Litchi Hub Bridge: Revolutionize Your DJI Waypoint Flights

Discover how Litchi Hub Bridge simplifies automated flight planning (waypoints) for DJI drones. Complete guide, compatibility, and professional use cases.

Drone flight automation has reached a decisive new milestone. For professionals in aerial capture, mapping, or inspection, flight precision and repeatability are major challenges. This is where waypoint planning comes in. While the official DJI Fly app offers this feature on some recent models, preparing a complex mission on a small smartphone or remote controller screen remains tedious. To solve this problem, the developers of the famous Litchi app launched Litchi Hub Bridge, a synchronization tool that promises to radically transform your workflow.

What is Litchi Hub Bridge?

Historically, Litchi established itself as the go-to third-party app for autonomous flights, claiming over 5,000 successful daily flights worldwide [1]. However, many recent DJI drones intended for consumers and pros (such as the Mini or Air series) are not supported by the DJI SDK (Software Development Kit), preventing the direct use of the Litchi Pilot mobile app.

To bypass this limitation, the developers created Litchi Hub, a web platform allowing you to comfortably plan missions on a computer. The remaining challenge was transferring these missions to the drone. Previously, this required complex methods involving manual file renaming to "trick" the DJI Fly app.

Litchi Hub Bridge is the elegant solution to this problem. Available for Windows and macOS, this small background utility allows you to directly and effortlessly export flight plans created on the web to the DJI Fly app on your smartphone or remote controller (such as the DJI RC/RC 2/RC Pro) [2].

Compatible Drones and Technical Requirements

To benefit from this innovation, your drone must natively support Waypoint mode within the official DJI app. Litchi Hub Bridge acts as a gateway but cannot invent a feature that is physically absent from the drone's firmware.

Here is the list of DJI models currently compatible with this workflow in 2026 [2]:

Mini Series	Air Series	Mavic Series
DJI Mini 5 Pro	DJI Air 3	DJI Mavic 3 (Standard, Classic, Pro)
DJI Mini 4 Pro	DJI Air 3S	DJI Mavic 4 Pro

Note: The DJI Mini 4 Pro also benefits from native DJI SDK support, giving pilots the choice between this method and using Litchi Pilot directly.

How Mission Transfer Works

The process, while requiring a few initial steps, quickly becomes intuitive for a regular pilot.

Create a "Dummy" Mission: Start by creating a basic mission directly in the DJI Fly app. Place two random waypoints near your planned flight area and save it. This action creates the necessary folder structure and '.kmz' file on your mobile device.
Plan on the Web: Use the Litchi Hub web interface to plan your real mission, enjoying the comfort of a large screen, mouse precision, and advanced settings (altitude, speed, gimbal orientation, camera actions).
The Bridge: Once the mission is ready, connect your mobile device (or remote controller) to your computer via USB. Litchi Hub Bridge will detect the device and offer to overwrite the dummy mission with your new, detailed plan.
Take Off: Simply load the mission in DJI Fly on-site and launch the autonomous flight [2].

Advantages for Drone Professionals

Using Litchi Hub paired with Litchi Hub Bridge offers significant benefits for technical missions:

1. Surgical Precision for Photogrammetry

Drone mapping requires perfect image overlap (often between 70% and 80%). Planning a precise flight grid on a smartphone is difficult. The web interface allows for rigorous flight zone tracing, ensuring the quality of the final 3D model during software processing.

2. Repeatability for Construction Site Monitoring

In the construction sector, it is common to need a photograph of a site from the exact same angle every week. By saving your missions on Litchi Hub, you can re-export and execute them identically months later, ensuring perfect visual continuity for your deliverables.

3. Safety and Anticipation

Preparing your flight in the office allows you to study the topography, anticipate potential obstacles, and define adequate safety altitudes, thereby reducing stress and the risk of error once in the field.

Conclusion

Litchi Hub Bridge intelligently fills the gap left by DJI's SDK restrictions. For pilots equipped with recent drones like the Mavic 3 or the Air 3S, this free tool restores access to professional-level flight planning—essential for maximizing the profitability and quality of aerial services.

References

[1] Litchi for DJI Drones. (n.d.). Litchi. https://flylitchi.com/

[2] Kaehn. (2025, June). [GUIDE] How to use Litchi Hub with DJI Fly / SkyRover. Litchi Forum. https://forum.flylitchi.com/t/guide-how-to-use-litchi-hub-with-dji-fly-skyrover/24332