Even though you have passed beyond the veil, your expertise in this field is beyond this world. Thank you for making videos that, not only are easy to understand but straight forward.
Sad to find out after reading the comments, I had no knowledge of what happened until just now. I ride, race bicycles and motorbikes yet i'm just getting into this sport of quads, and he, JC Mr Blue Falcon. (His legacy) has again showed me how to resolve my problem. I can't imagine, his family had to deal with such a loss. JC, a smart intelligent young man. How life can be so cruel to the ones that are truly gifted. Thank You to his family for allowing us to still gain information we seek from his intelligence in electronics and keeping the chanel active.
JC has helped me learn just about everything i know from watching his videos. His Legacy will live on for as long as drones will be around.Thnk you to his family!
Thank you for such nice informative video. I don't have any basic understanding of electronics. Still I was able to accomplish this simply by following your video. Thanks a ton.
I realize this is an old video, but here’s a tip: Hold the controller further away. I tried ten times with no luck, then grabbed my controller about two arms lengths away and it worked.
For anyone who wants to use XM+ during 2020; I've spend 4 days and nights trying to get 2 new XM+'s to work. Finally the struggle ended with a good connection, but damm that was frustrating. To help fellow droners out, I would like give some info about this. I updates my FrSky X lite (accst) to the latest firmware, v2 versions. Same with the drones to the latest betaflights and the XM+ to the latest firmware as given on the FrSky website. My tip to anyone with connection issues: DO NOT UPDATE THE XM(+) TO THE LATEST v2 VERSIONS!! Apperently, the XM(+) can't handle the latest firmware (2.x.x. and up). If you manage to bind, you wont have a stable connection, actually you will have a horrible connection with failsafes every 5 or 10 seconds. Complete useless. After trying everything and everything, the only way I could make my XM+'s work is to downgrade my FrSky X Lite to the latest version BEFORE the 2.x.x. Which is the XM+LBT170313-RSSI8(or 16) (the 2.x.x and above is useless anyway, only made for FrSky themself so they can outrule any 3th party receivers... bad move, is going to make a lot of droners dislike FrSky and move to TBS or something, like I did (now ordered the TBS Nano module that fits right in my FrSky X lite). But to get back to my point; don't upgrade. The XM+; leave it to a pre-2.x.x. firmware, the latest is XM+170313. The internal antenne on the X lite; iXJT_EU_20180416 or just a pre-2.x.x. on other frsky radio's. The betaflight I use is the 4.1.7, from 4.2.x and up it doesn't work. Tip: with the xm+ on quads, with a flip function, use 8channel firmware. you'll need 3 channels for arm/mode/beeper and 1 for the flip, and since ch8 is used for rssi (for the osd) you wont have a channel for the flip. Solution; use the same channels als the beeper; a 3-way switch. I my case the first move makes the beeper go of, 1 move further on the same channel flips the drone. Works great! But this way you can use 8channels instead of 16channels, which makes a better connection and still you keep the RSSI in your OSD!.
hi seems like you're still right, lost a few hours and some grey hair till i find your comment, what a useless reciever... bought it to bind it with a taranis x9d from 2014... but don't want to downgrade beta flight on my nazgul just for this... think i have to look for a new reciever
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! i have a king kong v2 with a RX@A pro that didn't bind for ^%$##!! i ordered a XM+ and thanks to this very informative vid. I am bound and ready to go, you're ........................................ awesome!!!!!!
I have a devo 7e and finally got a successful bind last night, range test was great everything working smoothly. It was bound for maybe and hour. I was getting a perfect signal in test mode no matter how hard I tried to make it loose signal around the house. Xm+ here. I was in betaflight setting some switches up and the receiver just stopped working. I was changing the aux channels on the transmitter for flight modes in betaflight and it just stopped receiving. When I power it lights up dim solid green/red and doesn't do anything, no different if I power it on while holding the bind key. It should be a bright solid green and blinking red in bind mode. Sometimes if I wait a while to plug a battery in and don't hit the bind key it will light up solid red. I tried to bind it again but nothing happens. I'm at a complete loss. I reset the profile and tried to bind again no luck.
