Trust me, the drone CAN be activated without the original DJI GO app. Why would anyone use Litchi without connecting to the Litchi Mission Hub? The VLM Planner and Mission Hub are the only reason I bought Litchi. My concern is that Litchi was developed using the DJI Software Development Kit, and that SDK could have code in it that sends information to DJI without my knowledge and permission. If I determine that to be the case, I will not use Litchi. I guess I will have to use a network sniffer to get a real answer. I was just hoping that someone had already done it and could tell me what it does.