All of my flights over the past few days have been with the DJI Go app. Today I decided to use Litchi since I had planned a waypoint mission just around my house. I synced the app on my Nvidia K1 but the mission would not upload. Thinking I did something wrong, I decided just to manually fly using the Litchi app. I flew the exact same area that I had this morning using the Go app. About 500 ft out, just out of sight, I start getting the dreaded lost signal warning. I would then regain a signal only to lose it again and again. I decided to try and bring the drone back but never did regain the signal. As we hear over and over on this forum, my heart was in my stomach. It isn't the $600, it was the feeling that I am one of "those guys".
Any way I looked around for a while but to no avail. I went home and used the Litch "find my aircraft" option and it told me where I should look. Not believing anything the app told me, I then went to Healthy Drones and it showed he exact same location. I went to that location and sure enough there was the drone, a little dirty and less a half of two props. Funny thing is I had looked only fifty feet from this area on my first search and rescue.
Took the Dreauxn home, cleaned her up, removed the props and went through a checkout. I received an error that the accelerometer had failed and that an IMU cal was required. I saw that the x-axis on the accelerometer was -16.04. Not good. After a few google searches I found a post on the forum that gave instructions on what side of the bird to smack to get the accelerometer unstuck. Three good "who's your daddy" spanks on the battery did the trick. IMU calibrated fine, the gimbal is normal, and the motors fire up smooth. BTW, the video from the mission is corrupt, while the previous flight videos on the same card are fine.
It will be quite a while before I trust Litchi again, if ever. It is a shame because the app is so awesome, in theory. Thanks for "listening".
EDITED TO ADD: read the whole thread and you will see Litchi is not at fault.
Any way I looked around for a while but to no avail. I went home and used the Litch "find my aircraft" option and it told me where I should look. Not believing anything the app told me, I then went to Healthy Drones and it showed he exact same location. I went to that location and sure enough there was the drone, a little dirty and less a half of two props. Funny thing is I had looked only fifty feet from this area on my first search and rescue.
Took the Dreauxn home, cleaned her up, removed the props and went through a checkout. I received an error that the accelerometer had failed and that an IMU cal was required. I saw that the x-axis on the accelerometer was -16.04. Not good. After a few google searches I found a post on the forum that gave instructions on what side of the bird to smack to get the accelerometer unstuck. Three good "who's your daddy" spanks on the battery did the trick. IMU calibrated fine, the gimbal is normal, and the motors fire up smooth. BTW, the video from the mission is corrupt, while the previous flight videos on the same card are fine.
It will be quite a while before I trust Litchi again, if ever. It is a shame because the app is so awesome, in theory. Thanks for "listening".
EDITED TO ADD: read the whole thread and you will see Litchi is not at fault.
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