For Deviation multi protocol radio users like Devo 7E / 10 or Jumper. If you have solid green and red leds in bind mode and it can't bind, it's not a matter of firmware. Just decrease Freq-Fine to -60 on your radio and it will bind. Helpful isn't it : ) I think that everyone should add clever tips as a tribute and to make JC videos even more informative for ever.
Are you still planning on making the video on how to flash the firmware on the xm/xm+? I suspect my xm+ and taranis firmware do not match as I keep getting a solid red light after I bind them. I am assuming it's done the same way you would flash firmware to the XSR? 1) Download firmware from frsky website. 2) connect Taranis to PC and save the firmware on the SD card 3) connect the XM+ power/ground/sbus wires to the bottom 3 pins on the module bay in back of taranis 4) go into the taranis firmware menu and select the xm+ firmware you want and select "flash external device". I am sitting at work so I don't have my taranis in front of me to know the exact menu options to go to but that is vaguely how I remember it being done on the XSR. I can not find any documentation showing it being done different for the XM+. Does that sound about right to you?
Yep it should be a very similar set up. Last I heard the firmware on FrSkys website wasn't working but they might have fixed it by now. I'll check it out and make a video on it. But you can watch the XSR video. Should be the same. th-cam.com/video/H6Uk8uuLHXw/w-d-xo.html
Awesome, that method works perfectly for upgrading the firmware on the XM+ as well. Unfortunately firmware update did not resolve my issue. It appears that there is an incompatibility issue between the XM+ and my new flight controller (Brain RE1). Whenever the SBUS wire from the XM+ is connected to the Brain the light on XM+ will stay solid red and won't connect to the taranis. If I disconnect the SBUS wire so the XM+ only has power and ground going to it then the LED on the XM+ turns green when my taranis is on. It's very very odd. I tried 2 different XM+ receivers with the same result. When I put the XM+ on any other flight controller I have it works perfectly fine though. And when I put an XSR on the Brain FC that works fine. I tried turning sbus inversion on and off, neither made a difference. I tried 2 different versions of betaflight, no difference. It has to be an incompatibility between the XM+ and the Brain RE1 flight controller for some odd reason.
Hi, I'm Paul, from Brazil, I made my first bind after watching your video, it helped a lot, my kit is a TX Jumper T8SG Plus, iFlight Nazgul5 4s with RX FrSky XM + Plus. .. The bind was ok, the green led remains on in the FrSky XM +, however, the blue led on the control module is blinking continuously and from then on nothing happens ... do you have any ideas or ... you know say what should I change in the configuration for the FrSkyX model? Thank you.
Hello, Love your vids. I can bind my xm+ to my taranis with no issues. I get the green light after powering the RX back on but the Taranis does not have an rssi value in a range test nor does it say telemetry recovered/lost. I know this is a "non telemetry" rx but I would have thought that only meant it didn't have an option to take tele from a FC. Should it still send an RSSI value to the TX?
Hi, I tried to bind this Frsky xm+ to my Devo 7e but failed. Both red and green lights, can I flash it as you recommended without a Taranis? Just somehow connected to PC?
CAn this bind to a DJT? Because I got a mini off banggood and it said it would ship with a D8-D16 compatible receiver but I got this, and all I have is a DJT.
have u had range issues? I was able to bind & set up in Betaflight but had failure during maiden (I have a vid up). range test only gave me 20 ft before I could not arm/disarm.
Question i am in the process of witching over to Frsky from spektrum new to all there receivers. can this be use like a satellite like a spektrum on helicopter flybarless units
HELP! When trying to bind I get a solid blue light and blinking red. I can't find any info out there as to what that means or how to fix. Has anyone had this happen and if so, what is the problem?
Howdi.. im using a EU version so have flashed LBT fw.. which flashes fine.. but when trying to bind i get a solid red and solid green so cant get it to bind.. any ideas ?
