Lock or continuously set gimbal angle
Hi
I’m doing mapping missions with a DJI Mini 2 and have set the gimbal angle to -90 degrees.
But the Mini 2 (and the other mini’s to) have a “bug” that changes the gimbal angle whenever the drone tilts too much, that’s just how they are.
This “bug” results in the gimbal angle being changed al the time, and I have to manually tilt down the camera during the whole mission.
I read (https://support.dronelink.com/hc/en-us/articles/4414003733395-Manual-Gimbal-Pitch-Override-Control) that in mapping missions, Dronelink only sets the mission angle once at mission start, and not continuously for every photo.
Is there a way to tell dronelink to do this continuously?
Otherwise that would be a really helpful function for a future update. I understand that sometimes you want to be able to manually override, but a setting where I can choose “set at start” or “set continuously” would be fantastic.
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I map with a mini 2 and have very little problem with this happening, and when it has i just set it back to -90 using the scroll wheel
Assuming that this is being caused by a steep flight angle the first option would be to slow the drone down to limit the tilt.
If that isn't good enough then, assuming you have a higher level plan, you can convert to inspection.
If you see this video here you will see that the gimbal resets to -90deg at every photo after conversion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQZLB1P8ExY
Unfortunately I have encountered this "sometimes", certainly not every flight, but often enough to be annoying. I happened again just today as the matter of fact. Originally I blamed it on wind gusts, especially during turns at the end of a map leg, causing the drone to pitch up and then try to maintain gimbal position, but getting "stuck". Today was nearly dead calm, and it suddenly jumped to -82°. I had reported this in the forum months ago, they had no explanation, and I never thought it was something Dronelink is causing. I was flying the map at 4 MPH today, and it was the same mission that I have flown nearly 30 times, and this has happened maybe 3 other times with this mission. I have thought of trying to put a gimbal adjustment in at the ends of the legs, but I don't think the map plan allows that. I just have to watch the reading carefully and reset it when it goes out.
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