Betaflight 4.5 RC2 Return to Home Radio Off Test (Details in Description)
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- čas přidán 28. 07. 2024
- First I need to say thank you to my good buddy @dragonazzFPV for taking time from flying to record this for me, please go check out his channel 👍
So I have been messing with the new Betaflight 4.5 RC2 return to home, first testing it a few times on my DarwinFPV 129 before taking the plunge on something bit pricier. This is just the test of turning off my radio to see how well it works. I did do a test of using the GPS rescue button on my Radiomaster Pocket with the same results. I’m really impressed with how well this feature works and can only imagine the smart people that work on Betaflight will only make it better.
Gear used in test
Rekon5 FPV Long Range
Frame: Rekon5 LR
Wheelbase: 222mm
Arm thickness: 4mm
FC: Zeus F722 mini flight controller
ESC: ZEUS 28A 4in1 ESC blheli-s
VTX: DJI O3 Air Unit VTX
Motor: Rekon 2004 2600kv 4s
Propeller: GEMFAN 5125 3-blade propeller
GPS: M80 GPS
Buzzer: Soter buzzer
RX: 2.4G ELRS
Battery: RDQ 4S 1500 mAh Lipo
Radio: Radiomaster Pocket w/Happymodel ES24TX Slim Pro ExpressLRS TX Module - Krátké a kreslené filmy
That was a great demonstration, can't wait to see how far along prebuilt FPV drones are gonna be in a year or two
Thank you. They are coming along so fast it’s pretty amazing!
I have to give it a try. Thanks for doing this test. 🎉👏
It’s working really well. Let me know if you have any questions, happy to help.
Great video. Thanks for sharing.
I like the perfect duration of the video. Not too long, not too short.
Thank you for watching and for you comments, it’s good information for me to consider. Have a great weekend!
This is awesome! Great demo video! Now I hope that the Walksnail video system is truly fixed to work now with GPS because I was waiting for Betaflight to make this happen. I lost my first 7" drone with the Walksnail vtx trying the GPS Rescue on 4.4 sometime back. Thank goodness i had a beeper or else it would have been a permanent loss. Something happens where the original Walksnail vtx would block some or all of the GPS signal during flight and not really let you know. And i had gps rescue on a toggle and tried it about 200 ft up. It started to work , but decided to just take off before getting to me. Sucked, but the coordinates of where i lost video ended up saving the drone. Looked the coords on google maps and got to where i heard the beeper. GPS ended up working in a different capacity. Gotta love technology!
Thank you for watching and the great comments. I hadn’t heard about the issue with Walksnail and GPS, that is pretty wild that it caused so much trouble with what sounds like some sort of interference from the vtx. Especially since it was happening after things were working. Good to hear you recovered your drone! Having lost a few due to faulty gps rescue in the past, before figuring out I could have latitude and longitude on my OSD, I’m always so nervous about long range flying and hoping everything will work perfectly. Beeper is definitely a must when doing this stuff, they are so loud they really help. Yes indeed, love the tech, it’s a blast! Take care.
So awesome 👏🏼 I hope to set GPS up on my next build. Now it’s getting better with each update. I have trust issues too lol
It’s really great and even the old version has saved many of my quads. This is so much better though! Good luck and let me know if you need any help.
@@smithe68 I will definitely be askin for help. I hope to start on it February. I’m still collecting parts.
I have used it since it came out. Of course, first GPS Rescue versions were shitty, but still, they took over and flew in the home directions and saved me countless hours searching in fields, mountains and forests lol. Always worked in real rxloss or videoloss situations and always worked better than a failsafe crash someplace.
@@tstrrtstrr745 like you I have had GPS rescue save me a lot of time searching! One time with an older version I lost rx and my drone came back and hovered about 100’ above my head until my battery died, at least I got it back though lol. This new version seems to be great so far and I am sure they will continue to make improvements. Thanks for watching and commenting 🙏🏽
So epic, that was fun, but yet scary to film!!
I can’t believe how good it is. Thanks again for being there, helping out, and filming brother!
Awesome video 🤘. So close to almost perfect return to home. At this point close enough for me to trust it. 😁
Thank you 🙏🏽 It’s so good, honestly my Mini 3 Pro doesn’t get much closer if at all! So far I’ve set it up on two drones and done about 6 different tests and it’s worked every time, I feeling pretty good about it! Good luck if you do it.
