Great video part one on waypoints. And better late than never. And perhaps one of the reasons people watch your channel is that you have a really wonderful ‘teaching’ style. So don’t underestimate that value. It connects with a lot of people. And that’s important as you know to be successful
Thousands tutorials on this, no one explains how to do it off line with the new smart controller. I can’t believe I have to plan tasks like the one you explain very well next to my drone in ON mode with its fan constantly running. When I finish both remote and drone are boiling hot. Indeed great drone and great features but...........
Hi Russ You are great at teaching. I am a safety person an I took note on the setting. Hope yuo and your family are save with Covid-19. Have a great day.
Nice work, Ross. Very informative. I've up till now, just played around a little with WP2 on my M2P - nothing for customers yet. But I see so much potential in this. I think for me it's going to fully replace using std POI, Circle and a lot of the other presets. Simply because you can direct the filming precise and get so much more interesting footage of the subject then regular flight modes.
Great tutorial, Russ. I just setup my first mission and discovered an interesting fact. If you setup and save a mission on an iPhone, the mission is saved on the iPhone. When I switch to my iPad, the mission isn't there.
Extraordinarily good video Russ. You do a great job of explaining and making everything very clear. Thank you for taking the time to create this video and part 2 as well.
Ross, I had the same thing happen to me. I went out to fly some before/after waypoints and they were gone. I have the video, but not the waypoints themselves. I was shooting pre forest thinning vs post, but the area burned in a wildfire before it was thinned and now it's toast. It would have been a perfect "Why we need to thin video".
Waypoints 2.0 looks very useful. I can think of many "projects" to record over time. I wish it would come to the Mavic Pro Platinum!! Thanks for the informative video...
Stefan Kowalewski I have the Platinum and the M2P. Use Litchi. Been using it for over 2 years. Never had an issue. You can preprogram your mission on a laptop using Litchi Mission Hub, so much easier than your phone or tablet. Modify the mission on site, save the mission back to the cloud. I have hundreds of missions I can re fly when on holidays in Thailand several times per year. I have not used Go4 since I got Litchi except to calibrate the IMUs
Since this video is 2 years old, I don't know if you'll see this, but I have a question. In your settings at home, you set the No RC Signal value to "Continue task", and the Task Completed value to "Hover". Wouldn't this mean that if your waypoint was out of RC signal range, it would continue to the waypoint, and then stay there where it can't reconnect? Would it do a fail-safe RTH when the battery got low? Otherwise, how would you get it back?
Great information for myself. I have a Matrice 200 With gimbal and X5S camera. I have volunteered to video our local 18 golf course. Can I use what you presented on your demonstration to map all 18 holes using way points? I tried flying and videoing all 18 manually with a friend driving a golf cart and the video was jerky with lots of abrupt changes in flight directions
You still have to power up your drone and waste battery power to pre-plan a waypoint mission though. Other brands of quadcopter allow this to be done external to the quadcopter and then load it on when it suits. Even a home made quadcopter running Inav firmware allows this.
Seems like with recent update I can now pre-plan and save missions in warning geozones that it wouldn't let perform before update....I could do it while flying but not until then. Good update!
So two questions I have. 1. In order to design your preplanned route using waypoints 2.0, you need to have the drone powered up along with the remote? You can't do it from one of DJI's website and save it under your username? 2. One thing I noticed when I tried it myself (I was using my DJI smart controller and not the original remote with my phone connected to it) yesterday, I could not see the map of the area I was at. After thinking about it for a while, I realize that for the smart controller I needed a internet connection. If you are using the smart controller do you agree with that? When I turned on my wifi hotspot on my phone, I was able to see the map of the area where I was at flying my drone. And probably one last thing. for the arc flight mode, does the entire designed route have to be in that mode if selected, or can I select segments of my route to fly in that mode? Thanks!!
I still say Litchi is a more superior app. The fact that I can sit in front of my computer and plan flights, then download them to my ipad and load them once I'm onsite to the drone, makes it a much more user friendly app.
Do you need to have the drone on while setting the way points or just the controller? Is there a way of doing this on a computer than taking it into the drone?
Russ great channel you have and very informative. I have tried using waypoints 2.0 on my mavic 2 pro. Can you tell me how to make it not stop at each waypoint but kept flying in a smooth flight action. Thanks
Russ, I wish I knew why DJI can't add WayPoints 2.0 to the old fashion Mavic Pro Platinum that I have owned just over a year. Many of us can not afford to buy every new drone that DJI puts out. As it is now I use Litchi WayPoints which for the most part IS DJI Waypoints 2.0. It just feels like they are holding back on the "old" Mavics on purpose. I'm still going to watch your tutorials anyway but bothered by the fact that I don't have it.
@@chrisross1906 Chris, buy Litchi, it is better. It cost around $20 I believe and is worth every penny. You can set up Waypoints at home and then drive to the site and run the program. Just make sure your height is set right. The Pano takes 52 pictures in auto. All you have to do is click the start button. Lots more. It really is worth having it in your kit.
Thanks so much for all your videos! My question = can a saved route be shared or sent? Here is my scenario, i want to pre-plan on my wifes ipad, then send file to the non-sim iphone used to fly.
