I want to hover without stopping recording during waypoint missions.
There are waypoints A and B, and we plan to have the drone automatically navigate from A to B. I want to start recording after hovering at point A for 5 seconds, and stop recording after hovering for about 30 seconds after arriving at point B, but I can't set it up properly.
Please tell me if you know. thank you.
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Ok I think this is what you're after, if so just copy it into your own repository, change its reference point and move the components to where you want, basically this flies from take off location waypoint 1 videos while hovering for 5 seconds, then flies from WP1 to WP2 videoing on the way, hovers at WP2 for 30 Seconds while videoing and then ends the mission, if you don't want the video between the 2 waypoints then just remove the video mode and video start capture commands
https://app.dronelink.com/martin-reading/beta-testing/plan/pw8d59ckWLhoaVgSqXQA/vKdj1cPfcVCUA83j4AYf
Martin, why 2 checkpoints instead of 1 waypoint with A & B ?
Stéphane, yeah could do it that way as well
stéphane GARNIER, scrub my previous comment, if you use waypoints and put a hover command on waypoint A, the initial hover ends up over the launch point rather at wp A, as can be seen here
https://app.dronelink.com/martin-reading/beta-testing/plan/JYlrzUdCtNx5iWXs788F
Thanks Martin.
I´m not used with checkpoints, but interesting to know.
Martin I too am trying to create a waypoint mission with several hover points that will not interrupt the video. The reason I am doing this is I am using the Mini2 and starting the drone with DJI in the 4x zoom. Once the video is broken or stopped the zoom goes back to 1x. I looked at your mission and it shows a break when hover is introduced. Could you look at my plan" P.O.I. 1" and see if you can manage it. Thanks.
I think I found your plan “POI 1” Bob. I found this older post which explains how to utilize the wait command. My understanding is it isn’t designed to work at marker, (path action). Maybe Jim’s explanation will help. Only suggestion I have is to place a marker with no interpolation to decrease the speed before the POI to a very low amount. Then add another one somewhere after it to set the speed back up. Obviously not able to fully pause/ stop but I don’t see how else to get it to work if you’re wanting to keep the zoom working. Since it will be rolling left while focusing on the POI it will show some movement but not much else you can do. I added a marker before POI 1 and set the speed to .1 mph and the mission preview looks good to me. Also not sure if it was by mistake or not but the max speed is set to 33.6 mph. Could get a drone too far off-course failure if any headwinds especially with the Mini. Just a thought. Hope this helps.
https://support.dronelink.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360049288874-wait-command-ignored-or-not-working-in-markers
If you need to record video across multiple components, just add them all to a list and add automatic video capture to the containing list.
My understanding is if he puts a hover component in the plan which breaks it up it still causes the zoom to stop and go back to normal. Could be wrong but though. The plan I found must not be the one you were asking about Bob since it doesn’t have a hover component in it. If you put a hover in it and enabled the auto capture on it that would start and stop it. Also of you added another path to continue and used the auto capture then that could be why. Any auto capture on a component automatically sends a stop command before starting the video again. That would break it up into another video segment and could be why it goes back to normal. I set one up quickly with a few hovers and several more paths and it shows one continuous video. I always place my video camera list at very beginning of my plans to start at the execution of the mission and it runs continuously. So doing as Jim stated should work if set up properly.
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