waypoint mission planning in Solo app

5r49cfu · Nov 15, 2015

any thoughts on when (or if) 3DR will add waypoint mission planning to the Solo app?

TechnologyAutomated · Nov 15, 2015

That would be nice.

Mark_T · Nov 15, 2015

I'm not going to be surprised if they keep most of that in Tower and concentrate on smart shots within the Solo app.

Many, many ways to get into trouble with waypoint planning so may be more sensible to keep them apart...

5r49cfu · Nov 16, 2015

Does someone have a good summary of the steps to use Tower with Solo?

J R · Nov 16, 2015

5r49cfu said:
Does someone have a good summary of the steps to use Tower with Solo?

5,

Start here: New Tower Tutorial | 3D Robotics Drone Forum

Jerry

Jane Cleland-Huang · Nov 16, 2015

5r49cfu said:
any thoughts on when (or if) 3DR will add waypoint mission planning to the Solo app?

Jane Cleland-Huang · Nov 16, 2015

We plan to build an app that sends waypoint commands without using the SOLO App (i.e. write our own app to add/modify waypoints). I didn't purchase a SOLO yet as I'm trying to figure out if it exposes an API that would allow us to do this? Any pointers would be great!

xjryan · Nov 16, 2015

They definitely should make some sort of waypoint mapping for the Solo app so that people who have iOS devices can use it because I would rather go without though then use a samsung or any other android POS just to use tower.

Mark_T · Nov 16, 2015

xjryan said:
They definitely should make some sort of waypoint mapping for the Solo app so that people who have iOS devices can use it because I would rather go without though then use a samsung or any other android POS just to use tower.

They really should... oh wait... someone did

MAV Pilot on the App Store

Yes, it isn't Tower but if you really don't want to use Android it is probably as good as it gets for the moment ...

Mark_T · Nov 16, 2015

Jane Cleland-Huang said:
We plan to build an app that sends waypoint commands without using the SOLO App (i.e. write our own app to add/modify waypoints). I didn't purchase a SOLO yet as I'm trying to figure out if it exposes an API that would allow us to do this? Any pointers would be great!

You may want to start here:

DroneKit by 3D Robotics

Maddog · Nov 17, 2015

Mark_T said:
They really should... oh wait... someone did

MAV Pilot on the App Store

Yes, it isn't Tower but if you really don't want to use Android it is probably as good as it gets for the moment ...

Do you know anything about this app? Bad reviews in the App Store.

Maddog · Nov 17, 2015

Jane Cleland-Huang said:
We plan to build an app that sends waypoint commands without using the SOLO App (i.e. write our own app to add/modify waypoints). I didn't purchase a SOLO yet as I'm trying to figure out if it exposes an API that would allow us to do this? Any pointers would be great!

Who is "we"?

Troiano27 · Nov 17, 2015

I asked a similar question last week. Someone said that a cablecam with multiple points was something that was in the works. I'd love way points in the solo app as well.

xjryan · Nov 19, 2015

Mark_T said:
They really should... oh wait... someone did

MAV Pilot on the App Store

Yes, it isn't Tower but if you really don't want to use Android it is probably as good as it gets for the moment ...

Awesome, thanks for the heads up. I will give it a try.

Maddog · Nov 19, 2015

xjryan said:
Awesome, thanks for the heads up. I will give it a try.

Let us know how it works!

Greg Parker · Apr 18, 2016

Has there been any progress in this area over the last 5 months? I had hoped to see something from NAB announcements addressing this missing functionality, but not yet it seems.

Tower and MP are grossly un-cinematic in comparison to other apps available for other platforms.