Hey JB, thank you for making this video and all your other great stuff. I was searching sooo long for a solution to change the vtx channel during the flight. Made the short clip to show other betaflight users how to do it, but I'm really not good in making videos :) So thank you for bringing this information this to all interested pilots. The direct translation of "Schon Richtig" is "already right" from german, can't remember why I used this :) Kind regards Steffen
Hey Joshua, "schon richtig" is German and means "already right". It's spoken like "shon rihjtig" or "shon rihjtihj" while you speak the "ch" almost like the "h" in "Hugh" or "human". I hope you learned something, today. BTW I learned something from your video, today. Great work and keep it up! Love your content.
Burned out my raceband today on my reaper. Voltage meter wasn't working. And it was a first flight. Landed in the sun across the field. OUCH, live and learn. Lucky I still have a functioning Reaper, just no raceband now.
This right here is why I prefer your content over all others. You will openly admit when you're wrong and fill us in on the goodies. Props to you JB!!!
This feature just came in handy for locating my quad lost in a snowy forest. I crashed into the trees. I used the directional patch on my goggles, and via this switch dialed down the lost quads VTX's output to 25mAh allowing me to triangulate with precision the video strength, and I located my downed quad.
Thanx Joshua! I tested this method and I found two issues. 1. there is only 10 positions of vtx index (from 0 to 9) so if you want set one swith for channels and second for power then there is not enough position in the index for all. 2. swhitching channels worked only until first arm, after that, channel cannot be changed. I have to unplug battery and plug it back then I can change the channel by switch again.
Did anyone else notice that Ghost and tracer were laying on the table next to each other all the time? So happy you finally got it. Cannot wait for the review/comparison 😍
Hello JB, I wanted to thank you for your 3 year old video. Even if there is an error in it, I got it right, was very helpful and works. I've seen some videos of you and I'm a fan. Recently I've also been watching your life show. Unfortunately Life of the Dolmetcher does not work but I understand quite a lot. keep it up.
I love your excitement for changing channels with switches. 🤓 I’ve wanted this for years. Also, fun fact, the issue you encountered with the aux channel number is so common it is a name, it’s an “off by one” error.
Mr. Bardwell, you are definitely the best. Every time I see a video of you, I learn, and sometines it makes me smile. The end of this one is very funny, and of course the content in this case, very interesting. Greetings from Spain
You can use your trim switches for this with a bit of OpenTX wrangling... have one to click through channels 1-8, then have two power levels on another trim. You can even put pit mode on the same channel as the power trim, with pit mode using the first half of the range so that the centre beep lets you know it’s on!
Just setup two new Nazgul 5's with this method and works flawlessly. Had to download (Copy) the Tramp table and config the power outputs to only four power levels 25 100 400 and 600. Cant believe how easy this was to setup. Thanks JB.
Oh Josh you should know it better, PIT Mode is lower then 25mW, it is only about 1mW and by the way In Inav it is much easier to setup VTX Chanel or Power to a Switch. There you not need the CLI you can easy setup it by the configurator
My vtx power was not changing automatically and as a result my video signal quality was poor. I have followed your instructions and have set a switch for 25, 200 and 400. Gonna do an outdoor test flight on my meteor75 pro. Thanks Josh!
"schon richtig" Is german for "thats right/correct". The "schon" implies that there might be a "but/however" coming. Its pronounced the almost same as past tense of shine "shone" but without the e. The "richtig" is pretty close =)
💥💥 GAME CHANGER 💥💥 I wanted this forever and asked in several FPV communities. I even started programming my own LUA script to change VTX settings with a dial but without success. Now I will finally replace a pot on my QX7 with a 8-way rotary switch and some resistors and can happily switch channels without the OSD/LUA script. BTW: "Schon Richtig" isn't a name. It is German and means "quite right" (mostly in the context of a fact being contested).
Hi JB. Thanks for again a great tutorial. This isn't for analog pilots only anymore. It also works on HDZero. With BF 4.4 you can even do it without SA and just use the UART for OSD. I've done this myself and I can now switch channels of my VTX using the six position switch.
Thanks so much Joshua, another great tutorial that worked flawlessly, without your help I’d never figure out how to get out of 25mw. Now I’ve got 800 when I want it
If you tied changing channels to the armed state with logical switches, you could make it impossible to accidentally change channels while flying and you would not be adding another switch you had to remember to flip.
