We get A TON of questions about using the Mini 3, Mini 3 Pro and Mini 4 Pro aircraft with Map Pilot Pro so we figured we would try to capture all of it here. It has been hard supporting all of the issues the Mini 3/4 Pro users have been having because of the way DJI released support for this aircraft.
Since DJI stopped adding support for new aircraft to the iOS DJI SDK in March of 2022, iOS support for the Mini 3/4 series is not possible.
Current Mini 3 series support
- DJI RC Pro remote
- DJI N1 remote
Current Mini 4 series support
- DJI N2 remote
If you don't care about the what and why the support for the Mini 3/4 series is strange/limited you can just get the APK at the following link. Be sure to download the 'e' variant of the APK file. The 'b' variant will not connect.
https://support.dronesmadeeasy.com/hc/en-us/articles/8160429529876-Installation
Required Firmware Versions
See the list in the Installations article linked above to ensure you have the correct firmware versions for the aircraft and the remote.
Reason for being on the Enterprise SDK version
Initially DJI said they were not going to add support for these aircraft. Starting in 2022 DJI committed to only adding support for Enterprise aircraft moving forward. This apparently caught a lot of users by surprise. The Mini 3 series is Virtual Stick controlled only. Thankfully, DJI made it so the Mini 4 Pro supports waypoint flight but to use it the "Force Virtual Stick" setting must be disabled in the Advanced section of the Settings.
Since they have essentially moved on from the previous version of their SDK (software used to talk to the aircraft) this Mini 3/4 series support was added to their new version 5 of the SDK which was previously only for Enterprise aircraft. This new SDK cannot be released in the same variant of the app that we release in the Google Play Store so it is listed on our support site as an APK file. That is the only way to install the Enterprise version of Map Pilot Pro.
I had the Mini Pro 4 doing waypoint missions nicely late last year. After updating the app today I went to start a mission and it flew in virtual sticks mode. Is this a change or have I done something wrong?
Michael: There were a lot of issues with the waypoint flight for the Mini 4 Pro so we disabled it and opted for Virtual Stick so it was consistent with the rest of the Mini family. We may make it so it just defaults to Virtual Stick but you could still use waypoint flight by disabling the Force Virtual Stick setting in a future release.
Thanks, would be nice if it was stated somewhere, maybe I am looking in the wrong place, but this page still seems to imply waypoints are supported. Waypoint support was a major reason for buying the Mini Pro4 but I guess if virtual sticks works better I should be happy to have the option.
Try 3.1.14e which we have released to re-enable the waypoint flight option on the Mini 4 Pro. You would have to disable the "Force Virtual Stick" setting in the Advanced section of the Settings (which is the new default). If you have trouble with it you would have to re-enable the "Force Virtual Stick" setting to have it use Virtual Stick.
Thanks, I will do that, nice to have options.