Xiaomi Yi Is Surprisingly Good at Low Light Recording

This was my first time flying at night. It was pretty nerve-wracking. I was really impressed with how good the Xiaomi Yi did with the available light.

No FPV video because I left the DVR sitting on the trunk of my car. Big metal object = lots of multipath. The DVR footage is basically unusable.

Landing with 43 degrees uptilt was hard, since I had basically no visual reference to work off of. Even the light posts were useless because the light blew out the rest of the image and I couldn't see the pole to tell what the copter was doing. I used the "turn to kill velocity then lower throttle and hope for the best" method. I'd say about 8/10 landings, I stayed upright, but of course not on this one.

I forgot to turn the audio level down on the original upload, so I stuck some awesome YouTube music on top to make the overall volume something tolerable. Enjoy!

[Mcdonaldt]

Nice work! I didn't know about this at all. Is there a step by step walk through on how to do this?

[blackmennewstyle]

Pretty nice :)
Are you using the famous Wafle script for the Xiaomi YI?

[Mcdonaldt]

the only way I see E:\ is to go into SDHC (E:) and click on the drop down tab. But once I do that It won't let me drop the files in.

[VinceIrie]

Great how you went for the gap that one time! I kept watching for the 2nd one :p Nice Flying :D

[hamadmusabeh]

thx for the review
reminds me of the openpilot forum videos

[SEKILEFPV]

i think it is even better than gopro, what script do you use

[Mcdonaldt]

it's pulling up 2 SDHC (E:)
Both have a DCIM and MISC folder. DCIM is empty, MISC has OpenTX itm. This is where I'm stuck at. I tried putting the autoexec.ash and coring in the DCIM folder. This is pretty advanced stuff for me I need it broken down into layman's terms lol

[michaellee]

that is great news as i have 2 of them sitting around collecting dust.

[Mcdonaldt]

it's a brand new SanDisk extreme plus 32gb. I don't see any E:\

[Mcdonaldt]

I have firmware version 1.2.13
and then I downloaded the WaffleV8.1.zip file and that's as far as I can get. How do you get it onto the camera?

[gpwelter]

Becoming a real rogue flyer. Seems very derivative of matty. I will give it a shot too.

[RCSurf]

Nice Vid
where were you at, in the car lol?
also what pid controller ?

[Mcdonaldt]

top file or root folder as you call it I'm not understanding. is that the DCIM folder?

[Silvertinge]

Josh - do you use lens rectification on yi?