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Geofence questions?

Posted by Andre on May 16, 2012 at 7:28am

I have a question about geofencing to set up?

I have set fence-action to 1

and set the fence -chanel to 5 with is a spare chanel .

but as soon as i triger geofence on my radio i have no authority over my servos no control.

when i switch off control is back.

im i missing something?

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  • Andre May 22, 2012 at 12:55pm
    Thanks that make sense will go do another test
  • Developer
    Andrew Tridgell May 21, 2012 at 3:26pm

    Hi Andre,

    If you have no control then that means the plane thinks it is outside the fenced area (either by GPS position or altitude). It will have switched to GUIDED mode and will be trying to fly to the fence return point.

    The idea is to only enable fencing once you have taken off and are flying inside the fenced area. If you want to takeoff with fencing enabled then you would need to set the minimum altitude of the fence to zero, but that will disable the ability of the plane to prevent crashing into the ground.

    Cheers, Tridge

    PS: Sorry for being slow to see this thread, I've been off sick for a bit

  • Developer
    Andreas M. Antonopoulos May 20, 2012 at 1:53pm

    If you started "outside" the fence when you turned it on, then it immediately goes to GUIDED mode to go back to the starting point. Did you define your fence coordinates correctly? Do you have GPS lock when you turn it on?

  • Andre May 20, 2012 at 1:06pm
    One thing i can tell about this forum not much activity all people have questions but not much answers.

    On the openpilot forum witch is much smaller community you can be asure to get a answer.
  • Andre May 17, 2012 at 11:49am
    Is there really no one that can answer me.
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