Litchie pencil?

56_kruiser · Feb 28, 2018

I just watched a video about setting up a mission using the pencil. So I just went to the mission hub, placed some waypoints. Was going to draw the mission around them.

I see no pencil to do so.

Am I missing something, or have they done away with that feature?

53-63-6f-74-74 · Feb 28, 2018

The pencil tool was always in the app. I've never seen it on the Hub.

ksmusa · Feb 28, 2018

53-63-6f-74-74 said:
The pencil tool was always in the app. I've never seen it on the Hub.

This is my understanding as well.

56_kruiser · Feb 28, 2018

Thanks folks.

One of the things I like about Litchie is being able to pre-plan and not have to do it on a small (er) screen. Interesting they don't offer that on the web version.

ksmusa · Feb 28, 2018

I use Litchi on my iPad Pro with a pencil. This works great for me. Do yo have access to a tablet?

56_kruiser · Feb 28, 2018

ksmusa said:
I use Litchi on my iPad Pro with a pencil. This works great for me. Do yo have access to a tablet?

Yeah, I'm an old IT guy. I have tablets, phones, computers. While I spend a lot of time every day on my 5.9" phone, and have a 8" tablet, which I occasionally use to control my DSLR, I prefer to work from a computer screen with a mouse over anything else for things like this if it is available.

I'm currently just using my phone to control the Mavic. I am debating what I want to move to over the phone.

Something you would consider a negative is that I'm not into Apple products, so I don't expect I'll be going that route. Although from what I understand DJI leans that direction.

ksmusa · Feb 28, 2018

I understand Thumbswayup

Aerial Gopher · Mar 2, 2018

I never did like the litchi hub due to the fact that your mission is made public by default for anyone to see or even download.
Did this fix this yet? It should be private by default. It has a great use if it is a mission at some public place so someone else can us it, but this is how I found a guy who flew near an airport, and the mission came back to his house, with him standing at the garage door as the drone recorded him. The link to the video was on the litchi hub as well. Last I even looked at the web site was 8 months ago. Just did not like the breach of privacy. Why would it not be set to private by default is worrisome.

53-63-6f-74-74 · Mar 2, 2018

Aerial Gopher said:
I never did like the litchi hub due to the fact that your mission is made public by default for anyone to see or even download.
Did this fix this yet? It should be private by default. It has a great use if it is a mission at some public place so someone else can us it, but this is how I found a guy who flew near an airport, and the mission came back to his house, with him standing at the garage door as the drone recorded him. The link to the video was on the litchi hub as well. Last I even looked at the web site was 8 months ago. Just did not like the breach of privacy. Why would it not be set to private by default is worrisome.

I never liked that either. The first thing I do is check the box that makes it private. The hub also was lacking many features of the app, but now has batch editing and a setting for above ground elevations. However, I still compose most of my missions in Google Earth and import into the hub or app only to adjust them before flight. It's the only way to see elevation changes that you cannot plan for in either the hub or app. I then test them virtually with virtual litchi mission.