@@dodgydamosfpv9734 go to your mixer tab then edit the channel where your 6pos is allocated then add disarmed switch. meaning you can only use the 6pos buttons when you are on a disarmed state.
Thanks for the video, very helpful! Everything works, separate for power and channels. But together on my board there is no - I guessed to increment the indices together - 0,1,2 for power and 3,4,5,6,7,8 for channels, otherwise indices from channels overrides the power (and power not work), I think. My example:
Joshua, if you don't remember, I asked you once if this was possible. I discovered it this christmas thanks to my brother in law who has never flown a quad or something similar and just found out after 5 minutes looking on internet when I hopeless explained him how easy would be to do that and wasn't possible. yeah really happy with this new option! Now I take off on 25mw and switch to 800mw when Im away!
Hey everyone. For example, because the Taranis QX7 has a maximum of three-position switches, it is possible to set four or more VTX power values to servo knob and this knob set for AUX channel. I use it for 25 mW, 200 mW, 500mW and 800mW TBS Unify Pro. JB explanation is awesome...of cource. Thanks.
Hi Josh Great news !! Thanks for showing us these methods. I have been waiting to do this for my wings. I just wanted to use the lowest settings on startup and be able to go to full power after I'm up and flying. I just hope I can follow the computer. lol. Thanks again for the video and information.
Great video! I really fell hard for programming microcontrollers in college, and this is the kind of stuff I love. Don't blame the computer programmers for starting the count at zero. The microcontrollers, by nature, like to start at zero. So if you have an 8-bit port called Port B, the pins will be manufactured in that the bits (pins) of Port B are labeled PB0-PB7. The programmers just have to follow that convention. When we write code to use the first bit of the port we say PB0.
Thank you a ton JB, My job deals with radar tech and we use drones as a method of testing our equipment which i find extremely fascinating. My company is looking to grow the roster of pilots and all your videos have provided answers to all my questions including this video. I couldn't learn anything from my co-workers as most ( all ) of them fly... erm.. i mean... tell a Mercedes Benz where they wanna go ( Cough cough DJI cough cough ) Iv been flying basic off the shelf " toy " drones/helis/planes my whole life but always wanted to get into FPV and learn free-style. thanks to you and the FPV community iv been absorbing all the content on youtube.. Now im no freestyle crazy pilot with advanced skills. but i make all the DJI users look bad xD
Nice. I like it. I can see this as a way to use more than 8 channels with a drone. I already had 8 channels in use, so these features would need me to use channels 9 and 10 for full VTX features then. Fantastic that it works. Thank you very much Schon and Joshua for this.
I like the idea of using the two knobs for power and channel. That is so cool. Only caveat is making sure you have wide switches enabled if you are using the six or a knob on ExpressLRS.
Oh man thanks for sharing this. I just set this up for my quads and love this simple trick. I used a POT dial for adjusting my 4 power settings. Thanks again for sharing.
saw this video long ago, did it today. Was running out of aux channels so I put my beeper as position 6, and the vtx tx powers as positions 1-4. Nice thing about this is if I select the beeper, since it's outside the range of the vtx command it just won't respond to it, so I can beeper at any vtx setting. Had a close call where I forgot the quad was still on 25mw mode after working on it, now I can change the tx power on the fly to balance range, gps interference, and being a good RF neighbor. 😎
The 6 position switch is useful for what it was intended for, us Ardupilot flyers who have a million different flight modes, even different kinds of RTH :)
@@EnglishTurbines The Tx16s is a follow on from the Jumper T16 as you will know, the T16 promotional info actually states the 6 position buttons are intended for Ardupilot :)
@@EnglishTurbines even with 6 positions, we have so many options with Ardupilot that we sill have to choose what flight modes we Really, really want dont we ha ha.
@@stevefox3763 Yes, I find that sort of thing off-putting in Ardupilot TBH...it's like wading through treacle during setup...it does fly the plane better than iNAV, I will admit..I'm lazy, I use iNAV on everything, including my quads which works really well for me TBH..🤔🇬🇧
This is cool thanks jb. I set my trim switches to move through 8 rb channels. No need for lua or osd at races now. And it syncs up before unify nano pro 32 boots so no boot on wrong channel. :D and I can change channel with quad unplugged and no matter what quad I grab or what proticol its running. I know what channel and power it will boot on. :D I wish it had more than 9 lines though.
