Hi Team,
I am an absolute newbie re drones. I bought one to take with us when we travel in our motorhome.
I have completed the basic set up and had a small trial flight around our land.
It says you vmcan use the drone without wifi but I do not know how deapite spending a few hrs trying to google it!
Can anyone help please?
The model drone is:
Karuisrc K610
TIA
David.
The drone needs a connection to the controller and this one uses a 5ghz wifi connection
If the connection is lost then it should return to the home position (RTH)
I am not familiar with this model of drone but from experience, these lower-cost drones don’t perform very well
Hi David @Rutty and welcome to GADC 
Hi,
Thank you.
I have read you can connect drones to smartphones amd control units without using wifi, this is what i am trying to sort out.
When i was in Eygpt lasy year i had no wifi nor 4g or 5g connections to my phone but according to research it doesnt need this.
Any help?
The drone creates its own wifi network
Once it’s powered on search for a wifi connection on your phone
Connect to this then open the app and you should have a connection and a live camera feed
Cheers again.
What happens if you cannot get a wifi connection?
If i go into my field, I lose my wifi connection from my home and go onto 5g or 4g only.
According to what I have read, the drone can be operated with wifi?
This is my confusion and frustration!
Hi @Rutty , it looks as though you’re quite new here 
Why not nip over to the Introductions page, and say hello properly and tell us a bit about yourself. 
You may be misunderstanding.
Did you do this part that @SparkyFPV suggested?
Yes i can do that and i connect, see the love camera etc.
I have read that you dont need a wifi, fir example if you in the middle of the ocena or desert and you can still operate the drone, this is what I am unclear on. Sorry to seem ‘thick’
This 
You are connecting Via the drone’s own WiFi
You are not using any other just the drones own, so you could be in Timbuktu it wouldn’t matter
Ah I see. If your smartphone drops its wifi as you move from range, will that cause an issue such as lost connection?
At the moment if I am.close to home I pick up my home wifi. In the field i dont get a wifi signal, that’s my concern!
Turn off your home wifi and go and fly your drone, I cant spell it out any more than its not using your home Wifi its using the Drones
I get it now I think…
Thank you for being so helpful, it’s truly appreciated!!
You fly the drone by an app on your phone (unless it has an RC controller with joysticks, I’m not familiar with the particular model), which uses as wifi connection. But it’s not the phone wifi (though you need that too download the app), it is wifi generated aboard the drone as a moveable local network that connects to the drone for controle purposes.
Confusing and unintuitive if (like me) you’re not especially techy, and you are used to wifi coming from a source at home or in a cafe &c, and covering all your online needs. This is from the drone and is different, but uses the same technology.
You can control your drone from it’s remote controller with the buttons and joysticks, or, if there’s a camera, via the app on a smartphone with touchscreen buttons and joysticks. Probably best to not worry too much about it at first, just fly the drone and get used to what you can do with it. Use an open space away from people so that there is room for mistakes, and don’t go far!
Does your drone have GPS? This will enable RTH if you need it (automatic return to home). There will be a place on the phone display showing the number of satellites ‘visible’ and locked in. If you don’t have this, extra care will be needed as if the signal between the drone and the controller is lost, there is a risk of a ‘flyaway’; recovery from these is rare and the drone will have crashed; it simply carries on on it’s last heading until it hits something or the battery runs out. I lost my first drone this way and it stopped responding to the controller only 80m away in clear space. The video connection is good for miles, but not the control connection.
Thank you again for the clarity, it has been so helpful.
Yes the drone has a RTH feature, I struggled to get my head around the satellites connection but it seemd to lock on.
When I hit the RTH button the drone shot up to about 20m +, hovering and moving, scared the sh1t out of me!
It thwn slowly dropped and landed roughly where it set off from.
Hi David @Rutty - welcome to GADC
RTH usually needs the drone to be stood-off 20m or so from the home point to work, and has a pre-set height the the drone will go to when it is triggered. This is so as to be able to clear any obstacles it might encounter in it’s straight-line path home, and you will be able to re-set this height in the settings part of the app.
Look around the flying site, guess what the tallest obstacle is (tree, post, cables, building), add 10m/15’, and set that as the RTH height. Or set it to 100m/330’ and forget it, and go into a panic when you press RTH and the srone shoots off into the stratosphere before coming home…
Morning,
Thank you again for the knowledge. Its all new to me so very comforting to hear and to know.
