Based on our record, Litchi for DJI Phantom 2 seems to be a lot more popular than DroneBase. While we know about 27 links to Litchi for DJI Phantom 2, we've tracked only 1 mention of DroneBase. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Both dronebase.com and droners.io no longer work for me. The first doesn't allow me to complete my profile and begin accepting jobs, and for the second, the "Register" as a pilot button has been disabled. Not that it'd be life changing getting jobs from them, as I'm told that the pay sucks anyway. Source: almost 3 years ago
If you want additional functionality beyond the DJI Fly, you'll almost certainly want Litchi. Source: 5 months ago
If loading the DJI app on your phone is a concern, you could use one of the Litchi apps instead (which are developed in the UK) or use the DJI controllers that have the screen and app built in, without connecting it to the Internet. Source: 5 months ago
If you are using a DJI drone, you can use https://flylitchi.com/ to do this. It uses a second cell phone and is $25. Source: 6 months ago
I think it's also worth pointing out that DJI's first-party app isn't required to operate many of their drones. Most of their drones, apart from all but the most recent (i.e. The one this announcement is about probably won't have support for a while, but the previous gen will) has support through apps like Litchi and Dronelink via the developer API, which have additional features and don't have the exact same... - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago
So something's changed about DJI's API as well. In the past, you could use 3rd-party apps that extended features, and offered new ones. One popular app is Litchi https://flylitchi.com However, DJI seems to have stopped updating their iOS API, so 3rd-party iOS apps won't work with any newer drones and Android stuff seems to be available only by side-loading. Perhaps there's something in the newer APIs that neither... - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago
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