and you are so detailed, you’re the best teacher.

[@waddac2]

Brilliant Rik. Great info and video as always my friend. Keep up the great work 👍👍

[@MrSango123]

great vid rick keep em a comin

[@angidave1429]

Hiya Rick thanks for the GREAT vids, is the upgrade procedure for thr zino SE as for the zino PRO, regards dave c, UK.

[@ThaddeusRogowski]

Hi, Bought a Zino Pro Refined from AliExpress but they forgot to first enable it for the USA market. The setup says not able to use in this market. Ok, any way to blow out the software and update with USA based firmware? Any suggestion is appreciated.

[@bgbuffalo2447]

Hello Bill from Buffalo here. New to the drone world. Found your channel. I bought the Hubsan zino mine pro. I Crashed My 1st drone i have no cell. So I think I want to use iPad or some kind of tablet . Looking for Advice and which 1 to use . If you have any Thoughts on one to use. Something under $200 . Any advice would be greatly appreciated thanks again Bill

[@EddieNYC02]

I have questions , is it a good drone ? When connection to the computer 💻 for calibration obstacle avoidance is the computer going to be hack by Hubzon? Is it necessary to connect the drone to the computer 💻? Witch one is the best drone is it DJI mini 2 or zino mini pro? I want to buy a drone but the one that has obstacle avoidance because I don’t want to crash the drone on the first flight you know .

[@MrSango123]

hi rick should we up date every battery? ive had my mini pro for a couple of weeks now always been a fimi flyer and am a tad nervous any suggestions would be appreciated

[@MiguelSilvaX]

Can you check if my comments are awaiting approval or are being considered spam? My bigger comment stays here for about 16 seconds and then it's gone..

[@Dronevalley]

Miguel, thanks for the post but none of your comments were filtered or deleted. This one came through OK so feel free to ask any questions you may have and I'll try and answer them. Thanks, Rick

[@MiguelSilvaX]

@@Dronevalley Maybe it's too big or have some keywords considered spam? (it seems the #3 was getting kicked I don't know why, bit I rephrased it and now it seems to be ok) I'm going to try to break it into several comments: About firmware updates, hubsan has been doing 1 or 2 per week, but last week it has been standing on 1.3.3, I always like to know if there are new firmware available before flying (preferably in previous day independently if I'm still charging batteries or not), so here's some suggestions for hubsan to improve the procedure: 1 - There should be an easy way to check for firmware updates without the need to plug phone to controller and turn on the drone. 2 - The new firmware should download to phone even without the need to have the drone on and plugged to phone (it's just heating up and unnecessarily wasting battery)

[@MiguelSilvaX]

@@Dronevalley Right now I'm anxiously waiting for a firmware that brings HDR video - I think this will make a huge difference in perceived overall video quality. Also unlock the 48MP from sensor in order to be able to zoom and still get that zoom recorded on video captured on the drone. I'm still hopefull that in the future a time lapse of 48MP images could be directly converted to an 8K video file, after all a 200Mbps H.265 bit rate is more than enough for 8K video ;)

[@MiguelSilvaX]

@@Dronevalley Hubsan cloud has the drone information (including the version when drone was last seen), so it should be possible to check and download updates just using the app before plugging and turning on remote/drone equipment. Obviously it would be even better if we could optionally do the firmware update over the air from phone on remote controller without the need to plug a cable directly to drone, but that must have some safety mechanism, so I would be happy just to check and download firmwares before hand without the need to turn on everything.

[@MiguelSilvaX]

@@Dronevalley 3 - There should be an official hubsan support page where all firmwares are visible showing the date of availability and respective release notes.

[@traveler7249]

Great advice on the "dummy" email address. -- I have a special email address for financial accounts (valid banks etc.) This keeps my financial information saf(er).

[@traveler7249]

Once you "trust" a company (new to you), the Email address can be changed after a period of time.

[@JayHuemann]

More worried about giving out my phone number.

[@PISQUEFrancis]

DOES A DRONE REALLY need "personality? First, the cell phone is a fine way to know who's flying a drone, and where ... the email? I not sure, but enough people already have my email ... don't need more emails, or for someone to use my email for other purposes