Damn dude. Very cool! I followed your instructions and it works. I always worried about crashing far away in the summer and the vtx overheating. SA is nice but a pain in the ass when you're in a hurry and want to immediately start walking to your quad and not stand there while you flip through menus. Plus I assume if you're far enough away that 25mw won't let you see video, you can flick the switch back to 500 or 800mw to take a quick peek and flip back to 25mw. Which might also make it easier to find if you go down in a large field with no landmarks by going down to 25mw and using a patch antenna on your goggles to get the direction of the quad. It's great to just flick a switch and get down to 25mw. Much faster than going through SA.
Fantastic it will now fill another day at home as we have to stay indoors for another 6 months UK 🇬🇧 thank fuck for this hobby otherwise ithis situation would do my head in. Thanks for vids,( think its my 4th year ! With you now )!
Surely if you disarm far away being perched and it goes to 25mw you can just arm it again and it'll go to 800mw again because the signal is going through the radio not the goggles. So shouldn't be an issue with the second setting?
Hey I'm new to FPV but wanted to let you know that you make things so much easier to do and learn,and I am running betaflight 4.4 and this works perfectly and it doesn't have to say yes device ready. Mine doesn't, it says no on device ready, but I am using smart audio UART... Thanks
Indeed this is a thing that many of us probably dreamed for years. SmartAudio/Tramp was a big progress, but it badly needed easier VTX control for things like you described. By the way noticed DJI like "PIT mode" in Betaflight 4.3 where Betaflight itself keep VTX on low power before first arming.
Great video you knocked it out of the park with this one. This is a great idea and I would love to use my six buttons for power selection. This is cool
Hey man thank you for sharing this! I actually found this trick some months ago while reading the BF wiki, but it didn't work. I guess that I missed out the part that says the VTX must be powered and ready while typing the commands. And I also missed your video. That's even stranger! :-D
This is amazing. Did they ever do anything like this for digital? I know the channel is right on the side of the goggle v2, but changing it from inside the goggle would be more annoying than switching a switch I imagine. I am heading off to watch your smart audio stuff again. Getting back into quads after a year or two and my quad has smart audio but I remember NOTHING about it. I always have to fumble for 5-10 minutes to remember the secret stick code to even get into the menu, lol. I love flying quads, but I am disabled so anytime I crash I need to get someone else to go fetch my quad, makes it really hard to get stick time in, and I am more panicked than most I suspect about crashing. I need to find a friend who is into quads. Have some grandkids, but I would not trust them on the quad without a lot of stick time. Need to get them a tiny whoop or something.
This is exactly what I use the six position switch for. Very handy. Unfortunately the smart audio protocol is really not well designed. To got around this, many transmitters boot up it pit mode, or they have some funky behavior where if you send the wrong command over smart audio, it goes to the default/boot up power. It's just something to be aware of. It took me days to get mine working by bodging the setting and vtx tables and whatnot, and I'm still not really sure why it does work. Also, FYI you don't need to create a mix in OpenTX, you can just assign the physical input to your aux channel. It will save some time and processor cycles.
In order to make this work you might need to make an extra vtx power level. On my GepRC Phantom the CLI didn't take the 3rd power level of 200 mW and gave me a 'parse error' until I made a 4th level (which I set to 0 mW)
I just got bit by this bug myself, was kind of wondering if adding a 4th level in my vtx settings was going to be the solution. Came here to read the comments as a google search for "vtx parse error" didn't yield much. I was expecting to see a lot more people with this issue and came to search the comments for a possible solution.
Inav has this option in the GUI now. I have the activation tied to the arming switch and then another 3 position switch cycles through 4 power levels up or down. Works well.
Inav has had this feature for a while,inav 2.6 has an even better system now,I use it with great success,its a good system isn't it Robert. Have a great day
@@M-H433 Yes it is! Especially when you want to head out and explore long distances. Do you have the VTX power levels set up to change automatically based on distance from home?
Im using a Tramp vtx,but for the moment only using the first 4 power levels,that's getting me out consistently 12- 15 klm at the moment,I'm using a myflydream aat with a black cannon,I see no breaking up of video yet,I just need bigger balls to go further.....🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@M-H433 Damn that's a serious setup. I've managed 3.2 miles on 5.8 ghz with Ardupilot and that's the limit of my lipo. 15 km is out there. Are you using 5.8?
Hello Joshua, please make a video on installing a backup battery on the Crossfire Diversity Nano Rx, and how it works. ID APPRECIATE IT!!! also worth mentioning, I also have the TBS Unify pro 32. Thank you SO much
Hey ! I'm sorry that I deleted my previous comment before I see the answer, I watched the video again and found out about the index. Thanks a lot for your help !
