Awesome video, thanks!! This totally worked on my Immersionrc Vortex after several attempts to set up RSSI via alternative methods. So easy, so simple.
+ronamedee Thank you for the feedback, that's why I make these to help others make sense of hours of research and reading of manuals and forum posts! Happy flying!
As usual, your videos have saved me Painless360 I've spent almost 3 hours today trying to make my new taranis receive voltage data from a new dr4-2 and naze. Found your video after almost giving up and seems I have a naze that requires telemetry inversion. Also my naze oddly has pin6 around the middle unlike yours which has it at the end of the pin row. I also didn't have to plug the negative from the dr4 into the negative pin on the telemetry pins on the naze, only the green wire is plugged into pin 6. Odd also that my naze doesnt have to be armed to pass telemetry data once lipo is plugged in Voltage telemetry is being happily passed onto taranis. Many thanks for your videos Lee!
Altitude Aerials If you look closely at the video around the 4:17 time, you should be able to see that he DOES have the telemetry connected to the middle pin on the bottom (pin 6). He has a GPS (i think) connected to the pin on the end also using a green wire.
Thanks for the video. I changed from Baseflight to Cleanflight on my quad and had problems getting telemetry working after the change even though I had everything configured properly on my Taranis with OpenTX 2.1 as well as in Cleanflight. Turned out that I had to delete all the old Baseflight telemetry sensors in the model config on the Taranis and then rediscover them to get it all to work again.
You helped me a lot when setting this up, man! But I'm not quite sure about the DF13 connector type.. I recently ordered one from BG but it doesn't fit! I had to make some adjustments by hand to plug it in. I morely think, it is a 4 pin 1.5mm JST plug, although there might be different versions. Thanks for what you are doing, you are getting a lot of people getting started with this hobby!
Thanks for sharing it with us. But just to point out that i had to enable softserial under configuration before i got softserials in ports tab. Using 1.9.0 version. Hardware is all same.
Great set of videos! I used this one to set my Flip32+D4R a while back, but after moving from Cleanflight to BorisB's betaflight telemetry stopped working. Or at least I noticed that it was not working. Re-did all the settings via GUI but the CLI command above was returning an error. Finally had the idea to check a cmd dump and found a "set telemetry_inversion = off" line. Tried "set telemetry_inversion = on" (rather than = 1), et voila, problem solved, ça marche!
+Dean Cory I did cover this in general in the 'What is a bootloader' video. You are the first person I've come across that needed to resort to that method to get the board back. Glad it got yours back in the land of the living..Best of luck with it!
Not sure what you're asking. We have a playlist specifically for the Taranis and includes a few videos on Telemetry too - they should help. Best of luck!
I will check out the other videos, but right around 5.3 minutes into this video you show the Taranis and the screen looks to be separated into 3 panels I was wondering how you did that. I press page on mine and don't see any screen like that?
Well, I've got a ZMR250 with Taranis 9D+ and D4R-II RX, and I did have my Telemetry screen working PERFECTLY. Today I was looking at FrSky's site and realized that my old original Taranis firmware was very outdated, so I updated to the latest 2.1.6 version. I had saved my models so that wasn't a problem. However, when I long pressed the page button to go to the Telemetry screen, everything was gone ... not setup! I originally had NUMS in 2 lines: Cel, RSSI, Batt and line 2 was Cels (individual cell volt) and 2 other parameters which I no longer remember. I've been searching on how to set this all back up again, but most of the tutorials are based on the original firmware. Makes me want to kick myself for updating the firmware!
I got tired of trying to make it work. So, I back flashed to v2.0.9, but then when I tried to reload my ZMR250 racer model (setup) it said "Incompatible" ... so now I have to go through the entire bloody setup again, starting with binding to my D4R-II .. which means I'm going to have to cut a bunch of zipties and undo my install of hardware on the ZMR .. what a fiasco!
Oh wow. Thanks for this. There is so much conflicting information out there for telemetry on FrSky and Naze32/Cleanflight. I got mine working using the telemetry port before I saw this, but I want to do it this way rather. I see you are feeding the accelerometer values, but I suppose it would also feed voltage values if set up in Cleanflight, right? I used set telemetry_inversion = 1 for my setup, but first, I'm not sure if it's actually needed for the telemetry port or only for soft-serial pin 6... Regardless, it worked for me without using the inversion. We'll see what happens when I set it up your way.
Danny Cruz Anything that the Naza32 can see (voltage, acc, GPS, speed etc.) will come out via the telemetry port. A lot of the articles on the net are getting out of date and as Cleanflight gets better and better the implementation of key things like FrSky Telemetry is changing to. Don't forget - some boards have the inversion circuitry on them, some don't. Best of luck with it.
Hi, Followed your videos for Naze setup, thanks for the help. How do I set up the LED strip support when I am using your soft serial telemetry? Thanks for your help.
Sorry for that. I meant to say that, what are the utility of the uart1, uart2 & softSerial? What type of communication is used here? Is it Serial communication? I am curious about some practical use of these ports.
+Priyabrata Saha it's worth having a look at some of the build series to see how these ports are used. I2c is used to connect sensors like barometric and magnetic sensors, uarts are multi purpose and used for telemetry (MSP and MAVlink among others) as well as serial connections to sensors like GPS and data to configure 'smart' peripherals like video transmitters. All of the options for the software you are using is normally in the ports tab of Cleanflight/Betaflight...
This is great, thanks for creating it! Is it also possible to get telemetry with the x8r? Also, if you enable softserial do you lose the ability to run LEDs?
Duane Pinkerton If you use the pins that the LEDS use then you would. The x8r uses Smart Port (see the 'Introduction to FrSky Telemetry' in the playlist. I am sure that the implementation of Smart Port natively in Cleanflight will come soon. Until then you need - github.com/frank26080115/cleanflight/wiki/Using-Smart-Port Happy flying!
Duane Pinkerton According to the Cleanflight documentation, yes you will lose LED_STRIP. github.com/cleanflight/cleanflight/blob/master/docs/Board%20-%20Naze32.md
Thx for sharing Painless your vids are helping me out bigtime.. question.. those DF13 4 pin connector`s i can find them on ebay etc but its a 4pin connector at each end i cant find the 1`s with a single pin connector on the opposite end, where did you order yours ?? thx in advance !!
norie m You can add the servo connector pins to the ends of the cable that comes with the receiver. I have a video that shows how to crimp them. Best of luck with the build.
Thanks again for another great video. Just curious. Previously you did a video on the voltage telemetry, which connected up to the telemetry pins beside the buzzer. If you are using this voltage telemetry, can you still use this acc telemetry also? Is this just another way or doing the voltage, and getting the other telemetry, or do you have to choose which one you want?
Kevin Ray There are two videos in the playlist - the other one covers RSSI. Using vBat and telemetry are two different things and they connect to two different sets of pins on the Naze32. There are two options for telemetry and I show my preference in this video. Hope that makes sense! Best of luck with the build!
hi Painless360, always found your videos very useful so first off thanks for that! I have a Naze32 Rev6 on Cleanflight 1.11 and Turnigy 9x DHT diy kit running with OpenTx 128-2.0.19. I'm followed your process and i'm not able to get any telemetry readings at all. Any advice where I could have gone wrong? HAppy to provide a list of configuration.
+Painless360 I'm using a Flip32. Is there a way to have telemetry being pumped out of softserial port on RC input 6, as well as being able to connect an LED strip to RC input 5? Thanks! Your videos have been a great help!
+Painless360 Thank you for the quick reply. I had not seen anything in the very limited documentation provided by Banggood, or in 3rd party Flip32+ documentation. Was just wondering if there might have been some sort of work around (possibly by reassigning connections). Will do without the addressable LEDs for now. :-)
+Painless360 Thanks for the reply,I have placed an orderof a teensy 3.1board,hope to receive it soon.but I am not sure if it is compatible with ezuhf!!
hate to ask maybe been done a lot but this video helped so much with the dr 4II do you have one for telemetry for naze32 x4r and telemetry setup I don't understand difference between the two?
+Hoggdoc The voltage will swing wildly when in flight as you pull current. You could create a virtual sensor and try to 'average' the value over a short time to reduce the dips due to the throttle increasing but it is basically a very poor indicator of how much power is left in the battery and useless IMHO on a quad....
I've used those and they seem to be good. Still get the voltage jumping under load. I've not seen that happen just sat on a bench though. Dodgy vbat on the Naze32 you have?
I am slightly confused about the DF13 cable: 1. Can I just cut the wires I am not using for a cleaner-ish build? 2. Where did you find that cable? I have only been able to find the 4 to 4 pins - did you solder this yourself? Great videos by the way!
Hello, I like your tutorial videos very much, they are all pro. I experience the following: I have naze32. (I run INAV rewritten cleanflight) but that should not be definitely the issue: I succesfully set up the 1-wire telemetry via pin6 and soft serial. there is one telemetr value which does not "recover" on some cases : the Frsky "Cvlt" value. When I disconnect the batt on the quadcopter, I also have to switch radio on-off to have that specific value refreshed again, when battery connected back on. Other values do "recover", refresh after this, but "Cvlt" not. I really like the solution with the soft serial. Would it refresh vith another method ot 2 wire connected to telemetry pins (beside the buzzer) to the FRSKY D4R-II? but then there is the disadvantage of not seeing teloemetry when not armed, is that correct?
I would try to recreate the problem in Cleanflight. INav is a fork for the testing of the improved GPs code (see our video on how Open Source Works) best of luck..
