EDIT: FIXED ALREADY. thanks to @linuxguy@piefed.ca - location report accuracy is set by going to the Channels menu and opening the settings for the default zero channel (or whatever channel you are sending location data on). Not obvious way to do it!

I’ve put up a couple base stations in my area. One is at my house the other is at my girlfriend’s house.

Both of them I’ve been trying to set a fixed position using the android app, so the mesh map is more accurate and other users can use it to find good places for more stations. Problem is I am unable to set a fixed position. I simply use my phones gps position, which enters the correct 7-decimal coordinates I expect to see. When I program it and the device reboots though, it creates some 15 digit monstrosity and loses most accuracy in its reported position as it seems to fall back to 4-decimal precision. Which isn’t helpful as that cirxle is half the size of my town.

Is this something I can bypass by programming via USB or a known bug you’ve encountered? Otherwise I am gonna make a bug report on github next.

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    19 hours ago

    Wow that is COMPLETELY not obvious way to set it… I flipped the precise location switch in longfast and it does report correctly to the rest of the mesh now. Thanks!!