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@@weekender38 on the right side of the map view, there’s a “layer” button and you can switch to the satellite image view.

In the top right of your screen by the “three bars” menu button is a button that looks like two chain links. That’s the “Link Zoom” button and will sync your zoom camera and thermal camera zoom levels.

Thank you for the information.

@@DigitalRaider1 Works directly with the M3T(and M3E, M3M). I think the newer version may need to be “activated” but I’ve never heard of any issues. There are other spotlight options too….CZI GL10 and Tundra has a new one coming out too.

About $8000 total, for the drone kit, extra(7 total) batteries, and the spotlight.

Good question, honestly, I’d probably have to revisit the DA first and see if the scores were all the same with additional experience under my belt. It’s still a much larger investment and way less portable/hideable in my transportation. And for me, most m30t users I know will use their m3t unless they absolutely need the m30t. So for me, I’d still likely start with the M3T.

@@STRThermal THANKS!!!

Glad you enjoyed it!

The M3T does not have the laser rangefinder like the M30T. I hardly miss it.

No, no wifi necessary. Works in the boonies, that was the intent as I’m always where there’s minimal/zero signal.

@@ernieschatz3783 Actually you can have GPS coordinates showing on the screen. I’m not looking at it right now but in the on screen camera menu you can turn on “timestamp” I think it is and select what shows up in the timestamp. You can also move it where you want it I think. This is helpful so your screen recordings or drone side recordings will always show this info. I can double check the instructions when I get home. You can also drop a pin and look at the pin coordinates. You can share those coordinates(a Google maps link actually) with the share icon….this was an added feature after making this video.

@@STRThermal Very nice! I remember watching a demo video several years ago where a search and rescue guy was demonstrating how to get the lat/long from a Mavic 2 Enterprise and it involved downloading the image file and getting GPS info from the file metadata. Horribly inefficient method when time is of the essence

That sounds terrible lol. So from any camera view, click the “slider” menu button, then the three dots, then turn “timestamp” on, once timestamp is on, you can select “customize timestamp”, from there you can select what you want(aircraft info, date, time, coordinates+altitude, custom text, and timestamp location on the screen).

That sounds terrible lol. So from any camera view, click the “slider” menu button at the right top of the camera view, then the three dots, then turn “timestamp” on, once timestamp is on, you can select “customize timestamp”, from there you can select what you want(aircraft info, date, time, coordinates+altitude, custom text, and timestamp location on the screen).

Another thing, if you review an old flight record, you can see the coordinates at any given point and also use the pin icon(lower left of the screen) to pin a location in the flight path(your flight path may show that you hovered and circle a certain spot for instance). The pins made in this view will be named for the flight record file name and the timestamp of the aircraft location.

You can use the "view pinpoint" covered in this video but that only points you towards the pin and leaves the flying to you. You can also set up a two-point waypoint mission in advance and each time you wanna fly back to a pin simply delete the points, set the new home/start point and select near(you can't select the actual pinpoint) the pinpoint you wanna fly back to and then activate the mission. It sounds like a lot but once you get use to it you can update the mission in 30 seconds and let the drone do the flying. I set the gimbal and yaw to manual so i can search around while the drone does the flying.

Yep, I didn’t find the native screencast app until I’d already tried the other…I had that listed in the description I think. And that is correct, you cannot screen record and cast at the same time…it’s a limit of the RC processing power per DJI.

@@STRThermal ua-cam.com/video/_Y_NuWju38w/v-deo.htmlsi=zn_K0lfKVBWEWgvU

Any reason I should not have this in same case as my drone ?

@@jpred1 I found it to be way too tight in the stock case, but you could absolutely have a larger case that will hold both. I plan to build a larger one that will hold everything.

Check this video and make sure you are using high gain setting. But you still have to fly in the right conditions. It’s not just a hot day alone, it’s more related to the sun beaming down and heating up object or reflecting off objects. And even after the sun goes down these objects will give off the same energy, stumps, logs, rocks, etc. So you need to try to fly on cloudy days, early mornings, late evenings for best performance.

DJI Mavic 3T Thermal Camera Settings for SAR(Search and Rescue) and Wildlife ua-cam.com/video/zVA8VKO8EMA/v-deo.html

@@STRThermal thanks. I’ll try those settings tomorrow afternoon. 👍

Let me know if you are still struggling.

@@watferfoot1467 It’s power limited, not gearing. But OD would have been nice. Personally if I still had it I’d want a Cummin 6BT/6-speed swap.

