Problem updating home point during flight using DJI RC2

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Hi All.

Newbie here so apologies in advance if this is a stupid question, or if I am doing something wrong that is really obvious.

This has happened twice now. I am flying by the sea in Northumberland. I wait until there is a GPS lock, and the home point has been updated. I start flying and everything seems normal. Then, because I have moved while flying, I try to update the home point to where the controller is, and I get this message: “No satellite positioning signal on mobile device. Move to open area”. Both times I fly it back manually, but when I have done, the distance marker on the bottom of the screen still thinks it is 327m away from the controller. (See attached screenshots). The number of satellites did not go down, as far as I can remember, and I had no warning about GPS loss or anything. What am I doing wrong?

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I think you have to connect your mobile phone to the internet ( so you have an internet connection, before launching the drone, and link this to your controller , making sure your phone has GPS as well) I’m sure I’ve seen something about this on YouTube ( maybe Ian in London or Nobby Clark channel ) :wink:

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So the home point can’t be updated without internet? That is a problem - I was in the middle of nowhere with very limited signal.

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I don’t think you do have to connect to your phone, which led me questioning myself as I used this feature a couple of weeks ago ( different rc different drone but DJI no WiFi or phone connection ) so I just went to Google as I doubted myself,

No, the DJI RC 2 does not require a Wi-Fi connection to update the home point. The home point is determined by the GPS signal received by the drone and the remote controller, not by Wi-Fi. The DJI RC 2 uses GPS for this functionality, allowing you to set the home point to the drone’s current location or the remote controller’s current location, regardless of whether Wi-Fi is connected.

No, the DJI RC 2 does not require a Wi-Fi connection to update the home point. The home point is set using GPS data from the drone and the controller, and this process does not rely on an internet connection,

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This guy has done investigation into this. Might help :man_shrugging:t2: :smiling_face_with_sunglasses:
Does NOT embed video here so click ‘watch on youtube’ to view.

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Seems like a problem with the latest RC 2 FW update & or the app then.

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Yep it’s a known issue affecting some but not everyone.

I have had the issues pictured since updating to most recent Fly app FW on the RC2.

Hopefully DJI will launch a FW update soon to fix this.

I don’t usually change RTH location when I fly but would be nice if the issue got corrected.

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No I don’t use it either, but when I did as mentioned above is probably the first time I have ever in the 4 years ish of owning / flying drone.

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The latest RC2 update fixes it.

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Ooh thanks. Just done the update but haven’t had the chance to test it out yet.

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I think it has to do with the latest dji update 1.17.1 I think, the previous update 1.17.0 was ok and corrected for change of RTH position, I contacted dji, without a lot of success, but think it need a further update to correct this issue. There are a couple of utubers have mentioned this recently, worth a checkout

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It’s mentioned just two posts ago that ..

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Didn’t fix it for me. A recent Air 3S firmware update did. 01.00.0140.

Checked it tonight for first time and the drone did RTH to new homepoint. Still amazed at how quickly it picks up GPS lock now.

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