I have been doing this for years! I have my quad at pit mode before arming and have the ability to change power through a LUA script. I don't quite remember where I was able to find how to do that though..
Finally Betaflight. INav has this for a while now and it saved my skin many times. Last thing I want is powering up my wing and vtx would go straight into 1200+mw while waiting for gps lock.
It's a good upgrade for different flights, short range or long range, without using betaflight. But I have a question : there is a possibility to set the low voltage alarm on a switch ? (3.5v for lipo, and 2.6v or other for li-ion ?)
Hey JB, thank you for making this video and all your other great stuff.
I was searching sooo long for a solution to change the vtx channel during the flight.
Made the short clip to show other betaflight users how to do it, but I'm really not good in making videos :)
So thank you for bringing this information this to all interested pilots.
The direct translation of "Schon Richtig" is "already right" from german, can't remember why I used this :)
Kind regards
Steffen
EHRENMANN👌👌
Hey Schuuuun richtich
@@BBFPV hey, habe mich weggeschmissen :)
@@SchonRichtig er gibt sich doch Mühe! 🤣
@@BBFPV ja, riesen Respekt vor den zahlreichen Versuchen. :)
Hey Joshua,
"schon richtig" is German and means "already right".
It's spoken like "shon rihjtig" or "shon rihjtihj" while you speak the "ch" almost like the "h" in "Hugh" or "human".
I hope you learned something, today.
BTW I learned something from your video, today. Great work and keep it up! Love your content.
Witzig das Dein Kommentar ganz oben steht. Wollte gerade das gleiche schreiben. 😉
@@MrSmithFPV maybe pinned by Joshua, I don't know.
Ich dachte mir den armen Kerl muss ich aufklären so verzweifelt wie er versucht es auszusprechen 😂
Ich musste so lachen😂😂
@@noahbalsiger535 ging mir ähnlich 😂
@@Marco92Z07 Steht oben weil der Kommentar die meisten Likes hat.
I keep my low power disarm on all the time, if I need full power to see where I am after a crash, I switch to turtle mode and arm
today i learned something! i finally used turtle mode yesterday quite the clinching event
That's quite brilliant. Especially useful if you're running high output powers and don't want the vtx on that any longer than absolutely neccessary.
Awesome, I'm gunna change mine now!
Great if you don't power off and skid
Burned out my raceband today on my reaper. Voltage meter wasn't working. And it was a first flight. Landed in the sun across the field. OUCH, live and learn. Lucky I still have a functioning Reaper, just no raceband now.
I love that you upload almost/every day, I just got into the hobby and this is really helping me dive down the rabbit hole ☺️
One of the reason I love JB too. And the pig wrangling
yep, basically his channel is my fpv wikipedia
Yep. For sure
This right here is why I prefer your content over all others. You will openly admit when you're wrong and fill us in on the goodies. Props to you JB!!!
This feature just came in handy for locating my quad lost in a snowy forest. I crashed into the trees. I used the directional patch on my goggles, and via this switch dialed down the lost quads VTX's output to 25mAh allowing me to triangulate with precision the video strength, and I located my downed quad.
I would like to see a video on this
@@enjoyyourlife2518 the tbs fusion module even has a quad finder mode where it uses your patch antenna to narrow in on the signal
So clever! I'm remembering this trick
Skyzone Cobra X goggles has this feature. I'm not sure why not to use max watts instead.
Thanx Joshua!
I tested this method and I found two issues.
1. there is only 10 positions of vtx index (from 0 to 9) so if you want set one swith for channels and second for power then there is not enough position in the index for all.
2. swhitching channels worked only until first arm, after that, channel cannot be changed. I have to unplug battery and plug it back then I can change the channel by switch again.
As a German I had to laugh a lot when you pronounced "schon richtig": D translated it means: already correct
Did anyone else notice that Ghost and tracer were laying on the table next to each other all the time? So happy you finally got it. Cannot wait for the review/comparison 😍
I don't know if there's a 2.4 module compatible with ERLS, if there is it should be included as well.
Well, I'm digital and analogue. I remember asking you about this last year. You've so made my night!
Thanks !
Thanks!
