Mavic Air 2: support for HDR Panorama Sphere?
Hi, great to learn that after a beta period Dronelink now also supports the Mavic Air 2. I have a question: I cannot find the Camera Photo type command: create HDR Panorama Sphere photo. That is a phote mode standard available on the MA2 that produces pictures of 8192*4096 pixels based on (3*8+1=25) single photo's, stiched together by the drone itself (instead of using other PC software in a offline process afterwards). Do I overlook something? Thanks for any help!
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The onboard pano functionality is not surfaced in Dronelink, but there are others that are using functions to accomplish the capture portion (not stitching).
Thank you for your answer! To be honest, this is a bit disappointing. Not knowing any technical details, it looks to me a simple straight forward and easy add-on, as a Panorama Sphere photo on my MA2 is only one push of a button away. My solution now is to use the disengage function to stop the drone and push te button for the pano myself manually and then resume nmission flighing to the next path, disengage again, etc... Hopefully you will implement this in a future release! As explained, the onboard function gives comfort that the stitching is done in one shot and by the drone itself instead of (the example) result in 87 separate pictures. Anyway, I do like your app a lot :-)
I am going to move this over to feature requests. Just a question though: is there any advantage to having this in Dronelink vs just doing it in DJI?
Well, planning a mission in advance from the comfort of my desktop is the whole idea and the key argument using Dronelink isn't it? :-) Problem using the DJI Fly app using its build in map is that I cannot travel my drone exactly to the required gps locations easily and in case of multiple destinations it takes time to find on the map and fly to the exact gps positions. What I like to do is creating a mission that send the drone in the air, travel to 3 or 4 exact gps-locations and make a Pano Sphere iphoto on those exact locations and then come back again. My solution with multiple path and multiple disengage commands works, but needs every time input from me (at each stop making the photo and then manually resume the mission). So if I can just remove the disengage commands and let Dronelink push the button for me I would be happy :-)
Fair enough. Unfortunately this one is harder to support than most other simple commands because of the duration (most other commands execute in less than a second). In this case there needs to be some awareness of what is happening onboard and what the Dronelink flight controller is doing. Not impossible, but just requires a bit of refactoring to the architecture.
Hi Jim, is there any progress on this request? Thank you. Regards, Danny
We have not spent the time on it due to the afore mentioned complexity, and the fact that there is only one user asking for it.
You can make that two users requesting it ;)
Three users, at least! :)
4 users now 😁
Jim McAndrew any updates on Android development for the sphere capture?
No updates. You can follow our release notes here.
Still no pano support for my Mavic Air2? I noticed today that Dronelink posted om my Facebook timeline this message: "Unlock Waypoint, Mapping, 360 Photo Missions for your Mini 2, Air 2S, Mini SE. Dronelink Flight Automation and Mission Planning.". This makes me jalous. Any update on planning please. Thank you!
Danny, I don't think the new release allows the "one button-press to stitched image" that was requested. Jim, can you confirm?
The 360 photos referenced in that video means you can normal Dronelink mission plans to capture images in a 360 spherical pattern, but the stitching is left up to you in post production.
Which comment?
Sorry, removed. Looks like that comment was for another thread.
I'm Number 7 requesting this feature
The included Dronelinkscript does : for each Gimbalpitch ( for each Heading (shoot))
DJI does : for each Heading ( for each Gimbalpitch (shoot)) : it is way faster
I'll try to modify the script
I wanted to follow up and see if there is any progress on Dronelink supporting the native DJI HDR Panorama Sphere component. I am using Android and I thought I read somewhere that this is possible of iPhones. Does anyone know if this is true?
Thank you!
No. This feature request is basically blocked by the fact that DJI implements this as another type of non-virtual stick mission (just like DJI Waypoints). Implementing it means we need to create an architecture to switch between DJI SDK missions and virtual stick missions within one logical Dronelink mission, which is non trivial to say the least.
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