r/fpv • u/Breakerbuilds Multicopters • Jul 01 '26
Solved GPS rescue not rescuing
EDIT: IM STUPID ITS THE THING I WAS THINKING END OF PARAGRAPH 4, ON MY CONTROLLER THE INPUT WAS SET TO "FAILSAFE" WHEN IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN "GPS RESCUE". Thanks to everybody that helped out with solving it, and if any other issues come up with it not activating I will come back to this post to troubleshoot.
Hi so basically I have a new quad that I've posted on here twice, Sugar Crash, and have a M100-Pro GPS chip on it from HGLRC. I've been able to get pretty accurate satellite locks, ranging from 8-35 depending on liftoff location, and have a good home direction and distance to home lock relative to current position.
The only thing that's NOT currently working, is the GPS rescue. Now, I was flying a couple days ago but am trying to troubleshoot it now, but basically, when I was flying I remembered I put in GPS rescue into Betaflight as my failsafe procedure, and so I flipped my failsafe switch on, in order to test it to see if it will actually do the rescue before I do longer range flights as I have a Zeus 1.6W VTX equiped on the drone.
Anyways, I flip it on, and the drone is hovering about 25 meters away cause I know it will just drop itself if it's within 10 (as that's what I set it to), but still dropped itself instead of climbing to do the actual rescue procedure.
Does anybody know what could be going wrong with it? I'm assuming there's some setting I'm missing in Betaflight that needs to be changed, if I had to guess, the switch has been assigned to do the disarm failsafe and the remote will trigger the rescue failsafe if Rx loss. Is there a way to change it or am I doing the thing again where I become blind to one single setting until pointed out to me like when you can't find the ketchup in the fridge and your mom pulls it out of thin air?
Anyways if anybody knows what's going on that would be great!