1st of all, thanks for your helpful videos. Do you know if the X4RSB RX will recieve telemetry with its SmartPort lead using the same ch6 pins as the D4R-II does?
Hi, i have the d4r-2 sb (2015) it's a bit different in that it has (AIN, -, +, S) on the 4 port connector, which one goes to pin 5 on the naze. Also can i just check this is correct: on the naze, gps tx is 3 (to rx on gps unit), gps rx is 4, Lights are 5, d4r to 6, osd to rx and tx. Many thanks, would be lost without these vids
Gavin Ferry If you follow the videos in the series you should be fine. The port setup is changing all the time in Cleanflight so it may look a little different when you get to it. Best of luck.
Thanks so much for making these videos, they have been really helpful. I'm having trouble following this one though - how is the NAZE board detecting the voltage from the battery pack? Is it reading it from the ESC you have plugged into the servo pins? (the vbatt pins next to the buzzer aren't being used). I have an identical setup but can't get the telem stream working for love or money.
You need vBat connected and configured (see our Naze32 series for more detail). This video works for the D series 'legacy' FrSky Telemetry, if using X series SmartPort then connect the TX, RX pins on the UART to the S.Port pin on the RX and make sure you select SmartPort telemetry in the setup. Best of luck!
in the beginning of the video you said you need the black and green wire but you only used the green wire I did everything you did in the video and it's not working do I need to connect the black wire to a ground?
+basebilljr07 It worked as we did it in the video. We were using OpenTX2.0.17, later versions changed the way that telemetry worked and needs you to 'discover' the telemetry available before they can be used. Best of luck!
+Painless360 yes I knew that much but I got it working I had to change the setting in clean flight ports from the 9600 setting to the automatic setting and then it worked
+Tim Donovan the radio has to be paired to the receiver with both needed on then in the actual radio go to the tale page which is telemetry and highlight scan for sensors and push the enter button
+Tim Donovan in the ports tab on clean flight did you enable soft serial and change the tab to Frsky and automatic I had the exact same problem and that was what fixed it
+Tim Donovan if you connect the green telemetry wire to CH 6 on the naze and enable softserial in clean flight ports tab you will get telemetry even when the board is not armed
Lee I think this has changed in the new firmware. Can't enter the set telemetry command comes back invalid value set telemetry_inversion = ON is the new command
ok i have this set up on my x8r and for some reason my fuel reading (mAh) is reading in the tens (56mah) and not the hundreds. all of my other telemetry readings are working fine.
I've not seen that here - I'd check the version details for the OpenTX/Cleanflight you're using in case this is a known problem and fixed in another release. Best of luck!
yea i found the notes and it says the reading needs to be calibrated. you discharge the battery with the fc plugged into clean flight, take the reading that clean flight got for the mah, then you charge the battery and take that reading. then some math magic I don't remember the exact formula and you plug that into the current settings in configuration menu.
It would be nice if you could make a quick tip video - Naze32/CC3D Cleanflight Connections Combinations Overview that work and doesn't work like Naze32 (PPM,GPS, MinimOSD, LED, Bluetooth, Frsky Telemetry, Buzzer) i think some Combinations doesn't work because of conflicts in ports - like Telemetry Port and USB Thank you very much for your videos.
Snappy There is some great documentation on the Cleanflight pages. Bottom line - if you want anything apart from basic OSD and GPS co-ordinates displayed on that basic OSD, get a Naze32/Flip32. If you want a cheap, basic board that flies great - CC3D is an option. Happy flying!
Thank you for the video. I set up mine using the D4r2 and the Naze32. I can see telemetry and the Cell(s), but it does not match the A1 and A2, Do I just ignore them or can I assign the A1 and A2 to take the readings from the software port?
I followed your steps using an x4r-sb receiver i don;t know if this should be different set up but i get the voltage reading all over the place any help would be much appreciated
Hi, first thanks for the videos. They help a lot for people getting into flying. Ive just got into miniquads and trying to connect X4R (CPPM firmware) the same way you got D4R connected. When i did it on a D4R it worked fine, but X4R doesnt seem to send telemetry. Did you experiment with X4R at all? Any ideas what i could try?
The x series of receivers use SmartPort telemetry, different from the D series receivers so you need to look at how you that newer telemetry format into the receiver from whatever you are using. Best of luck
+mxte You can preview the Cleanflight FrSky SmartPort telemetry settings on the SP3 video series now by watching th-cam.com/video/mFvb40oE_pM/w-d-xo.html Hope it helps.
After binding the Frysky DH-4 receiver to the TX,I use a test servo,but nothing happens! My combination. was just set up by a hobby shop that sells those.Even after that nothing happens.The light shows the receiver as being bound to the transmitter!
+Tim Miller We will be looking at this in the series. The LibrePilot documentation is starting to get a lot better so a look in there may help in the mean time..
Thank you for this video. I'm receiving telemetry info on my Taranis but for some reason, the "cels" and "cell" parameters are not appearing in the telemetry set-up screens. I want to be able to hear the current overall battery voltage when I flick switch SH. Could it be something I missed or maybe the inversion code?
The latest version of the OpenTx software changed a few things in the telemetry system. Have a look through the notes for the latest release to see the latest. Best of luck!
The latest version of the OpenTx software changed a few things in the telemetry system. Have a look through the notes for the latest release to see the latest. Best of luck!
Painless360 OK, so if I just want main battery voltage and RSSI can I just use the VBAT connection? If so, what other connection do I need for the D4RII, and setup for the Taranis?
There must be something I'm doing wrong. I've done everything in your playlist but I can't configure the VBAT monitoring. I've connected 1 wire to a positive on the PDB, I'm running out of connections so I connected 2 wires on 1 positive slot, 1 is for ESC and the other is the one supposed to connect to VBAT + on Naze32. However, I can't get battery voltage working. Cleanflight shows 25.5v no matter how what the voltage scale value is.
Okay, I've changed the voltage scale value to 50 and Cleanflight now shows 16.5v, I still can't get it to show on my Taranis. When I enter Discover New Sensors, I'm not getting anything. I only have: 1. SWR = 1 2. RSII = 90dB 3. A1 = 5.1v 4. A2 = 7.3v
+Glenn Pringle Yep, the X series uses SmartPort so you need to select that in the telemetry setup in Cleanflight and some subscribers have got it working by connecting the Rx and Tx pins on the UART and then connecting them to the s.port pin on the Rx. Best of luck.
Sorry for that. I meant to say that, what are the utility of the uart1, uart2 & softSerial? What type of communication is used here? Is it Serial communication? I am curious about some practical use of these ports.
Is there a way to assign the telemetry output to a different pin on the Naze32? My contact pad for pin 6 broke away mid-flight. Really like having the voltage info w/o needing to arm the board.
+OnBoardWithBlade Found the answer to my question! For anyone else who may suffer from the same problem: You can also utilize Pin 8, you simply choose Softserial2 (instead of Softserial1) in the configurator.
I have my Taranis Plus set up to display RSSI and cells. I gave the green wire from the side of the D4R-II going to pin 6 on the Naze32. I am not getting cells voltage comming to my Taranis Plus. I wonder if it is because I am pulling this from the Naze32?
Is it possible to do this with clean-flight on a CC3D board? I don't think there is a Tx inversion option from the CC3D, but perhaps using the SP2UART converter (S.Port to UART) from Frsky would fix the inversion issue?
David Smith No, as far as I know the only telemetry you can get with the CC3D is to use the analogue telemetry ports connected directly to the flight battery. Hope this helps.
Painless360 I know that telemetry can be sent from the flexi port for OPlink wirless telemetry wiki.openpilot.org/display/WIKI/CC3D+-+Atom+GPS+Setup+for+Telemetry . So I thought maybe with clean flight's frsky protocol, this could be done, the only trick would be inverting the signal as you do in the naze32 board. since cc3d doesn't have a tx inverter, I thought the UART to s.bus converter would take car of that. It would be nice to get GPS coords (to taranis) from a mini250 for backup lost model insurence, like when a crash ejects a battery, and the buzzer won't work (which happened to me recently).
I have a problem, When I'm connected to base flight my quad runs fine. The thr. is fine and works, But when I disconnect it from baseflight it does not run? I can't figure it out. Can u help me. Thanks Don
+Painless360 But on the flip32 the pinouts are different and I don't know which pin to use. Could you please tell me which pin to use '1' being the top input pin '8' being the last one. Thanks so much!
hi i'm using naze32 using pin 5 for my addressable LEDs, green lead to pin 6 for the telemetry but it seems to stop my leds from working how can i get both to work ? cheers
+Painless360 cheers one guy as said i can do it this way using ppm so use pin 3 on the naze32 then set the uart 2 to frsky telemetry . then i can still use pin 6 for the leds ! just done this and it works sorted
Hi Lee. I have switched from the telemetry pins to the Soft serial approach as I am not a fan of just getting the voltage when the quad is armed. I have followed your video and I'm get everything else bar lipo voltage. Any ideas? Thanks agrs1974
Probably not exactly the correct place to ask this question however. Will the new Taranis X9D plus transmitters with the EU compliant firmware work with the D4R-II 4 channel receivers?
if anyones having issues with this working, try downgrading your naze version, just did it and so many sensors opened up via telemetry and now vfas is working too.
+Zak Vargas Should be able to - I've had subscribers who got it working by connecting the TX and RX pins of the UART to the S.Port pin on the Rx. Best of luck..
