Litchi - Why it's BETTER than the DJI Fly App for Mavic Mini, DJI Mini 2, Air 2S

Since DJI released the SDK allowing Litchi to support the DJI Mavic Mini, Mini 2, Mini SE alongside the Air 2 & Air2s I give you a full walkthrough of the app's menu's and features including an extensive flight and safety test and also cover if DJI will honour DJI Care refresh when using this app giving you all the information to decide if this app is for you or not

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[GAVINHR]

Just a quick reminder - Flying any drone using litchi with no obstacle avoidance is no different to using Quickshots on the DJI Fly app - Take note of your surroundings - fly carefully just as you would using quickshots and the risk is exactly the same 😀

[elaurel]

Just got it because of this post. Thanks. Was worth it just to get follow mode on my mini 2.

[jezmarshall]

A really well explained guide to Litchi - I bought it on the strength of this and like it a lot. Perhaps it's worth pointing out to viewers that running a battery down to less than 15% before landing is somewhat risky flying!

[WWRM]

The Dynamic Home Point sold me! Very useful!

Something ive noticed with my Air 2S is when it disconnects the drone turns about 15-20 degrees before raising to RTH altitude. I think it depends on which direction Home is because sometimes it turns further. I assume this is a safety feature for the sensors to check the area in the direction of Home. You guys noticed that?

[emilcost]

Great information in this video. I have been using Litchi since 2016, and have had no problems what so ever. I mostly use the DJI app when flying FPV mode, but use Litchi for orbit and waypoints. It's a well tested and established alternative to the DJI Fly app. I like the feature of auto zooming the map, since it's a pain to have to take your hands off the sticks to pinch on the DJI map. Thanks for making a Litchi tutorial.. it's well done.

[emilcost]

Another reason I like Litchi is the ability to create a straight line waypoint mission and setting the heading mode in setups to user defined, and the gimbal pitch mode to disabled. Using this technique, you can fly a line path and pretty much accomplish a course lock, which for the life of me I've always wondered why this is not available on the DJI Fly app. Being able to not worry about the right stick to maintain speed and just focus on heading and gimbal pitch is a great thing.

[AlexBondSmith]

Thanks. Like you I flew for about a year with my original Mini and then bought a Mini2 but with the delay in DJI releasing the sdk I have more or less forgotten the Litchi App features. Now that I can use Litchi again your video was the best explained of the several I watched to remind me of them.

[keithh.]

If you would've slowed down a bit i wouldn't have had to repeat over and over to abdorb it al... which was very thorough indeed.
Thank you 😊

[AuroraColoradoUSA]

VR mode disables FPV mode??? In other words... VR mode forces gimbal
stabilization, the view remains in line with the horizon, you cannot
visualize tilting left and right. That's not what I had in mind!
Hopefully I'm missing something.

[urkman]

Great start of going through Litchi in detail
I would like you to go through the way-point settings especially the heading modes - it seems as the Manual(UC) mode will allow you to rotate the drone as if flies along the way-point route. My thought is that as mini 2 does not have obstacle sensors - creating a route avoiding obstacles allows me to freely look around without any risk of running into something.

[sygad]

Cheers for making the video, explained a lot of features for me

[sylvest]

Great video. I think the waypoint mode is amazing.

[DavidCorral]

Thanks for the video Gavin, it answer some of my previous questions. You are doing an amazing job discovering all these functionalities of Litchi. Also, I drop an idea for your future videos: combine Litchi missions and an open source photogrammetry software to create 3D models with the Mini 2.

[elliotjohnson]

I know a Hull accent when I hear one lol love the videos mate, I've had my mavic mini a few months now and still learning new tricks 👍

[jonwornham]

An excellent video Gavin, helping debunk some of the scare stories that other people are putting about warning against using 3rd party apps. I first used Litchi many years ago with my Phantom 2 VP, then went onto the DJI Go4 app when I bought my Phantom 4 Pro and for whatever reason never tried Litchi with that or the Saprk that joined the fleet later.. Recently I've become unhappy with DJIs 'Fly' on my Mini 2, mainly because newer versions crash regularly on my Galaxy A71 phone. DJIs response was that I should buy a new phone, not very helpful! I eventually found out that v1.4.2 was a stable version for me. I've been testing the Litchi Beta now for a couple of weeks with no issues, although it took me a while to work out the settings required to shoot the 360 panoramas that I like to feature in my photo wesite. Of course you have to be careful of any 'autoflight' modes in a drone with no collision avoidance systems, but that's just common sense. Keep up the good work!

[upeiredrone]

Been using the Litchi app for a few weeks and it's transformed my Mavic Mini the extra features available are great ...

[tt]

I'd love to see a video of the waypoints feature, curious to see if once a mission is launched and en route, if it looses connection if it will complete the mission or return to home?! Love your content 👍

[chrislloyd]

Really really informative tutorial. Thank you. I have just bought the mini 2 as my Hubsan Zino is now limited in where you can fly. Follow me and active track were features on the Zino, despite no obstacle collision and I never had any problems because I always kept the drone at a height that it couldn't crash into things. Mini 2 arrives today with the fly more combo. Can't wait to try it out and I will give the Litchi App a go. Would probably only use it to follow transmitter though

[jetmartin]

Great series on Litchi software. I would also say that Litchi is a pleasure to work with. Any time I've had questions for their support organization they've been very responsive and super helpful. Imagine that. And if you ask them about future plans they will generally give you an honest straightforward answer..."yes we plan to" or "no we don't have any plans to..." rather than a robotic "we have no information about that at this time" crap you get from another TLA company.

[tojj]

Good man Gav, cracking review in good simple speak for thickies like me. Cheers buddy 👍