so ive been using litchi for probably two years now and its fine, does what i need, but a buddy keeps telling me to switch to dronelink and honestly i dont see what the big deal is. like yeah the interface looks cleaner maybe but i set up a waypoint mission in litchi in like 10 minutes last weekend for a corridor survey and it just worked. pulled it up on the hub, synced to the mini 3, flew it, done.

dronelink seems like its way more complicated to set up for basic stuff? or am i looking at it wrong. i know it has that component system thing which i guess is cool for more complex logic but im not doing anything crazy, mostly linear transects and some orbit shots. is there actually a killer feature im not seeing or is it one of those things where people just like it because its newer

dronelink is genuinely better once you get past the learning curve but if litchi is working for you i wouldnt bother switching just for the sake of it. the component system is actually really powerful for conditional logic stuff like if you want the camera to do specific things at specific altitudes without having to hardcode every single waypoint action. but for straight corridor surveys? litchi is totally fine, probably faster to set up honestly.

the one thing dronelink has that i cant live without now is the focus track component, keeps subject in frame way more reliably on orbits than litchi ever did for me. but again depends what youre shooting.

i tried dronelink for like a week and went back to litchi lol. maybe im just too used to the old way of doing things but the hub interface makes more sense to my brain. dronelink felt like i was configuring a router or something