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HUBSAN H507A X4 STAR PRO GPS R/C CAMERA DRONE

Hubsan H507A X4 Star Pro GPS R/C Camera Drone, $99.00 (www.gearbest.com...)
Manufactured by Hubsan (www.hubsan.com)
Last updated 03-18-19

This isn't a flashlight, household lamp, Christmas light set, or other thing that glows, but it *DOES* have a number of LEDs on its fuselage (this word is definitely *NOT* pronounced "fyoo SELL' uh jee" as Drake Parker from the TV program "Drake and Josh" would pronounce it; the word is pronounced "

, so what the hey

I love things that fly; that's why I took the bate and also why I added a seperate section titled "PRODUCTS DESIGNED TO FLY" on my website a number of years ago. I was also attracted to something that this drone has that many others don't...

1: It has GPS -- simply meaning that it can stably hover despite any mild wind and knows where 'Home' is.
2: It has a gyro -- that means it's easy to fly even for a "craptastic" pilot like me.
3: It has all of those wonderful LEDs

This is a small, lightweight (160g), easy-to-fly 4-channel, brushed motor remote-controlled outdoor drone that has advanced features like GPS tracking, follow-me mode, orbit mode, waypoints, etc. Its remote uses Bluetooth to connect to the cellular telephone handset app which in turn uses RF (radio frequency) radiation at 2.4GHz to communicate to and from the drone.

It sports a 720p camera; both still photos and aerial video can be taken with it!
You will however, need to procure your own MicroSD memory chip. According to the manufacturer, this MicroSD chip need to be a Class 10. If you use a memory chip that is rated lower than Class 10, you'll probably see skipped frames, "jitters", unwanted intermittent video artifacts, and similar horse puckey.

Size of product w/hand to show scale

SIZE

This toy is a bit more complicated to get it to take off than your average toy-grade drone...here's how to get it off the ground:

As with any rechargeable product, charge it first (see directly below), install the flight battery, and then you can pretend to fly a dragonfly (well, that's what the kitty cats would think it was if it were designed to be flown in a small living room).

1: Press & hold the "POWER" button on the drone's underside for 3 to 5 seconds (until the lights near the ends of the pylons come on) and then release the button. Place the drone on the ground.

2: On the remote control, lift up the cell phone holder, press & hold the small circular button just to the left of center of the remote for 3 to 5 seconds. The remote will emit a BEEP tone when it is powered up. Release this button.

3: On your cellular telephone handset, go to WiFi settings and click on the Hubsan listing. The password (which you should only need enter once) is: 12345678

4: When that indicates "Connected", open the X-Hubsan app. Select the H507A from the list of drones that comes up. Then, select "Camera" from the lower left.

5: You will be asked to perform a geomagnetic calibration of the drone. Rotate it clockwise as indicated on the phone's display. When indicated, hold the drone vertically with its camera directed downward, and spin it clockwise again until the app tells you that you're finished. Place the drone on the ground so that the tail-end (the end where the flight battery goes in) faces you.

6: Press the Auto Takeoff button on the app. The Hubsan H507A X4 Star Pro GPS R/C Camera Drone should now lift off the ground and come to a hover at approx. 1 meter (39 inches). Congratulations, you're now a pilot!!!

For additional instructions & tips on how to fly (including how to fly with your phone only or with the remote transmitter), please read the instructional material that comes with the product.

Press & hold the small circular button just to the left of center of the remote for 3 to 5 seconds and also press & hold the "POWER" button on the drone's underside for 3 to 5 seconds to neutralise them when you are finished.

The battery in the Hubsan H507A X4 Star Pro GPS R/C Camera Drone itself is rechargeable; however the batteries in the remote will need to be changed from time to time.

To do this, slide the battery door off, carry it to the top of the basement stairs, and kick it down those stairs into the basement crawling with thousands of hungry termites that have to piddle -- they'll think it's something yummy to eat and start chewing on it, but quickly find it unpalatable, so they all pass micturition on it...O WAIT!!! YOU'LL NEED THAT!!! So just set it aside instead.

Remove the four used AAA cells from the compartment, and dispose of or recycle them as you see fit.

