Rotation Calculation not correct

Larry Fortna

I noticed a 30 second pause in a flight I do every day.  I thought the problem was the dronelink app so I restored the app back to before the 2.0.0 release and ran the same flight again today which worked as expected.

But then I decided to make a small change to my flight plan on the web interface.  When I did a mission preview I noticed the same issue as earlier so I checked the version in the website and found it to be 2.0.0 and the pause I saw the other day was present in the newly compiled mission.

The issue has to do with the Rotation component.  In my flight plan, I fly a path to a point in which I end and start a 5 second wait followed by a 270 degree rotation at 4.5 degrees per second.  That calculates to be 60 seconds of rotation.  I follow that up with a 5 second wait before starting another path back home.

When I preview the mission, the rotate function actually completes the 270 degrees in 60 seconds but continues to hold in place for another ~35 seconds before moving on to the next command.  The rotation is taking 95 seconds to complete rather than 60 seconds.

I had submitted a beta report via the app two days ago, but it has been too windy to go try it again until today.

Also noted on the previous submission was the path shown on the map.  The entire path has always shown on the map with the drone position marching around it.  The other day in the actual flight with 2.0.0, the path was only being drawn as the drone flew thru its mission and the entire path was not visible until the mission ended.

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    Jim McAndrew Dronelink Staff

    Thanks for reporting this. We released 2.0.0 to the web as it was required for the native app beta test, but the native app is still 1.7.3 in production. We made some changes in 2.0.0 in an attempt to correct for some of the "jerky motions" that users have been experiencing with the Mavic Mini, and my guess is that this was an unintended consequence of adding those filters. Can you share a link to the mission plan that causes the issue?

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