Flashing red lights

Questions & Answers
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Some help needed please. Ive been through the manual but found no answers. I was messing about in the garden tonight and noticed i had a red lights flashing slow in between the normal green flashing lights.

https://youtu.be/FDNYivlxPIw

This video shows what is happening. It is not the battery as it is full, the IMU and compass are calibrated, and I have 16 satellites. The only thing I can think of is the Ricoh arena is very close by and it pops up with a warning telling me i have to be careful. anyone seen this sequence before?

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Hi @Markb1604,

Interesting issue…

Looking at the video you posted, the red light isn’t flashing, it’s on solid, inbetween green flashes.

The solid red would indicate a critical error, according to the manual:

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Does it always do this? Or was this a one-off?

Any warnings in the app at the same time?

Got a flight log you’d be able to share with us? (or upload to airdata.com)

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But having now watched it and timed the red lights, I’d say yes, actually they are doing to sloooow red flashes…

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Not in that list, but isn’t “red light isn’t flashing, it’s on solid, in between green flashes” when it’s in an NFZ?
The green bits indicate GPS lock - the red bit indicates NFZ.
Just powering up my MP in “my” NFZ to check.
(Must have seen it hundreds of time and can’t remember. LOL!)

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Even more interesting, I can find quite a few people reporting this very same issue, but I’m unable to find any that have been definitively answered :face_with_monocle:

Dave, does the MP status light have the same colours/meanings as the Spark?

What do you call ‘very close’ Mark? Less than 20m to the yellow circle on the DJI Geozone map?

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I think they all do pretty much the same for all the common reasons - otherwise it would be as confusing as hell switching between models.

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Of course - hacked firmware - my MP doesn’t do anything in an NFZ. No wonder I couldn’t remember. :stuck_out_tongue:

Recharging P2 batteries - I’m still sure this is what I remember … :thinking:

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This is the flight record from my phone:

B664D9DF-D756-47DF-B716-8A25ACBB7D12.MP4 (1.4 MB)

well a screen recording

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Can’t seem to export the flight record. But it comes up with I am flying in a class D zone please fly with caution I am a mile from the Arena

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Not according to your video it wasn’t :slight_smile:

That shows your battery in the red at 24% - Mystery solved I hope :smiley:

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It was happening on a full battery as well, ill try exporting another file

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Ah right, in which case, mystery not solved :slight_smile:

You can grab the flight records like so:

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8F873F61-A17C-40C0-B433-2117D56A1B3B.MP4 (1.5 MB)

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Does it give the same sequence of flashes with beginner mode switched off?

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Yes

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Ok can you post up a flight record? @Pingspike’s post above has instructions.

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Just found this thread.

Seems someone else has the same issue though not with a spark

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I’ll have to do that tomorrow. Early start in the morning so off to bed in a bit

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Might have found the answer.

Have a read of this thread

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:wink: :wink: :wink:

Just recharged/powered-up my old P2 (in my NFZ) - and what you have is pretty much the same as what I get.
Albeit things have changed over the 5 years since I got it, it’s still basically flashing reds and greens.

P2 NFZ00000000.mp4 (9.4 MB)