@@STRThermal Pesonally i have a Ram 2500 with 6BT/5 speed, and i'm looking for a M1009 to replace my shitbox XJ Cherokee

@@CitizenChaz I’m glad to hear that! Thanks for watching.

Go to the CVI indication on the top right corner of your screen. C is current/screen view in 1080p, V is visible in 4K, and I is infrared/thermal in 640P. Select which you want to capture(this affects video and photos stored on the drone but does not affect screen-recordings and screenshots stored on the controller). I usually have all 3 selected. You can always delete what you don't want later.

@@mucy2807 Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching and subscribing.

No Armor All and Silicone product make it greasy for a minute but don't fix oxidized plastics. I sold the truck.

Nope, doesn’t have to be dark at all. But you do want to avoid sunny days generally, since solar loading and reflection can be an issue.

Thank you!

You can change to allow atti in the settings….once the flight mode is changed to A/N/S, the F position on the slider will be atti mode.

any update?

I don't personally have a regular RC Pro and I know there are some differences but you can still install 3rd party apps.

The sd card on the drone? There is a selection on the screen labelled “CVI” where you select what will be recorded. C is current(the image on the screen, a mix of thermal and visible), V is visible in 4k, and the I is infrared in 640P. The sd card in the controller cannot be set as the default storage for screen record or screen shot, those will always go to the RC Pro internal storage and the sd card on the controller is only meant to be for moving/copying excess files to make room or offload.

@@STRThermal thanks for kind reply.i dont need screen recording..i just want that my vids/pics always save un SD CARD.i was change 2 cards but i saw a message NO MEMORY CARD..i m really worried

@@STRThermal i put my card in RC2..

You saw "No Memory Card" with the card installed in the drone?

@@STRThermal yes..its say NO MEMORY CARD

As you increase route altitude, your field of view increases and reduces the time. For 700 acres, as you stated, at 150 ft AGL its about 8 hrs ish. It would take 3.5 hrs using the thermal field of view at 325ft AGL and standard overlap(in the advanced settings). You could reduce the overlap and save well over an hour. Are you hoping to count the thermal signatures after the fact from the collected images or live?

@@STRThermal yes, I am wanting to film in thermal mode as well and count after the fact. I cannot figure out how to make it stop taking still photos and switch it to thermal video. Thanks again! I've been on the phone with DJI multiple times and they are not much help.

@@ffshawn1 There is no option for turning off the photo collection. But I spec’d out in detail such a method to DJI, cross your fingers. Auto generated grid but more camera control flexibility like waypoints mode. It would be tedious but you could use waypoints instead and have the flexibility to record video instead.

@@STRThermal Waypoints would be fine too. Do you have a video on setting waypoints and then the aircraft can fly those waypoints in a certain order? Thanks

I don't have a video myself and most of the ones on UA-cam will be for the standard consumer Mavic 3, not the enterprise. But if you've done the regular "Area Route"/Mapping mission, the waypoints is pretty straight forward. You can choose start record, stop record at certain waypoints, you can use manual yaw and gimbal angle or set the yaw to "follow route" and the gimbal to a set angle(90 degrees). The latest manual also now covers these methods in details. dl.djicdn.com/downloads/DJI_Mavic_3_Enterprise/20240411/DJI_Mavic_3E_3T_User_Manual_EN.pdf

You’re correct, it would not work well on a bright sunny day. But so does thermal in general. Definitely best under the shade of the tailgate of my SUV or a sunshade/canopy. Night or a cloudy day I’ve had no issues and it’s plenty bright. The key is its simplicity, cost($300 involved), and efficiency(7-10 hrs on this little powerbank). Of course there are much brighter and higher quality setups but they will cost more and be more power hungry.

It’s about a 150 acre timber tract. I found 26(22 on cam) does and 4 bucks(per the description).

@STRThermal Wow that's a high density population, 1 deer for every 5 acres. Have you thought of filming them on a live hunt? I always wonder how they react to search lights, sound and lights of approaching vehicles, footsteps etc.

@@impactodelsurenterprise2440 Obviously, supporting the hunt would be highly illegal. And my viewpoint is that even just filming someone else's hunt as an onlooker could be misconstrued(by anti-hunters or the law) as contributing.

