hello ladies and gentlemen and welcome
back to drone the sky
so what are we doing today well as you
probably uh
worked out by the title we'll be testing
the lychee
beta application with the dji mavic mini
but an additional
application in the background being the
lychee leash
now the lychee leash is used to allow a
secondary device not controlling the
aircraft at the time
to be either focused on in focus mode or
followed okay and that's live while the
aircraft's flying
so what we'll do is we'll start now
we'll go through the
process in regards to downloading the
application which is fairly easy i'll
just point out a few things
then we'll go on to a flight test and
then conclusion so let's kick off now
here we go
all right so here we are in the app
store i've just gone in
before obviously starting this video i'm
using an android
so it's going to be google play so at
the top here we type in
simply lychee and
lychee magic leash so we'll click that
one now
all right so what it looks like is the
one at the top here so lightly magic
leash we'll go into that one so i'm just
going to point something out quickly if
we go down here the reviews it's got 2.9
stars
which is really not good out of 228
reviews
and looking at them a lot of them says
it won't work
um it does it's not compatible so on and
so forth now i just want to point
something out the last review was in
2020
but before that it was 2016 backwards
okay so bear in mind i don't know how
long nike leash has been around
but if it was new at the time it's
probably not going to be compatible with
with devices
because it was probably in testing phase
now the 2021 here
obviously somebody stated that it didn't
work with their
sprint three no ways i've had no trouble
and i used today
a oppo reno zed and another oppo phone
as a secondary device and there was no
problems whatsoever and
you know opposing the most expensive
phones so
there you go it's up to yourself it's a
free app so there's no harm in trying it
but that's what you'll see straight off
the mark
pretty poor reviews but there you go so
anyway we'll get out of that let's
install it now
we'll accept that and see how we go here
okay so that's installed let's open her
up now obviously straight away you have
to allow
locations and storage so we'll press
continue
press allow now as it says here the app
was built for an older version of
android
again doesn't seem to matter it worked
perfectly well for me today you can
check for updates if you want or you can
just press ok
ok so that's it there so we're not going
to go any further with that this is the
screen we're going to go to later once
we start testing
in flight but that's what you'll get
straight away so let's get out of this
and we'll go for a flight test
all right so here we are we're in
mindari western australia as you can see
we're on the beach
bit of noise behind me hopefully you can
hear so what we're going to do
is we're going to quickly go over the
lychee leash using follow me first
follow me
mode and also the uh focus mode
in the lychee beta application as i've
already said we're using a dji mavic
mini for this test so
just to give you a quick rehash of what
i'm talking about i'll quickly put this
in the follow mode i've already preset
the settings to my location
and we'll bring the drone around and
you'll see what i'm talking about so
let's just go into follow mode quickly
just like this and then we press follow
straight away
okay so like i said i've already preset
it it should come around to here at a
certain distance and watch me
okay so there we go we're in follow mode
so now if i go for a little walk
this way it's gonna follow me so let's
go
all right so just like that as you just
saw follow follow follow so
what we're going to do in a second is
i'm going to grab a secondary device
and i'm going to lock uh the beta
application using likes elise to the
secondary device then i'm going to go
for a walk
and you'll see that this will be sitting
on the ground or sitting somewhere
and the other device will be tracked by
the drone
so let's do that now let's go across to
the other device and uh
turn the lychee leash on okay so we're
in the other device
so what we're going to do here we're
going to swap between the two screens of
primary and secondary device to give you
an idea of what we're doing so
first of all back to the primary screen
here
okay so the first thing we need to do is
click the lychee
emblem at the top left of the follow
settings here so
let's just do that now by the way i've
turned follow off so it's not tracking
primary devices just hovering above me
at the moment so let's click that
see it's spinning so it's getting ready
to connect okay so it's given me a pin
as you can see 6668 that pin's got to go
in the secondary device that we've just
initiated
the lychee leash on so let's go across
to the secondary device
here it says tap to connect so let's
click spinning spinning okay so it needs
that pin that
the primary just gave me so we go like
this
six six six eight and done
okay so that device is now paired so
when i put in follow mode in a second
what's going to take place is it's going
to follow the secondary device in my
hand
and to give you an idea we'll just go
quickly down to the beach again
and i will put this device somewhere and
you'll see me walk away here we go
all right so there you go as you just
saw i unplugged my microphone for a
second hence why we lost the sound
i went for a walk with that device there
the mini tracked me
while the controller was sitting here by
the way i wouldn't actually advise that
at all stages make sure you're in
control of your drone that's all i'm
going to say
for this demonstration i had to do this
we're in a safe area the drone
disappears it's going in the ocean so
there you go but anyway as you saw it
tracked it so
that's the lychee leash using a
secondary device now while i'm at it i'm
actually going to turn it off i think
it's still on mind you
turn that off okay now it's off it's
good okay so what we'll do now
is we'll just uh move over to focus mode
and we'll use the lychee leash again so
here we go
okay so we're going back to the primary
device as you can see we've got another
pin number so we're currently in
uh focus mode so we'll just put the pin
in the secondary device let's go into
that one
okay so we're in the secondary device
it's asking for the pin that we just got
from the primary let's do that
five nine one one
all right done press okay
all right so we're currently paired so
what i'm gonna do you may see me running
towards the camera over here i'll be
back in the drone view eventually
okay so focus mode so what we're going
to do now
is we're going to focus on the mobile
device
so i'm just going to go into settings
here go into settings
we're going to go mobile device because
bear in mind lychee lease is now
connected to that device because of the
pin
and what we're going to do is we'll just
bring this screen up here there's me if
you can see me in the bottom here
height two meters yeah roundabouts yep
correct okay and now we're just going to
go
start and you'll see that a drone rotate
that way because i put the secondary
device on a rock over there so here we
go
starting now there you go
you may not see it but it's down on the
rock there so
bear in mind as well the image is not
actually centered on the secondary
device because as we know with focus
mode all it has to do is keep you in
frame it doesn't actually have to center
you all right so the device is down
there
i'll show you where exactly let me just
turn the focus mode off
stop and let's just go down here
okay
okay as you can see there's the device
sitting on the rock so that's what i
focused on before so there you go
as you can see it rotates locks onto
position again may be useful i
personally wouldn't use focus mode as
i've said in the past but for follow me
mode
it would be quite handy so that's it
let's get to the conclusion
and end the video here we go
so there you have it the lychee leash
application free application used with
the
lychee beta and dji mavic mini so what
do we take away from this
is it useful well yes i think it is it
really puts a new spin on the
focus mode in the follow me mode in the
current lychee beta application
and as for use as well i can think of
many uses i'll use this again in the
future but i can think of many ways that
i would use
the additional device when using those
two modes
now technical points the only way i
could actually get this uh
application to work with a second device
is if the second device had its own
sim card so telecommunication towers
mobile data the reason for that is i
found
that not only does the device use its
own internal gps but it triangulates
itself
off towers in the area so bear that in
mind don't try and use a wi-fi device
because you probably won't get it to
work anyway
and saying that wi-fi coming out of your
main controller
can interfere with the drone signal
because we're using 2.4
5.8 gigahertz to control the drone which
wi-fi does as well
anyway continuing on i think it's a
great little addition and it's free
so yes i'll definitely use it right
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