Nick - thank you so so much. I bought a HappyModel ExpressLRS Tx and 3 receiver combo over a year ago when the system first rolled out. Never used it before now. Fast forward to today, was having no luck trying to bind to my TaranisX9D. Worked on it for some time. Upgraded OpenTX to EdgeTX, still no luck. Finally opted to upgrade to RadioMasterTX16S MKII Max. Still needed help to bind those receivers. Don't know where the glitch in my brain stemmed from, but after watching hours of videos trying to update and bind I had no luck. Your video just made it all click. Bound, ready to fly, and excited to get back in the air. Keep making these great videos - they help!!!
Great video. I just got my Happymodel 2.4gz elrs transmitter module and receivers based on your other videos. It's very helpful having these videos from you to get through the new process with this hardware.
Having problems myself where the Module doesent seem to connect to the T-lite (lua script only says connecting...). Should i move the jumpers on the pins on the back?
@@kristianmuotka7523 no the jumbers only need to be moved for flashing. Is the light on the module on? Should be a visible red light. Lmk if you have questions.
@@kristianmuotka7523 same thing happened to me, make sure that the plugs are the right way around on the power board. (The one on the inside of the transmitter) one plug says 'es24tx Slim' and the other says 't-lite' make sure the one that says t lite is plugged in to the controller, and the other is connected to the module.
Thanks Nick! ExpressLRS sounds great. Everyone seems to be talking range, how about penetration? If you would be so kind, please think about doing a video comparing 2.4ghz and/or 915mhz ExpressLRS and Frsky with things in the way like trees and houses. Most of my flying will be in parks at a range of a few hundred meters maximum.
Hi Nick! Thank you for all your help! At around 8:16 you pulled out a bag with a bunch of receivers (bad?). If so, what's the behavior you received on those? I ask cause I just installed an EP2 RX and the LED is always a solid yellow. No flashing slow, fast not going off. Nothing. The Happymodel website that a solid LED mean connection successful or established. But my radio is actually off. From your experience, is this a bad RX?
No, those receivers in the bag are ep2 rx that I have flashed. They take up far less space outside of their packaging. If the led is constantly on we have likely soft bricked the receiver. Maybe we powered it down to soon or flashed the wrong firmware. We can undo this, using an ftdi adapter and shorting the two unused pads on the top of the ep2 rx. We wire the ep2 to the ftdi just like its wired to a flight controller. +, -, tx to rx, rx to tx. Then flash it over uart. I need to make a video on this process yet. I will try to do that when I get back from vacation.
@@NickBurnsFPV I see... Ok this is great info! Yeah - I'm sure a video explaining this will help a lot of folks out there. Enjoy your vacation and have fun!
someone with solid led? I've closed it short and nothing, I can't update a new ep2, I just opened the package, the led doesn't blink at all, I don't know what else to do. not even with FTDI I could.
This could be the bug with a particular chip that was recently discovered. My understanding is that we can possibly work around it with several power cycles, otherwise we have to get a replacement from happymodel
I have several dozen quads with ELRS, and absolutely hate the fact that the ELRS engineers never made the darn things backward compatible. Every time that I purchase a new quad with a new version of ELRS, I have to spend hours updating all the darn receivers, and my three radios that all have external TX Happy Model modules. It is a royal pain!
There must be some technology issue with backwards compatibility. We see the same issue in HD video systems, and other RC link protocol like crossfire. Although crossfire does have over the air updating which is a feature I have read the ELRS devs are working or or did work on at one time.
Do I need to use open tx nightly builds? They have new opentx versions. Don't know if they work with the t lite right now. What do you recommend that works? I got it all to work and bind with opentx2.3.12 but no switch inputs. Can't figure it out. Any ideas? Should I try nightly?
The Car Lamp is a 3157 12 V one - but it's easier to buy the "Vifly Short Saver 2 which has an on off switch for the bulb: I got it from Ebay for 5€ (I'm from Germany 🇩🇪) and the socket ? from BG (2 PCs for 5 €) but I cannot find the link.. Since this is a 2 Filament bulb, I ordered a 2 way switch from BG too (don't know the price anymore and cannot find the link..) hope this helps..
