I'm considering getting the Mavic 3T for use on a 50 acre off grid property in Alaska. The goal is to make a permanent launch pad outside our cabin where the drone will sit inside a plexiglass enclosure that can be opened via WiFi, with the drone connected to power through the USB port using a magnetic cable
like this one so that it keeps a full charge, receives satellites and is always ready to go. I'll have a cooling fan installed to keep the drone cool inside the enclosure. In the cabin we'll have the RC Pro Enterprise wall mounted on a bracket, plugged in and powered on, with an HDMI output to a large flat panel.
The goal is to, based on sensor alerts we get throughout the property, hit a button located next to the RC Pro to remotely open the enclosure over the launch pad, and then tap on an autonomous mission on the controller and quickly launch the drone on its way to do some surveillance for us (looking for bears, moose, wolves and such that may have triggered our sensors on the property).
Does this seem viable with this drone? Some specific questions I have:
1. Does anybody know if the drone motors will start, or the drone attempt to fly, if a USB power cable is connected to the drone and charging it? If the answer is no, would it start/fly if power was shut off to the cable while still attached to the drone? I'm hoping to rig it up with the magnetic cable to keep the cable out of the way of props coming up from the floor of the launch pad, so that when the drone launches it simply disconnects the magnetic cable.
2. While it seems iffy that the RC Pro Enterprise will run Litchi from what I've gathered (or at least at this point in time), my understanding is that I can create several waypoint missions and save them in the DJI Pilot 2 app and at least quickly send the drone to various pre-programmed spots with the cameras looking straight down. From what I understand, the drone doesn't support point of interest so I won't be able to have the drone focus on various points while flying a waypoint mission and will have to settle for a fixed gimbal setting like looking straight down. I haven't used waypoint missions in the DJI Pilot app, and have two specific questions about that app. A) would it allow setting a waypoint mission to start recording video upon launch, or is that something that has to be done manually? and B) would it allow me to pause the drone position during the waypoint mission and manually look around before hitting resume on the waypoint mission? From what I've seen I should be able to pause/resume using the remote pause button or the on screen pause button.
Many thanks in advance for anybody who can offer feedback before we fork over the 6K for this drone!
