Error saving flight path

Hi all!

I've been using my ardupilot for some surveying missions recently and I love the auto stuff programmed in!

I wanted to try to make a multi flight trip today though so I was building flight plans and after I saved the first one with 184 way points successfully (having the camera trigger on "Do_Digicam_Control") when I build the second polygon then autofilled the way points, I can't seem to save the file.

I keep getting "error writing file."

It stops at waypoint 116 every time and writes until just before the latitude. I looked at that and the surrounding waypoints and nothing out of the ordinary.

My flight plan starts with a "Takeoff" command and ends with a "RTL" and "Land" command as I've used (and saved) about 5 or 6 times now.

Does anyone know of any common reasons I'm missing that may be preventing me from saving? Something like "oh you can only save up to 56 Do_Digicam_Control commands in a single file" or some oddity like that?

Thanks a bunch for any help!

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  • You are hitting the memory limit which restricts the number of waypoints to around 120, give or take, from memory.

    I am trying to set similar missions where the number of waypoints is a concern and to this effect the new firmware has the 

    Camera trigger distance (CAM_TRIGG_DIST)

    Distance in meters between camera triggers. If this value is non-zero then the camera will trigger whenever the GPS position changes by this number of meters regardless of what mode the APM is in

    • Range: 0 1000

    which has been in the fixed wing code for a while.

    I have not yet tested the function though.

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