I assume you mean like the older Mavic 2 Enterprise(the Dual did this, I am not sure about the Advanced). The Mavic 3 does not do the overlay. But you can use side by side(the SBS button in the top right of your screen) which shows the thermal on one side of the screen and the zoom on the other. I'm not looking at my controls, but you may have to select link zoom(looks like two rings linked together in the top right when in the thermal view) before you get the SBS selection. I personally don't use the side by side as I don't like the waste of screen space, but I think it can be helpful for new thermal pilots to gain spatial awareness when in the thermal view. Hope that helps and answered your question.

Notice the zoom indicator in the top middle of the screen says 2x. The slide indicator is for the main zoom camera. The IR is upsized from the base image to the match the 1080p(on the controller screen) image of the visible camera. If you download IR images to the controller, you can see how small they are on the controller image viewer, for comparison.

@@STRThermal Okay, Thanks for the info and fast reply

Be cool if we had something we could mount to the PSDK port and scan the area for the tag(not sure if an airtag has that range) to supplement the thermal. Could be real helpful when the canopy is super thick with is almost all of spring/summer until the leaves drop in the thicker wooded area.

​@@STRThermal My Airtags can be picked up from about 50 feet in my house. They advertised a range of 30ft. You could fly really low and slow with an iPhone dangling from the bottom of the drone and pick one up. You'd want to be as close to the top of the treeline with the iPhone though. I put Airtags on all my dogs. The battery lasts a year and its just a 2023 watch battery. It will at least give me some idea of where they are if they get lost in my neighborhood. It has a setting that notifies anyone around that the item is lost and gives them a phone number to call. Its $25 well spent in my book.

I think every dog should have one, but at a 30-50ft range, most wooded areas are gonna be out of range even if you're flying dangerously low. But in the odd chance a lost animal ends up outside someone's house, the airtag could provide the breadcrumbs needed to direct a more focused aerial thermal search. I'm sure the tech will continue to progress.

Finding a deer carcass that would have otherwise been lost to the coyotes is a disgrace? If we called in a dog to find it, is that also a disgrace? haha.

Haha :-D it’s a dealership. And yes a PIP like the newest firmware vision sensor views would help but I'd prefer that be an addtional(to what I show here in the center of the view) option, not the only option.

Yep, the tech and price has come a long way in recent years.

Works great, occasionally longer connection time(10-15 seconds) but otherwise great for the cost. The case can run 7+ hrs on the current 50k mah power bank. I’ve been happy with it and it’s super lightweight.

@@STRThermal awesome, Ive actually never screen casted is that built in or 3rd party app

@@photographywithbrallan1247 I added an app, but later found there is a native screencasting app. I’m not sure I covered that in any of my videos or not.

@@STRThermal would you happen to know the name?

@@photographywithbrallan1247 Oh looks like I deleted it and am using the native app. On your RC Pro settings menu, go to “Connected Devices”, then “Connection Preferences” and you should see a “cast” option. Once you have connected to something you’ll see the cast icon in your main menu.

Mine would be covering the port with short cable attached, then use a second cable to allow it to pull out of the first if tripped on. I’ve plugged up my Innoview to hdmi and I wasn’t impressed but I need to find the right cable combo too.

@@STRThermal ok well maybe with a left angle adapter, run the cable over to the other side beside the screw hole, screw it down / attach it and that would put some slack before the adapter creating a Strain Relief and not cover the ports.

My issue was I want to protect any force on the port(including resting it on anything....the hood of the car, my stomach, etc)...not just force of the cable weight/tension itself.

@@STRThermal gotcha. yeah thats part of why i drug my feet for so long and not gotten a M3T. I can foresee just the screen size alone i wouldnt like it. I run a 11 inch Galaxy Tab S7 with my M3. But im old and cant see crap! lol The M30T has come way down in price but still almost 2X the $. Kinda seems like just the RC Plus alone might be worth it. Now we got this possible DJI ban so i still fly my M3. lol

@@STRThermal what about a 3D printed cover that screws into each of the two holes? That way you could rest it against you and keep the force off the connectors. Leave a hole for the usb C for charging. Someone needs to make them and sell them.

Well the photos are on the drone and normally have to be downloaded from the drone to the controller. I am not sure on getting them into Flight Hub or if DJI has setup a more seamless direct upload(drone->controller->Flight Hub). I would almost think it would be faster to offload to the PC(USB-C or Card Reader) and then upload to Flight Hub.

I'd rather use the wireless method than cables anyway. The only reason I might go away from this wireless(casting) method(still researching alternatives) is because of the screen record/screen cast conflict I mention in this or another video...you can't do both at the same time. I need to screen record for youtube which prevents me from also casting for my customers viewing pleasure(or a larger screen for me).

