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  Jim McAndrew Dronelink Staff

  • June 21, 2023 12:22

  One other thing I noticed is that when ascending 19 M or greater the POI  is no longer in frame - 

  What do you think could be causing that?

  You will need to share your mission plan an ideally a link to the video showing the behavior.

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  Terry

  • Edited June 22, 2023 06:56

  Jim:

  I tried it again today and same results  ---

  Here is the mission plan:

  https://app.dronelink.com/et-JjoZLAP6DlecTXLeXF1k/my-test-shared/plan/vzXfYaUMc5OSGtMoVnqd/HljXG1nnGHvrrxQI9qTs

  Here is the video (POI out of frame and POI off center) --

  https://youtu.be/aFi--R9WKPo

  Thank you

   

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  Martin Reading Dronelink Expert

  • June 22, 2023 07:44

  Terry have you done a gimbal calibration recently, as here the gimbal looks way off horizontal

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  Martin Reading Dronelink Expert

  • June 22, 2023 08:51

  Ok Terry I've had a good look & play with your mission, and round about waypoint the gimbal goes to 19 degrees and stays there for the rest of the mission, this is possibly due to the fact that you only have the 1 path action pointing at the POI throughout the whole of a complex path that has lots of both directional & height changes.

  So I've copied your plan and added some more path actions to it all focusing on your POI, the plan can be seen here  https://app.dronelink.com/martin-reading/my-first-project/plan/H9gWH3iZzUELKoUONdn4 if you look at this plan & in preview we'll take an example, at the max altitude of 295 feet at waypoint J the gimbal angle is -77 & the POI is centered, whereas in yours its looking at some point on the horizon, feel free to cop this plan and fly it, then let us know the results.

  Adding additional path actions like this is easy, just right click on the waypoints path where yoou want to add the path element, then click on waypoint elements, and select path action, you can then set all sorts of settings in the path action settings panel, to do the above plan I just set each path action to look at the POI, hope this helps

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  Jim McAndrew Dronelink Staff

  • June 22, 2023 13:53

  Waypoint E has a gimbal pitch configuration (albeit blank), which causes the gimbal to no longer automatically pitch to view the POI (gimbal pitch and POI are mutually exclusive). If you remove it, it should work.

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  Terry

  • June 23, 2023 02:49

  Jim/Martin

  Thank you for your helpful advice - for sure I will put all those suggestion in action - will do over the weekend and report back - hopefully with good news - :) 

   

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  Terry

  • Edited June 24, 2023 21:58

  As per Jim: Waypoint E has a gimbal pitch configuration (albeit blank), which causes the gimbal to no longer automatically pitch to view the POI (gimbal pitch and POI are mutually exclusive). If you remove it, it should work.

  I flew the mission again today with the correction as above and now the POI is in frame as it should be - although was faced with new issues:

  1. Encountered multiple App crashes
  2. At start (30 sec into flight) the App crashed - drone flew back and continued the mission but the recording did NOT start automatically. Had to start recording manually  - then after each App crash thereafter the recording started automatically as it should.
  3. About 75% into the mission the RED drone indicator on the flight path stopped moving but the drone kept flying the path in the sky.

  As per Martin: the plan can be seen here  https://app.dronelink.com/martin-reading/my-first-project/plan/H9gWH3iZzUELKoUONdn4 if you look at this plan..........

  I flew the mission today and here are the results:

  1. The POI stayed in frame the whole time. (smooth like butter)
  2. Only ONE App crash.

  And as Martin has pointed out its really easy to add "Path Actions" and there are so many other COOL things that are available for us to use which I'm excited and looking forward to try out very soon! 

  Thank you for all your help!

   

   

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  Martin Reading Dronelink Expert

  • June 24, 2023 23:45

  And as Martin has pointed out its really easy to add "Path Actions" and there are so many other COOL things that are available for us to use which I'm excited and looking forward to try out very soon! 

  Terry, anything you try out and are not sure of just post on here and someone is bound to help you out

  Well worth watching Barry Houldsworth 5 minute Friday series on you tube https://www.youtube.com/@aviosmedia

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