Litchi for Photos

[Rezo]

I am pretty skilled at creating missions and getting the video I want.

But I am struggling with one issue in respect to taking photos.

I have turned off “Curved Turns” to “Straight Lines”.

I have a mission that flies to a waypoint, I then give the unit some commands: ( see Mission Hub - Litchi | Diigo)

• Stop recording

• Take a photo

• Rotate 180 degrees

• Take a photo

But when the unit returns no image (JPG) saved, just video.

I have may unit set to “auto Record” at take off, is this causing it to ignore these commands?

Any help will be appreciated.

 

[Richard R]

Did the recording stop where you wanted it to? Did it actually do the 180? you might try stopping recording at one waypoint and then moving to a second waypoint just a meter or 2 away then try taking the photos.

 

[WolfgangStiller]

I am pretty skilled at creating missions and getting the video I want.

But I am struggling with one issue in respect to taking photos.

I have turned off “Curved Turns” to “Straight Lines”.

I have a mission that flies to a waypoint, I then give the unit some commands: ( see Mission Hub - Litchi | Diigo)

• Stop recording

• Take a photo

• Rotate 180 degrees

• Take a photo

But when the unit returns no image (JPG) saved, just video.

I have may unit set to “auto Record” at take off, is this causing it to ignore these commands?

Any help will be appreciated.

That's correct. I had the same issue. My understanding is you have to turn off video recording before you can take still photos.

 

[ehspro]

I am having the exact same issue, flew 2 missions today, both with no curves. At waypoint one, entered stop recording, wait 3 seconds, take photo, wait 3 seconds, start recording and move on to next waypoint. I find the break in the video and no photos to be found??

 

[ehspro]

Well, I may have figured it out today. I created a short mission with a single POI and 6 way points. At the 5th WP, I added actions to stop recording, wait 5s, take photo, wait 5s, start recording and head off to the final WP. I noted others saying that they thought that the "Auto-Record" feature being on may be the issue. Sure enough, I turned it off and manually started recording when I launched the mission. The photo was snapped as I hoped it would be. I think that the auto-record feature must be off for the photo action to fire correctly.

 

[WolfgangStiller]

Well, I may have figured it out today. I created a short mission with a single POI and 6 way points. At the 5th WP, I added actions to stop recording, wait 5s, take photo, wait 5s, start recording and head off to the final WP. I noted others saying that they thought that the "Auto-Record" feature being on may be the issue. Sure enough, I turned it off and manually started recording when I launched the mission. The photo was snapped as I hoped it would be. I think that the auto-record feature must be off for the photo action to fire correctly.

Good catch!