Kitty Hawk VS Litchi for DJI Phantom 2

Https://kittyhawk.aero/ used to use Haskell to develop their flight control software. The strong type system of Haskell is touted as ensuring that entire classes of bugs can't occur (like accidentally adding different kinds of quantities together or getting the units wrong). - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

I think that might be one of KittyHawk's electric aircraft... https://kittyhawk.aero/. 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