One question regarding waypoints 2.0 and the Mavic 2 Pro: I've made a 9-point plan with my drone flying towards and over a small hill with a castle on top. When I first made the plan my homepoint (and standpoint) was at the bottom of the hill. Yesterday I was on the top of the hill while initiating the same flightplan. And I also did som changes to the plan regarding heights of the different waypoints. So this got me thinking.. The drone usually seem to calculate height related to my homepoint, so how does it calculate when it does flightplans? GPS altitude? (or else my startpoint would be at approx -30m) My original plan is starting at 30m/100feet and ascending to 80m/250ft over the hill which is about 60m/200ft. - I'm not sure.. but it felt like it went a bit higher than that when I initiated the plan from the top of the hill yesterday. One other thing. The RTH function was spot on yesterday! However it was about 10feet off during landing until it was about 10feet above ground, then I'm guessing optical sensing kicked in and adjusted the final. Pretty cool! Thanks for a bunch of useful information on your channel! I started flying my drone in april, so still fairly new.
Are all these preplanned waypoint settings available in the Air 2S? I don’t recall seeing them if so. Just now realizing this video is 3 years old! 🤦🏾♂️
Good tutorial. Very helpful. Question: where is the TaskLibrary saved --- on the SD card or the Drone's own memory? Is there a way to backup the TaskLib ?
Hi and thanks for many great videos. I have a mavic pro and am very happy with it, but why can dji not upgrade the software in waypoint to and work as it does with mavic pro 2 this should not be a big problem.
Other than your awesome video, you really got my attention when you talked about your SD card failing so I'm curious what type that was and what type of SanDisk you are using now?
I really like the weypoints. I am doing the same as you. Only mine is a new housing development in a disused field next to my home. It's just a pity we can't save the missions online and re download them as you can with litchi. You have to save the Misson on the device you are using. If you damage your device for some reason. You will lose the saved Misson. Which could happen on a long building project you are trying to record over time. Someone said you can save the file from an ipad. But I think thats really hard to do. It would be really cool if we could also save a POI in the task library.
Hi Russ, thank you for this video, very new to Mavic 2 Pro and still learning. One question, what happens if there is an obstacle between two set pints, for exapmple a small hill between point1 and point 2 ? Thank you
Love the Vid.. BIUTTTTTT :) This version of WAYPOINT is totally Inaccurate Artistically - cause when on location its not framing up properly, How can you MANUALLY FRAME UP each Waypoints (to set the right Elevation & Angle to subject, & to set the right gimble pitch to BEST frame your subject at each way point) how do you do that ? This is an important tutorial THAT MANY WOULD LOVE & I HAVENT SEEN anything on 'Manually setting up WayPoints' on You TUbe. can you make a quick video explaining the procedure? Many Thanks
I know im a little late there but i notice when i pull up my waypoints. I dont have the 4 icons in the middle. I have the 5 on the right. I do i get that. I have a mavic pro alpine white thx. PLUS I have all the latest updates.
... It would be nice to be able to set the actual latitude & longitude coordinates for your POI, then set your waypoints...Probably easier if the site was visible on the map too.
Thanks for posting making the vid it’s very helpful. When you set the height is that set 200ft above ground level or from where you take off from? Thanks
not sure if I have waypoints 2.0 because I don't see these features when I try to make missions. I purchased a Mavic air 2s last year and although I have used waypoints a few times, it tends to be difficult to manage. If a mission runs longer than the battery, can you have the drone continue the mission from the last known point? I'm trying to document the installation of a disc golf course and my troubleshooting days are getting numerous.
Hey Russ, great info thanks again for this. Quick question when you are trying to set up pre-Flight waypoint missions do you need to navigate to your location manually? Or can you search for location somehow? I have several building sites across different towns and would like to preset inspection paths prior.
If the point of interest is set to the center of the object you're rotating around why is it better to use the method you described versus using a point of interest to focus on as you make the pass going from one waypoint to another.
Great video. Do you know if you can enter waypoints using coordinates instead of selecting on the map? Also, if you can display coordinates you could protect against loss of the mission by screen shot or writing them down.
I am trying to do a daytime to nighttime video flying the same path with waypoints. I've done this 3 times at the same location, on 3 separate days, and in post, they just don't line up. They look like they are flying the same path, but when I overlay the videos and turn the opacity down to see how they line up, the start of the path is good (not perfect), but as it goes around the thing I'm trying to fly, it gets WAY off. Why?
Thanks Russ I'm planning on doing the same thing with a Indian gambling hall with shopping center and hotel that's just being be set for Building you can see the area in my last video's. This will help a lot thanks
How do you record the monitor screen while flying the Mavic 2 Pro? I would like to watch the flight screen info back on video, is this possible? If so, would you know how to set this up or where to find it if it’s already doing this? Thank you very much.
Can you create a flight plan save it and load it when at a new location? Then go to another location and load the plan? I want to take photos of rooftops with the same pattern of passes and be able to stitch together multiple videos from different locations but same flight path and angles. Is this possible?
Hi Ross!! I’m trying to make drone hyperlapse on construction site, (over 2 years) but i’m not sure the result will be good because there are a lot of variables, such as gps… i’m not sure the saved path will be always followed at the same way because of gps… please if you can help me would be really appreciate
I encountered before drone arrriving the 1st. way point. RC signal lost. Mission had already set to continue the task. I had no confidence. so I abundant the mission and pressed RTH. If RC had lost signal how can it still communicate with Drone to receive the signal to tell the drone RTH. Please advise.
If the flight direction is set to "Route," can the camera swing left and/or right (using a finger to move the blue circle on the screen)? Flying sideways seems inefficient, even if this is a helicopter.(Which intelligent flight modes allow this?)
At 2:57 it looks like you're putting way points in a yellow geozone?? I live and fly in a yellow geozone and when I try and pre-plan a flight in yellow zone it won't let me place a waypoint because I'm in that zone.....is it possible to do and if so how?? Thanks for your help.
In this whole mission, the drone is flying sideways and ends up flying backwards. Does your drone have side and rear obstacle avoidance? Unless you know the area, you may want to fly a test mission without using POI.