Thanks for all the videos! I'm having trouble getting this to work. Did the inversion in CLI, telemetry and soft serial are on...I actually bricked my Naze last night by having the UART port on at the same time and had to short the boot loader and reflash. Green wire is hooked up to 6th pin on Naze. Vbat is on in CF GUI, but I can't see the actual battery voltage when I plug my LiPo in...should I be able to? All i can get is RSSI on the telemetry screen. Any advice? Thanks!
If you have it setup right then you will see the battery voltage in the GUI (see our video on setting up vBat). Check inversion is on in the CLI as the command changed (see the note in the video). Best of luck!
Turns out I needed to solder leads onto the PDB and connect the servo to vbat on the Naze32. Completely looked over that! Thanks for the reply and for all you do!
hi I have connected my telemetry like above I get rssi but I want to get flight battery voltage up on sreen with no joy I have a power lead to the bat pins on naze 32 is this correct any help would be greatfull
Help I just killed my Naze32. I was trying to set up the telemetry for my Taranis. followed the instructions of this video. Hit save and reboot and now I can not get my naze32 to respond to cleanflight.
+Dean Cory Occasionally Cleanflight will have a hiccup, usually with the Port configuration. If you select an invalid port configuration it will not warn you but error and reset the entire port config for all ports. If you've tried all the usual stuff then I'd try a firmware flash and erase the board. Don't forget that the vendor should be able to provide first line help. Best of luck.
+Painless360 I was able to reflash by jumping the boot loader pads and reflash upon connect. I had to reconfigure everything but that beats buying a new one.
Can I get telemetry data out of naze32 I2C or SPI port with a I2C or SPI compatible device such as arduino? What type of communication used in naze32 telemetry? Is it I2c or SPI? Or any other?
Painless360 Thanks. I read that the virtual UART needs more CPU usage. See: github.com/cleanflight/cleanflight/blob/master/docs/Serial.md Any drawbacks on CPU "performance"? :)
Painless360 Regarding github.com/cleanflight/cleanflight/blob/master/docs/LedStrip.md SoftSerial and LED strip wont work together. Can you confirm that?
Can you still daisy chain the s-port sensors when connecting to the fc like this? so could i connect my x4r to my gps v2 sensor, then connect the gps sensor to the fc? or can i do as you have but then connect gps sensor to a free uart? thanks
Painless360 Do you know why an x4r would only work above 6v? Using 5v or 6v both leds on x4r are flashing, if i use 8v 2s lipo i get solid green led and all works as should? Thanks
Painless360 I switched it out with another x4r and that works perfectly down to 4.2v, not tried lower but thats good for me. Think i must have shorted it somehow and damaged something. Gps v2 sensor doesn't seem to be working even when connected to the smart port so not tried connecting to kombini yet. I am testing indoors but I've left it a good 20 mins and still getting no data.
Painless360 did that but now I'm wondering if it's just missing from betaflight? neither command will work... telemetry_inversion just doesn't exist as a set command...
as I said before, aware of these docs and listed commands, but the telemetry_inversion setting no longer exists ...maybe the latest FW removed it? Anyways, no big deal, I'll just move on...
Hey Painless! Nice video! I'm having trouble fixing the telemetry on the taranis on OpenTX 2.1. I've followed your steps in this video but without any luck. I've read that it changed some in OpenTX 2.1 compared to 2.0. I don't get cels or cell value, I don't even get any Readings on VFAS. Got any suggestions? FC:Naze32 Radio: Taranis Receiver: D4R-II
+Painless360 All working inverted the telemetry in the CLI and also telemetry on in CLI ! Not just on in the configure screen but in cli to green wire to pin 6 now I don't have to arm to get telemetry !
I really like the idea of viewing telemetry while not armed but for some reason my Naze32(full) v1.9.0 doesn't display SOFTSERIAL 1 or 2 in the ports menu... Any ideas? is it the hardware?
Hi Lee, I tried this setup on X4R SB, using SBus to connect to Naze32 and Inverter Cable (same from your vídeo). I followed all instructions but looks like doesn´t work with SBUS mode for some reason. Any idea? Should I solder the RX/TX pins on the middle of the board and try this pins? If you have one X4R Sb is possible to make a video? Thanks a lot.
Question... when i connenct the telemetrie i can control the pid's with Betaflight-LUA-Script on my Taranis. Could i use the same solderplace on the FC to connect the Smart Audio from a TBS-Unify to controll the channels and so at the same time??????
Hi Lee I contacted you recently by email about my quanum neon 250 build and the trouble I was having trying to wire up my x8r with a sbus to cppm converter and you suggested using a dr4 II instead of x8r but I have a recently bought Taranis with eu firmware and suppliers are telling me the Taranis is now no longer compatible with the dr4 II is that true?
hi, i am searching for the vid where u connect frsky rssi to a pixhawk for it to be shown on minimosd and mavlink radio. you sended me a message months ago with the link but for some reason i can not vieuw any older messages from google+, it sayes that i dont have any urly messages for some reason. and now i cant find that exact vid anymore. would u sent me the link again plz?Thx
+jelle buyckx Sorry, I send tons of messages every day so I can't go that far back either. I would Google your question and try to use as many of the key phrases as you can. Best of luck!
Painless360 yeah i can imagin that... normally i just need to setup my taranis radio so that ch8 represents Rssi. via the ppm input the pixhawk normally passes that tru to my minimosd thats connected to telemetry port on the pixhawk, and then minimosd extra should understand it, but i cant get it to work. do i missed a setting in missionplanner to pass tru the ch8 data to the telemetry port ore something i forgot? Thanks for your reply
Painless360 i finally got it working. on the pixhawk u dont need to filter te sbus rssi from the frsky receiver to an analog, i just put it in on the sbus port on the pixhawk, in full param list put rssi pin on pin 103 and then set the rssi range to 3.3 volts, works perfectly. Thanks again for your support. Now the next thing to figure out is how i can pas tru a channel to my minimosd so i can use a switch to navigate tru the different osd panels... i cant get it to work. Happy flying!
Thanks ! i need to clear one doubt and no one has give me an answer on mini quad group ou in my portuguese group. I had VBAT monitor to Micromosd (i have on screen voltage, status (armed or disarmed) and i could tune my pids on the quad by stick. I changed to taranis, i connected the telemetry pins to d4II and activated telemetry on naze FRSky. Now i have taranis singing voltage and information when armed. ok... BUT i lost osd information, battery is valued is freezed, does not recognize when i arm it (keeps disarmed on screen) and also i cant enter on PID tuning menu. The flight modes change when i switch on taranis, so its communicating, but voltage, sticks nothing. Is it possible to have at same time taranis information voltage and the microsmosd ?!?!? How ???
+Ricardo Oliveira Having too many telemetry ports won't work on the Naze32. All part of the fun. You need to use the UART shared with the USB port for the MinimOSD and remember to unplug it when connecting it to a PC. That way the MSP telemetry will be used by the MinimOSD when the USD port isn't.. Hope that helps..
It seems a shame that you do not seem able to get the Lipo voltage using this method, or if you can I have not found how to do it. Does anyone know differently ? I know how to get the voltage using the dedicated pins on the Naze but the D4R-II only has one serial input pin so you to choose which set of data that you want so see.
UKHeliBob You should get the voltage over telemetry is you have vBat option setup on the board. See the other video in the series. Have you setup this configuration and not seeing the voltage but seeing everything else? Happy flying!
Painless360 Thanks for the reply. The telemetry config is working OK through SoftSerial because I can see the X/Y/Z acceleration values on the Taranis telemetry screen. VBAT is enabled in Cleanflight but both Cells and Vfas show 0.0 on the Taranis. This is a new Naze board and I have not previously set up voltage monitoring on it using the normal output pin but I have had it working on other Naze boards. I wanted to use the SoftSerial method to keep the wiring simple and so that I could see the Lipo voltage without the Naze being armed. Which data item shows the pack voltage on your Taranis when using SoftSerial telemetry ? Like many things in the Naze setup there is probably something simple that I have missed but if I know that it can work I will keep looking.
Painless360 No, the voltage shows as 0V on the setup tab To summarise : On the Configuration tab of Cleanflight VBAT is ticked, as is SOFTSERIAL and TELEMETRY. The telemetry and softserial settings are obviously working as a can see the X, Y and Z acceleration data on the Taranis.
Then something isn't right with the FC, get the vBat working in Cleanflight GUI first so you can see the voltages and then look at the telemetry. You should see the voltage in both.. Best of luck..
Well, currently the command is: set tlm_inversion = ON (CF 2.0.2) In case it has been changed again, one can find the setting in the dump (type "dump" in the commandline interface). So just search the dump for "inversion", and eventually you might find the new name of the setting.
So maybe its not working as well as i thought =/ Whenever I take my lipo out of my nighthawk 280 and try power it up again i get no beeping or responce once i've armed it. Using Baseflight i don't have this problem but as you know the telemetry doesn't work. Not the end of the world as the main reason i want telemetry is for the battery info. But if anyone knows why Cleanflight doesn't seem to want to save after i power down i would love to know. Sure its something silly i'm doing.
Funny thing, I bought the Taranis with a d4rii and an additional d4rii so I could use it with two quadcopters. I got them both setup and working but I can control each model with the others model stored on the taranis. Should that be possible? I set them up as separate models and bound them and they are definitely two individual d4rii's. Is this normal? My spektrum satellites never behaved that way.
