DJI SDK Release Date Announced for Mavic Mini

kal · Jun 14, 2020

13th July

TDZHDTV · Jun 14, 2020

Great news, does anybody recall how long Litchi took to develop new models into their software platform?

Oakley75 · Jun 14, 2020

Fairly quick, I'd give it to September anyway

Bussty · Jun 14, 2020

Backed up with this...

Mavic Mini support? · Issue #455 · dji-sdk/Mobile-SDK-Android

When will mobile sdk support mavic mini? It's not listed in https://developer.dji.com/products/#!/mobile. Thank you.

github.com

Deleted member 114292 · Jun 14, 2020

kal said:
13th JulyView attachment 104672

The best part is now y’all can stop chattering about it.
Now if they just announced MP3 I won’t have to hear about that anymore either.

Zmikeyz · Jun 14, 2020

Done said:
The best part is now y’all can stop chattering about it.
Now if they just announced MP3 I won’t have to hear about that anymore either.

Every party has to have aaaaaaa party pooper, party pooper.

RogerDH · Jun 14, 2020

Done said:
The best part is now y’all can stop chattering about it.
Now if they just announced MP3 I won’t have to hear about that anymore either.

I'd say the best part is that the Mini will finally have functionality comparable to virtually every other GPS drone on the market.

Romulus Archibald · Jun 16, 2020

RogerDH said:
I'd say the best part is that the Mini will finally have functionality comparable to virtually every other GPS drone on the market.

Please elaborate good RogerDH fellow....

RogerDH · Jun 17, 2020

Romulus Archibald said:
Please elaborate good RogerDH fellow....

I used to say that the Mini was the only GPS drone I knew of that doesn't support waypoint missions, but now there is at least one other: the Mavic Air 2. (And that's because it also uses DJI Fly.) These days, active tracking is pretty much expected in a new drone. DJI Fly doesn't even support something like course lock, which allows you to send the drone along a known (presumably safe) path while you point the camera however you like. The SDK will allow autonomous flight apps like Litchi to implement those functions and more.

Brtak · Jun 17, 2020

RogerDH said:
I used to say that the Mini was the only GPS drone I knew of that doesn't support waypoint missions, but now there is at least one other: the Mavic Air 2. (And that's because it also uses DJI Fly.) These days, active tracking is pretty much expected in a new drone. DJI Fly doesn't even support something like course lock, which allows you to send the drone along a known (presumably safe) path while you point the camera however you like. The SDK will allow autonomous flight apps like Litchi to implement those functions and more.

So do you think that desired active tracking will be possible for mavic mini through 3rd party app? It would be awesome

EyesWideShut · Jun 17, 2020

RogerDH said:
I used to say that the Mini was the only GPS drone I knew of that doesn't support waypoint missions, but now there is at least one other: the Mavic Air 2. (And that's because it also uses DJI Fly.) These days, active tracking is pretty much expected in a new drone. DJI Fly doesn't even support something like course lock, which allows you to send the drone along a known (presumably safe) path while you point the camera however you like. The SDK will allow autonomous flight apps like Litchi to implement those functions and more.

I agree with you Rodger, but there is a trick way to send the drone along a known path while you rotate and point the camera. Just set (or reset) the Home Point and press RTH. As it flies straight home YOU CAN yaw the drone (camera) with the sticks and change altitude and speed.

Give it a try, just take off and set the HP say 100 meters away (if it's safe to do so), have your RTH altitude set to how high you want to fly. You can adjust the altitude and camera with the sticks as you go. Then cancel RTH and come back manually, unless you want to land 100 meters away.

It's not active track quite yet but fun to play with.

BokiFly · Jun 17, 2020

EyesWideShut said:
Then cancel RTH and come back manually, unless you want to land 100 meters away.

Or it can set new HP at his location and again activate RTH.
Great idea, I didn't tried that

WooZie · Jun 17, 2020

i think you don't want to lose the signal when the fake rth is activated

))))

RogerDH · Jun 17, 2020

Brtak said:
So do you think that desired active tracking will be possible for mavic mini through 3rd party app? It would be awesome

Yes, I'm pretty sure Litchi will support active tracking for the Mini -- there's no reason why it can't. It should also have a "leash" mode where it will follow a phone by its GPS position rather than visually, which can be a different phone from the one you're flying with.

Romulus Archibald · Jun 17, 2020

Just like in the mavic platinum

RogerDH said:
Yes, I'm pretty sure Litchi will support active tracking for the Mini -- there's no reason why it can't. It should also have a "leash" mode where it will follow a phone by its GPS position rather than visually, which can be a different phone from the one you're flying with.

Oakley75 · Jun 17, 2020

Course and home lock should be a standard (used to be)

RogerDH · Jun 17, 2020

EyesWideShut said:
I agree with you Rodger, but there is a trick way to send the drone along a known path while you rotate and point the camera. Just set (or reset) the Home Point and press RTH. As it flies straight home YOU CAN yaw the drone (camera) with the sticks and change altitude and speed.

Give it a try, just take off and set the HP say 100 meters away (if it's safe to do so), have your RTH altitude set to how high you want to fly. You can adjust the altitude and camera with the sticks as you go. Then cancel RTH and come back manually, unless you want to land 100 meters away.

It's not active track quite yet but fun to play with.

Yep, I've done that a couple of times, but it's a bit stressful to reset the home position -- you definitely need to set a point where you could do a recovery if necessary. What that really shows, though, is that the only reason the Mini doesn't support course lock is that DJI Fly doesn't have the small amount of programming it would require to initiate it. DJI Fly just seems like an unfinished app.

calinourss · Jun 17, 2020

Great news. I think I'm going to shed a little tear.

Th3DroneroGT · Jun 17, 2020

The Ryze Tello has ActiveTrack and we are talking about a drone that costs 99 dollars and has no GPS or sensors.

I think it's a shame DJI didn't incorporate ActiveTrack simply because the drone has no sensors.

Fraggle666 · Jun 22, 2020

This sounds like an exciting development for all Mavic Mini owners

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