Waypoint Misson not focusing on POI

[Stefan West]

Hi all, I seem to be having a bit of a problem using Litchi, I've only had my Phantom a few days and have only been using Litchi today for the first time properly.

I made a waypoint mission, following plenty of videos on Youtube on how to do it, and I set the POI as my house, and set the height of it to 3ft. I made a route that went around my house and back to myself in the park opposite as a quick test. I set the gimbal setting to Focus POI to get the gimbal angle, and then switched the waypoints to interpolate for a smooth adjustment all the way around.

When I went back through the footage I've noticed that the gimbal is pointing way too high, the drone is facing the right direction and the gimbal has moved down slightly since it took off at the first waypoint, but it's not actually pointing down at my house.

The angle set seems right (79 degrees at max) but it is definitely not pointing that low.

Have I got something confused here? can anybody help me?

 

[Stefan West]

Oh and I should probably mention, when using orbit mode within litchi it moves the gimbal and focuses on the POI no problem

 

[GrammatonxXXxCleric]

Hafta set the way points involved to focus on POI#. Click each way point involved, scroll down in its window, set POI active and to what number POI (more than one can be set).

 

[GrammatonxXXxCleric]

And re-save.

 

[Stefan West]

And re-save.

Thanks I will give this a try, I did originally set them to Focus POI, I changed it to Interpolate after so that it would be a nice smooth transition, rather than it flying to each waypoint then moving. The same angle is set whether I choose Focus POI or Interpolate

 

[Richard R]

Also need to have paths set to straight, not curved.

 

[Stefan West]

Also need to have paths set to straight, not curved.

Paths are set to straight

 

[GrammatonxXXxCleric]

Thanks I will give this a try, I did originally set them to Focus POI, I changed it to Interpolate after so that it would be a nice smooth transition, rather than it flying to each waypoint then moving. The same angle is set whether I choose Focus POI or Interpolate

Setting to :focus poi is only half the step. You need to set the # of the POI (below that)

 

[GrammatonxXXxCleric]

In each of involved way points.

 

[Stefan West]

Setting to :focus poi is only half the step. You need to set the # of the POI (below that)

That is set, there is only 1 POI anyway

 

[GrammatonxXXxCleric]

Did you click on each way point and set it there?

 

[Stefan West]

Did you click on each way point and set it there?

Yes. I am just trying to get some screenshots and a quick video from a flight I've just done to show you how I have everything set up and exactly whats happening

 

[Stefan West]

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The POI is the house in the bottom left corner at the beginning of the video

 

[GrammatonxXXxCleric]

Ok, you are using HUB to plan. But, You need to (on display device you fly with), click on each way point. Set POI there, re-save.

 

[Stefan West]

Ok I think I've found the reason behind this. I've been reading on the litchi site and it does say that it will only adjust the gimbal when in range of the controller. Because I only have the standard and it has no sort of extender or anything attached it was out of range when it reached the house. So that's probably why