Comment by sverhagen
4 months ago
I worked for a company that had a cloud solution to manage drone fleets, and we tried ingesting log files. We had a small team working on that, and we were grateful to use and/or learn from what was available in GitHub repositories like yours (although I don't recognize yours specifically). There was a lot of trial and error, a lot of magic numbers, and stuff was still wrong half the time. And then... they leveled up the encryption of the log files, and it was game-over. Their new solution gave limited access to vendors willing to work through the legalities. If I remember correctly, it required the log file, or at least parts of it to be uploaded to get the keys to unlock it. Not something US companies, like big utilities, were very keen on.
I've always been interested in buying a dji drone but never pulled the trigger precisely because of crap like this. Give me a well documented interface and don't call home/include IoT.
Is it really that hard?
It's not that hard, but that's not what DJI offers. Their business (and, who knows, maybe political) incentives are different, so they chose a closed, guarded system. By the way, it's what everyone did in the 80's/90's, so why would some contingent of companies not be that way now.