Its called a UFL connector. Here are the spares that I buy. Its the cheapest I can find. Most other places charge about $1 per antenna. rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?ff3=4&toolid=11800&pub=5575257854&campid=5338014988&mpre=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fitm%2F20X-FrSky-2-4G-Receiver-Antenna-with-IPEX-port-Compatible-with-Futaba-FrSky-%2F252224000219%3Fhash%3Ditem3ab9b8d0db%3Ag%3AvdIAAOSw5IJWdGZ5%26rmvSB%3Dtrue
Hello, I've got the FrSky XM+ receiver, did the binding proces, got green light after I powercycled, but it doesn't show up on my transmitter, got no controls and doesn't work on betaflight either. Anyone had this problem in the past?
Hey, how you doing did you figure this out? I have blinking red led if I try bind solid red and green when powered blinking red cant get my head around that thanks
Even today I’m still going back to you for little stuff like this. You are missed! RIP buddy
Even though you have passed beyond the veil, your expertise in this field is beyond this world. Thank you for making videos that, not only are easy to understand but straight forward.
RIP man. You still help me all the time
Sad to find out after reading the comments, I had no knowledge of what happened until just now. I ride, race bicycles and motorbikes yet i'm just getting into this sport of quads, and he, JC Mr Blue Falcon. (His legacy) has again showed me how to resolve my problem. I can't imagine, his family had to deal with such a loss. JC, a smart intelligent young man. How life can be so cruel to the ones that are truly gifted. Thank You to his family for allowing us to still gain information we seek from his intelligence in electronics and keeping the chanel active.
JC has helped me learn just about everything i know from watching his videos. His Legacy will live on for as long as drones will be around.Thnk you to his family!
Thx btother. Your legacy lives forever.
i always refer people to these videos not because i dont want to teach or show my methods but to honor JC.. thanks man..! never forget the pioneers.
he was hed be a j bardwell type guy by now you know he would. a pioneer your right its sad man
This dude from beyond keeping me in the air.
JC we misss you! You helped so many of us me including the most! You are a Legend on YT for ever!
yea its sad he woulda been like in rotor riot with bardwell i bet you rip pbf
ahhh,after 3 hours checking all the sort of instructions i saw your videos and everything was so clear and easy,pls maaaan,keeep doing this videos!
So sad to hear of the untimely passing of JC Some of the best instructional videos on TH-cam. RIP
Help in us out from beyond, fly high man.
Just started with the hobby and watched a couple of your videos. Still valid today and a left a subscription to honor your work.
You still are helping me. Rest in peace.
We miss you brother.
why did he stop posting or did he die?
@@tammydeluca2291 died in a motorcycle accident
Thank you for such nice informative video.
I don't have any basic understanding of electronics. Still I was able to accomplish this simply by following your video.
Thanks a ton.
One of the better HOW TO videos on TH-cam. Thank you for posting this.
Still helping us noobs 4 years later!
Just had your video be recommended by TH-cam. RIP brother. 06/30/2019
I realize this is an old video, but here’s a tip:
Hold the controller further away. I tried ten times with no luck, then grabbed my controller about two arms lengths away and it worked.
Excellent video! Well described and just what I needed. The Frsky website is useless!!!!
JC still helping people r.i.p.
You were a straight gangster, best to ever do it.
For anyone who wants to use XM+ during 2020; I've spend 4 days and nights trying to get 2 new XM+'s to work. Finally the struggle ended with a good connection, but damm that was frustrating. To help fellow droners out, I would like give some info about this. I updates my FrSky X lite (accst) to the latest firmware, v2 versions. Same with the drones to the latest betaflights and the XM+ to the latest firmware as given on the FrSky website.
My tip to anyone with connection issues:
DO NOT UPDATE THE XM(+) TO THE LATEST v2 VERSIONS!!
