Flying down a path vertically and taking a photo at every 5m altitude drop.
Hey! Completely new to Dronelink and I'm planning a new mission. I've set up a map mission already but once it's done I want the drone to ascend to a height of 300m and descend to 30m straight down vertically. While doing so, I want it to take photos every time it descends 5m. I know I can do this by setting up a Photo component, duplicating it and changing the altitude, but that would mean manually creating 54 points. Is there any other way to do this ? I feel like I'm missing something.
Thanks in advance!
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Just adding another observation. When I tried duplicating the photo component and previewing it, the drone points the gimbal down, takes a photo, brings it back looking forward, descends 5m, points the gimbal down again and takes the next photo. I'm pretty sure that doing this over so many points would drain battery needlessly in the gimbal movements. I'd like to avoid that. Thanks!
Before you duplicate the photo component go to the start setting and set the gimbal to -90
Start setting
-90
Sounds like you could use the Facade component. I’d suggest looking through the DL help articles which has a ton of assistance.
https://support.dronelink.com/hc/en-us/articles/4411563374099-Basic-Facades-Vertical-Mapping-Facade-Mission-Component
https://support.dronelink.com/hc/en-us/categories/360001874574-General
Thanks a lot for the quick responses! Unfortunately I took ill and couldn't respond.
This was a great suggestion Martin.
I have a new query though. I'm also flying a map mission which I converted to an Inspection since I want to eliminate rolling shutter on the Mini 3 Pro. However, when I do this, the same thing happens again. Every time the drone takes a shot, it moves the gimbal back up, looks ahead, moves forward, stops, points the gimbal down again and so on. I can understand setting the gimbal to -90 in the photo component, but how can I do this in Inspection? There are 119 points and it'll be insane to do that manually (if possible at all) I can see gimbal heading in the Start Point but that only sets the heading until it reaches the first point. After that, it goes back to this behaviour at the inspection points. Could you help?
Hey. Any leads on this?
Also posted the query in an email to support. Waiting for a reply. Hopefully I can resolve this soon. I need to fly my missions tomorrow.
Thanks in advance.
The Inspection Component code has built-in behavior to detect the distance to the next point, and if it is far enough away, it tilts the gimbal up so you can see in the direction of flight for safety. This doesn't slow the actual mission down, and there is no way to disable this behavior currently, but you can submit it as a feature request if you really don't like it for some reason:
https://support.dronelink.com/hc/en-us/community/topics/360001209614-Feature-Requests
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