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Introduction


Setting home location is important, the controller need needs to know his its position to perform calibrations (Accelerometer and Magnetometer). Home location is also needed for autonomous flight or Return to Base functions.
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titleAbout WGS84 altitude

The WGS84 altitude do does not refers refer to the know common altitude (usually MSL : Mean Sea Level) of a location but take in account others parameters like the Geoid separation:

Altitude (WGS84) = Height (MSL) + Geoid Separation

 Altitude (MSL) can be found using GoogleEarth or other map tools and Geoid separation can be obtained here. 

So not a easy way, if If you only know your altitude without the Geoid separation values, just enter Altitude. This should not be an issue and sufficient for sensor calibration.

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This is the normal method of setting the Home Location, you should set the Home Location every time you want to use autonomous features or Return to base.

Go into the Configuration > Attitude and select the Settings tab.

  • Hit the Clear button and wait until the Home Location remain defined appears again.
  • Save settings using the bottom-right Save button.


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Tip
titleAutomatically set Home Location

If you plan to use you your vehicle the next day in another location, you should set the HomeLocation > Set parameter to False

This means the next time the controller start starts and get gets a good GPS fix, this new location is taken in accountwill be used.

In System tab and UAVOBrowser, search for HomeLocation Uavo, change the Set parameter to FALSE, and Save settings.