Hello world,

Karma was recalled. there’s a pending report on Karma’s future due to February. That said, we can still see how to prepare in order to have the best experience possible when the flying machine is on our hands.

Karma is back, on February 1 GoPro launched the karma again, this time with a fixed battery issue.

Karma goes from A to B (dronie move)

This will be a guide written with resources I’ve gathered over the course of months, so beware, some information might be incorrect or missing, but overall, its a overview of Karma: The Relaunch.

If you’ve own a GoPro, especially the Session lineup you’ll probably be familiar with the Capture App, and how it requires a compulsory login in order to use the app regardless if you are enrolled into GoPro Plus or not. Fortunately GoPro will remove the need to use an account temporarily with a bypass option in February, but that might not be available on the Karma, as it might be the posibility when you use it for the first time, you will have 10 days worth of flight to fly the Karma without the need to create or input an account, after that, you won’t be able to fly until you create an account and input it into the GoPro Karma Remote.

NOTE: 10 days of flight means you’ll have 240 hours before needing an account, or at least that is what I understand from the text below.

This is what is showed on the Karma Remote:

A GoPro Account is required to use this product. You have 10 Days of Flight remaining, after which you will be unable to use the product until you have created or logged in to GoPro account. Your %1$s days of flight have expired. A GoPro account is now required to use this product.

Now, if we learned something when the GoPro HERO5 launched is that everyone rushed to register their account in order to use the app and their servers went offline.

So, if you already have a GoPro Account there is nothing to worry about, just continue to the next step, if you don’t have a GoPro account go here to create one. This will avoid the need to create one when you get it as the servers might suffer a disconnection. When you get your Karma, first thing is sign up so you don’t forget and 10 days later you might be in a place with no internet and you won’t be able to fly. Charge your Karma first, its very important you fly with a full battery first!

You might also want to enr0ll in the GoPro Care service, you’ll get priority support, 2 year warranty coverage and more.

Now let’s see where you can fly your drone. The GoPro Karma Remote uses Skyward and Mapbox to see if its safe to fly where you’re located, you can check if its safe to fly in your favorite spots here: https://www.faa.gov/uas/where_to_fly/b4ufly/

You can use predefined moves that will tell the Karma what to do, there are 4 moves: Orbit, Dronie, Reveal and CableCam.

Cable Cam movement

Dronie movement

Orbit movement

Reveal movement

Here are also the ways you should land the Karma:

I hope these tips are useful for you, GoPro will relase a statement on early February, and the Karma should be released shortly after.