Litchi - Way points Question

[Fergy]

Hi to all the forum members, I am a newby to the Mavic but I am loving it, prior to getting my Drone I watched many hours of Youtube videos that have been very helpful in my flying and knowledge of the Mavic.
The question I have is related to the way points using the Litchi app I have done two missions using the way points software in Mission Hub, I have been very happy with the way that both missions turned out except for this particular function, when the Mavic is progressing through the various Way points the Drone keeps on turning 360 degrees then it stabilizes on the Way point before a POI and functions the way it was supposed to then it progresses on further to another Way point and starts the 360 turning all over again, can anyone advise me why or what I may have done wrong to cause the Mavic to do 360s between Way points, I hope I explained myself clearly.

Appreciate your comments.

fergy
Downunder

 

[lisadoc]

when the Mavic is progressing through the various Way points the Drone keeps on turning 360 degrees then it stabilizes on the Way point before a POI and functions the way it was supposed to then it progresses on further to another Way point and starts the 360 turning all over again, can anyone advise me why or what I may have done wrong to cause the Mavic to do 360s between Way points

I'm not sure it's clear. One way for us to figure out exactly what is going on is to export your mission on Mission Hub as a CSV file and upload it here ("Missions -> Export as CSV").

If I think I understand you, your Mavic does a full 360 degree turn between each waypoint. That isn't normal behavior but we'd probably have to see the mission in order to figure out what you're doing wrong.

 

[Fergy]

Sorry I have the CSV file but I cant upload it . It states The uploaded file does not have an allowed extension.
Unsure what program I need to upload it.

 

[Fergy]

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-26.79053876 153.1469008 30 6 0.200000003 0 0 -7 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0

 

[lisadoc]

Sorry I have the CSV file but I cant upload it . It states The uploaded file does not have an allowed extension.
Unsure what program I need to upload it.

Try changing the file extension from .csv to .txt and then uploading it. The above data doesn't have the correct commas or spaces, so it's unusable. If that doesn't work, upload the csv file to a file hosting site and provide the link.

 

[Fergy]

I hope this works.

 

[eek]

Set path mode to curved mode instead of straight lines. If straight lines are selected, mavic stops at each waypoint and adjusts heading for the next one. Also make sure no actions are defined in mission parameters under each waypoint..

 

[lisadoc]

I hope this works.

It did. And you do have curved paths and I didn't see any actions defined in the mission parameters, so it's not anything as @eek describes above.

The only thing I see that was amiss (on the Mission Hub portion) is that your gimbal settings on waypoints 2-14 are set to POI. This, despite the fact that you don't have any POI's defined (or at least they didn't come through). I would suggest either eliminating them or at least set them up with an actual POI. This shouldn't really have an effect on the overall heading of the Mavic (unless you are using POIs), so I don't think this is the ultimate source of your issue.

My suspicion is that you have set up this mission with separate headings for each waypoint (I'm not sure if you did this manually or if you had a POI at one point), which shows up fine in Mission Hub. However, the real key is when you open up your saved mission on the app and what you have for your overall headings setting on the Litchi app (below the "Save Mission" button on the iOs app - not sure if it's the same on Android). Make sure your "Heading" setting is set to "Custom", as you're defining the Mavic's heading for each waypoint.

Finally, make sure the "Rotations Direction" setting is set to "Managed", as that rotates the aircraft from waypoint to waypoint using the shortest direction (clockwise/anticlockwise). Otherwise, the aircraft rotation will be under your manual control.

 

[Fergy]

Thank you for your valuable assistance.