Yes I searched but didn’t find the answer.
I have just started playing with waypoints and have done some test runs to se what happens. The controller shows it as recording from the moment you press go, and I plugged in the aircraft to the desktop to watch back the two short films I did using waypoints. There is no media? Do you have to do something additional for it to record, as it makes out as if it is recording it but it clearly hasn’t.
Thanks
You can set each waypoint up as a start or stop recording or take photo option.
Make sure it’s set correctly - I have only ever done a two point mission so not sure if there is a continuous option for the 2nd / 3rd / 4th etc for when you get to the end of the mission. Need to have a look at that.
It could be that you didn’t have the record set correctly so that it didn’t record- or you were recording and you powered down / removed the battery without stopping the recording
Hmmm - ok will have a play and watch some online tutorials then report back so if someone searches the same thing there is an outcome. It def said recording and had a timeline when doing it so this has been quite an annoyance to find.
Has it recorded to the controller ?
Ok -sorted now - I had to go into the individual waypoints and select an action for each - i.e start recording on 1 and finish recording at the end etc. So it has now worked. Before I just pressed go and off it went.
These waypoints are an absolute game changer for me. I can set up several in a row in quick succession, and get some pretty dynamic phases of media automatically - up to now I have done everything manually which has worked but proven a steep learning curve. This will be ideal to navigate some sequences around buildings and along tight routes - really impressed that the drone works out the camera and gimbal and delivers a smooth product all by itself.
It is worth pointing out that if you make a change to an item in any waypoint, and want that change made to all waypoints in the mission, there is a small “apply to all waypoints” text/button top right of the dialog.
It saves going to every waypoint to make the same change.
For example, if you set the altitude at 40m originally and had 10 waypoints in the mission, you might decide to change it to 50m throughout. You would only have to do it on any one of them and “apply to all” whilst it is yellow text.
Interesting thanks. The way I am using it is basically as a dot to dot exercise to get the drone doing all the hard work for me. Lots of different camera gimba angles facing different ways at each waypoint, the drone does the transitions and movements all smoothly for me so I dont have to manually adjust 4 seperate inputs in different ways etc
Had some interesting tests with this. I set up quite a tight sequence of waypoints in the garden to see what happened. I purposefully made them so that the drone had to navigate around things or over things to get to the next point, rather than take the most direct route. It produced interesting results and I need to explore more testing as a result.
I used 7 waypoints all round the back garden in tight spaces, and the drone did seem to follow the route I had flown initially to get to them (so rather than going direct or as the crow flies, it seemed to copy my initial manual flight). However, despite no issues with me performing the initial route, it then refused to complete the course owing to obstacle detection (which had not been an issue on my route creation). I ended up turning off the obstacle avoidance and hovering over the cancel button to see what it did. It did complete the course with no issues but I was nervous watching it all, as it was fairly quick and purposeful and flew close to things.
I want to start using waypoints as a tool to film difficult, narrow and awkward sequences around buildings to save me the ass ache of manually trying to do it. But I am yet to test whether this is reliable - the last thing I want is to be at an event or a paid shoot and look like an idiot when the drone tries to fly to a waypoint and crashes into something.
Anyone have any experience of this, and will the drone follow the exact same course you initially input when you press go and it flies the sequence back?
Remember, by default, the course you plot will be converted into curves by the drone software. If you’re trying to do sharper turns or straighter lines, you’ll need to set extra waypoints to coerce the drone into following your plan. For example, if you plan to fly forwards, make a sharp 90 degree turn then fly forwards again you’ll need to set a waypoint at the start and end of the initial forward flight, another waypoint after the sharp turn and another at the end of the final forward motion. The “extra” waypoint at the end of the initial forward flight is to stop the software converting the initial motion and turn into a smooth wide curve.
I’m not sure what would happen if your waypoint route took the drone behind a building i.e. the drone would be out of sight and out of radio contact with the controller. It could crash, or decide it had lost contact and try to return home.
The controller works when the drone is behind a building 
RTH through signal loss would see it ascend, so that shouldn’t be an issue anyway - but this would all be close up stuff anyway, i.e me next to the building etc.
There’s some great footage out there of consumer drones circling large buildings on waypoint missions, but it would not comply with the drone code over here, even if there was a spotter on the other side of the building. In the UK, DJI have removed the “continue mission on signal loss” option in the waypoint menu which, I presume, is to discourage this kind of flying.
Ok this needs further clarification -
This isn’t to send it BVLOS. This is to perform single sided sequences for example, fly into the corner of a building whilst descending and panning down, then slowly pan to the right as it slows, then move sideways and rotate slightly to do a close up arc, before rising and moving away while panning up - I am not suggesting flying 360 degrees around a building although I would for a house potentially as you can move with it and would have to to be out of shot.
As with all things, typed text on a forum doesn’t illustrate the intention. The waypoints can be used as a tool to get the drone to smoothly do what I have up until now been doing manually, i.e lots of camera, poisition, gimbal and height adjustments together.
Are the 360 drones going to kill all this off ?
Still think Litchi is excellent and use it with my older kit, but the Antigravity and Avata3 (if it ever comes) look very cool
My personal view is drones will be killed off anyway over the coming years with more heavy regulation, lunacy rules and fear of being caught out the more intense it gets. I am already more and more adverse to flying owing to all the ongoing queries, 251g vs green lights at night vs look at controller don’t look at controller etc. I have no idea what’s what with it all anymore, and it certainly won’t improve or simplify.
We’ve had these deja-vu chats for the last 10 years or so I have been flying.
Never really been a look at controller type, and its always been my style of flying to watch the drone, although like anyone I’ve flown further and higher than intended on occasion.
Gotta be safer so the planes at 37000ft can see you ;o)
The best years (more freedom) are certainly behind us, bit there will always be opportunity for this who want to fly for the sake of flying.
Its the adoration junkies that will suffer the most IMHO
Don’t forget that gps positional accuracy variation wanders from second to second and the position could be as much as 10ft (3m) out. It makes all the difference between missing a tree and being part of a tree! Hopefully object avoidance will cope but trees with no leaves don’t help.
So… some interest again here from me. I thought that a waypoint file once created/saved/flown would mean the drone will fly the exact same route each time based on exact co-ordinates. But it doesn’t and I am also fairly certain I saved it from crashing.
I flew the same waypoint of 4 points and the drone was not at the same altitude I flew it at at all, much lower and I had to abort as it was going sideways towards a letter box. I then simplified it to 2 points only, very close together and minimal change other than going forward and up. It did perform this over and over, I am yet to see on the editor if the videos can overlay perfectly. I then switched it off and went to repeat the same 2 point waypoint course half an hour later, it flew it but wasn’t recording and again the exact altitudes did not match.
I thought these waypoints would be concrete and fly the exact same set up but they just don’t unless I am doing something wrong. And it forgets the commands set for each point such as start rec / stop rec,
For ref I didn’t specifically save then but used the ones that self store. Maybe I got confused? But it didn’t perform at all as I thought it would.