Just updated my Taranis to 2.1.3 tonight and I think it may be my problem, but when I set up my Telemetry screens, there isn't a "cells" option. Has anyone else out there updated there Taranis and had this issue? Without it, I can't get my battery voltage back.
My naze32 rev6 board came with a warning that said 'do not use cleanflight' so I'm using base flight. I wired things up as you suggest but in BaseFlight (the Chrome app) there is not a setting for softserial. There is serialrx_type but the values are 0 - 4 and I have not found what these magic numbers mean. I suspect one of them is for FrSky. Any help on this?
+kle quis Finally found the below. Hopefully it is correct and .._type=5 is for me."set serialrx_type=0" for Spektrum 10bit (1024) "set serialrx_type=1" for Spektrum 11bit (2048) "set serialrx_type=2" for Futaba SBUS mode "set serialrx_type=3" for Graupner SUMD "set serialrx_type=4" for msp "set serialrx_type=5" for Flysky IBUS
+Painless360 Yes, read earlier today that Cleanflight was now good to go with rev6 so I switched to CF and am going through you video again now. And of course, thank you for the information you share. Your videos are excellent, i.e., informative and easy to understand.
My vfas is showing a full charged 3s as 12.1 volts on my taranis but my multi meter is showing 12.5....can anyone point me in the right direction as to how to get vfas to show the true voltage please? It's the same if I select cell (or is it cells?) it shows the voltage reading under what it actually is. Confused!
Anyone have an idea what the difference is between A4 and Cells values? Looks like the Taranis radio is already setup for lipo voltage using A4 (low/crit warning levels).
The short of it is use CELLS. If your voltage level is not correct and needs to be calibrated there's a Cleanflight/Naze32 setting to adjust the scale, vbat_scale, which is what I adjusted. Background, A4 is voltage reading on the receiver that the receiver adds to telemetry as it's sent to your transmitter. If you power your receiver thru a BEC or DC to DC step-down then A4 is not very useful to measure battery life. Also contrary to some sources CELL telemetry value is worthless unless you have something plugged into the batteries balance connector measuring individual cell voltage like, frsky sp-flvs. I like the idea of warning on a single low cell but I didn't want the extra weight or complexity on my multi-rotor. Hope this is helpful.
The values for CELL/CELLS are set by the flight controller. The value for A2 is set by the receiver. CELL/CELLS values dropping out could be a bug in BetaFlight or a telemetry cable/connector problem. You might consider trying CleanFlight. If CleanFlight works consistently then BetaFlight likely has a telemetry bug you should report. If after switching to CleanFlight CELL/CELLS is still dropping out then try a different cable. Hopefully, this works.
Under the CleanFlight Configurator I enabled battery monitoring. I can use either the telemetry or soft serial pins successfully. I have the latest version of OpenTX installed on my Taranis. There is a new setup under Taranis for configuring FC data where the transmitter discovers the metadata supported by the FC. When u do that you see all supported telemetry metadata sent to the transmitter. You should see CELL/CELLS in a big list. Earlier versions of OpenTX shipped on Taranis radios sold about 1yr ago (when I purchased mine) all telemetry metadata is included on transmitter but unassigned if not supported. I have not tried BetaFlight yet so it could be a little different. I know some of the config settings r different
***** If your an acro/rate flyer then your probably not going too far anyway. If your doing laps by yourself periodically you will hear buzzer if u want to stay with BetaFlight. Don't forget to file a bug report with Betaflight developers. It's likely they already know but still more voices helps set the priority.
Hey guys, got a quick question with the NAZE32 REV6. I got the board to output telemetry via softserial1(Pin6) to the D4R-ii/Taranis and I'm getting telemetry BUT ONLY WHEN ITS ARMED. As of now nothing extra on the board except that.. What am I missing here? (AFAIK with Rev5 you can get telemetry via Softserial regardless when its armed or not.)
Telemetry works thanks to you. I had a lot of problems setting it up.
Another amazing tutorial that's just saved me hours of internet searching, Thank you.
Brilliant. I got it to work through the CLI cmd.
Thank you - these videos are brilliant!
You just made my day! Thanks A LOT for putting so much time and thought into making these videos. I really appreciate it!
Bootflag FPV You are welcome - remember that the telemetry has been updated a lot in OpenTX 2.1 so you will need to setup this again if you upgrade..
Painless360 I'm still on 2.0.17 but i'll keep that in mind. Thanks a lot.
This is the video I have been looking for.
THANK YOU!!!
THANK YOU SO MUCH, THIS IS THE ONLY TUTORIAL THAT ACTUALLY WORKED!!!!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH MAN!!!
You're welcome :D
Awesome video, thanks!! This totally worked on my Immersionrc Vortex after several attempts to set up RSSI via alternative methods. So easy, so simple.
+Matt Schinzel It is when you know how :) Glad it's all working for you.. Happy flying!
once again another great vid ! You have saved many hours of research with every video you post ! :)
+ronamedee Thank you for the feedback, that's why I make these to help others make sense of hours of research and reading of manuals and forum posts! Happy flying!
This works great. We can pull almost everything from the Naze32 or Flip32 with this method. Great job
Jon Car Thanks Jon. Hoping to get my hands on one of the latest Cleanflight capable boards so stay tuned!
Which boards?
SPRacingF3 FC hopefully..
love your videos, I've learned so much already about my Taranis.
Thanks, this helped and it works now! love you videos, thanks.
As usual, your videos have saved me Painless360 I've spent almost 3 hours today trying to make my new taranis receive voltage data from a new dr4-2 and naze. Found your video after almost giving up and seems I have a naze that requires telemetry inversion. Also my naze oddly has pin6 around the middle unlike yours which has it at the end of the pin row. I also didn't have to plug the negative from the dr4 into the negative pin on the telemetry pins on the naze, only the green wire is plugged into pin 6. Odd also that my naze doesnt have to be armed to pass telemetry data once lipo is plugged in Voltage telemetry is being happily passed onto taranis. Many thanks for your videos Lee!
Altitude Aerials You're welcome! :)
Altitude Aerials If you look closely at the video around the 4:17 time, you should be able to see that he DOES have the telemetry connected to the middle pin on the bottom (pin 6). He has a GPS (i think) connected to the pin on the end also using a green wire.
Thank you so much again for your really good tutorial videos!
Thanks for the video.
I changed from Baseflight to Cleanflight on my quad and had problems getting telemetry working after the change even though I had everything configured properly on my Taranis with OpenTX 2.1 as well as in Cleanflight.
Turned out that I had to delete all the old Baseflight telemetry sensors in the model config on the Taranis and then rediscover them to get it all to work again.
You star, this worked great with the new firmware :)
You helped me a lot when setting this up, man! But I'm not quite sure about the DF13 connector type.. I recently ordered one from BG but it doesn't fit! I had to make some adjustments by hand to plug it in.
I morely think, it is a 4 pin 1.5mm JST plug, although there might be different versions.
Thanks for what you are doing, you are getting a lot of people getting started with this hobby!
just a heads up. in betaflight and possibly new cleanflight versions. cli command is set telemetry_inversion = on
+Djsnapper This is already annotated in the video. Thanks for the comment..
Thanks for sharing it with us. But just to point out that i had to enable softserial under configuration before i got softserials in ports tab. Using 1.9.0 version. Hardware is all same.
mel a Same here. Thanks for the tip.
mel a Thanks for mentioning this! I also had to do it!
+pass1985 u welcome
Great Info thank you
Hi Lee great video as usual! .Now we have the TARANIS + can you make a video with the LUA script...thanks
Is it possible to use this technique for the 10 DOF version of the Naze32? Thanks for all your great videos. They are very helpful.
Great set of videos! I used this one to set my Flip32+D4R a while back, but after moving from Cleanflight to BorisB's betaflight telemetry stopped working. Or at least I noticed that it was not working.
Re-did all the settings via GUI but the CLI command above was returning an error. Finally had the idea to check a cmd dump and found a "set telemetry_inversion = off" line.
Tried "set telemetry_inversion = on" (rather than = 1), et voila, problem solved, ça marche!
that might be an idea for the Naze32 series... how to use the bootloader pads and reflash
+Dean Cory I did cover this in general in the 'What is a bootloader' video. You are the first person I've come across that needed to resort to that method to get the board back. Glad it got yours back in the land of the living..Best of luck with it!
Great video :-) Thanks, can you tell me how you get your Taranis to show a screen as you have where there are 3 separate boxes to show the telemetry?
Not sure what you're asking. We have a playlist specifically for the Taranis and includes a few videos on Telemetry too - they should help. Best of luck!
I will check out the other videos, but right around 5.3 minutes into this video you show the Taranis and the screen looks to be separated into 3 panels I was wondering how you did that. I press page on mine and don't see any screen like that?
Have it figured out, thanks again :-)
Great! Happy flying!
how did you get the three screens?
Thanks for the great video! I wonder how I could identify if my naze32 comes with the inversion circuit?
Easiest way is try it and see..
Best of luck!
My eachine is on the way and I will test for sure. Your channel is a fantastic resource! Thanks!