Hello JB, I wanted to thank you for your 3 year old video. Even if there is an error in it, I got it right, was very helpful and works. I've seen some videos of you and I'm a fan. Recently I've also been watching your life show. Unfortunately Life of the Dolmetcher does not work but I understand quite a lot. keep it up.
I love your excitement for changing channels with switches. 🤓 I’ve wanted this for years. Also, fun fact, the issue you encountered with the aux channel number is so common it is a name, it’s an “off by one” error.
This might be my favorite video EVER. Total game changer for us analog loving nerds!!
Mr. Bardwell, you are definitely the best. Every time I see a video of you, I learn, and sometines it makes me smile.
The end of this one is very funny, and of course the content in this case, very interesting.
Greetings from Spain
You can use your trim switches for this with a bit of OpenTX wrangling... have one to click through channels 1-8, then have two power levels on another trim. You can even put pit mode on the same channel as the power trim, with pit mode using the first half of the range so that the centre beep lets you know it’s on!
Just setup two new Nazgul 5's with this method and works flawlessly. Had to download (Copy) the Tramp table and config the power outputs to only four power levels 25 100 400 and 600. Cant believe how easy this was to setup. Thanks JB.
All who learned this have now achieved geek power level X.
Even JB learned something today :)
Oh Josh you should know it better, PIT Mode is lower then 25mW, it is only about 1mW
and by the way In Inav it is much easier to setup VTX Chanel or Power to a Switch. There you not need the CLI
you can easy setup it by the configurator
Welcome to the party! The VTX command is awesome. I recommend putting VTx power on a dial. Much better than fumbling for buttons when wearing goggles.
Yes! I've been thinking the same thing......like the old channel knob on my television .....
Спасибо!
My vtx power was not changing automatically and as a result my video signal quality was poor. I have followed your instructions and have set a switch for 25, 200 and 400. Gonna do an outdoor test flight on my meteor75 pro. Thanks Josh!
"schon richtig"
Is german for "thats right/correct". The "schon" implies that there might be a "but/however" coming.
Its pronounced the almost same as past tense of shine "shone" but without the e. The "richtig" is pretty close =)
Awww beat me to it 🥲 as soon as he read the name I was like wait im german I can educate him for once haha 😂
My name is KaminFeuer, and Joshua Bardwell is gonna learn something today!
I haven't watched the video yet, but the need to explain something German makes me wonder wtf happened 😂
Hochdeutsch spricht man heutzutag nur in Fernseh. JB hat es am Ende schon richtig gesagt . JB spricht Schwabach
The moment I saw the light changing position on the vtx... That was beautiful.
Haha for me too!😂
Whom ever figured this out first THANKS. N Jb thanks for passing it along. This is great.
💥💥 GAME CHANGER 💥💥 I wanted this forever and asked in several FPV communities. I even started programming my own LUA script to change VTX settings with a dial but without success. Now I will finally replace a pot on my QX7 with a 8-way rotary switch and some resistors and can happily switch channels without the OSD/LUA script.
BTW: "Schon Richtig" isn't a name. It is German and means "quite right" (mostly in the context of a fact being contested).
Hi JB. Thanks for again a great tutorial. This isn't for analog pilots only anymore. It also works on HDZero. With BF 4.4 you can even do it without SA and just use the UART for OSD. I've done this myself and I can now switch channels of my VTX using the six position switch.
Nice, i have to try it out! Is it the same setup process like shown here?
@@ForSure871 Yes it is
Thanks so much Joshua, another great tutorial that worked flawlessly, without your help I’d never figure out how to get out of 25mw. Now I’ve got 800 when I want it
This is definitely awesome! I got a kick out of how excited you were when you got it all set up lol.
Bardwell you nailed it! ive been waiting for this for YEARS! Im doing this right now to all my quads this weekend. thank you for your content!
If you tied changing channels to the armed state with logical switches, you could make it impossible to accidentally change channels while flying and you would not be adding another switch you had to remember to flip.
Good point!
@@JoshuaBardwell show me how ? haha
@@dodgydamosfpv9734 go to your mixer tab then edit the channel where your 6pos is allocated then add disarmed switch. meaning you can only use the 6pos buttons when you are on a disarmed state.
@@deadstickfpv8115 cheers mate il try figure it out
@@deadstickfpv8115 I am not really get it, could you please explain a bit more? I am a newbie on FPV. Thanks in advance
Thanks for the video, very helpful!
Everything works, separate for power and channels.
