Set Home Not Working?

Russj · July 9, 2019, 10:25am

Anyone else having problems setting home position in MP? The only way I can set home is by arming / disarming or rebooting. Any of the other methods in MP don’t work; right click > set home etc.

I’ve gone out specifically to test all the various methods and tried loads of combinations of actions but can’t get it to work.

This thread and GitHub issue seems to suggest there was an issue and now it’s fixed?

github.com/ArduPilot/MissionPlanner

Clarify Set-Home-Here and Set-EKF-Origin

opened 12:34AM - 23 Jul 18 UTC

closed 04:16AM - 04 Dec 18 UTC

rmackay9

ArduPilot allows the user to set a "Home" and/or an "EKF Origin" position. 1.… users who want their vehicle to always return to a specific location (regardless of where it was armed) will want to use the "Set Home Here" option. 2. users of vehicles without a GPS must initialise the EKF by telling it where it is in the world. These users must use the "Set EKF Origin" option. In addition to the above, I believe the MP maintains it's own copy of home which it uses to center the Flight Plan screen's map and also which it sends to the vehicle as the first mission item (which is ignored actually but it needs to be there). It is not clear how users can do item 1 (i.e. "Set Home Here"). The Flight Data screen has a right-mouse-button menu option to "Set Home Here >> Set EKF Origin" but I believe this is item 2.. the naming is odd and confusing because it's nesting the "Set EKF Origin" under "Set Home Here". I'm also not sure why it's nested when there's only one option. I guess I'm confused how a user is meant to set the home position. This is for both Copter and Rover.

I’m running ArduRover 3.5.1 - MP 1.3.68

Am I missing something basic here or is there an issue?

Thanks in advance!

ktrussell · July 9, 2019, 7:45pm

I’m pretty sure I’m running those same versions (the latest) and just last night right clicked and set home more than once with no trouble. So it isn’t a universal issue.

Russj · July 10, 2019, 9:17am

Hi Kenny

Thanks for your reply. I’ll have to repeat my experiments on another rig and see if I can duplicate the issue. Will report back with findings…