Hi All - WARNING and some caution - installed my TX on the Jumper t-lite - the pad to attach the power module looks to have changed since the video - its a lot thinner and in my case, when the controller was put back together, the underside of the power module pressed through the fixed pad and caused a short of the power in against the 4-1 module - thankfully, on burnt outer the battery wires - at least there was a spare in the kit
thanks for the helpful video. im all good up until accessing the lua script on the radio. it just says connecting and won't progress to the following page to connect to wifi. any ideas?
If you can't get them in your country because they are not in stock or else, search on Aliexpress - normal Tx module for 25€, slim module for 30€ and receivers for 10-12 € free 2-3 week shipping on multiple sellers (that's where I got mine)
Hi Nick I have not been using this tx module for a while is in Elrs V2 firmware. Do you know if its possible to upgrade to Firmware V3 or latest? I'm having issues and maybe it just can't be flashed?
It can be updated to v3 ELRS. Check out this page www.expresslrs.org/quick-start/transmitters/es24tx/ and note the red advisory section. Need to update to 2.5.2 then flash with the repartitioner then on to v3 flashing.
Hiyaz, all is updated, except I'm always getting a Build Error fail for my Happymodel EP2 firmware compiling. A huge red paragraph with mentions of 'upload port protocol = espota, and platformio' stuff... Google doesnt have any information for this.. Would you know how to fix this? It would be greatly appreciated :)
Do you have a another program for writing computer programs on the computer? The part after the = looks like a language other than English. I would check with the expresslrs discord.
@@NickBurnsFPV I jumped immediately on Exp discord, some nice dude helped me out , had to clean the folders with those two options there, and I’ve been flying my whoop since :)
@@markmontreal7815 Great. Thank you for reporting your experience in the discord. Its nice to have confirmation that others are having a good experience. Have you tried the whoop with the different packet rates?
Nick; Can you do an update to the ELRS Transmitters without the ELRS configurator? I have a Windows7 Laptop. The ELRS configurator does not appear to support Windows7. Looks like 10 and up. TIA
Well, I got my module and receivers. Installed and checked receiver and module for function and both worked. After doing this update multiple times both with and without paraphrase I could not get them to bind after the update. I had to revert back to the stock firmware. No idea why. But, I'm going to do some research on how much of a difference 500Hz makes over 250hz. I may be better off not trying the update again.
@@NickBurnsFPV Yes. 1.0.0-RC8. I did the two builds back to back like you showed. But, one difference is that I installed OpenTX 2.3.13 vs. your 2.3.12. I wouldn't think that would cause an issue. But, I'm not sure what the issue was. They work fine on 250hz with the stock Happymodel firmware. This is also running the full size module in a Radiomaster TX12.
@@NickBurnsFPV Yes. When I tried it without the binding phrase it would go in to binding mode with the double blinks. But, it would not bind. It would just keep double blinking. I also tried updating the RX with wifi and with Betaflight passthrough. Both gave the same result.
@@ChristopherYotz I presume we have csfr set as the protocol and using the crossfire lua to do the binding? As you rolled back to the happymodel firmware and its working. Only thing I can think to double check.
Would like to know this too... i like to stick to the "safe" versions. Should i wait for next opentx update for t-lite or can this be done with the stoxk version of opentx?
Yes we don't have to use the nightly. At this time the nightly is only required to get the 500hz packet rate, which isn't required to run ELRS. It works normally at 250hz packet rate.
@@airdevil21 probably the separation of the developers use for the rx/tx vs the hardware developers and their design purposes. We need to be able to differentiate between rx and tx as they serv different purposes.
Light is on all the time. I suspect if the light isn't on its not getting power, we need to check the wiring and connectors. Be sure the pins on the little board inside the radio aren't poking through the foam tape and touching the heatsink of the internal radio, this can cause a short or other issues.
In my opinion yes, I suspect future happymodel and other micro products will come with expresslrs receivers, at least that will be an option on those product.
do you have to flash receiver with the same firmware in order for it to bind?,also I didn't select binding phrase so all I have to do to bind receiver to module is plug in three times? please help 🙏 😢 I very confused
There is no simple way to know. The manufacturer likely has it listed on their website, its best to go ahead and plan to flash if your having any trouble binding or want to use passphrase binding.
3.3V, GND, TX to RX (in RX), Rx to Tx (in Rx). short the pads near gnd with gnd and connect to usb the ftdi, disconnect the pads in the rx, the light shold be always ON, open the configurator and build and flash for UART.
