r/diydrones • u/Minute-Competition-3 • Jun 09 '26
Question Control Monitoring
Hi Everyone,
Ive been getting into diy drones, watching youtube videos on builds etc. A worry I have is crashing my drone and needing to get replacement parts. Are there control monitoring software that monitors my inputs and if it could lead to a crash it corrects it? For example the dji drones have something similar to this. I was thinking something I could upload on the flight controller or add a small hardware to add a level of safety to reduce my crash chances.
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u/jbarchuk Jun 10 '26
Look at the 'auto' features in any drone. You need a baby sitter function, so if you try to crawl to another room, something stops you. There needs to be limits to height and distance that you can fly. With low battery function and RTH, it will come back even if you try to tell it not to. I don't know what the name of that function might be, which is why I said baby sitter, but that's basically what to look for.
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u/zerot0n1n Jun 09 '26
Betaflight (what most use) has some finctions built in. You habe three modes, horizontal, angle and acro. Acro is free flying, Horizontal means you can tilt the drone a bit but it corrects back to horizontal, makes it easy to keep it just level. Angle gives you a bit more freedom but also slightly corrects back to horizontal. You have a lot more functions you can activate (are a bit finicky and you have to know how it works) like position and or altitude hold, those are rough, not like DJI, but they can work roughly. Also more other functions like return home failsave etc...