Introduction

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

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Using GCS Map

Drag the map and zoom into your current location.
Do a right click and select Set the home location from the context menu.
Enter the WGS84 altitude in meters

About WGS84 altitude

The WGS84 altitude do not refers to the know 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 you only know your altitude without the Geoid separation values, just enter Altitude. This should not be an issue and sufficient for sensor calibration.

Using GPS data

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 again.
Save settings using the bottom-right Save button.

Automatically set Home Location

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

This means the next time the controller start and get a good GPS fix, this new location is taken in account.

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

Setting Home location

Introduction

Using GCS Map

Using GPS data