What do the lights on Skydio X2 indicate?

Step 4 - Toggle RGB

             enabled or disabled

Enabled

• • Red - two in front (framing camera) 
  • Green - two in the rear
  • Blue - all lights during initialization

Disabled

• • lights will be blue during the initial boot sequence and will turn off when the drone is ready to fly

Function

Color and Pattern

Initial boot sequence

Blue radial blinking

Grounded not connected to a controller

Blue breathing

Grounded connected to a controller

Blue solid

Launching

Blue blinking

Inflight front orientation

Red solid

Inflight rear orientation

Green solid

Inflight obstacle avoidance reduced or off

Yellow solid

Returning not connected to a controller

Yellow blinking

Landing obstacle avoidance on

Blue blinking

Landing obstacle avoidance off

Yellow blinking

Emergency landing obstacle avoidance disabled

Red blinking

Error occurred during the software update

• • wait 10-20 minutes, and then restart the drone if the error state persists.

Blue blinking on opposing arms

Landing

Obstacle Avoidance is enabled until X2 is ~10 ft (3 m) above the ground. At the 10 ft (3 m) threshold X2 will:

• • briefly pause
  • turn off obstacle avoidance
  • continue to land (lights will flash yellow)

Skydio X2 Battery lights

While the battery is in a charging state, one of the four blue lights will pulse to represent the battery’s current charge level

Function

Color and Pattern

Media Sync triggered

Blue changes to green
(this will happen once, then the lights will stay green)

Searching for a wireless network and connecting to Skydio Cloud (this should take 2-30 seconds)

Green breathing pattern

Connected to a wireless network

Green solid

Media is uploading

Green chasing pattern

Media sync complete

Green solid