Apperently, the XM(+) can't handle the latest firmware (2.x.x. and up). If you manage to bind, you wont have a stable connection, actually you will have a horrible connection with failsafes every 5 or 10 seconds. Complete useless. After trying everything and everything, the only way I could make my XM+'s work is to downgrade my FrSky X Lite to the latest version BEFORE the 2.x.x. Which is the XM+LBT170313-RSSI8(or 16) (the 2.x.x and above is useless anyway, only made for FrSky themself so they can outrule any 3th party receivers... bad move, is going to make a lot of droners dislike FrSky and move to TBS or something, like I did (now ordered the TBS Nano module that fits right in my FrSky X lite). But to get back to my point; don't upgrade.
The XM+; leave it to a pre-2.x.x. firmware, the latest is XM+170313.
The internal antenne on the X lite; iXJT_EU_20180416 or just a pre-2.x.x. on other frsky radio's.
The betaflight I use is the 4.1.7, from 4.2.x and up it doesn't work.
Tip: with the xm+ on quads, with a flip function, use 8channel firmware. you'll need 3 channels for arm/mode/beeper and 1 for the flip, and since ch8 is used for rssi (for the osd) you wont have a channel for the flip. Solution; use the same channels als the beeper; a 3-way switch. I my case the first move makes the beeper go of, 1 move further on the same channel flips the drone. Works great! But this way you can use 8channels instead of 16channels, which makes a better connection and still you keep the RSSI in your OSD!.
hi seems like you're still right, lost a few hours and some grey hair till i find your comment, what a useless reciever... bought it to bind it with a taranis x9d from 2014... but don't want to downgrade beta flight on my nazgul just for this... think i have to look for a new reciever
Thank u sir! Just got this receiver for the first time not used to it!
needed a refresh on this one! thx again and r.i.p. brother
IM HERE. (rushes and trips through the door 7 YEARS LATER) , breathing heavily, "sigh of relief"... i made it lol
I was unfortunate to get into FPV after JC passed, but as stated his legacy lives on RIP
Ty bro, still helping in 2020. Fly free
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! i have a king kong v2 with a RX@A pro that didn't bind for ^%$##!! i ordered a XM+ and thanks to this very informative vid. I am bound and ready to go, you're ........................................ awesome!!!!!!
John LaRocca, MDT he died bro. Yeah he was a great guy😏
@@Fpvfreaky i found that out later on... god bless his soul... but his education on this hobby will last a long time.
John LaRocca, MDT yeah very true mate we it’s a shame a nice guy.
Your videos still are helping us , freakin amazing thanks so much :)
I find myself back here time and again for things I forget how to do.
still helpful today, thank you
Legend. This finally got me bound after hours of frustration
Same here!!
what an awesome legacy to leave behind
how sad. rip. came to this vid of xm+ toruble
JC will continue to be missed
Many thanks! finally got it working
I have a devo 7e and finally got a successful bind last night, range test was great everything working smoothly. It was bound for maybe and hour. I was getting a perfect signal in test mode no matter how hard I tried to make it loose signal around the house. Xm+ here.
I was in betaflight setting some switches up and the receiver just stopped working. I was changing the aux channels on the transmitter for flight modes in betaflight and it just stopped receiving. When I power it lights up dim solid green/red and doesn't do anything, no different if I power it on while holding the bind key. It should be a bright solid green and blinking red in bind mode. Sometimes if I wait a while to plug a battery in and don't hit the bind key it will light up solid red. I tried to bind it again but nothing happens. I'm at a complete loss. I reset the profile and tried to bind again no luck.
For Deviation multi protocol radio users like Devo 7E / 10 or Jumper. If you have solid green and red leds in bind mode and it can't bind, it's not a matter of firmware. Just decrease Freq-Fine to -60 on your radio and it will bind. Helpful isn't it : )
I think that everyone should add clever tips as a tribute and to make JC videos even more informative for ever.
Allen Key does this also apply to open tx radios like the jumper T12?
