Update drone date and time for media

ANAFI USA / ANAFI Thermal / ANAFI 4K
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When taking pictures with the drone, the timestamp given is always 1970-01-01 with the hours, minutes, and seconds appearing to be how long it has been since the drone booted. Is there a way to correct this timestamp either permanently, on drone boot, or when a picture is taken?

I have messed around with CurrentDateTime but no luck so far.

2

Hi,

The time synchronization with CurrentDateTime only works for physical Anafi drones and doesn’t work with simulated drone. The following code snippet should do the trick:

import olympe
from olympe.messages.common.Common import CurrentDateTime
from pytz import timezone
import datetime


drone = olympe.Drone("192.168.42.1")
drone.connection()
tz_paris = timezone("Europe/Paris")
date_time = datetime.datetime.now(tz_paris).strftime("%Y%m%dT%H%M%S%z")
if drone(CurrentDateTime(date_time)).wait(5).success():
    print("Synchronization at {}".format(date_time))
else:
    print("Failed to synchronize at {}".format(date_time))
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Hi,

For your information, Olympe 1.2.0 has just been released and the time synchronization is now performed automatically whenever Olympe connects to a drone.

Nicolas