Not sure if this belongs here or another forum. Hopefully you guys can help troubleshoot. But not sure what I have to upload.
Summary: lost connection partway through an automated Litchi flight. Mission finished but never reconnected. Hovered then eventually landed on my very high roof.
Detail: flying my property line Litchi mission as I have four or five times before. (I just updated litchi on my iphone but doubt it's related). About a third of the way through and with 44% signal showing on the screen I got disconnected. I calmly waited till it came back in earshot. Still dot nt reconnect. Flew all the way around and to the last waypoint right over my house (yeah, yeah. Lesson learned) and hovered as intended. But I was still disconnected. How to take control and landed safely? I killed Litchi app and restarted. No luck. I kill it and bring up DJI go. Still won't reconnect. I check the wifi network. Still connected to the drone network. Out of desperation I turn the controller off and back on. Then it starts beeping initiating RTH. Since it's less than 30 feet from home point, it starts landing straight down toward my roof. I reestablished the wifi link. Bring up DJI go but it's too late. It had landed I. 6-8" of snow on my very high and not very accessible roof. Camera still on. I was able to climb on my garage roof and barely reach it on the hIph roof with a roof rake. It got snow all over it but the lights were still blinking and camera on.
In hindsight I guess the RC must have been connected even though the app said no. Or turning it off wouldn't have initiated RTH. (I must have flicked the switch out of P mode by then. I probably could have taken control but I guess I focused on the wrong thing - trying to get connected. I just wouldn't think that the RC would be connected if the apps said no.
The healthy drones log ends at the disconnect point so I doubt that will be useful. Any words of wisdom on what I might upload to discern what happened here after it dries out? Or can someone hazard a guess based on what I've written?
Edit: I looked at Healthy Drones and only minor signal errors were reported. And they were a couple hundred feet before the disconnect.
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Summary: lost connection partway through an automated Litchi flight. Mission finished but never reconnected. Hovered then eventually landed on my very high roof.
Detail: flying my property line Litchi mission as I have four or five times before. (I just updated litchi on my iphone but doubt it's related). About a third of the way through and with 44% signal showing on the screen I got disconnected. I calmly waited till it came back in earshot. Still dot nt reconnect. Flew all the way around and to the last waypoint right over my house (yeah, yeah. Lesson learned) and hovered as intended. But I was still disconnected. How to take control and landed safely? I killed Litchi app and restarted. No luck. I kill it and bring up DJI go. Still won't reconnect. I check the wifi network. Still connected to the drone network. Out of desperation I turn the controller off and back on. Then it starts beeping initiating RTH. Since it's less than 30 feet from home point, it starts landing straight down toward my roof. I reestablished the wifi link. Bring up DJI go but it's too late. It had landed I. 6-8" of snow on my very high and not very accessible roof. Camera still on. I was able to climb on my garage roof and barely reach it on the hIph roof with a roof rake. It got snow all over it but the lights were still blinking and camera on.
In hindsight I guess the RC must have been connected even though the app said no. Or turning it off wouldn't have initiated RTH. (I must have flicked the switch out of P mode by then. I probably could have taken control but I guess I focused on the wrong thing - trying to get connected. I just wouldn't think that the RC would be connected if the apps said no.
The healthy drones log ends at the disconnect point so I doubt that will be useful. Any words of wisdom on what I might upload to discern what happened here after it dries out? Or can someone hazard a guess based on what I've written?
Edit: I looked at Healthy Drones and only minor signal errors were reported. And they were a couple hundred feet before the disconnect.
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