I have a perfectly good spare Inspire 1 without a camera. I also have 2x working Osmo X3’s
Ok so i know the Osmo X3 (all black) doesn’t work on the Inspire 1 or more accurately the gimbal doesn’t work.
The camera actually works but the image in DjiGo is upside down.
The Inspire X3 (white and black) works fine on the Osmo handle because DJI decided to make it work.
Aside from some minor differences the two cameras are pretty much identical so I’m sure the Osmo X3 could work on the Inspire 1 with the right firmware but DJI won’t allow it probably for marketing and sales reasons.
I’m wondering if I did a force update on the Inspire 1 with the Osmo X3 attached would it flash the X3 with Inspire X3 firmware or would the X3 just reject it’s part of the update.
Has anybody else thought about this or even tried it?
After the firmware update has run you’ll find a txt file on the SD detailing the results of the update so you’ll be able to see if it took.
Don’t forget to force the update, if it sees the same firmware version on the card it’ll not attempt to install it. Apologies if you know all that already.
Yeah press and hold the pairing button while switching on.
There probably is only one way to find out, just thought I would ask first on the off chance somebody else already tried it.
Cheers
Well, it didn’t work and nearly broke my Inspire LoL
Even with the force method it kept failing the update. I ended up renaming it a service name and tried the force update again and this time it seemed to start updating.
Then it suddenly stopped with no indication or recognisable beeps.
I left it a good while just in case then powered off and on again and got a continuous on off beep instead of the dji tone
It connected to the controller and ipad but reported main controller no comms to centre board
I thought I had broken it!
Tried another force update with the standard bin file and Inspire x3 and it failed. all the time its still doing this beep beep beep.
Tried again and just left it. After about 15 mins the beeps changed tone and stopped.
Turned on and off and it powered up normally
So I don’t think I’ll be trying that again!
Yes I have seen all of that but just wanted to try anyway.
I’m pretty sure DJI block this for sales/marketing reasons rather than anything fundamentally different with the cameras.
If they were able to release a firmware which allowed the Inspire X3 to work on the Osmo handle I’m sure they could have done the same with an Osmo X3 on the Inspire.
If you do find a firmware fix then please let me know. I can live with an u[side down image as I have an FPV camera on the Inspire nose. Does the gimbal not work at all or does it stabilise the camera but not respond to control commands?