Insert four new AAA cells into the compartment, orienting each cell so its flat-end (-) negative faces a spring for it in each chamber.

Finally, slide the battery door back on.
Aren't you glad you didn't kick that battery door down the stairs to all those hungry, hungry termites that really need to go poddy now?

To charge the battery in the Hubsan H507A X4 Star Pro GPS R/C Camera Drone, plug the larger end of the USB charge cable into any USB port on your Mac or pee-cee, and plug the battery into the bay for it at the other end of the cable. Be certain that the contacts on one end of the battery go in first. If the battery doesn't fit, spin it half a turn and try again. Once the battery slides into the battery bay, firmly push it intil it stops.

When the charge cycle is in progress, the red LED on the charger will be flashing at approx. 1Hz (one blink per second). When the charge cycle is complete, this LED should turn steady-on.

You may then safely unplug the battery from the charger, and unplug the wired USB dongle from your computer.

Fully charging the Hubsan H507A X4 Star Pro GPS R/C Camera Drone' battery should give you approx 8 to 10 minutes of flying time.

This RC drone is meant to be used as a toy in a dry area outdoors (or in a large open room indoors), not as a flashlight meant to be carried around all the time, thrashed, and abused; so I won't throw it against the wall, stomp on it, try to drown it in the {vulgar slang term for a fudge bunny}bowl or the cistern, run over it, swing it against the concrete floor of a patio, bash it open to check it for candiosity, fire it from the cannoñata (I guess I've been watching the TV program "Viva Piñata" too much again

- candiosity is usually checked with a scanner-type device on a platform with a large readout, with a handheld wand that Langston Lickatoad uses, or with a pack-of-cards-sized device that Fergy Fudgehog uses; and the cannoñata is only used to shoot piñatas to piñata parties away from picturesque Piñata Island), send it to the Daystrom Institute for additional analyses, or inflict upon it punishments that I might inflict upon a flashlight.

So this section of the drone's web page will be significantly more bare than this section of the web page on a page about a flashlight.

The range of the WiFi (when flying solely with your cell phone handset) is stated as 100 meters (~328 feet); when flying with the Tx (R/C hobby talk for "transmitter") the range appears to be the same; frequency is stated as 2.4GHz.

The unit has a 4-channel remote control; this allows for forward / backward / up / down / left / right movement (movement on all three axes -- X, Y, and Z). It also has a fully proportional control system; simply meaning that the motor speeds can be varied depending on how far you move the joysticks -- it isn't simply "full power and no power at all" like some other R/C products.

The camera has a video resolution of 1280 x 720 (720P video quality).

The drone emits a fairly faint but CLEARLY audible high-pitched whine when it is powered on.
This is completely normal, and does not in any way indicate a problem with the drone.

Photograph of its remote control with my own cellular telephone handset affixed to it.

ALL OF THE FLIGHT VIDEOS ARE ON THEIR OWN WEB PAGE
SO THAT THIS EVAL. WOULD NOT BECOME TOO CUMBERSOME!!!

TEST NOTES:
Test unit was purchased on the Gearbest website in late-October 2017 and was received on the afternoon of 12-09-17.

The battery charger went to pot well before the flight battery had charged for the first time; however these chargers are common and inexpensive (I paid $3.39 for mine) on Ebay so I'll be flying by 12-15-17.

The PRO in the drone's name indicates that the unit comes with a remote transmitter; if PRO isn't in the name, chances are you will receive a drone that is piloted via cellular telephone handset or tablet computer only.

(I just saw a video on YourTube showing the unboxing of a Hubsan H507A X4 STAR PRO that did not come with a remote control transmitter! The box that his came in was predominately black, while the box that mine (which came with a remote) arrived in was predominately white!)

The life of the flight battery is terribly short, at just three to five minutes. If I worked at Hubsan, I'd have equipped the H507A with a larger capacity flight battery; at least 800mAh instead of the 550mAh battery it comes with.

UPDATE: 01-03-18
The drone fails to power up; I've tried three different batteries.
Therefore, the dreadful, " Failed or was destroyed during/after testing

Failed or was destroyed during/after testing

" icon will have to be appended to its listings on this website.
Shame too; I really liked the little fella.

