Wes, I sincerely hope your presumption is right, that DJI harbors no underhanded agenda against Litchi. A mere 72 hours ago, any notion that Litchi could wind up blacklisted by DJI would have made no sense to me, yet now I can think of no other logical reason to explain the selective disabling of Litchi as a direct consequence of my having reluctantly installed DJI Go’s latest firmware update after my drone suddenly and inexplicably lost its controller link hours after an uneventful flight.
In a desperate bid to retain Litchi connectivity to my Mavic Pro and Pro Platinum drones, I’ve now ventured into the bewildering morass of after-market hacking platforms, two of which have finally enabled me to roll back the firmware editions on both the drones, but NOT on their controllers, meaning of course that neither drone can be linked to its controller for flight until that little puzzle is resolved.
Evidently, drone hack website operators aren’t disposed to discussing customer complaints, so I’ll flail about in the fog trying to find the answers to my questions by trial and error.
I happen to reside in a remote Third World backwater where one of the precious few positive aspects of daily life is that FAA rules are at least for now a mere twinkle in the eye of legislators. As such I routinely fly 6-mile round-trip Litchi waypoint missions that extend far beyond visual range and RC signal reach. I have neither the desire nor the need to utilize DJI Go products because they are in my opinion markedly inferior to Litchi when it comes to waypoint mission planning.
To now find myself FORCED by a DJI firmware update to choose between flying my drone at the mercy of DJI Go with its expanding list of restrictions, or grounding my drone indefinitely, is thus a truly distasteful predicament in which to find myself, bearing in mind how much I shelled out to purchase my Mavic drones that I’d hoped would be my final drone purchases.
Ranting aside, I haven’t thrown in the towel yet, and will continue my efforts toward successfully rolling back the firmware in both my Mavic RC controllers so as to attain parity with the firmware edition in the drones that I selected in this quest to regain access to my beloved Litchi.