Well, I've got a ZMR250 with Taranis 9D+ and D4R-II RX, and I did have my Telemetry screen working PERFECTLY. Today I was looking at FrSky's site and realized that my old original Taranis firmware was very outdated, so I updated to the latest 2.1.6 version. I had saved my models so that wasn't a problem. However, when I long pressed the page button to go to the Telemetry screen, everything was gone ... not setup! I originally had NUMS in 2 lines: Cel, RSSI, Batt and line 2 was Cels (individual cell volt) and 2 other parameters which I no longer remember. I've been searching on how to set this all back up again, but most of the tutorials are based on the original firmware. Makes me want to kick myself for updating the firmware!
Check the videos later in the series where we did updates on the new features of 2.1.. It's in there.. Best of luck!
I got tired of trying to make it work. So, I back flashed to v2.0.9, but then when I tried to reload my ZMR250 racer model (setup) it said "Incompatible" ... so now I have to go through the entire bloody setup again, starting with binding to my D4R-II .. which means I'm going to have to cut a bunch of zipties and undo my install of hardware on the ZMR .. what a fiasco!
Oh wow. Thanks for this. There is so much conflicting information out there for telemetry on FrSky and Naze32/Cleanflight. I got mine working using the telemetry port before I saw this, but I want to do it this way rather. I see you are feeding the accelerometer values, but I suppose it would also feed voltage values if set up in Cleanflight, right?
I used set telemetry_inversion = 1 for my setup, but first, I'm not sure if it's actually needed for the telemetry port or only for soft-serial pin 6... Regardless, it worked for me without using the inversion. We'll see what happens when I set it up your way.
Danny Cruz Anything that the Naza32 can see (voltage, acc, GPS, speed etc.) will come out via the telemetry port.
A lot of the articles on the net are getting out of date and as Cleanflight gets better and better the implementation of key things like FrSky Telemetry is changing to. Don't forget - some boards have the inversion circuitry on them, some don't.
Best of luck with it.
Hi,
Followed your videos for Naze setup, thanks for the help.
How do I set up the LED strip support when I am using your soft serial telemetry?
Thanks for your help.
you can't use both at the same time. This is in the documentation. Use the default pins for telemetry if you want LEDs.. Best of luck!
+Painless360 Thanks for your prompt reply.
you are the best
Sorry for that.
I meant to say that, what are the utility of the uart1, uart2 & softSerial? What type of communication is used here? Is it Serial communication? I am curious about some practical use of these ports.
+Priyabrata Saha it's worth having a look at some of the build series to see how these ports are used. I2c is used to connect sensors like barometric and magnetic sensors, uarts are multi purpose and used for telemetry (MSP and MAVlink among others) as well as serial connections to sensors like GPS and data to configure 'smart' peripherals like video transmitters. All of the options for the software you are using is normally in the ports tab of Cleanflight/Betaflight...
This is great, thanks for creating it! Is it also possible to get telemetry with the x8r? Also, if you enable softserial do you lose the ability to run LEDs?
Duane Pinkerton If you use the pins that the LEDS use then you would.
The x8r uses Smart Port (see the 'Introduction to FrSky Telemetry' in the playlist. I am sure that the implementation of Smart Port natively in Cleanflight will come soon. Until then you need - github.com/frank26080115/cleanflight/wiki/Using-Smart-Port
Happy flying!
Duane Pinkerton According to the Cleanflight documentation, yes you will lose LED_STRIP.
github.com/cleanflight/cleanflight/blob/master/docs/Board%20-%20Naze32.md
Thx for sharing Painless your vids are helping me out bigtime.. question.. those DF13 4 pin connector`s i can find them on ebay etc but its a 4pin connector at each end i cant find the 1`s with a single pin connector on the opposite end, where did you order yours ??
thx in advance !!
norie m You can add the servo connector pins to the ends of the cable that comes with the receiver. I have a video that shows how to crimp them. Best of luck with the build.
thx dude appreciate it. just got my taranis today i got a lot to learn :D
Thanks again for another great video.
Just curious. Previously you did a video on the voltage telemetry, which connected up to the telemetry pins beside the buzzer.
If you are using this voltage telemetry, can you still use this acc telemetry also?
Is this just another way or doing the voltage, and getting the other telemetry, or do you have to choose which one you want?
Kevin Ray There are two videos in the playlist - the other one covers RSSI. Using vBat and telemetry are two different things and they connect to two different sets of pins on the Naze32. There are two options for telemetry and I show my preference in this video. Hope that makes sense!
Best of luck with the build!
Will this one push the voltage telemetry also?
again, thank you for your help.
want to get the best out of the great gear we have.. Taranis, FrSky and Naze32.
Have you posted the video on CC3D on TekSumo? Did I miss it?
Nope, still trying the get flight video..
forget about smartport and telemetry , the way you connected the sbus to naze, can I connect x4r too?
+George Chatzisavvidis all Sbus connections should be the same. Best of luck!
hi Painless360, always found your videos very useful so first off thanks for that!
I have a Naze32 Rev6 on Cleanflight 1.11 and Turnigy 9x DHT diy kit running with OpenTx 128-2.0.19. I'm followed your process and i'm not able to get any telemetry readings at all. Any advice where I could have gone wrong? HAppy to provide a list of configuration.
+Chua Yaowei I like to use soft serial on the boards here but we haven't tried it with the revision 6 boards through. Best of luck..
+Painless360 I'm using a Flip32. Is there a way to have telemetry being pumped out of softserial port on RC input 6, as well as being able to connect an LED strip to RC input 5? Thanks! Your videos have been a great help!
+Painless360 Thank you for the quick reply. I had not seen anything in the very limited documentation provided by Banggood, or in 3rd party Flip32+ documentation. Was just wondering if there might have been some sort of work around (possibly by reassigning connections). Will do without the addressable LEDs for now. :-)
great video buddy,does this work with pixhawk??
+R. WIZA Sadly not this well. Keep watching the channel for a new Pixhawk based board that should work a lot better...
+Painless360 Thanks for the reply,I have placed an orderof a teensy 3.1board,hope to receive it soon.but I am not sure if it is compatible with ezuhf!!
hate to ask maybe been done a lot but this video helped so much with the dr 4II do you have one for telemetry for naze32 x4r and telemetry setup I don't understand difference between the two?
For an X series then connect the rx and tx pins to the SmartPort pin on the receiver and select 'Smartport' as the type of telemetry. Best of luck!
SoftSerial telemetry is for X series only. Frsky telemetry is what you need to select for D series receivers. Best of luck..
Do you have a post on how to set up A1 an A2 on the Taranis?
Thanks.
+Hoggdoc The voltage will swing wildly when in flight as you pull current. You could create a virtual sensor and try to 'average' the value over a short time to reduce the dips due to the throttle increasing but it is basically a very poor indicator of how much power is left in the battery and useless IMHO on a quad....
I've used those and they seem to be good. Still get the voltage jumping under load. I've not seen that happen just sat on a bench though. Dodgy vbat on the Naze32 you have?
Possibly, see out video on using telemetry on the Taranis for how the multipliers work. Best of luck with it...
I am slightly confused about the DF13 cable:
1. Can I just cut the wires I am not using for a cleaner-ish build?
2. Where did you find that cable? I have only been able to find the 4 to 4 pins - did you solder this yourself?
Great videos by the way!
I crimp the ends when I can or use a spare connector from a 5 pin cable to make the end up how I need it. Best of luck!
Thank you so much - happy new year! :)
Hello, I like your tutorial videos very much, they are all pro.
I experience the following:
I have naze32. (I run INAV rewritten cleanflight) but that should not be definitely the issue:
I succesfully set up the 1-wire telemetry via pin6 and soft serial.
there is one telemetr value which does not "recover" on some cases : the Frsky "Cvlt" value.
When I disconnect the batt on the quadcopter, I also have to switch radio on-off to have that specific value refreshed again, when battery connected back on.
Other values do "recover", refresh after this, but "Cvlt" not.
I really like the solution with the soft serial. Would it refresh vith another method ot 2 wire connected to telemetry pins (beside the buzzer) to the FRSKY D4R-II? but then there is the disadvantage of not seeing teloemetry when not armed, is that correct?
I would try to recreate the problem in Cleanflight. INav is a fork for the testing of the improved GPs code (see our video on how Open Source Works) best of luck..
1st of all, thanks for your helpful videos.
Do you know if the X4RSB RX will recieve telemetry with its SmartPort lead using the same ch6 pins as the D4R-II does?
Hi, i have the d4r-2 sb (2015) it's a bit different in that it has (AIN, -, +, S) on the 4 port connector, which one goes to pin 5 on the naze. Also can i just check this is correct: on the naze, gps tx is 3 (to rx on gps unit), gps rx is 4, Lights are 5, d4r to 6, osd to rx and tx. Many thanks, would be lost without these vids
Gavin Ferry If you follow the videos in the series you should be fine. The port setup is changing all the time in Cleanflight so it may look a little different when you get to it.
Best of luck.
Thanks so much for making these videos, they have been really helpful. I'm having trouble following this one though - how is the NAZE board detecting the voltage from the battery pack? Is it reading it from the ESC you have plugged into the servo pins? (the vbatt pins next to the buzzer aren't being used).
I have an identical setup but can't get the telem stream working for love or money.
You need vBat connected and configured (see our Naze32 series for more detail). This video works for the D series 'legacy' FrSky Telemetry, if using X series SmartPort then connect the TX, RX pins on the UART to the S.Port pin on the RX and make sure you select SmartPort telemetry in the setup. Best of luck!
in the beginning of the video you said you need the black and green wire but you only used the green wire I did everything you did in the video and it's not working do I need to connect the black wire to a ground?
