Litchi now supports Mavic Mini

svenmarbles · Aug 4, 2020

Can anyone confirm waypoints functionality?

OldBlueHeron · Aug 4, 2020

Just got mine as well. This is a beta though.

Thewrightstuff · Aug 4, 2020

Does it work for android

Flight815 · Aug 4, 2020

If it works for Android I am buying it right now!?!?!?!

wsteele · Aug 4, 2020

Don't get your hopes up too high. We're in the midst of a tropical storm so I had to test indoors. Selected both waypoints and orbit and it states SDK doesn't support. I suspect the same for "follow me" but inside I couldn't select an object to initiate on.

It did allow me to select and make a 360 pano successfully. And it looks like standard Litchi display for batteries, GPS sats etc.

Initially, it wouldn't start because of a GPS problem and low lighting. I went to DJI Fly and cleared the errors and auto takeoff within Litchi and take-off with the joysticks worked fine.

maelstrom · Aug 4, 2020

OldBlueHeron said:
Confirm, way points and follow me. All of it.

I thought I’d read elsewhere on the forum that Litchi had already stated that it wouldn’t support waypoints on the MM. Is this a change of policy?

RogerDH · Aug 4, 2020

wsteele said:
Don't get your hopes up too high. We're in the midst of a tropical storm so I had to test indoors. Selected both waypoints and orbit and it states SDK doesn't support. I suspect the same for "follow me" but inside I couldn't select an object to initiate on.

It did allow me to select and make a 360 pano successfully. And it looks like standard Litchi display for batteries, GPS sats etc.

Initially, it wouldn't start because of a GPS problem and low lighting. I went to DJI Fly and cleared the errors and auto takeoff within Litchi and take-off with the joysticks worked fine.

The GPS-based Follow and Track are supposed to work.

OldBlueHeron · Aug 4, 2020

I was able to create a waypoint mission within app. I haven’t had the chance to fly it yet, but it definitely allowed me to create it. Panorama worked, as did follow me. There is already a second version of the beta.

Thewrightstuff · Aug 4, 2020

Are you using android or iOS? Thank you

RogerDH · Aug 4, 2020

OldBlueHeron said:
I was able to create a waypoint mission within app. I haven’t had the chance to fly it yet, but it definitely allowed me to create it. Panorama worked, as did follow me. There is already a second version of the beta.

It won't work. Litchi confirmed on their Facebook page that waypoints and orbits will not work because there is no SDK method to send those commands to the Mini, and a DJI developer confirmed that's because there is no code in the Mini firmware to handle them.

rehkram · Aug 4, 2020

Thanks everybody, watching this thread with keen interest.

jumpingbean · Aug 5, 2020

If waypoints and orbit are out, what’s Litchi’s advantage over the DJI Fly in this case?

RogerDH · Aug 5, 2020

jumpingbean said:
If waypoints and orbit are out, what’s Litchi’s advantage over the DJI Fly in this case?

Mainly GPS-based Follow and Track, and panorama photos, I think.

OldBlueHeron · Aug 5, 2020

RogerDH said:
It won't work. Litchi confirmed on their Facebook page that waypoints and orbits will not work because there is no SDK method to send those commands to the Mini, and a DJI developer confirmed that's because there is no code in the Mini firmware to handle them.

I believe you. As I don’t Facebook, I have no knowledge of that. I will still test it and see what happens. I have nothing to lose and have been beta testing since P3 standard days. I do it for fun.