UPDATE: 01-30-18
The drone works OK now...better than OK actually!
The fault was a result of faulty chargers that ruined all of the flight batteries. Replacing the charger (again) and the flight battery (again) was just what the doctor ordered so to speak. I'm now enjoying flight times approaching ten (10) minutes!!!

UPDATE: 02-04-18
The little plastic drone has failed. On a flight attempt that I made on the morning of 02-03-18, the drone never got more than ~12" off the ground even when applying full throttle; it then refused all additional attempts to launch. The front starboard (right) prop would either not spin at all or would spin relatively slowly compared to the other three and all four motors would shut down within several seconds. The prop appears to feel & sound normal when hand-spun, there's no visible debris on or near the prop shaft, and yesterday's flight DID NOT terminate in a crash of any type; I don't know what the problem is. :-( Therefore, the dreadful, " Failed or was destroyed during/after testing

" icon will have to be appended to its listings on this website until the replacement arrives sometime near Valentine's Day 2018.

UPDATE: 02-09-18
The replacement arrived yesterday afternoon, so I can go ahead and remove that dreadful, " Failed or was destroyed during/after testing

" icon from its listings on this website posthaste. This little drone SUPREMELY R0X0RZ

UPDATE: 02-12-18
The little plastic drone has failed. After a shallow-water landing on 02-11-17, another flight attempt was made later that afternoon, All was going well until 1:07, when it simply (and inexplicably) fell out of the sky at a 45° angle. Subsequent takeoff attempts were unsuccessful because the port (left) rear motor ceased to spin. Best guess here is that the water-landing fried the motor or its ESC. Therefore, the dreadful, " Failed or was destroyed during/after testing

" icon will have to be appended to its listings on this website until the replacement arrives sometime near 02-16-18.

UPDATE: 02-14-18
I've been informed by another H507A pilot that the drone will immediately shut down if you flip it upside-down while the props are spinning. So if you're in a situation where your drone won't spin down, just carefully pick it up and flip it over. Viola! Instant spindown!

I've also figured out what may have killed the first two: flying back-to-back batteries is apparently very hard on brushed-motor drones' motors, and I've been doing exactly that. When I receive the replacement late this week (this will be my THIRD H507A!), I'll knock that {vulgar slang term for feces} off and just fly one battery -- giving a chance for the motors to cool before I fly some more with another battery.

UPDATE: 02-23-18
I flew my Hubsan H507A X4 STAR PRO a number of times on 02-20-18, and the very first flight of the day some total dillhole tried to HIJACK IT while it was in the air. There were four attempts to take over control of the drone, but since my phone was closer to the drone than his, I was able to save it each time. I brought it in for an early landing at five minutes just to be certain that I'd have it to fly again.

But on the morning of 02-21-18 (the very next day!), exactly two blocks south, I was once again hijacked; this time they forced it to crash-land in snow, which resulted in one of the motors burning out. So now I have three Hubsan H507A drones, each with a burned out motor. :-(
Therefore, the dreadful, " Failed or was destroyed during/after testing

" icon will have to be appended to its listings on this website until the replacement can be obtained.

Since I have MS and lack the fine motor control necessary for motor replacement, I'm gonna be SOL for awhile.

Hold the telephone there Sam!
I just learned that a fellow YouTuber will be giving me his H507A! So I won't be, "Droneless in Shelton" for too long after all!!!

UPDATE: 03-02-18
The replacement drone was shipped from the UK yesterday!!!

UPDATE: 03-06-18
The drone arrived yesterday at 3:11pm PST!
I extend my deepest thanks and appreciation to JD from JD Quad from the UK.
Hip hip cheerio mate!!!

UPDATE: 03-07-18
The remote control appears to have pooped out; however I can still fly the drone using my cellular telephone handset.
The following photograph is what I see when I attempt to bind it with the app:

This is the message that you receive when the remote control is turned off; yet it comes up when the remote is turned on and known-good batteries are installed in it.

Just for {vulgar slang term for defecating} and giggles, I attempted to run the X-Hubsan app on my LG tablet and met with the exact same results. This tells me that the remote control has indeed eaten it.

UPDATE: 03-09-18

This is JD from JD Quad from the UK -- the very nice person who sent me his H507A.
You sir, have officially, singlehandedly restored my faith in humanity -- no small task tell ya what!!!

