From reading all over the web about this I now understand that Smart Go Home is just the new name for the good old Battery Low RTH. If you switch it off it will still prompt you to return. If you do nothing, eventually it will land just where it is. If you switch it on, it will prompt you that it is about to initiate RTH. You can cancel that and keep on flying until it lands itself. If you don't cancel it it will return to home. Maybe the only smart thing is that you get prompted and that you can cancel it.
During return to home, as well as auto land, you still have control (as with previous battery low RTH). By pushing throttle up, you can rise over obstacles during RTH or delay the auto land until you are on a safe landing spot.
Nothing new about 'Smart Go Home'. It was already there 'back in the Phantom2 days', and in previous FW versions of I1 and P3. Only now they hope people will understand the function better.
Well.....they only made it a new big Chinese tasting mystery doing so, by NOT explaining that nothing changed. Everybody is looking for the new SMART feature of Smart Go Home. But there isn't.
I wished DJI stopped just renaming standard functions in new APP builds to something that their marketeers hope will sound better, and lower the threshold, to the MAIN audience they try to attract: the total NOOB that never even knew RC flying, let alone multirotors, existed, before last or even coming christmas.
DJI-GO instead of DJI-PILOT....same APP (with a few typical consumer social media add ons), different name, different target audience. The 'Look Honey, I Never Knew It Was So Easy Fly-ers' will feel safer with a GO APP than a PILOT APP, marketing, nothing else.
How I wished the I1 had it's own dedicated PILOT APP.......It seems we just have to put up with all the things these marketeers want to add, to attract more entry level Phantom 3 users.
Coffee, NOW!