Regarding the original question:
- turn RC on, put your iPhone in Airplane mode, turn WiFi back on, connect to RC, close all apps and start DJI GO. Turn the phone volume all the way up. I'm suggesting this to make sure there are no other apps "competing" for iPhone resources.
- turn on the AC and wait until GO tells you that it's Safe to Fly (GPS).
- start the motors.
- check whether Home Point was actually recorded by looking at the map: since you fly with a GPS-enabled device, you should see 3 icons overlapping, the blue dot - if I recall correctly - which is your (iPhone) current position, the green "H" of the Home Point, and the red arrow of the AC.
- I don't have evidence, but my feeling is that the Home Point voice confirmation does not play all the times.
- your comment "because the app says compass is stuck" worries me, as that's NOT normal. You should not be required to do compass calibration every time you fly. Quite the contrary, many people - including me - leave the compass alone unless flying hundreds of miles away from previous location. Long stretch, but maybe this compass issue is related to the Home Point problem...
Regarding the parallel discussion about compass calibration:
- if I read @msinger comments correctly, he is saying that it's very difficult to do a successful calibration in a place with magnetic interference. Many errors that in the past were attributed to "bad compass calibration" were in reality caused by people flying the AC (with a perfectly calibrated compass) in places with magnetic interference.
- turn RC on, put your iPhone in Airplane mode, turn WiFi back on, connect to RC, close all apps and start DJI GO. Turn the phone volume all the way up. I'm suggesting this to make sure there are no other apps "competing" for iPhone resources.
- turn on the AC and wait until GO tells you that it's Safe to Fly (GPS).
- start the motors.
- check whether Home Point was actually recorded by looking at the map: since you fly with a GPS-enabled device, you should see 3 icons overlapping, the blue dot - if I recall correctly - which is your (iPhone) current position, the green "H" of the Home Point, and the red arrow of the AC.
- I don't have evidence, but my feeling is that the Home Point voice confirmation does not play all the times.
- your comment "because the app says compass is stuck" worries me, as that's NOT normal. You should not be required to do compass calibration every time you fly. Quite the contrary, many people - including me - leave the compass alone unless flying hundreds of miles away from previous location. Long stretch, but maybe this compass issue is related to the Home Point problem...
Regarding the parallel discussion about compass calibration:
- if I read @msinger comments correctly, he is saying that it's very difficult to do a successful calibration in a place with magnetic interference. Many errors that in the past were attributed to "bad compass calibration" were in reality caused by people flying the AC (with a perfectly calibrated compass) in places with magnetic interference.