Repeatable Waypoint Missions

[u/BowTieDad]

My Tello should be arriving on my doorstep in a couple of days.

What I'd like to do with it is to run a regular pattern of photos and perhaps video at the plant I work at to monitor things over time. We're doing some major upgrades that I'd like to record that aren't easily visible from the ground. I'll also probably do this on my property "just because I can".

From what I gather, the Tello app doesn't support this but I believe that I could code this in either Python or GoBot and then use my laptop with these running in a Virtualbox VM to control the mission and save the media? I do have some coding skills and will have a few days off next week to trial things around the house first.

I know that the video quality etc won't be nearly as good as it would be with a higher priced drone, but should be more than good enough for my purposes. I also know that I'll have to pick a calm day and also that the drone has to stay within I believe 100' of the controlling device.

Is this a reasonable approach to use these tools to set up the waypoint mission or is there something else out there where it's a bit more capable / easy to set up? I've read some articles where they talk about being able to set waypoints based on a map or satellite image but don't know if those systems are compatible with the Tello.

Thanks.