While the weather is terrible here, I'm trying to come up with different missions so I can see what they look like later when I fly in the real world.
I want to fly between a->b->a->b etc and change the altitude when I reach each destination point.
I want the focus of the drone/camera to be on one point, but the drone changes focus when it reaches the next destination. How can I make the drone keep looking at one poi?
first I tried to reach my goal with a path, but then I have to copy the latitude and longitude to each waypoint for A and B. That can easily go wrong.
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This should be pretty easy to do. Can you share your mission and we can take a look and point out where you are going wrong.
I look at the destination component as just a way to get to a location. You can do a good amount getting to a destination but I usually use paths. Gives me more control of changing altitudes, speed, drone heading, gimbal pitch along the entire path.
I believe this should help you to see how to setup what you were asking.
I hope this helps. Enjoy….
https://app.dronelink.com/wyldwestaz/home-missions/plan/F6jAVj9xE6tdv1cmw76E/G79tfq0qj3kcnfF2mMSH
Hope I am sharing the mission in a correct way. As said, the question is how to keep the drone or the camera continiously facing the same poi.
https://app.dronelink.com/smooth/my-first-project/plan/6bOfRCNoExBYS2iDue0q/EnmmnhMXMvH8P8Ch6hIH
I appreciate your support
Hi Johank. If you look at my example I made you just click the arrow to scroll down to the add point of interest. I believe you will need to put one for every new approach to the destination. I don’t think you can set one POI marker and have all other destination paths focus on that one. Since it’s another approach it will need one for each. I may wrong but I don’t see any other way to do it with Approaches. With something like this I’d use a path which is not hard to set up and will give more control. Just a thought.
Run the plan I shared with that link and you will see how it focuses on the one POI. Just need a new POI marker for each approach. I can work on yours and set it up and send it back if you would like. Let me know but I’m sure you can figure it out. Good luck.
I went ahead and did it. Several issues which I corrected. You had added a drone heading, gimbal channel and user interface settings were causing issues and were not needed. Also noticed the first POI wasn’t working and I figured out that the approach length was so short to the first destination it didn’t have time to initiate. I moved the Take-off/ reference pin back a bit more so it was longer and it now works throughout the mission. You can move any of the components to accommodate your needs but this should be kinda what you were looking for and give you ideas.
You can adjust the POI’s or enter the altitude off-set on them to get the video centered on what you want.
Hope this helps. Enjoy..
https://app.dronelink.com/wyldwestaz/forum-missions/plan/NvQoQcZwhnyEoAlDg7jl/xh24k86kV2vZ1Jvl5713
Hello Mike. Thank you for quick reaction. Of course the way you solved this works fine, but it is just the method I want to avoid.
When I fly 6 times from left to right and vice versa I have to make 6 POI with exact the same longtitude and latitude. Would be nice though when you could link several destinations to one POI.
You’ll need to ask Jim if that’s even possible on an approach. I just don’t think it is. That’s why I’d use a path with one POI. Much simpler.
Took about 5 minutes to do a path with one POI marker. Also smoother throughout the mission since it stays on the one marker and quicker due to no achievement time for each destination point. Good luck..
https://app.dronelink.com/wyldwestaz/forum-missions/plan/zNCO0z1nFvWCMiwsb6Iu/b24GyL9T99ZeP8XAHTaC
I was only investigating if it was possible. :)
ok. 🤙🏼
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