Does the Mavic Air 2 work with LITCHI ?

pelermon · May 10, 2020

Does the Mavic Air 2 work with LITCHI ? - I have one in my shopping cart and going to buy if it does.

aokusman · May 10, 2020

It will when they update the app.

dawgpilot · May 10, 2020

aokusman said:
It will when they update the app.

DJI has to release the SDK with support for the Mavic Air 2 first, before Litchi can update their app to support it.

pelermon · May 10, 2020

dawgpilot said:
DJI has to release the SDK with support for the Mavic Air 2 first, before Litchi can update their app to support it.

Thank You - Probably best to wait?
Or is it a given the they will release the SDK with support for the Mavic Air 2 ?

LivinLarge · May 10, 2020

I would not hold your breath waiting on DJI. There are no guarantees or even a promise of a date.

pelermon · May 10, 2020

LivinLarge said:
I would not hold your breath waiting on DJI. There are no guarantees or even a promise of a date.

I am in no great need. I will wait unless my trusty Phantom 4 ever goes down.

dawgpilot · May 10, 2020

pelermon said:
Thank You - Probably best to wait?
Or is it a given the they will release the SDK with support for the Mavic Air 2 ?

If Litchi support is essential for you, then I would probably suggest waiting. I'm fairly sure DJI will release SDK support for this new model, but there is no way to know for sure when they will actually do so. It could be a while.

pelermon · May 10, 2020

dawgpilot said:
If Litchi support is essential for you, then I would probably suggest waiting. I'm fairly sure DJI will release SDK support for this new model, but there is no way to know for sure when they will actually do so. It could be a while.

I guess I will have to wait.
I prefer this Air 2 over Pro 2 but I would go with the Pro 2 if Air 2 will not support it.

Prismatic · May 10, 2020

pelermon said:
Does the Mavic Air 2 work with LITCHI ? - I have one in my shopping cart and going to buy if it does.

Neither recent model--the Mini nor MA2--support the current SDK. I imagine DJI will release a new SDK, but only time will tell ('cause DJI sure isn't!).

svenmarbles · May 10, 2020

It’ll happen eventually. The makers of Litchi would be crazy to not do something for the Fly app drones. Something tells me all drones going forward are going to use variations of the Fly app platform.

Mousehunter · May 10, 2020

Litchi (and other 3rd party) support was close enough to essential to me. After a week of having an A2 preordered, I canceled and should be getting a M2P from FedEx Tuesday.

As for Fly vs Go. I don’t think they will kill Go, but they are trying to separate their market segments. Last go round they did that with WiFi vs OccuSync. Now they are adding OccuSync, but took away Go.

lee82gx · May 11, 2020

To put things into perspective they havent released SDK for Mavic Mini which is close to half a year now. If that's any benchmark to go by......

svenmarbles · May 11, 2020

lee82gx said:
To put things into perspective they havent released SDK for Mavic Mini which is close to half a year now. If that's any benchmark to go by......

It’s not necessarily the case that because the Mini SDK has been absent for going on 6 months, that the MA2 will take at least that long as well..

Keep in mind that DJI knew that they would be releasing the Air2, probably for a long time. These are both Fly app drones. It stands to reason that they wouldn’t release that SDK until they could bundle them together. I’ll bet when the update comes it’ll be with both drones’ support.

lee82gx · May 11, 2020

svenmarbles said:
It’s not necessarily the case that because the Mini SDK has been absent for going on 6 months, that the MA2 will take at least that long as well..

Keep in mind that DJI knew that they would be releasing the Air2, probably for a long time. These are both Fly app drones. It stands to reason that they wouldn’t release that SDK until they could bundle them together. I’ll bet when the update comes it’ll be with both drones’ support.

I think your speculation is as good as mine. The only major caveat here is there is NO precedence, in terms of whatever functions can or cannot be supported by the SDK. Negatively speculating, who knows the SDK is a dud that only allows minimal access. Unlike Go4 and supported devices, you are much better in a place to speculate.

Deleted member 114292 · May 11, 2020

pelermon said:
Does the Mavic Air 2 work with LITCHI ? - I have one in my shopping cart and going to buy if it does.

No.

Dave Maine · May 11, 2020

A new Sdk is a big deal. It takes lots of testing over many different conditions to make sure it is safe.

unless they plan to make their own version of Litchi, they will probably release a new sdk eventually. It may ultimately replace the existing one, as the basic functionality’s are very similar.

pelermon · May 31, 2020

Done said:
No.

Still waiting,
I looks like they have some BUGS to correct anyway.

coneslayer · May 31, 2020

LivinLarge said:
I would not hold your breath waiting on DJI. There are no guarantees or even a promise of a date.

"Mavic Mini around July, Mavic Air2 around September"

Jordaneer · May 31, 2020

LivinLarge said:
I would not hold your breath waiting on DJI. There are no guarantees or even a promise of a date.

They posted on their forum that it won't release for the MA2 until Q4 which is kind of ridiculous imo, Mavic Air 2 SDK Support
They are releasing it for the mavic mini in July, the mavic mini will have been out nearly 9 months at that point