Yes.... I am pretty sure I had the DJI app closed at the time..... But I will certainly keep that in mind..... I am now waiting on some better weather to attempt a flight on the beach...... Can't thank you enough for all your help..... I will surely return to this forum and do some reading..... I have a lot to learn..... thanks to everyone... Have a great dayI think there is an official distance programed in the app that you must physically be to have it start the mission however it seems it's a long way out. You aren't likely to encounter it.
I don't recall what it is, I usually just stick a WP about 50 ft away as my starting WP..
I usually will not have the DJI app activated in any way when I start a Litchi mission. I do anything I think I need in DJI and then close it. I then use Litchi sometimes to launch, then upload, then start mission.
They definitely won't work well at all together so always close DJI when using Litchi.
I have noticed that you definitely need to give yourself some room when doing way points. I wish they were accurate to a 1-3 feet, which could make for much more intense video, but there is a good chance you will crash your drone if you don't give yourself a decent amount of space. I have heard recommendations of 10 to 164 feet. Would love to see some testing during different conditions on this.It can vary but mine is usually pretty accurate. So I'd say 90% of the time you will be fine, in my experience. If you can maintain signal/connection to the AC during your low flying parts of the mission I say go for it and just watch the live feed carefully keeping your finger on the toggle switch to put it back into P-Mode as an emergency stop in case you see any possible problems. Once you are 100ft over any obstacles then I would stop worrying and let it fly out of range to do it's thing and come back.
In my opinion the difference between 30ft and 100ft can be the difference between awesome footage and mediocre/boring footage. I'd say it's worth a try. No way I'd let it fly without my being able to monitor it at 30ft though.
I agree, I can't imagine it being off more then 30ft, even that seems like a stretch, I could be wrong thoughI think half a football field is a bit much...
I've only had my phantom a week or so and done one mission with Litchi, so you'll have to forgive my ignorance. But could you set another waypoint close to the one you want a panoramic shot and keep the same heading, but get it to rotate in the opposite direction?Lastly, I noticed that you have some actions assigned to some of your WP's. Notably WP #15 where you fly up to 120m. Keep in mind you have curved turns enabled for this mission, which unfortunately disables all the actions so none of that will work like you expect. It will just keep flying and not stop and do the 360 spin you want. You have to disable curved turns, but then the problem is that the drone will pause at each WP which will ruin the effect you want completely.
I've only had my phantom a week or so and done one mission with Litchi, so you'll have to forgive my ignorance. But could you set another waypoint close to the one you want a panoramic shot and keep the same heading, but get it to rotate in the opposite direction?
I guess you would have to slow it down also so your phantom doesn't rotate too fast.
I agree, many of the places I video are 1.5 kilometers away over water It would be much better to have programmable speed between WPs. That would allow quick flights to where the "real" mission and videoing begins.Hmm, good point that might work, but I think it would happen too fast and ruin the shot. I actually looked into this matter further and according to the coders at Litchi the limitation with curved turns is not in their software but in fact the DJI SDK, which is very sad. If we could do actions with curved turns it would take the cinematography with litchi to a whole new level. Another issue I have is that you can only set one cruising speed for the whole mission. So if you have a far away place you want to film you need to fly out at 30mph to get there. Then you want to do a nice slow POI pan around it, but can't control the speed so you fly way too fast. Can't have it all I guess... Unless there is a way to slow it down? A trick maybe? Any really experienced Litchi operators have any ideas?