Great stuff bro I like it
Thanks bro
That was very nice 👊👍
Thanks Gene!
Pretty cool!
Thank you!
Subscribed!
Thank you 🙏🏽
That's pretty impressive
It really is! Thanks for watching.
the audacity to show how much of a titanium pair ballz you got to test this just like that with radio off instead of just flipping the switch... wow erik. i could not have done it. anxiety would be throught the roof for me! nice one! thanks for doing this test so i dont have to and make my underwear code brown
I gotta say, I may not have shown it but, I was sweating buckets 😅 I felt pretty sure it was going to work but you never really know! I’m really impressed with how well this is working, it makes me think I can do even dumber things while flying 🤣 Man I haven’t heard code brown in ages, thanks for the good laugh!
@@smithe68 haha yes. but never rely on this! it ALWAYS works when you show it to friends and it fails exactly at the moment you screw up and really need it. been there many times.
Mt old DJI naza v2 with GPS & FC system would do this when turning it off . I would freak my friends out. This was 11 years ago . Cool that its now working on Betaflight nvr trusted it before watching this.
Yeah it’s amazing how good DJI is at this stuff, even my relatively cheap spark could return to home reliably. Betaflight is really coming along great. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Cool 👍👍👍
Thanks!
oldguyFPV; GPS Rescue, saved my arse several times!
You and me both my friend!
Need to tune the hover throttle a bit. It’s a bit high. It’s pretty neat though isn’t it 😉
Yes I do, it’s one of the things I am working on but haven’t had time to test a lot, weather is all over the place and been traveling some It’s really such a huge improvement and should only get better!
Nice 👍.... try to test on low altitude and from short distance like 12 meters 3 meters altitude next time.
I plan on it soon, this weekend! Supposedly it will fly out to your distance/altitude settings first before returning to home. Wish me luck 🤞
@@smithe68 good luck to you.🤞😊 Please make video on settings if you can.thank you!
@@Sam-gr8pl so I tested this today, I might not get the video up until next week because I’m heading to go camping. I will tell you it worked quite well. I was quite low and not far out. When I activated GPS rescue it flew up and away until it reached the default distances before starting it’s return to home.
@@smithe68 oh thats great thank you for the test🙂 i will be testing this on my 3 inch quad. but b4 i will do that.i will use your settings.waiting for your next video.. enjoy the camp....greetings
Looked pretty darn good Eric. What GPS module where you using? Never messed with GPS rescue in BetaFlight but it does look interesting an a lot better then doing a walk of shame in the field. Thumbs up.👍
It’s surprisingly good. It’s an HGLRC M80, pretty sure that’s the right model. Any of the M10s out there will, lock faster and grab more satellites. I’m going to test a drone with one next if I can get out in the next few days. It’s so much better than the walk of shame, or drive of shame!
Like 👍11! Thanks for sharing💫
Thank you for watching 🙏🏽
The nice landing is great and all but I think it needs sanity checks to be on to work which I am not a fan off as the sanity checks in betaflight gps rescue are in my opinion too trigger happy to disarm the drone if any of the conditions are met.
Thanks, yeah it seems to be pretty good. For what it's worth I checked and I do not have sanity checks set to on, I have it set to Failsafe Only vs On or Off. Not sure if it makes a huge difference but so far it's been working well in my tests.
Hi , how do you set up "return home ". I have a TX12. Thanks
Let me see if I have a short video of my setup and I will get back to you.
Sorry for late reply, I thought I had a video but I can’t find it. This is a really good guide to follow. oscarliang.com/setup-gps-rescue-mode-betaflight/
@@smithe68 thank you.
This will be good stuff once it's in a actual release. It won't work real good with a tree canopy overhead though😂
As good as it is now, I imagine they will make this and other features really good! Yeah🤣
Thank you sir, how to setup that in betaflight? I just done putting gps on my drone, can you help me how to setup my 5inch drone? Btw I'm done subscribing 🙏
Hello. I have this video that shows the very basic setup that I hope can help you. Let me know if you need more help after watching and I will do my best. Thank you for watching and subscribing 🙏🏽 I greatly appreciate it your support.