But together on my board there is no - I guessed to increment the indices together - 0,1,2 for power and 3,4,5,6,7,8 for channels, otherwise indices from channels overrides the power (and power not work), I think.
My example:
didn't you solve this issu? I can't make both to work. I can use vtx power OR channels.
Joshua, if you don't remember, I asked you once if this was possible. I discovered it this christmas thanks to my brother in law who has never flown a quad or something similar and just found out after 5 minutes looking on internet when I hopeless explained him how easy would be to do that and wasn't possible. yeah really happy with this new option!
Now I take off on 25mw and switch to 800mw when Im away!
Hey everyone.
For example, because the Taranis QX7 has a maximum of three-position switches, it is possible to set four or more VTX power values to servo knob and this knob set for AUX channel. I use it for 25 mW, 200 mW, 500mW and 800mW TBS Unify Pro.
JB explanation is awesome...of cource. Thanks.
Hi Josh Great news !! Thanks for showing us these methods. I have been waiting to do this for my wings. I just wanted to use the lowest settings on startup and be able to go to full power after I'm up and flying. I just hope I can follow the computer. lol. Thanks again for the video and information.
Great video! I really fell hard for programming microcontrollers in college, and this is the kind of stuff I love. Don't blame the computer programmers for starting the count at zero. The microcontrollers, by nature, like to start at zero. So if you have an 8-bit port called Port B, the pins will be manufactured in that the bits (pins) of Port B are labeled PB0-PB7. The programmers just have to follow that convention. When we write code to use the first bit of the port we say PB0.
Ha. Flow code, programming . Lol...
Finally a use for pots on my radio! Thanks Joshua and Schon!
I use a pot to change LED color... haven't found another use until now.
Pretty cool. For an overheating VTX you might set it to low on disarm + high on beeper.
sweet! Ive been looking for something to fiddle with on my quads during the long winter and 8pm curfew.
6:00 did you look at your own notification? 🤣🤣
🤣🤣🤣
I though the same!! :D
Thank you a ton JB,
My job deals with radar tech and we use drones as a method of testing our equipment which i find extremely fascinating. My company is looking to grow the roster of pilots and all your videos have provided answers to all my questions including this video.
I couldn't learn anything from my co-workers as most ( all ) of them fly... erm.. i mean... tell a Mercedes Benz where they wanna go ( Cough cough DJI cough cough )
Iv been flying basic off the shelf " toy " drones/helis/planes my whole life but always wanted to get into FPV and learn free-style. thanks to you and the FPV community iv been absorbing all the content on youtube..
Now im no freestyle crazy pilot with advanced skills. but i make all the DJI users look bad xD
That channel change feature for the transmitter is really cool, and would work well with TBS cloud to auto change to goggle channel as well.
Nice. I like it. I can see this as a way to use more than 8 channels with a drone. I already had 8 channels in use, so these features would need me to use channels 9 and 10 for full VTX features then. Fantastic that it works. Thank you very much Schon and Joshua for this.
I've been doing this since beginning of 4.2, have not lost a VTX since.
The is one of my favorite updates for any quad
I like the idea of using the two knobs for power and channel. That is so cool.
Only caveat is making sure you have wide switches enabled if you are using the six or a knob on ExpressLRS.
Oh man thanks for sharing this. I just set this up for my quads and love this simple trick. I used a POT dial for adjusting my 4 power settings. Thanks again for sharing.
Awesome! Wins most helpful info of the year award. And it’s only January.
saw this video long ago, did it today.
Was running out of aux channels so I put my beeper as position 6, and the vtx tx powers as positions 1-4. Nice thing about this is if I select the beeper, since it's outside the range of the vtx command it just won't respond to it, so I can beeper at any vtx setting.
Had a close call where I forgot the quad was still on 25mw mode after working on it, now I can change the tx power on the fly to balance range, gps interference, and being a good RF neighbor. 😎
Thanks Joshua, I was able to configure the potentiometer to change the channel! That's awesome!!
So WE'RE going to learn something today
You got that right!
Finally a use for those buttons
Thanks for making a video about this feature from 2017. I hope you learned something today.
The 6 position switch is useful for what it was intended for, us Ardupilot flyers who have a million different flight modes, even different kinds of RTH :)
Saved me saying the same.... Radiomasters designer obviously used Ardupilot...lol
@@EnglishTurbines The Tx16s is a follow on from the Jumper T16 as you will know, the T16 promotional info actually states the 6 position buttons are intended for Ardupilot :)
@@stevefox3763 Yep, good move by Radiomaster...no doubt about it..🤔🇬🇧
@@EnglishTurbines even with 6 positions, we have so many options with Ardupilot that we sill have to choose what flight modes we Really, really want dont we ha ha.
