PyMavLink- Unable to arm and run AUX pin motors

[RishiWadhwa]

I was trying to do some individual motor tests to be able to autonomously control the motors on the AUX pins of the Orange CubePilot controller, but I can't seem to be able to test the motors or even arm the device. It returns a MAV_RESULT of 1, meaning temporarily rejected, because I assume it can't get a GPS lock, as it is just 2 motors attached to a battery and the Cube. Is there a way of overriding this?

For reference here is my code:

from pymavlink import mavutil
import time

# Connect to the flight controller
# Replace '/dev/tty.usbmodem01' with the correct serial port
# master = mavutil.mavlink_connection('localhost:14445')
# master = mavutil.mavlink_connection('/dev/tty.usbmodem01', baud=57600)
master = mavutil.mavlink_connection('/dev/cu.usbmodem01')

# Wait for a heartbeat to confirm the connection
master.wait_heartbeat()
print("Heartbeat received! Flight controller is connected.")

master.mav.command_long_send(master.target_system, master.target_component, 
    mavutil.mavlink.MAV_CMD_COMPONENT_ARM_DISARM, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)

msg = master.recv_match(type="COMMAND_ACK", blocking=True)
print(msg)

# master.mav.command_long_send(master.target_system, master.target_component,
    # mavutil.mavlink.MAV_CMD_DO_MOTOR_TEST, 0, 5, 1, 1500, 15, 
    # 0, 0, 0)

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And here is what I am getting when I run the code:

Heartbeat received! Flight controller is connected.
COMMAND_ACK {command : 400, result : 1, progress : 0, result_param2 : 0, target_system : 255, target_component : 0}

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My end goal is to be able to run the motors autonomously without using tols like QGroundControl of another GUI system. I would like to be able to run commands independently.

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