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Hi all, read through quite a lot on this software but unsure as to how well it would suit my requirements. Mainly the very repetitive nature of using a plan over and over again. But the ability to adjust on the fly.
Let me elaborate.
Looking to set a start point and end point and a path (or plan or route or whatever the current label is :-)) and set the speed of transit along that path. Whilst the drone follows this, the camera is still controlled manually by the slave remote - Inspire 2 drone.
The drone flys to the start. And waits. Director does countdown to 'action' and the ''mission' is set to go, but the speed at which the drone goes along the 'path' can be altered by the pilot in realtime, the drone comes to a halt at the end of the path. Click button, drone reverses back ready to start again. Ideal situation would be the 'pitch' control of pilot is used to start the mission and then control the speed of the drone along its path, obviously max pitch control would be 100% of whatever speed was stipulated in the path. This would then allow the pilot to start the move on 'action', to ease into the move at the start but adjust speed along the path as no take is ever the same. Meantime the cam operator is manually controlling the cam for the shot.
Feasible?
The speed of the aircraft cannot be controlled/ altered by the pilot while it’s running the mission. You can set the max speed to whatever you want at different location by adding a max speed setting at a waypoint or adding a path marker to change it anywhere along the path whether slower or faster. Just not possible to change the speed once it’s running the mission. The camera operator can by manually control it for either photos or video and at any time you can pause the mission and they can switch between either and adjust the settings then you can resume. It will continue from that point and finish. There is no reverse feature to have it fly again but all you would need to do is load it again and run it as many times as you want. All plans are not a one time use and can be re-ran, edited as many times as you want. You can also copy any plan as many times as you want and set up each one a bit different and set the speed along the path at any location. Hope this helps.
Unfortunately seems it won't be suitable for my requirements, but thanks for your answer.
Just before I give up, thought i'd have a rummage through the DJi SDK, and came across exactly what i was looking for
In the waypoint mission, the aircraft will travel between waypoints, execute actions at waypoints, and adjust heading and altitude between waypoints. Waypoints are physical locations to which the aircraft will fly. Creating a series of waypoints, in effect, will program a flight route for the aircraft to follow. Actions can also be added to waypoints, which will be carried out when the aircraft reaches the waypoint. The aircraft travels between waypoints automatically at a base speed. However, the user can change the speed by using the pitch joystick. If the stick is pushed up, the speed will increase. If the stick is pushed down, the speed will slow down. The stick can be pushed down to stop the aircraft and further pushed to start making the aircraft travel back along the path it came.
https://developer.dji.com/api-reference/android-api/Components/Missions/DJIWaypointMission.html
So *could* this be implemented into a film based role within DroneLink?
https://support.dronelink.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410621290387-Onboard-Waypoints-Converting-and-Running-Missions
But Dronelink uses VSC which is the reason it makes it better than other apps right?!?
https://support.dronelink.com/hc/en-us/articles/360052533133-What-makes-Dronelink-different-or-better-than-other-apps
Most flight automation apps are limited to uploading missions to the drone for execution. This approach is called onboard waypoints, and it is the reason why most apps are essentially clones of each other - they rely on the same underlying flight controller.
Dronelink supports both onboard waypoints and an alternate approach to running missions called virtual stick.
Virtual Stick (default)
Virtual stick missions send commands in real-time as a human pilot would using the sticks on a remote control. While this approach does require a constant connection to the drone, it unlocks many features in Dronelink that are not possible with onboard waypoints, such as the advanced settings on Map, Facade, and Inspection components.
James fitch
If you convert to onboard components then you can use the controller to adjust the speed of the mission.
Send me an email at barry@aviosaerialmedia.com and I can provide a lot more information but it's not for public consumption because it was something I was paid to create.
Thanks Barry, have emailed.
J
Sorry. I’m so used to most drones not having on board capability including both of mine I’d didn’t think of that. 🤪. The reuse of a mission is very simple though and can be accomplished. Good luck.
Thanks
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