Can you make a video on using your FTDI to recover those receivers? I have bricked 2 of them myself. Info on how to unbrick them is not readily available on the web. Thanks for all your hard work Nick!
The problem is it will no longer go into wifi mode and bypass doesn't work either. I have no way to reflash the receiver. I already bought one of those USB flasher things but I haven't had time to mess with it.
@@jsxgmanfam This image has the map lables on it. We wire it just like we might to an fc. The rx also has two pads on the top we need to short with a small piece of wire. This puts it into bootloader mode so we can flash it again.
Have you experienced noise in the fpv feed, when turning up the output power of express lrs. Turned the happymodel express lrs up to 100mw and my video feed got really bad, with white lines across the screen.
@@NickBurnsFPV just came back from testing, and decreasing output power of 2.4g seems to improve on 5.8 fpv feed. But I don't know of it is noise related on the quad. I will test it out on an other quad.
Yes, we wire the ftdi and receiver just like the ftdi were a flight controller. 5v, ground, tx to rx and rx to tx. There are also two pads on the receiver that need to be jumpered/shorted. Depends on the receiver and where those pads are, we can typically find them as they are the only unused and unlabeled pads on the receiver. When we flash via the ELRS Configurator we us the flash to uart over usb. I believe its uart. And I think I had trouble initially as I had other usb devices plugged into usb, so unplug usb items that don't absolutely need to be plugged in.
Not enough information me to know if its not bound or if we have the rx and tx wires reversed, or we don't have serial turned on in the betaflight ports tab for the correct uart.
the nano modules should work with any radio with the nano bay. Some are specific to the 1s powered radios. The jumper es24tx is rated for a input power of 5v-8.4v so it would work with the 2s powered radios which the zorro is.
Hi buddy hope you had good independence Day and I've got the ep 2 but as yet no drone so I can't flash reaciever like you I don't have any flight controllers that use betaflightt etc so should I wait till got drone to flash etc
We don't have to have a quad or flight controller, but we do need a way to power the receiver with 5v. If we can do that we can flash over wifi just like in this video.
I would wait for the slim module designed to work with the x-lite and tango 2 (supposed to launch in about 2 weeks). I have talked to one or two people who have tried to make the lite module work on the x-lite radio without success.
i have read everybodys guides on this and am still stuck.. i run the lua script i get version mismatch press force press wifi update and it will!!!! not show wifi hotpot on laptop... helpppp
in my tlite transmitter kit i have one tinned power cable connector left over? i followed the guide on fitting and fotos and still nowt...absoutly fustrating system to configure
I have not heard of a version mismatch on running the lua script, unless the lua script is for a different module. Is the lua on the sd card from the elrs configurator? Its linked on the page after we select the device.
I somehow busted a switch on my t lite. Which is good because I need to organize my aux system... I like disarming when I think I'm switching to air. Lol...
I am not sure we can add an ep2 to the meteor75 board. We need to make sure that board has an available uart (rx1, tx1 or rx2 tx2) to be able to add the EP2 rx.
I had problems updating the module on wifi, had a really unstable connection and would either fail to load 10.0.0.1, or load it in plain text. Attempting to update just killed the connection. Had to use USB which requires you move those two jumper pins on the back of the module (not mentioned in any documentation).
Nick - thank you so so much. I bought a HappyModel ExpressLRS Tx and 3 receiver combo over a year ago when the system first rolled out. Never used it before now. Fast forward to today, was having no luck trying to bind to my TaranisX9D. Worked on it for some time. Upgraded OpenTX to EdgeTX, still no luck. Finally opted to upgrade to RadioMasterTX16S MKII Max. Still needed help to bind those receivers. Don't know where the glitch in my brain stemmed from, but after watching hours of videos trying to update and bind I had no luck. Your video just made it all click. Bound, ready to fly, and excited to get back in the air. Keep making these great videos - they help!!!
iam still in trouble - now my module cant boot anymore
Great video. I just got my Happymodel 2.4gz elrs transmitter module and receivers based on your other videos. It's very helpful having these videos from you to get through the new process with this hardware.
Probably going to be using this alot for reference, so cheers again fella.
Thanks, Nick Burns. I couldn't get results with the videos I watched. It was successful when I did it as in your recipe.
Just decided on the jumper t lite, expresslrs module and receiver. Thanks for the links! Super excited to start tinkering!
Another great video Nick! I'm really loving your video format and presentation. Keep it up!
