Maybe they want to add the Litchi functions in the Fly app. In regard to the functions, i mentioned to them that i use waypoints only and they want to know what the people want people want out of mapping hence the reason for this thread. Lie she said in her message to me is that Dji will evaluate the feedback and see if they can add it in.
Indeed. The SDK is the solution, if they were truly interested! Upper management is not truly interested, unless you buy an Enterprise drone.
I really don't think there is dissent among us. We all want an SDK. It used to just be about when it would become available, instead of whether. It's just that some are more willing to accept that DJI doesn't really care about what we want, and move on, and use the tools they have created for us instead, or upgrade to the more expensive Enterprise line to have an SDK and other mapping goodies reserved for Enterprise pilots. @Suren 's efforts are certainly appreciated by all, but unfortunately hopeless, based upon all publicly released statements about future SDK's.
I agree! I don't sense any dissent. Well, except for those dear folks at DJI. : ).
They were very clear on what would be supported and not supported with the current MSDK.
The last sentence was very clear, "It will support products later but no old products"DJI said:
Until it can be shown to DJI that limiting MSDK support is costing them revenue, they have no reason to change. That's the problem of being the 800 lb gorilla in the consumer drone space, there's no incentive for them to make changes that will cost them money as opposed to earning money.
But they might see incentive if we can show them why many current and new users us Litchi and would rather opt to stay with the Fly app rather than move/look at 3rd party apps/drones to do mapping. All Dji is asking for is an explanation as to what the Mavic 3/Pro users use mapping for and an explanation as to what is the need for SDK in a consumer drone. If you see their message in my 1st post, they say that many don't understand the use of the SDK nor how to use it properly so they might just beef up the Fly app to match Litchi with waypoints.
Unless someone can show DJI that they are losing sales over the lack of MSDK support, none of that will matter to them.
DJI already knows all those things that the rep, in her well-meaning naiveté, is still asking you! Instead of asking you, she should have asked internally why the SDK is now reserved for Enterprise drones only. Unfortunately, there is a "Chinese Wall" (pun intended! LOL!) between her and upper management. This is so far above her pay grade, that she continues to waste your time with false hopes, even 9 months later!
Well.... now that we have waypoints (I have the M3C) the only other features I would like to see from Litchi into the Fly app is a follow mode that tracks the controller/mobile device, as an alternative but not replacement to ActiveTrack. I am forever losing tracking due to trees obscuring me. The only other thing I am missing from Litchi is the telemetry audio feedback feature, very useful to have battery level, distance, airspeed, and all those other metrics read outloud so that we can concentrate on the camera more. So if you are not going to release the SDK, then at least flesh out the Fly app with these things. Please DJI... thanks.
A lot of us do mapping and various types of videos and photography using Litchi and it was a way for us to do it affordably. A lot of people here bought Mavic 3’s to upgrade their equipment for doing this expecting to be able to continue using Litchi and didn’t expect DJI to stop supporting it. It was probably a very large disappointment having to either sell their new Mavics to get a more expensive enterprise version with its lower photographic image quality.
