Mavic 3 Enterprise Questions

John Clark

I've got a ton of questions about the M3E and what is even possible with it. I've really been outspoken over on the DJI forums about what limits DJI has intentionally put on the drone. So far not a single reply or answer has been given to me by a DJI rep. 

https://forum.dji.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=281230

Today I tried the Dronelink Beta with the M3E and was sad to find that it didn't offer what I have been looking for, more options in the video settings. DJI Pilot 2 only offers two modes to shoot video in. 1080 & 4k both locked at 29.97 fps. Dronelink only seems to offer one mode to take a video and it doesn't even say what resolution it is. DJI might not allow much more than that on the drone, I don't know. So I'm curious what all flexibility DJI even allows for on the drone side for devs. I know they want to keep this for strictly a mapping tool and force people interested in anything else to buy a second drone. I think that's ridiculous and very wrong to do.

 

I did try out a mapping job though with Dronelink and it did a great job. 

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    Mike (Arizona Wyldwest) Dronelink Expert Dronelink Expert

    Some info here which may help John. 

    https://support.dronelink.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/12131902960403-DJI-Waypoints-vs-DL-and-Mavic-3-and-3-Classic-

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    John Clark

    I agree with what is said in that thread. I don't agree with the way their keeping consumer SDKs from 3rd party devs but I can understand why their doing it.  That said, it's the main reason I bought the Enterprise version. I'm a responsible Part 107 holding pilot. I need a drone that allows me to actually own the thing, not just partially. If DJI can give the consumer side things like waypoints.. The Enterprise side of the market should get the same love on the features available to them. 

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    Jim McAndrew Dronelink Staff

    more options in the video settings

    We haven't created menus for all of the settings yet as we are still in the transition period to the modern dashboard, but you can add commands to your mission plan to set any of the settings, and if you create a command only mission, the drone won't even take off (still recommend removing the props), which allows you to test different combinations of values for the settings very rapidly. That is to say, the mission planner UI exposes all possible values, but it is up to you to determine which ones won't result in a failure of the command (meaning that the underlying SDK / drone does not support the value).

    it doesn't even say what resolution it is

    The resolution and frame rate are listed in the camera settings under the more menu (...) in the top right.

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    John Clark

    Thank you for the reply, I understand how early into the M3E adoption DL is right now. I'm very appreciative that your beta allows it at all actually. I see the potential this drone has but DJI appears to be determined to keep it restricted to a very niche group of people. I do mapping, modeling etc. and it is great for that I agree. I also do real estate photography/videography too. Having to keep a second drone on me would be a pain by itself. DJI has gone a step further and made my fancy RC Pro Enterprise only compatible with 2 drones in existence. 

    Thanks again for the DL Beta. If I can help with the M3Es implementation in anyway please let me know.   

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