Thanks for the mention! and Thank you for what you do!
Just went through the excrutiating experience of figuring out that those pins needed to be moved yesterday. Thanks for making this though!
Having problems myself where the Module doesent seem to connect to the T-lite (lua script only says connecting...). Should i move the jumpers on the pins on the back?
@@kristianmuotka7523 no the jumbers only need to be moved for flashing. Is the light on the module on? Should be a visible red light. Lmk if you have questions.
@@Bean-Time I was going to flash it. no red light at all. when i connect the usb it lights up tho.
@@kristianmuotka7523 same thing happened to me, make sure that the plugs are the right way around on the power board. (The one on the inside of the transmitter) one plug says 'es24tx Slim' and the other says 't-lite' make sure the one that says t lite is plugged in to the controller, and the other is connected to the module.
@@kristianmuotka7523 the red light should be on when the t lite is on
Great detailed video Nick! Thank you!
thanks for shoutout, always glad to help, thanks for all your vids.
Thanks Nick! ExpressLRS sounds great. Everyone seems to be talking range, how about penetration? If you would be so kind, please think about doing a video comparing 2.4ghz and/or 915mhz ExpressLRS and Frsky with things in the way like trees and houses. Most of my flying will be in parks at a range of a few hundred meters maximum.
Please do a video on how to recover your "bricked" Receiver / module with an FTDI !
Hi Nick! Thank you for all your help! At around 8:16 you pulled out a bag with a bunch of receivers (bad?). If so, what's the behavior you received on those?
I ask cause I just installed an EP2 RX and the LED is always a solid yellow. No flashing slow, fast not going off. Nothing. The Happymodel website that a solid LED mean connection successful or established. But my radio is actually off.
From your experience, is this a bad RX?
No, those receivers in the bag are ep2 rx that I have flashed. They take up far less space outside of their packaging. If the led is constantly on we have likely soft bricked the receiver. Maybe we powered it down to soon or flashed the wrong firmware. We can undo this, using an ftdi adapter and shorting the two unused pads on the top of the ep2 rx. We wire the ep2 to the ftdi just like its wired to a flight controller. +, -, tx to rx, rx to tx. Then flash it over uart. I need to make a video on this process yet. I will try to do that when I get back from vacation.
@@NickBurnsFPV I see... Ok this is great info! Yeah - I'm sure a video explaining this will help a lot of folks out there. Enjoy your vacation and have fun!
Gday Nick, thank you for making this video it helped me out heaps with flashing my elrs rx's great job mate.👍🛸
Really fantastic video, Nick! Thanks a lot!!! 😃
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
someone with solid led? I've closed it short and nothing, I can't update a new ep2, I just opened the package, the led doesn't blink at all, I don't know what else to do. not even with FTDI I could.
This could be the bug with a particular chip that was recently discovered. My understanding is that we can possibly work around it with several power cycles, otherwise we have to get a replacement from happymodel
@@NickBurnsFPV Solid green for me. Having many issues with this and new ELRS board for the lite radio 2. Never got into wifi mode
In Crossfire, it's a 60 second process and far more reliable equipment. Receivers come in "Bind" mode.
Awesome video Nick!
I have several dozen quads with ELRS, and absolutely hate the fact that the ELRS engineers never made the darn things backward compatible. Every time that I purchase a new quad with a new version of ELRS, I have to spend hours updating all the darn receivers, and my three radios that all have external TX Happy Model modules. It is a royal pain!
There must be some technology issue with backwards compatibility. We see the same issue in HD video systems, and other RC link protocol like crossfire. Although crossfire does have over the air updating which is a feature I have read the ELRS devs are working or or did work on at one time.
Do I need to use open tx nightly builds? They have new opentx versions. Don't know if they work with the t lite right now. What do you recommend that works? I got it all to work and bind with opentx2.3.12 but no switch inputs. Can't figure it out. Any ideas? Should I try nightly?
The Car Lamp is a 3157 12 V one - but it's easier to buy the "Vifly Short Saver 2 which has an on off switch
for the bulb: I got it from Ebay for 5€ (I'm from Germany 🇩🇪) and the socket ? from BG (2 PCs for 5 €) but I cannot find the link..
Since this is a 2 Filament bulb, I ordered a 2 way switch from BG too (don't know the price anymore and cannot find the link..) hope this helps..
