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How Do I Get My Snaptain Drone Camera to Work?

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There are many different brands of drones in the market, and Snaptain is proving to be one of the best beginner drones that you can get for a price that you won’t bother your budget. Like many other drones, most Snaptain drone models have a camera that you may need to connect to your phone to work as it should. So, how do you get your Snaptain drone camera to work?

To make your Snaptain drone camera work properly, you need to download the Snaptain Era app on your phone then connect to the drone’s WiFi network. Next, you need to go to the Snaptain Era app and complete any of the settings and calibrations you are prompted to do.

It is not much of an understatement to say that your Snaptain drone camera is one of the most important aspects of the drone. After all, without the drone’s camera, the drone would just be any other remote-controlled flying object out there. As a key feature of your drone, it is obviously important for you to make sure that you know how to make your Snaptain drone camera work so that you can use the drone to its fullest potential.

How to make a Snaptain drone camera work? #

While Snaptain drones are cheap and very easy to use, there are some cases where beginner drone flyers don’t know how to exactly make a Snaptain drone camera work. The flying part may come easy because you probably only need to use the drone’s proprietary controller to make the drone fly. However, it might be a bit more involved to make the camera work.

So, how do you make a Snaptain drone camera work? Well, it first starts off with connecting your smartphone to the drone and its controller. After all, most drones these days work hand in hand with smartphones in the sense that you control the drone’s camera and see its feed through your smartphone. That means that the first step to using the camera is to connect the Snaptain to a smartphone.

To connect the Snaptain drone to a smartphone, you need to do the following:

  1. Download the Snaptain Era app on your smartphone. This app should be available for both iOS and Android devices.
  2. Turn on your drone so that it will begin to transmit its own Wi-Fi signal.
  3. Go to your phone’s Wi-Fi settings and then connect to the drone’s Wi-Fi network using the unique passcode that the drone comes with.
  4. After you have connected your smartphone to your drone via the Snaptain drone’s Wi-Fi network, all you need to do is to go to the Snaptain Era app.
  5. The Snaptain Era app will require you to calibrate the drone once the connection has been established. Follow all of the prompts on the screen, and you’ll be ready to fly.

Once you have connected your drone to the Snaptain Era app, the app will contain all of the things that you need to use the Snaptain drone’s camera. The app should have an option allowing you to control the drone’s camera and use your phone to receive the feed coming from the drone’s camera. 

» MORE: How To Connect Snaptain Drone To Phone (Step-by-Step Guide)

At this point, all you need to do is to start flying and then photos or videos using your Snaptain drone’s camera using the controls on the screen or the controller.

What’s so great about a Snaptain drone? #

When you look at the drone market today, you will see that this is an industry that is dominated almost entirely by DJI. Its drones are considered to be the best and most popular ones on the market. However, there are also several other companies that are capable of delivering amazing drones that are great on their own and are widely considered to be underrated in terms of their overall quality. One such drone company is Snaptain.

Snaptain is a drone company that delivers amazing low-cost drones that are great for those who want to start and learn how to fly drones before moving on to the more expensive and more technologically advanced drones. In that regard, Snaptain prides itself on delivering drones that will allow you to enjoy the benefits of flying a drone in a way that won’t put a huge dent in your budget.

The great thing about Snaptain drones is that these drones are very affordable to the point that you will easily understand why they are considered to be beginner drones. They are beginner drones in the sense that, if you want to become a drone hobbyist, it is best to start with a Snaptain drone especially since you are not going to end up paying a lot for one of these drones.

Snaptain drones are also considered by many to be toy drones that kids can enjoy. After all, it would be a complete waste of money to buy a drone worth several hundreds of dollars only for a child to end up breaking it after a few crashes right off the bat. As such, using a drone such as a Snaptain will allow younger hobbyists to feel the joy of flying without you worrying about wasting money on a busted drone.

Due to Snaptain’s low prices and quality products, Snaptain drones are consistently out of stock wherever you go as people can’t get enough of how amazing these products are at the prices that they come with. You won’t even have to spend more than a hundred dollars for a good Snaptain drone.

Why use a Snaptain drone? #

If you are wondering why you may want to use Snaptain drones, here are some quick things that you need to know about these drones:

  • They are cheap and affordable compared to some of the more affordable drone brands such as DJI.
  • Most Snaptain drones weigh under 250 grams, which means that you are not required to register them with the FAA.
  • They work great as toy drones that children and beginner adults alike can use to learn how to fly a drone.
  • Snaptain drones have surprisingly great features that you don’t always see in cheaper drone brands.
  • It is so easy to use a Snaptain drone to the point that children can even learn how to fly them without any trouble.

Image Credit: Snaptain

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