Oh my….litchi on iOS now supports Mavic Air 2! Thoughts anyone? Does anyone currently use litchi and is it worth the $23? Thanks in advance
I currently use Litchi on Android with a Gen 1 mavic (MPP). For me, the ability to pre-plan waypoint missions makes it worth the money.Oh my….litchi on iOS now supports Mavic Air 2! Thoughts anyone? Does anyone currently use litchi and is it worth the $23? Thanks in advance
I am also curious and interested in Litchi. On the App Store DroneDeploy Flight App gets slightly better ratings.Oh my….litchi on iOS now supports Mavic Air 2! Thoughts anyone? Does anyone currently use litchi and is it worth the $23? Thanks in advance
Does the Litchi App have the RTH feature?I use it for waypoints as well. Newest release is pretty solid and the cost is minimal.
YesDoes the Litchi App have the RTH feature?
Oh my….litchi on iOS now supports Mavic Air 2! Thoughts anyone? Does anyone currently use litchi and is it worth the $23? Thanks in advance
So after reading a bunch of stuff on the litchi website it seems that dji hasn't released the sdk for mini 2, but its supposed to happen by the end of the year and litchi will very quickly support it they say
i saw a video on youtube last week where a guy was having trouble with his mavic pro 2 using an ipad 4 mini in where the cpu was struggling to cache the video feed or something.i immediately sold my ipad 4 mini and grabbed this ipad 6 mini which has only just released.it has an a15 bionic processor.the liquid retina display is awesome,and it fits no problem at all
Just got it to automate some tasks with my MA2.
Are waypoints implemented via virtual commands? It seems that when signal is low, it flies jerky
You might want to look at the Maven app instead.
I have a Mavic 2 Zoom and have used both Litchi and Maven apps. Litchi is a nice app but the major limitation I didn't like is that it will not execute gimbal pitch angles on a waypoint mission once your drone loses signal with the controller, however the Maven app WILL still execute camera pitch angles at waypoints even if no longer connected to the controller. Some people work around this limitation by setting the gimbal pitch at like -18 degrees at takeoff and the gimbal will hold that angle for the entire flight, but this doesn't fit all circumstances.
The other major limitation with both Litchi and Maven is there is no way to cancel the Smart RTH feature once the drone loses contact with the controller. What that means is that if you have a long waypoint mission, the Smart RTH will automatically kick in once a certain battery threshold is met and the drone will abandon the remaining waypoints on the mission path and fly home on an RTH straight line and altitude. On a calm day and without a lot of ascending, this usually happens around 3 miles from the launch point.
The only thing I really love about Litchi over all other apps is the Mission Hub where I can plan out waypoint missions on my laptop and then save the mission to be transferred to my iPad that I use to fly my M2Z. Plus, you can also export Litchi missions to CSV file and these can be opened by the Maven app, but still needs some minor tweaking after opening the files.
One thing I didn't expect to like about Maven is the ability to manually fly to your waypoints and log them into the mission, which gives fairly precise control over the actual location of the waypoints. You can then edit each waylpoint to specify height, radius of curvature, direction of the camera, etc. I don't know if Litchi offers that or not, but where I fly the terrain and vegetation changes dramatically over very short distances (canyons and hillsides), and the terrain data in either Litchi or Maven cannot be trusted for precision positioning. The Elevation.api used by Google Earth, for instance (which is one of the terrain data sources for these apps) is almost 40 feet off in elevation just crossing a large ravine that runs across my own property. Flying to a waypoint and actually knowing your position from the video feed is a huge plus for accuracy and safety. If I remember correctly, Maven allows up to 99 different waypoints to be locked in this way.
Unfortunately, there is no Android version of Maven yet. A search of mavenpilots.com found this:
A:Currently the Android version is not available, we assure you that we want an Android version more than anyone else but unfortunately there is no shortcut to bring an app from iOS to Android, every little part has to be totally rewritten and tested. To date, unfortunately, we still don’t have an expected date.
It sounds interesting and I'd like to try it but don't have access to any iOS devices.
I've also noticed that Maven won't follow time intervals at waypoints. I would love to use this feature as well.