Hi All - WARNING and some caution - installed my TX on the Jumper t-lite - the pad to attach the power module looks to have changed since the video - its a lot thinner and in my case, when the controller was put back together, the underside of the power module pressed through the fixed pad and caused a short of the power in against the 4-1 module - thankfully, on burnt outer the battery wires - at least there was a spare in the kit
thanks for the helpful video. im all good up until accessing the lua script on the radio. it just says connecting and won't progress to the following page to connect to wifi. any ideas?
If the module powered? Is the lua script the correct script. The script is often specific to the module.
Very cool stuff
If you can't get them in your country because they are not in stock or else, search on Aliexpress - normal Tx module for 25€, slim module for 30€ and receivers for 10-12 € free 2-3 week shipping on multiple sellers (that's where I got mine)
What are the jumpers in the back for?
Mine are installed in the right pins compared to yours.
Thank you!
If I recall correctly, the jumpers are for flashing via usb of the tx. It could also do other things.
Hi Nick I have not been using this tx module for a while is in Elrs V2 firmware. Do you know if its possible to upgrade to Firmware V3 or latest? I'm having issues and maybe it just can't be flashed?
It can be updated to v3 ELRS. Check out this page www.expresslrs.org/quick-start/transmitters/es24tx/ and note the red advisory section. Need to update to 2.5.2 then flash with the repartitioner then on to v3 flashing.
Hiyaz, all is updated, except I'm always getting a Build Error fail for my Happymodel EP2 firmware compiling. A huge red paragraph with mentions of 'upload port protocol = espota, and platformio' stuff... Google doesnt have any information for this.. Would you know how to fix this? It would be greatly appreciated :)
Do you have a another program for writing computer programs on the computer? The part after the = looks like a language other than English. I would check with the expresslrs discord.
@@NickBurnsFPV thx for quick reply! And I don’t think I have that kind of program....
@@markmontreal7815 Sure. Some days I get more windows to read than others. :)
@@NickBurnsFPV I jumped immediately on Exp discord, some nice dude helped me out , had to clean the folders with those two options there, and I’ve been flying my whoop since :)
@@markmontreal7815 Great. Thank you for reporting your experience in the discord. Its nice to have confirmation that others are having a good experience. Have you tried the whoop with the different packet rates?
Nick; Can you do an update to the ELRS Transmitters without the ELRS configurator? I have a Windows7 Laptop. The ELRS configurator does not appear to support Windows7. Looks like 10 and up. TIA
Well, I got my module and receivers. Installed and checked receiver and module for function and both worked. After doing this update multiple times both with and without paraphrase I could not get them to bind after the update. I had to revert back to the stock firmware. No idea why. But, I'm going to do some research on how much of a difference 500Hz makes over 250hz. I may be better off not trying the update again.
We have the rx and tx on the same versions of ELRS?
@@NickBurnsFPV Yes. 1.0.0-RC8. I did the two builds back to back like you showed. But, one difference is that I installed OpenTX 2.3.13 vs. your 2.3.12. I wouldn't think that would cause an issue. But, I'm not sure what the issue was. They work fine on 250hz with the stock Happymodel firmware.
This is also running the full size module in a Radiomaster TX12.
The Rx goes into biding mode, when not using the passphrase?
@@NickBurnsFPV Yes. When I tried it without the binding phrase it would go in to binding mode with the double blinks. But, it would not bind. It would just keep double blinking.
I also tried updating the RX with wifi and with Betaflight passthrough. Both gave the same result.
@@ChristopherYotz I presume we have csfr set as the protocol and using the crossfire lua to do the binding? As you rolled back to the happymodel firmware and its working. Only thing I can think to double check.
Thanks for this video !
Can I use ELRS with out a Opentx NightB ? Will it just limit the frequency ?
Would like to know this too... i like to stick to the "safe" versions. Should i wait for next opentx update for t-lite or can this be done with the stoxk version of opentx?
Yes we don't have to use the nightly. At this time the nightly is only required to get the 500hz packet rate, which isn't required to run ELRS. It works normally at 250hz packet rate.
Thanks for this quick answer 👍🏼
Perfect! Thanks Nick! Awsome job!
@@NickBurnsFPV correct me if I'm wrong (very likely) but I wasn't able to find any non-nightly builds for the t lite.
thanks it was very helpful. I still dont understand how are uarts called on the flightcontroller?
