What has been added?

• utilization of litchi_wp package
• Mission Planner command list in docs folder (command with the id)
• enum class to handle Mission Planner commands more easily

What has been changed?

• code was rewritten to be more self-explanatory
• code was prepared to support more Mission Planner commands
• documentation has been updated
  • select absolute height in MP so litchi can handle the AGL part
  • explanation how the capture interval is set

Review

• The changes are fairly extensive, so I would appreciate tests of the application prior to the merge.

I have followed your steps to creat a mission in mission planner then convert the .mission file to .csv using the tool how ever the script is closing prematurely without generating a result . could you please help . thanks Rohit

I open MPTL on desktop and the .waypoints is on desktop too.

I input the filename include .waypoints and the exe closes out everytime.

Could this be a win11 issue perhaps?

I have reinstalled and tried a few files from mission planner with the same issue.

Hi, I've noticed that "Mission Planner" and your "MissionPlanner-to-Litchi" converter doesn't include the actions for the drone to take photos in pre-determined spots. How this "auto-photo" mode you mentioned in the README works? How do Litchi knows the correct place to take the photos? I've set the path to Straight Lines.

Also the "Above Ground" fields should be checked by default in the CSV creation (conversion) process so Litchi can calculate the correct height for each location when importing the mission.

Hi. Thanks for this coverter. I have an issue: When trying to start the script, a pop-up windows appears saying: The program can't start because api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-1.ddl is missing from your computer. I searched and found the .dll file on the computer so I don't know what the problem is. I also checked it on another computer and the message was the same. Any thoughts?

If set to terrain relative height in mission planner, the kml output from mission planner is using agl heights. But the converted waypoints by this script are not set to agl.

• Check if whis can be set in a waypoint file
• add this feature

I inserted a mount control waypoint in the MP interface to set the gimbal to -90deg, but that is dropped in the conversion process. (As are the takeoff and RTL commands)

What has been added?

GUI

This PR adds a simple tkinter file selection GUI. You can select a single file or multiple files for conversion. The converted files are saved to the same directory that the source file is located in.

What has been changed?

README

The Readme.md was changed to reflect the added GUI.

Structure of the project

The mp_to_litchi.py was put in a python package and is used as an import in the run.py. The filename of mp_to_litchi.py and the package as well was shortened to mp2litchi and mp2litchi.py respectively.

Allow to user script with arguments for process multiple files in batch. Save result to original file folder with original filename and csv extension.

There are different parameters for the survey generator in mission planner.

We should split the main Readme and put a manual for each supported Mission Planner survey workflows in a seperate documentation.

What is this?

This draft PR is intended to have a discussion with active collaboration regarding the new gui.

This is a pitch for a gui. The framework used is Pyside6. I did watch some tutorials on youtube and made this mockup using the Qt designer.

Menu structure idea

The idea is to have 3 main screens.

1. Home: How to use (Maybe ? icon is better)
2. List: List of all dropped files with buttons to convert all, convert single file, change settings for file
3. settings: The default settings for all files that are dropped into the app

The app should show the second screen on startup.

Everything is subject to change.

How to use this?

Prerequisites

• Python >=3.10
• Pyside6

pip install pyside6

Run

Run the gui_v2.py file.

Edit gui

Use the Qt designer, located in your virtual environment directory: Lib\site-packages\PySide6\designer.exe After doing changes run make gui in a terminal.

Code documentation

The code is not well documented yet, as frequent major changes are to be expected.

When Mission Planner is creating a survey utilizing the DO_DIGICAM_CONTROL Trigger Method and a Delay at WP > 0, then Mission Planner is not only creating a delay at photo waypoints but at all waypoints.

While this might be desirable in some cases, it usually is not. Removing the delay from non photo waypoints could improve the mission time.

I suggest a checkbox that triggers removing those unnecessary delays. Before adding this, there should be the new gui.