+basebilljr07 It worked as we did it in the video. We were using OpenTX2.0.17, later versions changed the way that telemetry worked and needs you to 'discover' the telemetry available before they can be used. Best of luck!
+Painless360 yes I knew that much but I got it working I had to change the setting in clean flight ports from the 9600 setting to the automatic setting and then it worked
+Tim Donovan the radio has to be paired to the receiver with both needed on then in the actual radio go to the tale page which is telemetry and highlight scan for sensors and push the enter button
+Tim Donovan in the ports tab on clean flight did you enable soft serial and change the tab to Frsky and automatic I had the exact same problem and that was what fixed it
+Tim Donovan if you connect the green telemetry wire to CH 6 on the naze and enable softserial in clean flight ports tab you will get telemetry even when the board is not armed
hi again Painless360. have you a link to where I can purchase the DF13 4 pinCheers Tom
+Tom Sheehy I tend to use eBay. Happy flying!
Lee I think this has changed in the new firmware. Can't enter the set telemetry command comes back invalid value set telemetry_inversion = ON is the new command
Thanks Jon, we have that detailed in the description and it's also set as a card on the video in TH-cam too. Cheers.
ok
ok i have this set up on my x8r and for some reason my fuel reading (mAh) is reading in the tens (56mah) and not the hundreds. all of my other telemetry readings are working fine.
I've not seen that here - I'd check the version details for the OpenTX/Cleanflight you're using in case this is a known problem and fixed in another release. Best of luck!
yea i found the notes and it says the reading needs to be calibrated. you discharge the battery with the fc plugged into clean flight, take the reading that clean flight got for the mah, then you charge the battery and take that reading. then some math magic I don't remember the exact formula and you plug that into the current settings in configuration menu.
It would be nice if you could make a quick tip video - Naze32/CC3D Cleanflight Connections Combinations Overview that work and doesn't work like Naze32 (PPM,GPS, MinimOSD, LED, Bluetooth, Frsky Telemetry, Buzzer) i think some Combinations doesn't work because of conflicts in ports - like Telemetry Port and USB
Thank you very much for your videos.
Snappy There is some great documentation on the Cleanflight pages.
Bottom line - if you want anything apart from basic OSD and GPS co-ordinates displayed on that basic OSD, get a Naze32/Flip32.
If you want a cheap, basic board that flies great - CC3D is an option.
Happy flying!
Thank you for the video. I set up mine using the D4r2 and the Naze32. I can see telemetry and the Cell(s), but it does not match the A1 and A2, Do I just ignore them or can I assign the A1 and A2 to take the readings from the software port?
+Frank Ragsac If you are not using V2.0.x of OpenTX then the Telemetry system is different..
+Painless360 I am using the 2.0.
We cover how the A1 and A2 telemetry works in the telemetry video in the series. This should help.. Best of luck!
Is it the same pin 6 on the flip32?
Jon Car Signal pin 6 - should be Jon..
I am using L9R receivers I can't get any signal from reciever to cc3d board
I followed your steps using an x4r-sb receiver i don;t know if this should be different set up but i get the voltage reading all over the place any help would be much appreciated
+Guy Goldsbrough I've not seen that here, I'd check that the vBat reading in the GUI is ok.. Best of luck..
Thanks for the reply
Hi, first thanks for the videos. They help a lot for people getting into flying.
Ive just got into miniquads and trying to connect X4R (CPPM firmware) the same way you got D4R connected.
When i did it on a D4R it worked fine, but X4R doesnt seem to send telemetry. Did you experiment with X4R at all? Any ideas what i could try?
The x series of receivers use SmartPort telemetry, different from the D series receivers so you need to look at how you that newer telemetry format into the receiver from whatever you are using. Best of luck
+mxte You can preview the Cleanflight FrSky SmartPort telemetry settings on the SP3 video series now by watching th-cam.com/video/mFvb40oE_pM/w-d-xo.html Hope it helps.
thanks for remembering! 8th video seems to be missing though. Looks like SP3 should be my next FC
I've had to re-upload it as it has a slide that was confusing. I'm trying to remove confusion - not create any more. Should be there now..
After binding the Frysky DH-4 receiver to the TX,I use a test servo,but nothing happens! My combination. was just set up by a hobby shop that sells those.Even after that nothing happens.The light shows the receiver as being bound to the transmitter!
Check the connections are the right way up and is go back to the store and get them to give you a hand. Best of luck!
Can I use telemetry to Multiwii boards? How about the range of FrSky TARANIS radio transmitter?
code.google.com/p/multiwii/wiki/Frsky_Telemetry_Implementation ;)
Can this be done with the FrSky Taranis and the CC3D Revolution flight controller so that altitude shows up on the taranis controller screen?
+Tim Miller We will be looking at this in the series. The LibrePilot documentation is starting to get a lot better so a look in there may help in the mean time..
The connector on the receiver is not a DF13 (Hirose). It's actually a Molex Picoblade.
Thank you for this video. I'm receiving telemetry info on my Taranis but for some reason, the "cels" and "cell" parameters are not appearing in the telemetry set-up screens. I want to be able to hear the current overall battery voltage when I flick switch SH. Could it be something I missed or maybe the inversion code?
The latest version of the OpenTx software changed a few things in the telemetry system. Have a look through the notes for the latest release to see the latest. Best of luck!
The latest version of the OpenTx software changed a few things in the telemetry system. Have a look through the notes for the latest release to see the latest. Best of luck!
Painless360 Will do. Thanks for the quick reply :)
How do I get both telemetry fed to the D4RII and have use of the LED strip functionality?
Vondarius Use the main telemetry pins on the controller. I do mention that is an option in this video..
Best of luck..
Painless360 I have a flip32, where are the main telemetry pins?
Ah, in that case you're snookered.
Painless360 OK, so if I just want main battery voltage and RSSI can I just use the VBAT connection? If so, what other connection do I need for the D4RII, and setup for the Taranis?
There must be something I'm doing wrong. I've done everything in your playlist but I can't configure the VBAT monitoring. I've connected 1 wire to a positive on the PDB, I'm running out of connections so I connected 2 wires on 1 positive slot, 1 is for ESC and the other is the one supposed to connect to VBAT + on Naze32. However, I can't get battery voltage working. Cleanflight shows 25.5v no matter how what the voltage scale value is.
Okay, I've changed the voltage scale value to 50 and Cleanflight now shows 16.5v, I still can't get it to show on my Taranis. When I enter Discover New Sensors, I'm not getting anything. I only have:
1. SWR = 1
2. RSII = 90dB
3. A1 = 5.1v
4. A2 = 7.3v
@Painless360 any tips in getting this to work with the FrSky X8R Receiver.?
+Glenn Pringle Yep, the X series uses SmartPort so you need to select that in the telemetry setup in Cleanflight and some subscribers have got it working by connecting the Rx and Tx pins on the UART and then connecting them to the s.port pin on the Rx. Best of luck.
Can you monitor VBat with this method?
Yep, if you have vBat setup and can see the battery voltage in the Cleanflight GUI then you can get this sent via the telemetry too.. Best of luck!
And what about connecting a device in any of the uart on naze32?
+Priyabrata Saha sorry, I don't understand the question
Sorry for that.
I meant to say that, what are the utility of the uart1, uart2 & softSerial? What type of communication is used here? Is it Serial communication? I am curious about some practical use of these ports.
Is there a way to assign the telemetry output to a different pin on the Naze32?
My contact pad for pin 6 broke away mid-flight. Really like having the voltage info w/o needing to arm the board.
+OnBoardWithBlade Found the answer to my question! For anyone else who may suffer from the same problem: You can also utilize Pin 8, you simply choose Softserial2 (instead of Softserial1) in the configurator.
I have my Taranis Plus set up to display RSSI and cells. I gave the green wire from the side of the D4R-II going to pin 6 on the Naze32. I am not getting cells voltage comming to my Taranis Plus.
I wonder if it is because I am pulling this from the Naze32?
+Dean Cory Are you getting everything else on the telemetry screen then? If so what does the vBat show on the main Cleanflight page?
+Painless360 clean flight is showing the voltage. I get a warning from the beeper when the voltage is low enough and the quad is close enough to hear.
+Painless360 the last time I tried this I messed up the Clean flight so bad that I had to jump the bootloader pads and reflash my Naze32
Is it possible to do this with clean-flight on a CC3D board? I don't think there is a Tx inversion option from the CC3D, but perhaps using the SP2UART converter (S.Port to UART) from Frsky would fix the inversion issue?
David Smith No, as far as I know the only telemetry you can get with the CC3D is to use the analogue telemetry ports connected directly to the flight battery.
Hope this helps.
Painless360 I know that telemetry can be sent from the flexi port for OPlink wirless telemetry wiki.openpilot.org/display/WIKI/CC3D+-+Atom+GPS+Setup+for+Telemetry .
So I thought maybe with clean flight's frsky protocol, this could be done, the only trick would be inverting the signal as you do in the naze32 board. since cc3d doesn't have a tx inverter, I thought the UART to s.bus converter would take car of that. It would be nice to get GPS coords (to taranis) from a mini250 for backup lost model insurence, like when a crash ejects a battery, and the buzzer won't work (which happened to me recently).
If you get it to work let me know.
Best of luck.
I have a problem, When I'm connected to base flight my quad runs fine. The thr. is fine and works, But when I disconnect it from baseflight it does not run? I can't figure it out. Can u help me. Thanks Don
+Don Fowler Happy to help but please watch th-cam.com/video/olIqTiSJHIY/w-d-xo.html and come back to me with more detail of what you've tried..