Uarts are ports, typical Rx and tx they will have a umber like rx1 which is uart 1. Tx1 is also uart1. Rx2 and tx2 are uart2. Etc
@@NickBurnsFPV Thanks for the explanation. Why don't they call it uart1 or 2 on the board that would be easier...
@@airdevil21 probably the separation of the developers use for the rx/tx vs the hardware developers and their design purposes. We need to be able to differentiate between rx and tx as they serv different purposes.
@@NickBurnsFPV oke that makes sense. Thanks for explaining.
@@airdevil21 this hobby is confusing sometimes.
Is light on all time or only when it bound or when been updated does hours get warm mine cold thinks it's faulty
Light is on all the time. I suspect if the light isn't on its not getting power, we need to check the wiring and connectors. Be sure the pins on the little board inside the radio aren't poking through the foam tape and touching the heatsink of the internal radio, this can cause a short or other issues.
Gotten everything setup, stuck on the wiring in of the ep1 in to my whoopfc crazybee f4 v2.0, can I use rx 2 and tx2 on the board
yes, any free uart, they only need to be the same number rx1 and tx1 or rx2 and tx2, rx5 and tx5. Just the same number.
@@NickBurnsFPV brilliant thank you, it's all wired up, you sir are a legend
Im going to buy jumper t lite. should I buy together the xlrs 2.4 module? What you think Nick???
In my opinion yes, I suspect future happymodel and other micro products will come with expresslrs receivers, at least that will be an option on those product.
@@NickBurnsFPV
Thanks for your answer Nick!
Really enjoying your videos Greetings from Greece and happy flying!
@@stst8301 Thank you
do you have to flash receiver with the same firmware in order for it to bind?,also I didn't select binding phrase so all I have to do to bind receiver to module is plug in three times? please help 🙏 😢 I very confused
We do need to be on the same major release of expresslrs. Meaning we need to be rx and tx to be on 1.x.x or both on 2.x.x.
How check firmware version got my jumper t lite and slim module and ep 2 reaciever today July 7th want it be up to date how to check please
I am not aware of a way to check the version. Best is to flash, then you know for sure what version they are on.
How do you know what version of elrs you are running in the first place?
There is no simple way to know. The manufacturer likely has it listed on their website, its best to go ahead and plan to flash if your having any trouble binding or want to use passphrase binding.
thanks, can you show us how to flash the Ep2rx in case of , with the FTDI (wiring) ? Thanks again
3.3V, GND, TX to RX (in RX), Rx to Tx (in Rx). short the pads near gnd with gnd and connect to usb the ftdi, disconnect the pads in the rx, the light shold be always ON, open the configurator and build and flash for UART.
Hello... how do i set failsafe on ep2 .. I'm using happymodel 2.4 module
We typically use betaflight as the failsafe, we also set "no pulses" in the model file on the radio.
Can you make a video on using your FTDI to recover those receivers? I have bricked 2 of them myself. Info on how to unbrick them is not readily available on the web. Thanks for all your hard work Nick!
I will take a look at it. It may help to wait a 10count after the updating screen shows the final message.
The problem is it will no longer go into wifi mode and bypass doesn't work either. I have no way to reflash the receiver. I already bought one of those USB flasher things but I haven't had time to mess with it.
@@jsxgmanfam This image has the map lables on it. We wire it just like we might to an fc. The rx also has two pads on the top we need to short with a small piece of wire. This puts it into bootloader mode so we can flash it again.
I need it to, bricked rx via wifi and passtrough doesn't work to....and i don't know how exactly do the ftdi flashing
@@alessdiazlopez54 Okay. I will get a video together as soon as I can. I am pretty backlogged at the moment.
Have you experienced noise in the fpv feed, when turning up the output power of express lrs.
Turned the happymodel express lrs up to 100mw and my video feed got really bad, with white lines across the screen.
I haven't seen that yet. Is this on the happymodel expresslrs AIO or using say an EP2 rx in a quad?
@@NickBurnsFPV ep2 rx on a 5 inch.
@@pippifpv Does it get better at 250mw or down to 50mw?
@@NickBurnsFPV just came back from testing, and decreasing output power of 2.4g seems to improve on 5.8 fpv feed. But I don't know of it is noise related on the quad. I will test it out on an other quad.
@@pippifpv I wonder if its telemetry related. I have seen frsky rx do the same on some builds.