Thanks for the video, and the precision why it could not work
I could kiss you . I gave up on binding it years ago . And it worked finally
Are you still planning on making the video on how to flash the firmware on the xm/xm+? I suspect my xm+ and taranis firmware do not match as I keep getting a solid red light after I bind them.
I am assuming it's done the same way you would flash firmware to the XSR?
1) Download firmware from frsky website.
2) connect Taranis to PC and save the firmware on the SD card
3) connect the XM+ power/ground/sbus wires to the bottom 3 pins on the module bay in back of taranis
4) go into the taranis firmware menu and select the xm+ firmware you want and select "flash external device".
I am sitting at work so I don't have my taranis in front of me to know the exact menu options to go to but that is vaguely how I remember it being done on the XSR. I can not find any documentation showing it being done different for the XM+. Does that sound about right to you?
Yep it should be a very similar set up. Last I heard the firmware on FrSkys website wasn't working but they might have fixed it by now. I'll check it out and make a video on it. But you can watch the XSR video. Should be the same.
th-cam.com/video/H6Uk8uuLHXw/w-d-xo.html
Awesome, that method works perfectly for upgrading the firmware on the XM+ as well. Unfortunately firmware update did not resolve my issue.
It appears that there is an incompatibility issue between the XM+ and my new flight controller (Brain RE1). Whenever the SBUS wire from the XM+ is connected to the Brain the light on XM+ will stay solid red and won't connect to the taranis. If I disconnect the SBUS wire so the XM+ only has power and ground going to it then the LED on the XM+ turns green when my taranis is on. It's very very odd.
I tried 2 different XM+ receivers with the same result. When I put the XM+ on any other flight controller I have it works perfectly fine though. And when I put an XSR on the Brain FC that works fine. I tried turning sbus inversion on and off, neither made a difference. I tried 2 different versions of betaflight, no difference. It has to be an incompatibility between the XM+ and the Brain RE1 flight controller for some odd reason.
helped me out alot thx
you are a legend
Hi, I'm Paul, from Brazil, I made my first bind after watching your video, it helped a lot, my kit is a TX Jumper T8SG Plus, iFlight Nazgul5 4s with RX FrSky XM + Plus. .. The bind was ok, the green led remains on in the FrSky XM +, however, the blue led on the control module is blinking continuously and from then on nothing happens ... do you have any ideas or ... you know say what should I change in the configuration for the FrSkyX model?
Thank you.
Unfortunately he passed away a few years back in a motorcycle accident.
By control module do you mean flight controller?
Hello, Love your vids. I can bind my xm+ to my taranis with no issues. I get the green light after powering the RX back on but the Taranis does not have an rssi value in a range test nor does it say telemetry recovered/lost. I know this is a "non telemetry" rx but I would have thought that only meant it didn't have an option to take tele from a FC. Should it still send an RSSI value to the TX?
THANKS VERY HELP💥
Thanks for the video. Helped me out a lot.
Another great video. do you plan on doing any video's with the XM+?
Yea as soon as I get one in the mail. Not sure why its not here yet. But when I do there will be videos.
Hi will Flysky fs i6X compatible with XM+ reciver?
nice i just got a frsky xm + now i just have to get my x7 in .
Rest in power
Thank you from 2022. Who knows...u might see it.
I tried binding, did everything right. After plugging battery in it's blinking red light. Do you know what is going on?
Gracias por compartir tu conocimiento saludos y gracias por los subtitulo en español😉👍🏻 exito
thank you
Hi,
I tried to bind this Frsky xm+ to my Devo 7e but failed. Both red and green lights, can I flash it as you recommended without a Taranis? Just somehow connected to PC?
CAn this bind to a DJT? Because I got a mini off banggood and it said it would ship with a D8-D16 compatible receiver but I got this, and all I have is a DJT.
I am going nuts trying to bind my receiver but all I get for my trouble is a solid red light, what do I do?
have u had range issues? I was able to bind & set up in Betaflight but had failure during maiden (I have a vid up). range test only gave me 20 ft before I could not arm/disarm.
