Changing Home location

ArduCopter
1

Hello,

I hope this is the right category for this question, if not let me know.

I wanted to change the RTL coordinates during an automated or manual flight.
The idea is that the coordinates are linked to a (slowly) moving truck and if there is a failsafe (i.e. loss of RC) that the drone goes to the new RTL coordinates.

I have the GPS coordinates of the car so I could manually enter them in Mission Planner but I don’t know how to do this.

I tried adding an RTL waypoint & turning off the RC but the drone always returned to its home point (where the battery was connected).

How can this be done?

2
  1. Update to the latest MissionPlanner.
  2. Right click on the desired map location and select “Set Home Here- > Set home here”
3

Hello Lucas,

Thanks for the reply, I’ll try that.

Somewhere I read that it doesn’t override the fail-safe location (the actual home), have you tried it before?

4

No, I have not tried it, we use rally points instead and set the RALLY_INCL_HOME parameter to zero, so that it ignores home location. That one works fine for us, it changes the RTL.

5

This discussion is very useful for me because soon I will move and I will need to change the location of the house. :handshake:Thanks for this discussion!