Hi Nick! Can you explain how to flash via ftdi? I need it cause a failed flashing on my ep2..... thank u!!
Yes, we wire the ftdi and receiver just like the ftdi were a flight controller. 5v, ground, tx to rx and rx to tx. There are also two pads on the receiver that need to be jumpered/shorted. Depends on the receiver and where those pads are, we can typically find them as they are the only unused and unlabeled pads on the receiver. When we flash via the ELRS Configurator we us the flash to uart over usb. I believe its uart. And I think I had trouble initially as I had other usb devices plugged into usb, so unplug usb items that don't absolutely need to be plugged in.
Okay, i'll try this so! Thanks you so so much!
I followed all the steps then connected it to betaflight but no receiver reaction
Not enough information me to know if its not bound or if we have the rx and tx wires reversed, or we don't have serial turned on in the betaflight ports tab for the correct uart.
will the Jumper ExpressLRS ELRS ES24TX 2.4GTX Module for Jumper TPro tbs tango2pro OpenTX work on the Zorro controller?
the nano modules should work with any radio with the nano bay. Some are specific to the 1s powered radios. The jumper es24tx is rated for a input power of 5v-8.4v so it would work with the 2s powered radios which the zorro is.
@@NickBurnsFPV thanks, your vids inspire me in many ways on this new journey.
Hello. Any good mods for the T lite radio ? like compatible metal gimbals, or idk
I haven't made any mods to mine, I like it as it is with the expresslrs module.
Hi buddy hope you had good independence Day and I've got the ep 2 but as yet no drone so I can't flash reaciever like you I don't have any flight controllers that use betaflightt etc so should I wait till got drone to flash etc
We don't have to have a quad or flight controller, but we do need a way to power the receiver with 5v. If we can do that we can flash over wifi just like in this video.
Which is the difference between ep1 and ep2?
ep1 has a wire antenna ep2 has a cube (plastic) antenna.
Can the ES24TX Lite be used on the Frsky X-Lite (5 cables for every XJT module - plus minus and 3 data wires I guess - try and see ?! 😅)
I would wait for the slim module designed to work with the x-lite and tango 2 (supposed to launch in about 2 weeks). I have talked to one or two people who have tried to make the lite module work on the x-lite radio without success.
i have read everybodys guides on this and am still stuck.. i run the lua script i get version mismatch press force press wifi update and it will!!!! not show wifi hotpot on laptop... helpppp
in my tlite transmitter kit i have one tinned power cable connector left over? i followed the guide on fitting and fotos and still nowt...absoutly fustrating system to configure
I have not heard of a version mismatch on running the lua script, unless the lua script is for a different module. Is the lua on the sd card from the elrs configurator? Its linked on the page after we select the device.
I somehow busted a switch on my t lite. Which is good because I need to organize my aux system... I like disarming when I think I'm switching to air. Lol...
disarming mid flight is sure a panic moment. I have done that myself
@@NickBurnsFPV all part of the show!! Lol
What should I do if my FC pad was RT2 when I used to connect my xm+?
If it only has rx2 and no tx2, that's a no go. Does it have other rx and tx pads? If your adding a receiver we wouldn't need the old receiver.
@@NickBurnsFPV no it's rt2 pad only no tx2 or rx2. Does that mean it's for inverted use, since its used for xm+.?
i have tx3 and rx3 not used.
@@MT-xy7fw yes, we would need to use the unused rx3 and tx3. I can't say if the rx2 pad is inverted or not. If its marked sbus then very likely.
ok thanks
OpenTx 2.3.12 is official now!
It sure is. That's good news.
i dont have elrs on my tool page
?? I don't understand. What tool page? Have you downloaded the elrs configurator? Did you hit the wifi update, and connect to the elrs wifi network?
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do this worth update from frsky spi in meteor75 to elrs ??
I am not sure we can add an ep2 to the meteor75 board. We need to make sure that board has an available uart (rx1, tx1 or rx2 tx2) to be able to add the EP2 rx.
Thanks Nick
I had problems updating the module on wifi, had a really unstable connection and would either fail to load 10.0.0.1, or load it in plain text. Attempting to update just killed the connection. Had to use USB which requires you move those two jumper pins on the back of the module (not mentioned in any documentation).
moving the jumpers to the left on the tx module is another method for sure.
thanks
Wifi password for both is: "expresslrs"