UPDATE: 03-11-18
For reasons as-of-yet unknown, the Bluetooth remote control mysteriously started functioning again.

UPDATE: 03-14-18
On a flight that I made on 03-13-18, the drone inexplicably shut down while it was 42 meters (138 feet) up, plummeted to the surface, and as a result, damaged its electronics/avionics board. The drone powers up only partially, does not generate a WiFi signal, and some component very near to the Power switch gets muy caliente (very hot) within a minute. :-(
As a result, the always-dreadful, " Failed or was destroyed during/after testing

" icon will have to be used on it again.

This failure also burned out the memory chip, so I was not able to salvage any video of the ill-fated flight.

UPDATE: 03-14-18
Same-day update: THE DRONE HAS INEXPLICABLY BECOME FUNCTIONAL AGAIN!

UPDATE: 04-05-18
The replacement for the one that inexplicably crapped out arrived yesterday afternoon.

UPDATE: 04-16-18
The X-Hubsan flight app has failed on my cellular telephone hanset; however I can still fly it with my tablet.
I attempted uninstalling and reinstalling it several times -- still no joy.
Nothing whatsoever has gone awry with the drone hardware or firmware; it's strictly a software issue.

Therefore, the, "

" icon will be appended to its listings on this website, indicating that partial product failure has occurred but it can still be used in the manner in which it was intended.

UPDATE: 04-19-18
The following is what I see on my cellular telephone handset a few seconds after launching the X-Hubsan app; just before the app aborts.

UPDATE: 04-21-18
The X-Hubsan flight app has mysteriously begun to function on my cellular telephone handset again.

UPDATE: 04-30-18
It would appear that this drone has gone to pot. The port (left) front motor has apparently blown out.
As a result, the always-dreadful, " Failed or was destroyed during/after testing

" icon will have to be used on it again.

UPDATE: 02-11-19
A replacement is on the way; ETA is 02-20-19.

UPDATE: 02-17-19
The drone was accidentally dredged in fresh water on 02-14-19 and appeared to have failed. Winds suddenly increased to 27.2mph {43.79kph} and even when I attempted to land, it got blown into the water. It began to function again late on 02-15-19, but the camera appears to be fuxxored.

Therefore, that dreadful, "

" icon will have to be appended to its listings on this website at once, denoting that the product has partially become destroyed but its primary functionality remains intact. A replacement is on the way; ETA is 02-20-19.

UPDATE: 02-18-19
After placing the drone on top of a desk lamp with an incandescent light blub in it for just a couple of hours, the camera resumed proper operation!
This telb ls me what I expected after seeing the latest video: condensation in the camera housing needed to dissipate; heat from that light bulb was the key.

UPDATE: 03-18-19
The drone is faltering once again; it fails to get more than 4" (101.6mm) off the ground despite known-fully-charged flight batteries being used.

UPDATE: 03-18-19 (Same-day update)
The new set of props that I installed last night did bubkus; the next destination for this drone is unfortunately the dustbin (garbage can).
Therefore, the dreadful, " Failed or was destroyed during/after testing

" icon will be appended to its listings on this website immediately.

Hubsan

Mini-sized R/C GPS quadcopter (drone) w/inbuilt camera

LED

9 (1 red, 1 blue in remote, 1 red in charger, 3 red, 2 blue, and 1 green in drone itself)

N/A

Pushbutton on/off on remote and drone

Plastic

N/A

4x AAA cells for remote; 7.6V 550mAh Li:PO battery for drone

Unknown/unable to measure

Very light sprinkle-resistance only

EIN GROßER RIESIGER GEIST, DER EINEN RIESIGEN PLUMPS NIMMT UND DANN DEN KOPF UNROT NEIN VERLÄSST!!!

USB charging dongle w/ cable, flight battery, remote controller, 2x front rotor blades, 2x rear rotor blades, 4x blade guards, sm. bag of screws, small Phillips screwdriver

224.79mm sq. x 66.802mm T

130g (not incl. battery), 160g (incl. battery)

China

Six months

Hubsan H507A X4 Star Pro GPS R/C Camera Drone * www.gearbest.com...

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