Litchi

[CameraMan65]

An interesting and scary thing happened with Litchi the other day...

I used it just to fly my P4P and noticed that it started lagging whenever I took pictures and video. I pressed the record button on the screen and it wasn't responding so I tapped it a few more times to see if I could get it to start recording. Then I noticed it started to climb all on it's own. I figured, OK, I have it set to not go over 400 feet so I wasn't really paying attention to it because I was still trying to take pictures and video. All of a sudden, the video started recording so I was going to start rotating it and when I looked at the altitude I saw that it was at 600+ feet... Not good! So I took a chance and tried to lower it manually. It was coming down. I could it see it getting closer to the ground. All the while the video button and camera button were responding to my commands from earlier before. I got the P4P back on the ground and shut everything off and tried again. This time only going a few feet off the ground and hovering. Again, camera and video were slow to respond but it did not go any higher than where I had stopped it.

This is the first time this has EVER happened. I turned everything off and started in the Go App and everything was fine. I could take pictures and video and everything was responding as it should. So did Litchi go Glitchy on me again? I think it sure did since the Go app worked fine. There was no other interference around. No electrical lines or anything. I was at a lake.

It was VERY scary especially when I saw that it had climbed over 250 feet higher than it should have. Luckily there weren't any airports close by.

 

[Neon Euc]

Wow that sounds very odd. Can you upload the flight log here? Might be great to also start a new thread on that issue too

 

[jbuy41]

Have using Litchi for several months. Having problems with Pano. It stops after taking 3 or 4 images.

I have tried reloading a fresh software app but still a problem. Stitching to Legacy mode helped for awhile.

Anyone else have this problem?

 

[tevek]

Have using Litchi for several months. Having problems with Pano. It stops after taking 3 or 4 images.

I have tried reloading a fresh software app but still a problem. Stitching to Legacy mode helped for awhile.

Anyone else have this problem?

Had that problem on iOS a couple of updates ago, emailed Litchi and they blamed DJI. It would announce 'panorama ended' and spin around and take off. Subsequent updates have cured it.

 

[jbuy41]

Have you had any problem since?

 

[tevek]

Have you had any problem since?

Not at all, I use it almost exclusively given the silly warnings that pop up in DJI.

 

[jbuy41]

I am using it more because of the same reasons.

 

[CameraMan65]

Wow that sounds very odd. Can you upload the flight log here? Might be great to also start a new thread on that issue too

I'm sure the flight log is going to show that it was all manually controlled. I think my tablet may have been experiencing some kind of overload and wasn't reacting to the drone in a timely fashion. My goal was to get it up to 400 ft, point the camera down slightly, and get some nice aerial shots of the lake/ponds. I believe the motion of the drone was reacting to my inputs on the controller but it was taking a long time for that information to make it down to my tablet. Even when I landed the thing it still said it was still about 200 ft in the air and descending.

I would like to go in and look at those logs myself though. I know how to look at the Go app logs. How do I find the logs on Litchi?