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title: How to highlight your home airport
description: "Make your home airport easy to spot: it can blink in a marker colour, cycle through colours, or simply stay brighter while all other airports are dimmed. ### 1. Find your airport's LED number 1. Open your map's page (see…"
url: "https://pilotmap.co/help/how-to-highlight-your-home-airport/"
updated: "2026-10-29"
category: Customization
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# How to highlight your home airport

Make your home airport easy to spot: it can blink in a marker colour, cycle through colours, or simply stay brighter while all other airports are dimmed.

### 1. Find your airport's LED number

1. Open your map's page (see the steps in part 2) and, in the top menu, move the mouse over **Airports** and click **Editor**.
   ![Airports menu](https://pilotmap.co/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/pilotmap-help-menu-airports-1.png)
2. Find your airport in the **Airport ID** column and note the number in the **Pin #** column next to it. Only look; you don't need to change or save anything on this page.
   ![Airports editor with Pin numbers](https://pilotmap.co/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/pilotmap-help-apedit-pin.png)

### 2. Turn on the home airport feature

### Open your map's settings

1. On a phone or computer that is on the **same WiFi as your map**, open a web browser.
2. Go to `http://<map name>.local` (the name you wrote down during the WiFi setup) or `http://<IP address>`, for example `http://192.168.1.50`. If you don't know the IP address, see [how to find the IP address of your PilotMap](https://pilotmap.co/help/how-to-find-the-ip-address-of-your-pilotmap/). Some Android phones can't open `.local` names; use the IP address there.
3. In the menu at the top, move the mouse over **Settings** and click **Editor**.
   ![Settings menu with Editor and Save Config File](https://pilotmap.co/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/pilotmap-help-menu-settings-1.png)
4. Click a blue bar to open that group of settings.
   ![Settings editor with its groups of settings](https://pilotmap.co/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/pilotmap-help-confedit-top-1.png)

1. Open **Sectional Map Settings**.
2. Set **Turn On Home Airport Feature** to **Yes** and enter your airport's number in **Home Airport Pin**.
   ![Home airport settings](https://pilotmap.co/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/pilotmap-help-homeport-1.png)
3. Choose how it is shown in **Home Airport Type of Color Change**:
   - **No Change**: your airport keeps its weather colour; it stands out because the others are dimmed (next step).
   - **Variable Colors**: your airport cycles through a set of colours.
   - **Solid Color**: your airport switches between its weather colour and a marker colour. The marker colour is **Home Airport Marker Color** under **LED Colors Settings**.
     ![Home Airport Marker Color](https://pilotmap.co/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/pilotmap-help-homeport-color-1.png)
4. **Homeport Dimming** dims all other airports: `0` = no dimming, `100` = others completely off. Around 50 to 75 works well.

### Save

1. In the menu at the top, move the mouse over **Settings** and click **Save Config File**. You will see *Settings Successfully Saved*.
   ![Settings menu with Save Config File](https://pilotmap.co/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/pilotmap-help-menu-settings-save.png)
2. That's it. The map restarts its weather display by itself and shows the new setting within a minute or two. While it restarts, the legend may show all green for a moment (that is the normal ["starting" status](https://pilotmap.co/help/status-codes/)). You don't need to unplug it.

**Tip:** changes are only kept after **Save Config File**. If you close the page before saving, nothing changes.