[RhodesianHunter]

I don't know how DJI works, but presumably it ships the video out to a service that you then log in to to view?

If so, it's on their servers and there's no "networking" you can do to know whether they forwarded it on from there.

[semanticist]

"I don't know" - so why leave a comment?

Because you can doesn't mean you have to, especially when you don't actually have any knowledge on the topic at hand. (And, as people have pointed out, this is both a weird and incorrect assumption, adding nothing to the discussion other than confusion.)

[RhodesianHunter]

Except that they do offer exactly that. No need to be so condescending.

https://www.dji.com/lightcut

[semanticist]

There's certainly no requirement to use that (it's literally a separate app from the DJIFly app you use the control the drone), and I do know as I fly a DJI mini drone.

What's worse is that I don't think it actually works how you've assumed. The drone has no internet connection itself, the software is instead pulling the files down over wifi, which is something the standard software supports if the drone is close enough. This is the "no need to export from your DJI device" - LightCut can presumably access the drone files directly. None of this requires uploading the videos to anywhere, and doing that wouldn't even make sense - these are large video files, people would notice their data plans being ravaged by multi-gig uploads every time they flew their drone.

As far as being condescending, I think that's less of a negative trait than offering unbacked "I don't know, but" comments which add no value to the discussion.

I did consider the value of my own comment at the time, but I think there is a big problem in tech discussion with people with no actual experience or relevant knowledge feeling that their off-the-cuff suppositions are as welcome and useful as meaningful input from people with direct experience, and highlighting this behaviour as negative and unwelcome is worth risking the inevitable backlash in response.

[RhodesianHunter]

>What's worse is that I don't think it actually works how you've assumed.

Holy irony man

[semanticist]

Yes, based on my experience with the device I can extrapolate how that software could work. What experience did you base your assertions on? Nothing at all? Right.

[RhodesianHunter]

15 years of working on SaaS products and a "how I would build it" guess. So basically exactly what you're doing.

[9witz]

The DJI Mini Pro 3 works without Wifi and using the expensive controller, without a phone app, so the opportunities to upload captured data to China are very limited.

[RhodesianHunter]

Unless you use their recommended software. https://www.dji.com/lightcut

[pmx]

What a strange assumption to make. No it doesn't work like this at all. The video is saved to the SD card in the aircraft, which you then remove and insert it into your computer to download the files.

[RhodesianHunter]

And potentially use their recommended software to work with from there: https://www.dji.com/lightcut

So not that many jumps from what I described.

[MichaelApproved]

If that’s true then you’re right but I don’t know if that’s true.