Litchi Flatland help?

[jimhuntphoto]

Hi guys. I am trying to program a flight in litchi for a flatland image...

I would like to program this instead of freehand fly it because the drone should fly in more of a straight line than I can control it. My questions for this flight is.

Is it better to plan a flight with just a start and end point or should I do it with waypoints so the drone can stop to take the image?

I don't understand the gimbal pitch setting in the hub. How should I set this up?

Any thoughts on how to do this? Thanks

 

[Racenviper]

Yes, there are a few tutorials some have posted on youtube, but I do believe they have got it wrong on taking the pictures. I have just start to think on the above photos were taken and coming up with a plan.

Waypoints and a POI, possible two POI. (points of interest).

I'll make a sketch of what I believe needs to be done.

 

[jimhuntphoto]

Well, I screwed up the initial flight plan from litchi hub so I tried to wing it. In processing the images I realized I didn't go high enough from the start. Knowing that I will try to program it better and give it another go.

 

[Racenviper]

I have been working on a Excel sheet to generate a flight path. I have two curves. Each curve will have a starting point and ending point with predetermined camera angles and a choice of a POI location on the flight path that the camera will follow.

 

[jimmybbq]

If you use straight lines you can program litchi to take pictures for you with "actions" ,but that doesn't work with curved lines because mavic won't stop at a waypoint.. I only can do "start recording" when I have curved lines selected.

 

[Racenviper]

I ran my created CSV file from Excel tonight, Success! The flight was just as planned.

"FLSC - litchi Chart Curve 2 POI.jpg" is the flight path in Google Earth.


"Litchi Import CSV.jpg"


"FLSC - litchi Chart Curve 2 POI.zip" Contains the Excel file I create to make the CSV files. The zip file also contains a sample CSV file exported from Excel.

I will create a movie file from the photos to show the flight path and that the camera changed angle for every photo.

 

[Racenviper]

 

[jimhuntphoto]

Wow, well I have been doing this completely wrong, no wonder it looks like crap. I have been flying in a straight line instead of an arc. How do I do this in excel?

 

[Racenviper]

Use the Excel file I put the the zip file above. After writing that sheet, starting to dream up other ideas.

 

[jimhuntphoto]

Dude that excel is nuts. So confusing. I'll have to view this while not at work and decipher it. Thanks man. You rock.

 

[jimhuntphoto]

Well I just ran a mission but it did not tilt the camera, stop, or take the photo. Not sure what I am doing wrong but the mission is set up for those 3 actions.

 

[Racenviper]

You had "Path" set to "Curves" and not "Straight Lines". When set to Curves actions will not work.

Go down to "Waypoint Actions"
Help - Litchi

 

[jimhuntphoto]

Ahh, thanks. I'll give that a try.

 

[Wallace&gromit]

Hello guys, I am new in the forum and also new piloting my mavic pro.
I would like to set up missions with excel. These will contain several waypoints, as I will be mostly flying along slopes, so the height must be adjusted according to topography. I will have a set of data on each excel row with cohordinates and height and wish to transform that in CSV.
Then I have to import the CSV in Litchi and haven't yet found how this should be done. Can someone explain me the procedures step for step?

 

[Mentalist]

Nice work! Thank you for sharing I will give i a try really soon.

 

[royeiror]

Great stuff, works great on Google Sheets and the csv it exports works directly on the mission hub. Highly recommend it.