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...........
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.
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.
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.
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".
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!
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.
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?
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 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
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
... 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.
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.
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?
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! 🤦🏾♂️
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
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.
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.
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?
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.
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?
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.
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
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!!
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
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.
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.
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.
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 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
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
Thanks Jenna. I truly appreciate that!
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...........
Get Litchi. You can plan all kinds of missions on your PC at home with the included Mission Hub .
Point a small fan toward your drone
I would love to have this added to the Phantom 4 Pro V2. I think I could use it quite frequently. Also great in depth, on how to use it.
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.
Thanks Russ
Very informative.. As a safety factor. Helicopters fly over freeways to reduce noise impact over urban areas.
Great Video Russ!! I haven't had the chance to play with Way points yet, But Now I have a good Idea on how to do it. Thanks for posting.
Such an easy to understand tutorial, thanks again Russ. I think I will find it very useful. Best wishes to everyone.
Thank you Russ for reminding me just how awesome this drone is!
Great tutorial. Perfect application for our new multi-year construction project. Thank you!
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.
Thanks for a nice video, and explanation.
Great introductory video on way points 2.0
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.
Great video Russ. The explanation was spot on and easy to follow. Wish it was available on my magic platinum.
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.
Great job explaining the process! Thanks!
Am almost thinking of going Litchi with all the latest issues with Go4 app lately as still can’t get it sorted out since updated. Great job Russ btw!!
Chuck Miller, I prefer Litchi. It does a better job and you can plan a mission without connecting to the drone.
Ethan Mitchell what is this “Litchi”? I’m a new drone owner and have heard this a few times now. Does this work with the Mavic 2 Pro? Thx
@@tundrawhisperer4821 is litchi any good with the dji spark
Paul Oscroft sorry, not familiar with this.
Does Litchi work with the Air 2S?
Very interesting. I might play with waypoints soon before my next trip
Thank you! Very helpful
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".
Perfect video, making things easy to understand. Thank you!
Hi Russ, great tutorial. Hope they give to the Mavic Pro Platinum!
Thanks for the great video
Very informative. Would be really nice if DJI added Waypoints 2.0 to Mavic Pro.
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!
very great info, thanks.
Perfect tutorial, thank you sir!
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.
I have the mavic 3 with the rc remote and i still prefer my mpro 2 to this date.
Thank You !!
good one Ross
Great video; gives me a ton of ideas for when I travel with the drone. I wish they would add the feature to the Mavic.
They might someday being that there are so many out there.
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 Video !
It would be amazing if panorama photo was an option for each waypoint.
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.
DJI are still miles behind litchi.
DJI program/software still not as stable or reliable as Litchi.
Thank you!!
Very cool, point of interest is a great option.. Like...
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
Very useful - many thanks.
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
@@Mark.Brindle Thank you! I will definitely give it a try.
... 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.
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.
I have the same sentiments. Was trying every way to get the WayPoints 2.0.. Very annoying.
@@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.
@@StanCook Thanks for the advice.
@@StanCook this works with mav pro?
@@poisonallen If you are talking about Litchi, yes it will.
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?
You program this to the drone, not the computer
Thank you for these videos. I'd like to know how to reorder Waypoints. Adding a new one is going to the end of the Route.
Hello, also from Minot!
Thanks for this excellent tutorial! But I wonder if I can use Waypoint 2.0 with Mavic Pro (first generation)?
Thank you 👍🏻👏👏👏
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! 🤦🏾♂️
So I have the Mavic pro model M1P can I up grade to waypoints 2.0? I enjoy your videos. They have keep me out of trouble!!
How to get waypoint 2.0, i just have waypoint on my DJI pro but its has allowed me to set the way point after it take off the drone.
Can one set up a flight path and let it go off and fly beyond the remote range and return again?
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
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.
1. Its only for Mavic 2 pro 2. Litchi works fine for me with Phantom 4 pro
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.
Great tips!!
Great info! Appreciated...
Good morning Russ, I have a question. When I set my waypionts I can't adjust my height above 65 feet. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks
Jim
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?
I am so frustrated I did everything but when I push go nothing happens. What could I be missing
Great stuff as usual. I always find that when I try to edit a waypoint I always end up adding another which gets to be quite annoying.
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.
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?
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.
Russ I was wondering if there is a way to change flight speed to MPH and height of drone to feet. ? I fly a Mavic 2 pro. Thank you, Thomas.
Hello. Does anybody know if it's possible to use Waypoints 2.0 in the smart controller with the phantom 4 pro v2?
So you don't have to do anything with the controller it just fly on its on
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
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!!
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
I'm wondering the same....
So where can I find this waypoints 2.0 is it on my dji mavic air 2 I have will it work on this drone
Satallite view not showing? how can I select an address as a starting point?
Can you do this for hyperlapse waypoinylt and save a mission?
How do you access the waypoints interface like your showing? Do you access it from the same mobile all you use to fly the drone?
Could u do a tutorial for MA2 waypoint setup please :)
Hi, can we import the coordinate that we've pre-made on google earth? like import kml
Can you set up waypoints or a fligt plan with gps co-coordinates?
is there any way i can save my way points on my computer .so if they get deleted from my app i can restore them.thks
Is Waypoint 2.0 available for Phantom 4 Pro V2 Sir?
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.
Same steps for the DJI Air 2?
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.
Hi, is there any way to set your waypoint with drone power off? Is there a way to access the app with drone off?
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.
Wasn't aware this was available. Does it work with the Air2s and where can I get it. Currently using Litchi which is OK but has its issues.
Please, do we have this Waypoint 2.0 available on Phantom 4 pro?
I have a phantom 4 advanced, I cannot do preflight waypoints. Is it only for the Mavic?
Can you program Hyperlapse Waypoints in the same way?
Russ, great content as per usual. Have you completed the progression video of the construction project? We are coming up on the 2 year mark.
Nice Tutorial..
Could we input the coordinate or import the kml rather than tap in the map?
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 ?
How did you get your PC set up with this software and connected to the drone? How did you get to your “starting” point?
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
How to keep taking photos after a certain interval during the waypoint mission?
Russ, have a chance to buy a DJI Mavic 2 pro with 4 batteries & Smart Controller. Is Waypoint upgraded beyond 2.0?
So when you are at home programming the waypoints is this an iPad you are using or the screen that comes with the controller (DJI Smart Controller)?
and if not an ipad, can the same be done from an iphone?
Hi my friend, it's a great explanation for the waypoint👍 feature. Can coordinates be entered manually for each waypoint?