Building and editing a plan manually

Andy Clay
Im a new user of Dronelink. I wanted to start my jouney by building manually a simple starting plan, try it, edit it and try again. I've looked at the videos and roamed through the posting here in the forum . I'm embarrassed to say, even with those tool I'm stuck on the most basic thing. There seems there's nowhere that shows examples of the basic editing of a plan. How to add steps, edit steps, delete steps. At times I can't even start editing a plan because I can't find the edit function. I can't even start my journey with dl. I could use some detail help to navigate in the windows PC browser screen for editing. Thanks
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  • Comment author
    Martin Reading Dronelink Expert Dronelink Expert

    Have you checked out the getting started tutorials

    https://support.dronelink.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500006089702-Getting-Started-Tutorials

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    Mike (Arizona Wyldwest) Dronelink Expert Dronelink Expert
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    That link Martin gave you is a good place to start. If you also go to the right side you will also see a lot of other help for waypoints, orbits, mapping etc. There is a lot of help regarding different components. Also there is no edit button. All you do is create a plan and when you close it the plan is automatically saved. Whenever you open any plan and make any changes it will save when closing it again. I suggest using Firefox browser as it has been tested to work the best compared to the three other supported browsers. A larger screen will make it much easier as well whether a large screen tablet or PC. It will take time to learn the app because it is very powerful with a ton of features. Ask any time if you need help with plan as there are several Pilots here which will be happy to help further. Good luck. 

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    Barry Houldsworth Dronelink Expert Dronelink Expert

    This raises an interesting thought.

    The getting started series assumes people have gone to the dronelink.com website and are logged in.  Maybe they need to start sooner, showing that step, before continuing from where they are today.

    Or maybe that should be a short separate video which covers how to get to that page on different devices such as a PC, a tablet or even a phone. 

    Thoughts?

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  • Comment author
    Martin Reading Dronelink Expert Dronelink Expert

    You could possibly have a point there Barry, maybe an obvious link from the main download page to the getting started stuff

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  • Comment author
    Andy Clay

    Thanks everyone for the comments. The UI controls to manually build a mission seem atypical to me. I started to get the hag of it and then tried to find and add the return to home component, and hour later I found what I think is the return to home under settings. It's not a component action. This just isn't the way my mind reasons where to look.

    On a related point. The mission preview doesn't seem to show the final return to home step. Is that just the way it displays or does it's absence indicate I really don't have return to home enabled?

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    Martin Reading Dronelink Expert Dronelink Expert

    The preview shows the mission itself, return to home happens after mission end

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    Mike (Arizona Wyldwest) Dronelink Expert Dronelink Expert

    The RTH for Action on Finish in the settings is where you found it and it is always set to RTH by default. No need to add a command or worry about what it does on completion of mission. It’s the same with low battery and disconnect state.

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