Mission Import after completion odd behavior

[JakimFignole]

Hello, I am having some odd behavior in arcgis on the ipad pro m4. I currently have been testing flight with the connection app and mavic 3 enterprise.

Upon completing a mission, the image import process starts however I am seeing some odd behavior happening that I can't figure out. This is keeping me from opening up 2 additional licenses for my contractors to fly under.

The best way to describe it is I am unable to import images from the sd card directly. In the files app the images are all grey out when I select the mission folder causing the error no im images found. 

 

However if I am in the mission tab and completely disregard the mission i just flew and choose to create a new mission from imported images, it finds the images and creates the mission

Now on the flip side, if I try to leave the drone on and import directly, they are found but the import process is painfully slow even with blazing fast connection through my fiber powered wifi but I cannot see thumbnails and the mission technically never finishes importing even after left on for a long long time. Even wirh a small number of images in the mission like below. Can you advise what may be happening?

[JakimFignole]

In my head I feel like it has something to do with the naming convention arcgis flight applies to the images flown in app since the behavior disappears wheb creating mission from images directly. My goal is to be able to have my contractors fly these missions as my basemap has the flight areas preset for then which is seamless. But it will get very complicated real quickly if they have to disregard the completed mission all together and essentially create a new mission from the images they just captured to get it into the system. I hope this is making sense. It has been a real head scratcher

[BrentPierce]

This is interesting, Can you talk more about your workflow? Are you importing the images on the same iPad which flew the mission?

[JakimFignole]

Yes I am attempting to upload with the same ipad that flew the mission. My overall workflow is that I have preset shapefiles in a layer in my baseman. These shapefiles represent flight areas that my drone pilots need to complete a data capture at. They range from 50 to 1500 acres. I also have preset flight plans for each project so that missions can be easily completed when they are assigned to them (field maps where i assign them tasks). The pilot logs in, chooses their assigned project (hoping for deep linking capabilities soon from field maps soon cough cough like survey123 cough cough lol), creates a new mission from the saved flight plans, then completes the data capture. After landing, the drone takes about 3 mins to wrap up some sort of processing. From there I can hop into the import area and choose to either use wireless import or sd card. Sd card has never worked for me. I have selected the root folder (containing misc and dcim folder) ive selected the dcim folder solely, ive selected the actual folder from the flight. Each time its as if the program cant recognize any images on the card. One other thought I had was if the csrd hasnt been formatted before flight and had even 1 mission flown from say the dji pilot app, will that mess with the naming convention leading to no images found?

[JakimFignole]

So quick update to this. I formatted the sd card, did a force stop with the dji pilot 2 app, then opened the flight connector app on my smart controller and the flight app on my ipad pro m4. After flying the mission, the drone returned to home and the mission processing dialogue appeared for only a few seconds and then successfully asked me if I wanted to import the mission. When importing from the drone directly it moved at a pretty decent speed and all thumbnails were present. 

However, sd card import was not even an option as my ipad did not even recognize the card was inserted. I double checked that the sd card was not corrupted by plugging the card into a laptop running windows and all files were present. 

I am going to attempt a different sd card tomorrow over 2 sites (ortho and 360 panorama capture each and will report back).

So far not having any files previously captured with dji pilot 2 or any other app seems to be the key for at least a successful mission completion. Fingers crosseded can get the sd import to work with others card which will enable faster transfer plus no need to keep the drone on importing hundreds of images.

[JakimFignole · Accepted solution]

I am happy to confirm it was an sd card issue. If the sd card is formatted via the computer quick erase thus clearinf any other captures done via other flight apps, all other flight apps are forced stopped on the smart controller, the sd card import function works as described. Closing