Can this also be done on a flip32? If so, which pin should I use? Many thanks.
Yes, if running Cleanflight. Use the same input signal pin. Best of luck!
+Painless360 But on the flip32 the pinouts are different and I don't know which pin to use. Could you please tell me which pin to use '1' being the top input pin '8' being the last one. Thanks so much!
Can I do this with Baseflight?
dOobRANDOM I would recommend Cleanflight if you want to do any of these additional pieces. Far better support for the latest tech.
Best of luck.
hi i'm using naze32 using pin 5 for my addressable LEDs, green lead to pin 6 for the telemetry but it seems to stop my leds from working how can i get both to work ? cheers
The answer is here - github.com/cleanflight/cleanflight/blob/master/docs/LedStrip.md
+Painless360 cheers one guy as said i can do it this way using ppm so use pin 3 on the naze32 then set the uart 2 to frsky telemetry . then i can still use pin 6 for the leds !
just done this and it works sorted
Great tip! Thanks for sharing!
Hi Lee. I have switched from the telemetry pins to the Soft serial approach as I am not a fan of just getting the voltage when the quad is armed. I have followed your video and I'm get everything else bar lipo voltage. Any ideas?
Thanks
agrs1974
Vbat setup?
+Painless360
yes. do you need the frysky add on for voltage reading to the taranis? ?
Check you can see the vbat voltage in Cleanflight GUI on the PC. It should appear in the telemetry data with everything else..
Probably not exactly the correct place to ask this question however. Will the new Taranis X9D plus transmitters with the EU compliant firmware work with the D4R-II 4 channel receivers?
***** This is an issue and widely discussed in the RCGroups and other forums. Best of luck with it.
if anyones having issues with this working, try downgrading your naze version, just did it and so many sensors opened up via telemetry and now vfas is working too.
This ;)
can I incorporate smart port telemetry with naze32/cleanflight?
+Zak Vargas Should be able to - I've had subscribers who got it working by connecting the TX and RX pins of the UART to the S.Port pin on the Rx. Best of luck..
Thanks for all the videos!
I'm having trouble getting this to work. Did the inversion in CLI, telemetry and soft serial are on...I actually bricked my Naze last night by having the UART port on at the same time and had to short the boot loader and reflash. Green wire is hooked up to 6th pin on Naze. Vbat is on in CF GUI, but I can't see the actual battery voltage when I plug my LiPo in...should I be able to?
All i can get is RSSI on the telemetry screen.
Any advice?
Thanks!
If you have it setup right then you will see the battery voltage in the GUI (see our video on setting up vBat). Check inversion is on in the CLI as the command changed (see the note in the video). Best of luck!
Turns out I needed to solder leads onto the PDB and connect the servo to vbat on the Naze32. Completely looked over that! Thanks for the reply and for all you do!
hi I have connected my telemetry like above I get rssi but I want to get flight battery voltage up on sreen with no joy I have a power lead to the bat pins on naze 32 is this correct any help would be greatfull
+Darren Fisher Can you see the battery voltage in Cleanflight? (guessing Naze32/Cleanflight as you don't say)..
Help I just killed my Naze32. I was trying to set up the telemetry for my Taranis. followed the instructions of this video. Hit save and reboot and now I can not get my naze32 to respond to cleanflight.
+Dean Cory Occasionally Cleanflight will have a hiccup, usually with the Port configuration. If you select an invalid port configuration it will not warn you but error and reset the entire port config for all ports. If you've tried all the usual stuff then I'd try a firmware flash and erase the board. Don't forget that the vendor should be able to provide first line help. Best of luck.
+Painless360 I was able to reflash by jumping the boot loader pads and reflash upon connect. I had to reconfigure everything but that beats buying a new one.
Good job getting it back into shape. Happy flying!
Can I get telemetry data out of naze32 I2C or SPI port with a I2C or SPI compatible device such as arduino?
What type of communication used in naze32 telemetry? Is it I2c or SPI? Or any other?
Sorry, no idea. See the telemetry videos in the Naze32 series for what we know.. Best of luck!
Painless360 What are the benefits of using Virtual UART (as you did) against UART (telemetry port)?
Gerhard Mikysa See 1:17 in the video. Happy flying!
Painless360 Thanks. I read that the virtual UART needs more CPU usage. See: github.com/cleanflight/cleanflight/blob/master/docs/Serial.md
Any drawbacks on CPU "performance"? :)
Painless360 Regarding github.com/cleanflight/cleanflight/blob/master/docs/LedStrip.md SoftSerial and LED strip wont work together. Can you confirm that?
Yep. You need something like one of the new SP3 boards if your heart is set on that..
Painless360 Thanks for all :) Can't wait to get my hands on all the stuff. Keep on your awesome work!
Can you still daisy chain the s-port sensors when connecting to the fc like this? so could i connect my x4r to my gps v2 sensor, then connect the gps sensor to the fc? or can i do as you have but then connect gps sensor to a free uart? thanks
I would connect the GPS to the flight controller.. I've not tried it any other way - let me know if it works.. Best of luck!
Painless360 Ok thanks will let you know.
Painless360 Do you know why an x4r would only work above 6v? Using 5v or 6v both leds on x4r are flashing, if i use 8v 2s lipo i get solid green led and all works as should? Thanks
I've not seen that here.. I'd double check the voltages and make sure the X4r isn't damaged.. Best of luck!
Painless360 I switched it out with another x4r and that works perfectly down to 4.2v, not tried lower but thats good for me. Think i must have shorted it somehow and damaged something. Gps v2 sensor doesn't seem to be working even when connected to the smart port so not tried connecting to kombini yet. I am testing indoors but I've left it a good 20 mins and still getting no data.
set telemetry_inversion = ON doesn't seem to work anymore....
+Derek Arsenault check out the note in the description... Best of luck
Painless360 did that but now I'm wondering if it's just missing from betaflight? neither command will work... telemetry_inversion just doesn't exist as a set command...
github.com/martinbudden/betaflight/blob/master/docs/Telemetry.md ?
as I said before, aware of these docs and listed commands, but the telemetry_inversion setting no longer exists ...maybe the latest FW removed it? Anyways, no big deal, I'll just move on...
Derek Arsenault possibly. That's all the detail I could find...
Hey Painless! Nice video! I'm having trouble fixing the telemetry on the taranis on OpenTX 2.1. I've followed your steps in this video but without any luck. I've read that it changed some in OpenTX 2.1 compared to 2.0. I don't get cels or cell value, I don't even get any Readings on VFAS. Got any suggestions? FC:Naze32 Radio: Taranis Receiver: D4R-II
Please see our Taranis Open2.1 Telemetry video for the differences - it's in the Taranis playlist towards the bottom. It should help!
th-cam.com/video/lORZGjDpZEg/w-d-xo.html may help..
hi. is it possible to do the same but with cc3d revo + x8r ?
+dimson K possibly, the Cc3D have so few ports.. Best of luck!
few ports, but still possible ? if you showed how to do it, I think it would be interesting not only me. thank you
Hi do you do this the same way if you are using a rev6 i have tried it and cant get it to work ? i'm running OpenTX 2.1.7 on my tarnis .
+Jeff deakin we've not tried it. Best of luck
+Painless360 All working inverted the telemetry in the CLI and also telemetry on in CLI ! Not just on in the configure screen but in cli to green wire to pin 6 now I don't have to arm to get telemetry !
+Jeff deakin Perfect - happy flying!
I really like the idea of viewing telemetry while not armed but for some reason my Naze32(full) v1.9.0 doesn't display SOFTSERIAL 1 or 2 in the ports menu... Any ideas? is it the hardware?
Kane Stevenson enable soft serial... got ya!!
Thats it ! ;)
Hi Lee, I tried this setup on X4R SB, using SBus to connect to Naze32 and Inverter Cable (same from your vídeo). I followed all instructions but looks like doesn´t work with SBUS mode for some reason. Any idea? Should I solder the RX/TX pins on the middle of the board and try this pins? If you have one X4R Sb is possible to make a video? Thanks a lot.
+Marcelo Tito Farinon X Series uses SmartPort not traditional telemetry.. ;)
Question... when i connenct the telemetrie i can control the pid's with Betaflight-LUA-Script on my Taranis.
Could i use the same solderplace on the FC to connect the Smart Audio from a TBS-Unify to controll the channels and so at the same time??????
+Babylon FPV I've not tried both here.. let me know if it works..
Hi Lee I contacted you recently by email about my quanum neon 250 build and the trouble I was having trying to wire up my x8r with a sbus to cppm converter and you suggested using a dr4 II instead of x8r but I have a recently bought Taranis with eu firmware and suppliers are telling me the Taranis is now no longer compatible with the dr4 II is that true?
Not quite. Read www.multi-rotor.co.uk/index.php?topic=14975.0
Best of luck.
hi, i am searching for the vid where u connect frsky rssi to a pixhawk for it to be shown on minimosd and mavlink radio. you sended me a message months ago with the link but for some reason i can not vieuw any older messages from google+, it sayes that i dont have any urly messages for some reason. and now i cant find that exact vid anymore. would u sent me the link again plz?Thx
+jelle buyckx Sorry, I send tons of messages every day so I can't go that far back either. I would Google your question and try to use as many of the key phrases as you can. Best of luck!