Weird how it kinda drops and catches itself over and over as its coming down, lol, wonder why they have it do that do that? I thought it was falling for a second there... But it is pretty cool that they seem to have got it working pretty good, i definitely wouldn't rely on it or would even disable it if you have a BMI gyro though with its calibration issue, the betaflight devs recommend not to use that gyro now especially with self leveling modes like rth, i tried rth a year or 2 ago but it was terrible and rarely worked but i do like having the mph and gome arrow, so i put gps on all my non micro stuff just for that, but i have never had a gps work for very long seems like they just die eventually after 3-6 months for some reason, also im pretty sure betaflight usually is set to beep your beeper then you loose your radio controller connection anyhow...
I thought the same thing not sure if there is a setting that can make it smoother. I have had this same behavior with two different drones. I definitely don’t think it’s foolproof but it sure is better than the old return to home that worked when it felt like it with random behavior. I once had a drone return to me after a failsafe and it just hovered in the hair about 50’ up spinning randomly in both directions for a few minutes, then it landed, this is before landing was even an option 🤷♂️ Thanks for pointing out the BMI gyro thing, I just saw something about that but hadn’t had the time to watch the video to see what it was all about, got one queued up for a little later. I’m with you, been putting GPS modules on anything that isn’t too small to have one on it. That’s weird about your GPS longevity, I’ve got a couple HGLRC ones from 2020 that are still working well, my first test with this new feature was on a DarwinFPV 129 with a GPS I pulled from my first long range build I did Summer of 2020. Hmm, that’s interesting, I don’t think I had beeping until I added it, I’ll have to check.
@@smithe68 all my drones beep if i turn off my radio before unplugging or if i forget to turn the radio on first
@@DigitalCruzer I think I have a bad habit of turning that off cause it annoys me when I am working on a drone in betaflight and I don't have my radio on and I forget to turn that feature back on 🤦🏽♂
It landed better than I do 😂
Haha, I feel you there!
Usong iNAV though i once used RTH and was letting it just land. When i realized it was off by a few feet and it was so close to tree i got nervous. I forgot i took off so close to the tree. I had goggles on then i see top of pine tree i panicked and took over haha
I thought about the trees after I took off but took a chance. You know I should test if turning the radio back on will connect up quick enough to take over if I needed to do that. Not even sure why I would need that but maybe if my batteries died and I had to swap them? Thanks for sharing your experience, good to know I am not the only one that has moments like that!
@smithe68 it takes few seconds for radio to turn on and few seconds to connect. It's not terribly long but in an emergency it feels like forever.. I want to test 4.5. I put it in a quad. But when I went to test found quad had major issues now. So I finally fixed it. Take it out yesterday and the tune is wacky. So I have to retune
Interesting, that is fast compared to Betaflight! The sick tune gave me issues on 2 drones but not my Rekon 5. On the other 2 it was due to rpm filtering being turned on, as soon as I disabled that everything was much better. Good luck and sorry for late reply.
I have 4.3 should i update it?
That’s a great question. I would say yes but there is always a risk when upgrading. If you need/want the feature I would do it but make sure you back up everything and test it thoroughly in a “safe” place.
@@smithe68 Will give it a shot Thanks!
@@NorgeSquad good luck 🤞I subbed to your channel, I’ll look forward to seeing how it goes.
A friend of mine did this , bye bye 👋 600.00 bucks 😢. I told him try with the radio 📻 on first nope.........
Oh no! That sucks. I did do multiple tests with radio on first before I did this.
Haha I am guessing you did that on a switch first? I wouldnt have the balls to do it with controller off right off the bat.
I absolutely tested it on a switch first 😅 I was sweating buckets when I pushed the power on the controller even if I didn’t show it!
If you keep the remote near it is better I guess
Sorry, I am not following on what you mean by close?
No, the distance of the remote does not impact the accuracy. If he got more satellites locked, the GPS would be a little more accurate. This is already a massive improvement over the old "return to crash" we had a few years back 😂
did you notice the chemtrails
Contrails
@@brookekathryn1980 contrails do not stay long time. in the video there is chemtrails
@@flat-earther In optimal conditions with very little moisture. In reality, most contrails last hours! They are essentially linear clouds caused by compression of humid atmospheric conditions. Conspiracy theorist.
I have 4.3 should i update it?
If you want GPS stuff 4.5
Not sure if my comment made it to you. In the CZcams app it shows up but in the studio app it says I haven’t replied. Basically if you want, or “need” this feature, I think it’s well worth it.
@@smithe68 i'll try thanks!