Question i am in the process of witching over to Frsky from spektrum new to all there receivers. can this be use like a satellite like a spektrum on helicopter flybarless
units
Saved me again. RIP!
HELP! When trying to bind I get a solid blue light and blinking red. I can't find any info out there as to what that means or how to fix. Has anyone had this happen and if so, what is the problem?
Can the qx7 bind to all the frsky receivers?
You the man!
Hey JC, Is this reciever also compatible with the Taranis QX 7?
Im wondering the same thing, any help anyone?
it is
I have a HX 100 se toothpick I get a solid green light on the drone but it won’t connect to my frsky x9 lite help
the xm + should also work with the taranis q x7 right?
Thank you!
RIP man. Came to bind as well...
is it possible to bind it to a different transmitter? i have a turnigy 9xr pro and i was wondering if its possible
transmitter*
Well im geting a solid green and red light when i try to bind ..so i guess my XM is set to the other side firmw than my Taranis is
Thank you so much seriousl
Howdi.. im using a EU version so have flashed LBT fw.. which flashes fine.. but when trying to bind i get a solid red and solid green so cant get it to bind.. any ideas ?
So on my Airbo Omnibus F4 V2 I had to jump the sbus pad to the pad next to it.
Thank you SO MUCH. The damn button is invisible!
What does it mean if there is a solid red light?
What antenna connector is that? I like to buy some spare antennas for it.
Its called a UFL connector. Here are the spares that I buy. Its the cheapest I can find. Most other places charge about $1 per antenna. rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?ff3=4&toolid=11800&pub=5575257854&campid=5338014988&mpre=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fitm%2F20X-FrSky-2-4G-Receiver-Antenna-with-IPEX-port-Compatible-with-Futaba-FrSky-%2F252224000219%3Fhash%3Ditem3ab9b8d0db%3Ag%3AvdIAAOSw5IJWdGZ5%26rmvSB%3Dtrue
Thanks man!
Can you set your radio on d8
is it possible to bind the XM+ to a Flysky FS-i6 ? thanks
How do I determine what version of firmware I am using???
@3:05 instead of getting green and red light I only get red blinking light. Does that mean i I'm in bind mode aswell,?
4:30 it is way easier to change LBT to FCC on transmitter....(LUA script)
Muito top man
Hello,
I've got the FrSky XM+ receiver, did the binding proces, got green light after I powercycled, but it doesn't show up on my transmitter, got no controls and doesn't work on betaflight either. Anyone had this problem in the past?
tanks bro
what if im getting a solid red light after binding?
mvick4ever me too
Me three. Did you guys figure it out?
Did this and led Is solid green but when I connect to beta flight it doesn't register any movements on the controller option.
Same here. Did you figure out the solution?
Rx was on the wrong uart
Mine must be broken because I tried all UARTs and it still doesn't work properly. I gave up and ordered an XM+
Damn.. seems so easy... but I don't get any LEDs on mine... at all
is posible flash this receiver via USB? i dont own a taranis :(
I just did what you said, but it gives this error
" update error bottom pin no resp "
can you help me ?
Use rear module some QX 7 bottom pins dont work
my red light is not blinking, receiver is damage or what>??> i dont find a way to bind my protek 35 with taranis
Does not work with my QX7 ACCST/ACCESS transmitter and xm+ receiver whatever I try.
why D16, just because that's the only thing that that RX accepts? Because D8 does sbus also.
I honestly dont know. I just know it works lol.
Project Blue Falcon OK cool. but the XM won't accept D8?
Nope. Only D16
Project Blue Falcon last question. Does the XM Plus accept D8?
David Hannigan Jr. Why would you want less channels, more is better than none!
What's it mean if all I get is a blinking red light?
Hey, how you doing did you figure this out? I have blinking red led if I try bind solid red and green when powered blinking red cant get my head around that thanks
Thanks for that, RIP.
2:48 Mine is not chirping and I still see a button??
Is it possible to bind the xm+ to the fs-i6s controller?
RIP :(