Mission Control: Move to centre view confusing - plus some potential enhancements

[MrD-RC]

Main problem: move to centre view is confusing

This is my first time messing about with Mission Planner, and with the safehome stuff. I added and saved a safe home. But after moving the map, I wanted to view it again. So, I see a handy little button which says move to centre view. I thought that it would move the view of the map, centred on the safehome. Nope, it moves or adds a safehome to the centre of the current view.

Don't get me wrong. I can see how that would be useful. But the wording is a bit vague, and different actions can be assumed from it. Maybe change the alt text of the target icon to "Put safehome here". That is pretty obvious what it does.

Enhancments

• Add "centre on safehome" button: This is what I thought the target icon did. It doesn't. But that would be a great feature to have.
• Can't copy or paste with keyboard: I tried to copy and paste coordinates in to the Lon and Lat boxes. Using Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V doesn't work. I had to do it the slow way, by right clicking the mouse.
• Show the "landing" radius: Currently there is a Max distance, which is the radius within which the safehome will activate. This is great. There is also a Safe Radius; which I can only guess is something to do with laws and distances from people or objects. However, what would be really useful is the Loiter Radius, as this is the path that a fixed wing will take when "landing". Having that shown will aid smarthome location placement, especially when obstacles are present in the area.

[MrD-RC]

@ArnoTlse you may be the best guy to tag in this :)

[ArnoTlse]

Hi @MrD-RC,

Thanks for the feedback, I will add these 3 points in the todo list. I try to push it in the preparation of the next PR.

Arno

[MrD-RC]

Thanks @ArnoTlse. Great work on this 👍

[ArnoTlse]

Hi,

Here are some news about two of the items mentionned here.

I have updated mission planner with a new button in the SafeHome Tab to center the map view on the selected Safehome point. I have kept the original button and rename the tooltip to indicate that it is to position the SafeHome point selected to the center of the current map view.

I have also modified the mission planner to add the Loiter Radius for Airplane (FW). It will add a yellow circle around the Safehome by retrieving the Loiter Radius from the FC (through MSPHelper).

For multirotors and others, the default is to hide this loiter radius.

I have precised also that the initial Safe Radius is a custom one by changing the legend label.

Arno

[MrD-RC]

That looks awesome @ArnoTlse thank you. The target and eye icons for the safehomes are great. No confusing what they do, even without seeing the tip.