Yeah i saw on ebay some chinese sellers have the RC Plus for numerous consumer drones plus the M3E series. Most of them dont have very good feedback. They are listed as "used". Price is from about $600 to $1000. Also a guy has a YT video about it. Looks like russian to me. Cant read or understand the guy or info. Where is the person with it for $1650?

If I'm not mistaken it looks like they are installing DJI FLY on them. So you loose all the Pilot 2 features too.

That’s exactly why I’m using the wireless method…I’ve had friends with damaged hdmi ports.

I never saw your hdmi "solution" by the way. Maybe I missed that comment or you forgot to put it. I'm a mechanical engineer and have considered a number of ideas myself.

You can use One Drive, Google Drive, or other file sharing app installed on the controller and phone. Is video shows One Drive. DJI RC Pro and RC Plus - Transfer or Sharing Files Wireless Method ua-cam.com/video/OMWCyDcIYfs/v-deo.html

You're welcome. Welcome to the M3T family.

Wounded Buck Recovery - DJI Mavic 3T Thermal ua-cam.com/video/tLj70XIZMbg/v-deo.html

High Hit Buck Found! - Saint Clair County Alabama - DJI Mavic 3T Thermal ua-cam.com/video/tMekG3ONU6Y/v-deo.html

Buck Recovery in High Wind - Cleburne County Alabama - DJI Mavic 3T Thermal ua-cam.com/video/8bWjxXP6BRU/v-deo.html

DJI Mavic 3T Thermal - Searching for Deer in Dense Woods ua-cam.com/video/9fEo5AjZqc4/v-deo.html

Much appreciated

You cannot autonomously fly to a pin(without making a route to its position), you can use "View pinpoint" to face the pin and set your heading. Pins always stay and will be there the next time you power up(there was a firmware that broke this. I reported the issue to DJI and they fixed it on the subsequent firmware(Aug/Sept 2023)). Pins are just a way to mark and find your way back to a point of interest(deer, lost dog, lost human, etc).

Depends on your state hunting and drone laws. In my state, Alabama, there are no drone specific laws. It is legal to scout from a motor vehicle. Also, per the law, as soon as you park the vehicle and shut the engine off, you technically could shoot a deer from that vehicle(from private land for instance, laws related to distance from public roads apply). So likewise the drone can be used to scout and the hunt can happen, technically, immediately upon landing. Private and public land enforcement can be quite different. Personally, I have not used it for my own scouting and get a lot of enjoyment out of helping other people, deer recovery, scouting/survey.

In NC, its illegal to use drones in any part of the hunt. You can use a thermal scope, but you can't use any motorized vehicle during any part of the hunt, even recovery. I don't see an ethical problem with using drones for recovery a deer after I shoot it, so I do that when I'm in an area where there isn't a lot of traffic.

Yep, I think the number of states that allow drones for scouting is very few. Alabama enforcement agencies have previous likened drone scouting to scouting from an ATV or truck or boat. Of course, that was before inexpensive thermal drones.

@@STRThermal Yeah, these drones only have 640x resolution. The military had 1080x resolution thermal 30 years. As the technology gets cheaper, it’s going to be trivial for guys to scout all the best deer and target them. NC even outlawed fishing using a drone. I used to sit on the beach and cast my line out 300ft using my drone.

Never mind, found it, I was viewing in photo mode rather than in video mode.

Yes sir, it does happen. I would say most of my searches start in the daylight and I’ve already got satellites acquired before I change batteries and add the spotlight. But on occasion, not always, when starting off with the light it does take a while. I have done deer recoveries with other pilots and sometimes it was me taking a few minutes to get a home point and sometimes it was him. So I would say, it’s normal mostly. Be patient. You could try another test, start up without the light, gets 15 satellites or so, shutdown and add the light, power back up and confirm if the sats are retained(they usually are after a quick battery change). That is potentially a faster work around.

@@STRThermal That's reassuring that it doesn't appear to be a glitch just with my unit. I will give the test you mention a try later today and see what happens.....thanks.

I tried that work-around and I dd get a faster home point, not as fast as without the light, but it was better. Then came back for a battery switch and it took a bit longer but not really annoyingly long. So I hope that's in line with your experience as well. @@STRThermal

Are you turning the controller off between battery changes? If so, don't. My experience is that once I've already had lots of satellites(without the light mounted) and I battery swap and add the light, I can be in the air very quick and still have some 20+ satellites.

@@STRThermal I believe I have at times and other times I have not turned off the controller.......I will keep that in mind, thank you.