Painless360 yeah i can imagin that... normally i just need to setup my taranis radio so that ch8 represents Rssi. via the ppm input the pixhawk normally passes that tru to my minimosd thats connected to telemetry port on the pixhawk, and then minimosd extra should understand it, but i cant get it to work. do i missed a setting in missionplanner to pass tru the ch8 data to the telemetry port ore something i forgot? Thanks for your reply
Try copter.ardupilot.com/wiki/common-rssi-received-signal-strength-indication/ best of luck!
Painless360 i finally got it working. on the pixhawk u dont need to filter te sbus rssi from the frsky receiver to an analog, i just put it in on the sbus port on the pixhawk, in full param list put rssi pin on pin 103 and then set the rssi range to 3.3 volts, works perfectly.
Thanks again for your support.
Now the next thing to figure out is how i can pas tru a channel to my minimosd so i can use a switch to navigate tru the different osd panels... i cant get it to work.
Happy flying!
Well done!
Thanks ! i need to clear one doubt and no one has give me an answer on mini quad group ou in my portuguese group. I had VBAT monitor to Micromosd (i have on screen voltage, status (armed or disarmed) and i could tune my pids on the quad by stick. I changed to taranis, i connected the telemetry pins to d4II and activated telemetry on naze FRSky. Now i have taranis singing voltage and information when armed. ok... BUT i lost osd information, battery is valued is freezed, does not recognize when i arm it (keeps disarmed on screen) and also i cant enter on PID tuning menu. The flight modes change when i switch on taranis, so its communicating, but voltage, sticks nothing. Is it possible to have at same time taranis information voltage and the microsmosd ?!?!? How ???
+Ricardo Oliveira Having too many telemetry ports won't work on the Naze32. All part of the fun. You need to use the UART shared with the USB port for the MinimOSD and remember to unplug it when connecting it to a PC. That way the MSP telemetry will be used by the MinimOSD when the USD port isn't.. Hope that helps..
It seems a shame that you do not seem able to get the Lipo voltage using this method, or if you can I have not found how to do it. Does anyone know differently ?
I know how to get the voltage using the dedicated pins on the Naze but the D4R-II only has one serial input pin so you to choose which set of data that you want so see.
UKHeliBob You should get the voltage over telemetry is you have vBat option setup on the board. See the other video in the series. Have you setup this configuration and not seeing the voltage but seeing everything else?
Happy flying!
Painless360 Thanks for the reply. The telemetry config is working OK through SoftSerial because I can see the X/Y/Z acceleration values on the Taranis telemetry screen. VBAT is enabled in Cleanflight but both Cells and Vfas show 0.0 on the Taranis.
This is a new Naze board and I have not previously set up voltage monitoring on it using the normal output pin but I have had it working on other Naze boards. I wanted to use the SoftSerial method to keep the wiring simple and so that I could see the Lipo voltage without the Naze being armed.
Which data item shows the pack voltage on your Taranis when using SoftSerial telemetry ? Like many things in the Naze setup there is probably something simple that I have missed but if I know that it can work I will keep looking.
Can you see the Battery voltage displayed in Cleanflight with the board and battery connected?
Painless360 No, the voltage shows as 0V on the setup tab
To summarise :
On the Configuration tab of Cleanflight VBAT is ticked, as is SOFTSERIAL and TELEMETRY. The telemetry and softserial settings are obviously working as a can see the X, Y and Z acceleration data on the Taranis.
Then something isn't right with the FC, get the vBat working in Cleanflight GUI first so you can see the voltages and then look at the telemetry.
You should see the voltage in both..
Best of luck..
Just an FYI for everyone the command is now: "set telemetry_inversion = ON" This should save everyone some headache...
+Ryan Fay Dude, thank you so much. I was having that headache! Saved me.
Well, currently the command is:
set tlm_inversion = ON
(CF 2.0.2)
In case it has been changed again, one can find the setting in the dump (type "dump" in the commandline interface). So just search the dump for "inversion", and eventually you might find the new name of the setting.
So maybe its not working as well as i thought =/
Whenever I take my lipo out of my nighthawk 280 and try power it up again i get no beeping or responce once i've armed it. Using Baseflight i don't have this problem but as you know the telemetry doesn't work. Not the end of the world as the main reason i want telemetry is for the battery info.
But if anyone knows why Cleanflight doesn't seem to want to save after i power down i would love to know. Sure its something silly i'm doing.
Funny thing, I bought the Taranis with a d4rii and an additional d4rii so I could use it with two quadcopters. I got them both setup and working but I can control each model with the others model stored on the taranis. Should that be possible? I set them up as separate models and bound them and they are definitely two individual d4rii's. Is this normal? My spektrum satellites never behaved that way.
+Sankofa Musician You shouldn't have then both on at the same time anyway. You can set the ID of the Rx before binding.. Best of luck.
Just updated my Taranis to 2.1.3 tonight and I think it may be my problem, but when I set up my Telemetry screens, there isn't a "cells" option. Has anyone else out there updated there Taranis and had this issue? Without it, I can't get my battery voltage back.
+Justin von Linsowe Lots of confusion with the new Telemetry system in 2.1.3. I'm still waiting for it to settle down before upgrading..
My naze32 rev6 board came with a warning that said 'do not use cleanflight' so I'm using base flight. I wired things up as you suggest but in BaseFlight (the Chrome app) there is not a setting for softserial. There is serialrx_type but the values are 0 - 4 and I have not found what these magic numbers mean. I suspect one of them is for FrSky. Any help on this?
+kle quis Finally found the below. Hopefully it is correct and .._type=5 is for me."set serialrx_type=0" for Spektrum 10bit (1024)
"set serialrx_type=1" for Spektrum 11bit (2048)
"set serialrx_type=2" for Futaba SBUS mode
"set serialrx_type=3" for Graupner SUMD
"set serialrx_type=4" for msp
"set serialrx_type=5" for Flysky IBUS
+kle quis OK, so was wrong about that since it says Flysky not FrSky. So back to original questions which is what would I set serialrx_type = ?
+kle quis This is a question fort the Baseflight community ;) This board is supported from Cleanflight 1.11 out now..
+Painless360 Yes, read earlier today that Cleanflight was now good to go with rev6 so I switched to CF and am going through you video again now. And of course, thank you for the information you share. Your videos are excellent, i.e., informative and easy to understand.
Good news! Best of luck with it..
My vfas is showing a full charged 3s as 12.1 volts on my taranis but my multi meter is showing 12.5....can anyone point me in the right direction as to how to get vfas to show the true voltage please? It's the same if I select cell (or is it cells?) it shows the voltage reading under what it actually is. Confused!
+mrmurder75 Have you watched the 8th video in the Taranis series? Hope it helps..
+Painless360 not sure.... Probably! But sometimes the info goes in one ear and out the other! I'll go have a looky now, thanks.
Anyone have an idea what the difference is between A4 and Cells values? Looks like the Taranis radio is already setup for lipo voltage using A4 (low/crit warning levels).
The short of it is use CELLS. If your voltage level is not correct and needs to be calibrated there's a Cleanflight/Naze32 setting to adjust the scale, vbat_scale, which is what I adjusted. Background, A4 is voltage reading on the receiver that the receiver adds to telemetry as it's sent to your transmitter. If you power your receiver thru a BEC or DC to DC step-down then A4 is not very useful to measure battery life. Also contrary to some sources CELL telemetry value is worthless unless you have something plugged into the batteries balance connector measuring individual cell voltage like, frsky sp-flvs. I like the idea of warning on a single low cell but I didn't want the extra weight or complexity on my multi-rotor. Hope this is helpful.
The values for CELL/CELLS are set by the flight controller. The value for A2 is set by the receiver. CELL/CELLS values dropping out could be a bug in BetaFlight or a telemetry cable/connector problem. You might consider trying CleanFlight. If CleanFlight works consistently then BetaFlight likely has a telemetry bug you should report. If after switching to CleanFlight CELL/CELLS is still dropping out then try a different cable. Hopefully, this works.
Under the CleanFlight Configurator I enabled battery monitoring. I can use either the telemetry or soft serial pins successfully. I have the latest version of OpenTX installed on my Taranis. There is a new setup under Taranis for configuring FC data where the transmitter discovers the metadata supported by the FC. When u do that you see all supported telemetry metadata sent to the transmitter. You should see CELL/CELLS in a big list. Earlier versions of OpenTX shipped on Taranis radios sold about 1yr ago (when I purchased mine) all telemetry metadata is included on transmitter but unassigned if not supported. I have not tried BetaFlight yet so it could be a little different. I know some of the config settings r different
www.getfpv.com/frsky-flvss-lipo-voltage-sensor-with-smartport.html
***** If your an acro/rate flyer then your probably not going too far anyway. If your doing laps by yourself periodically you will hear buzzer if u want to stay with BetaFlight. Don't forget to file a bug report with Betaflight developers. It's likely they already know but still more voices helps set the priority.
Hey guys, got a quick question with the NAZE32 REV6.
I got the board to output telemetry via softserial1(Pin6) to the D4R-ii/Taranis and I'm getting telemetry BUT ONLY WHEN ITS ARMED.
As of now nothing extra on the board except that..
What am I missing here? (AFAIK with Rev5 you can get telemetry via Softserial regardless when its armed or not.)
We've not used the Rev6 boards. Best of luck with it!
+Painless360 I figured it out. Its now working. Forgot to uncheck MSP at Softserial1. Its so easy to panic and forget the simplest things. :-)