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Skycontroller Firmware Update

fly55

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Good Morning, I recently got an used Parrot Bebop drone together with the Skycontroller (see fotos attached).
My first question: I cannot find any further specification - is that a Bebop 1, 2 ... - same with Skycontroller - can anyone advice?

Now to the problem: I did a firmware update at the Drone - "press the on button for 10 seconds ....." which seemed to work - can fly the drone with my IPad. However there is a problem by connecting the skycontroller with the drone - there are all lights in white, also the wifi - however the battery indication of the drone remains red, although the drone battery is fully charged and can be flown by the IPad (see fotos). Now I have selected the
Skycontroller Wifi on my IPad and opened the FreeflightPro App. It showed, that the controller is not connected, but on the second App-foto you can see the S/N, Software Version and battery charge !?
I assume that it has to do with the fact, that I updated the Drone-SW but not the Controller-SW. I tried to do that but failed.

And this is my further request for help: I did as shown in different YouTubes: load down the Skycontroller Firmware Update from the Parrot Website which was nap_update_4 (1).plf, copy it to an empty USB stick, plug it into the Controller and switch it on: Before that I connected it to a screen by an HDMI cable to see what happens ... - on the screen I could see the tutorial but no update sequence - tried it several times without any success!

Can anyone tell me what I did wrong??

Many thanks for your ideas!

Drohne Typenschild.jpg Skycontroller LEDs.jpg FreeFlightPro App 1.jpg FreeFlightPro App 2.jpg Skycontroller LEDs.jpg FreeFlightPro App 1.jpg the the
 

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I don't have the sky controller 1 but you just need to push the red button on FF pro to calibrate it.

USB has to be formatted to fat 32 and only have nap_update_4.plf exactly as I have written on it without the parenthesis. And only that file on the stick. Other users reported the stick has to be under 2GB capacity but unsure on that.

check this out How To Parrot Sky Controller Firmware Update (Step-By-Step) | TheDronestop



And I would change SSID and get WPA2 going on it.
 
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Thanks for your inputs - had however no success. Recently I tried to download the update file on a new USB stick with more GB - this time I formatted (slow formatting) a 2 GB USB stick to fat32 and tried again - no update sequence seen on the connected screen - actually I am nearly to step on it !!:LOL:😵‍💫
 

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