I've done some searching and done some experimenting with using Litchi Pilot and I'm hoping someone can clarify a few things for me.
First, some background - I have a Mini 3 Pro with the RC controller. Since I wanted to experiment with Litchi and you can't install it on the RC controller, so I purchased a used RC-N1 controller. I first purchased and installed the "regular' Litchi app, and then found that the Mini 3 and newer SDK compatible drones won't work with it - you have to use Litchi Pilot which is in beta. I downloaded it, installed it, and after some playing around, got it to connect to the Mini 3 successfully. I got a warning that the controller was not bound to the drone and I could only use it 5 times. Well, in playing around with a simple Litchi mission, I flew 5 times and then could not fly any longer with Litchi Pilot. I went thru the pairing/binding and bound the RC-N1 to the drone. I then proceeded to do a few more litchi missions. After that, I tried to connect the RC controller to the drone and it told me it was not bound (same message) - I went thru the pairing process and re-bound the controller to the drone (which is kind of a PITA).
With that said, I have a few questions:
First, some background - I have a Mini 3 Pro with the RC controller. Since I wanted to experiment with Litchi and you can't install it on the RC controller, so I purchased a used RC-N1 controller. I first purchased and installed the "regular' Litchi app, and then found that the Mini 3 and newer SDK compatible drones won't work with it - you have to use Litchi Pilot which is in beta. I downloaded it, installed it, and after some playing around, got it to connect to the Mini 3 successfully. I got a warning that the controller was not bound to the drone and I could only use it 5 times. Well, in playing around with a simple Litchi mission, I flew 5 times and then could not fly any longer with Litchi Pilot. I went thru the pairing/binding and bound the RC-N1 to the drone. I then proceeded to do a few more litchi missions. After that, I tried to connect the RC controller to the drone and it told me it was not bound (same message) - I went thru the pairing process and re-bound the controller to the drone (which is kind of a PITA).
With that said, I have a few questions:
- Is there a simpler/better way of using two controllers with one drone? For "normal" flying I want to use the RC - If I want to play with Litchi, I obviously need to use the RC-N1, but I really would prefer not to have to go thru the pairing/binding process every time I want to change controllers. To complicate matters, most of the places I fly I won't have cell service, so I won't be able to re-bind the controller if I forget to check before I leave home.
- If there isn't a simpler/better way of changing the bound controller, is there any negative consequences of doing it relatively frequently?
- When playing with Litchi missions, I was having trouble getting waypoint actions to work. I watched some videos and noticed a comment on an older version of Litchi waypoint mapper that actions would not work on Curved Turn missions. That is the default (and what I'd prefer), but to test it out, I changed the default to Straight Lines, and the actions worked as expected. Is there any way/trick to get actions to work on curved turn missions?
- Is there a good tutorial on some of the "gotchas" with Litchi? The ones I've seen thus far are pretty basic. Creating a mission is pretty easy, but things like the actions listed above would be nice to know without having to learn it the hard way thru a bunch of testing and experimenting.
