Converting orbit to waypoints not controlling heading
Hi im trying to convert a orbit mission to waypoints to be used onboard a Phantom 4 pro v2 but it will not focus on the center of my orbit how would I fix this?
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Can you share the mission you have before conversion?
Barry Houldsworth
Weird I made the same mission at another location and now it seems to be working just fine.
The old one runs fine in mission preview but once converted the heading isnt controlled at all in mission preview or real life.
If you share the non-working one I can take a look when I get a moment.
So it seems if you add gimbal orientation it completely breaks the conversion to dji waypoints
Barry do you have an email I can send it to?
Feel free to send to barry@aviosaerialmedia.com if you don't want to share the link here.
Hi Bryce Brooks
Thanks for sharing. I see what you mean and I think you may have uncovered an "undocumented feature"
After converting to DJI Waypoints, when the gimbal angle is manually set, it is also setting the drone heading to zero - and so the drone performs the orbit but faces north the entire time. I'll let Jim McAndrew know about this as I don't believe that is the intended behavior.
There is a way to achieve the objective of having a prescribed gimbal angle and that also works after conversion. That is to add a POI in the orbit with an appropriate altitude - for example, if you wanted it to face just below the horizon on a 100ft altitude orbit you would set the POI altitude to 95ft or similar and place it in the center. The exact POI altitude will vary based on the size of the orbit, etc. so you might need to play with it a little but, for now, this will give you what you need.
Thanks for raising this.
Thank you and I did try the POI but I did not realize you could set the altitude it could look at. Thank you
It's called altitude offset.
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