The general settings (SettingsView > General Settings) are the main place for application-level configuration. Settable values include display units, autoconnection devices, video display and storage, RTK GPS, brand image, and other miscellaneous settings.
Note: Values are settable even if no vehicle is connected. Settings that require a vehicle restart are indicated in the UI.
Units
This section defines the display units used in the application.
The settings are:
- Distance: Meters | Feet
- Area: SquareMetres | SquareFeet | SquareKilometers | Hectares | Acres |SquareMiles
- Speed: Metres/second | Feet/second | Miles/hour | Kilometres/hour | Knots
- Temperature: Celsius | Fahrenheit
Miscellaneous
This section defines a number of miscellaneous settings, related to font sizes, color schemes, map providers, map types, telemetry logging, audio output, low battery announcement levels, default mission altitude, mission autoloading, default application file load/save path, and more.
The settings are:
- Color Scheme: Indoor (Dark) | Outdoor (Light)
- Map Provider: Google | Mapbox | Bing | Airmap | VWorld | Eniro | Statkart
- Map Type: Road | Hybrid | Satellite
- Font Size: UI font sizes
- Mute all audio output: Turns off all audio output.
- Check for Internet Connection: Uncheck to allow maps to be used in places where map tile downloads are likely to fail (stops the map-tile engine continually rechecking for an Internet connection).
- Save telemetry log after each flight: Check to automatically save flight logs.
- Announce battery lower than: Battery level at which Flight Deck will start low battery announcements.
Plan View
The settings are:
- Default Mission Altitude: The default altitude used for the Mission Start Panel, and hence for the first waypoint.
RTK GPS
This section allows you to specify the RTK GPS “Survey-in” settings, to save and reuse the result of a Survey-In operation, or to directly enter any other known position for the base station.
The Survey-In process is a startup procedure required by RTK GPS systems to get an accurate estimate of the base station position. The process takes measurements over time, leading to increasing position accuracy. Both of the setting conditions must met for the Survey-in process to complete. For more information see GPS- How it works (ArduPilot docs).
In order to save and reuse a base position (because Survey-In is time consuming!) perform Survey-In once, select Use Specified Base Position and press Save Current Base Position to copy in the values for the last survey. The values will then persist across Flight Deck reboots until they are changed.
The settings are:
- Perform Survey-In
- Survey-in accuracy (U-blox only): The minimum position accuracy for the RTK Survey-In process to complete.
- Minimum observation duration: The minimum time that will be taken for the RTK Survey-in process.
- Use Specified Base Position
- Base Position Latitude: Latitude of fixed RTK base station.
- Base Position Longitude: Longitude of fixed RTK base station.
- Base Position Alt (WGS94): Altitude of fixed RTK base station.
- Base Position Accuracy: Accuracy of base station position information.
- Save Current Base Position (button): Press to copy settings from the last Survey-In operation to the Use Specified Base Position fields above.
Video Recording
The Video Recording section is used to specify the file format and maximum allocated file storage for storing video. Videos are saved to a sub-directory (“Video”) of the Application Load/Save Path.
The settings are:
- Auto-Delete Files: If checked, files are auto deleted when the specified amount of storage is used.
- Max Storage Usage: Maximum video file storage before video files are auto deleted.
- Video File Format: File format for the saved video recording: mkv, mov, mp4.