@@stevefox3763 Yes, I find that sort of thing off-putting in Ardupilot TBH...it's like wading through treacle during setup...it does fly the plane better than iNAV, I will admit..I'm lazy, I use iNAV on everything, including my quads which works really well for me TBH..🤔🇬🇧
This is cool thanks jb. I set my trim switches to move through 8 rb channels. No need for lua or osd at races now. And it syncs up before unify nano pro 32 boots so no boot on wrong channel. :D and I can change channel with quad unplugged and no matter what quad I grab or what proticol its running. I know what channel and power it will boot on. :D I wish it had more than 9 lines though.
Damn dude. Very cool! I followed your instructions and it works. I always worried about crashing far away in the summer and the vtx overheating. SA is nice but a pain in the ass when you're in a hurry and want to immediately start walking to your quad and not stand there while you flip through menus. Plus I assume if you're far enough away that 25mw won't let you see video, you can flick the switch back to 500 or 800mw to take a quick peek and flip back to 25mw. Which might also make it easier to find if you go down in a large field with no landmarks by going down to 25mw and using a patch antenna on your goggles to get the direction of the quad. It's great to just flick a switch and get down to 25mw. Much faster than going through SA.
Just tried this in EmuFlight works perfectly.. thanks Mr Bardwell
Fantastic it will now fill another day at home as we have to stay indoors for another 6 months UK 🇬🇧 thank fuck for this hobby otherwise ithis situation would do my head in. Thanks for vids,( think its my 4th year ! With you now )!
Awesome video... this is a game changer. Kudos to you and your sources for bring this largely unknown feature to light. Cheers 🍻
I've been using low power disarm awhile now, it is definely handy, keeps vtx nice and cool
Surely if you disarm far away being perched and it goes to 25mw you can just arm it again and it'll go to 800mw again because the signal is going through the radio not the goggles. So shouldn't be an issue with the second setting?
thank Schon and JB, very helpful.. ps: @ JB why no link to the schon's video here?
Hey I'm new to FPV but wanted to let you know that you make things so much easier to do and learn,and I am running betaflight 4.4 and this works perfectly and it doesn't have to say yes device ready. Mine doesn't, it says no on device ready, but I am using smart audio UART... Thanks
Doing this as soon as I get home tonight. Thank you for sharing.
just finished building my quad, the timing is perfect. thx!
Indeed this is a thing that many of us probably dreamed for years. SmartAudio/Tramp was a big progress, but it badly needed easier VTX control for things like you described. By the way noticed DJI like "PIT mode" in Betaflight 4.3 where Betaflight itself keep VTX on low power before first arming.
That's awesome Joshua, great video, great info. Now just need to get the tx16s. Your radio looks awesome.
Thanks so much for this video. This was just one of many very useful one things I learned from you, Joshua. You are the man!
ohhh snap! I have been waiting for this for so long! thank you bro!
Great video you knocked it out of the park with this one. This is a great idea and I would love to use my six buttons for power selection. This is cool
Thanks for showing us this feature..Its bloody fantastic.
Wow 👌, i was just trying to setup this exact feature. THANK YOU!
OMG! Yes, you the MAN!!!!! I've been wanting this FOREVER!
Hey man thank you for sharing this!
I actually found this trick some months ago while reading the BF wiki, but it didn't work. I guess that I missed out the part that says the VTX must be powered and ready while typing the commands. And I also missed your video. That's even stranger! :-D
6-position switch is perfect to set flight mode in ArduPilot or PX4
Pro tip set default channel value to 2000 so if you failsafe it kicks it to full power so you can still find your quad.
Josh! I've been trying to do this for too long. Thanks!
This is amazing. Did they ever do anything like this for digital? I know the channel is right on the side of the goggle v2, but changing it from inside the goggle would be more annoying than switching a switch I imagine.
I am heading off to watch your smart audio stuff again. Getting back into quads after a year or two and my quad has smart audio but I remember NOTHING about it. I always have to fumble for 5-10 minutes to remember the secret stick code to even get into the menu, lol. I love flying quads, but I am disabled so anytime I crash I need to get someone else to go fetch my quad, makes it really hard to get stick time in, and I am more panicked than most I suspect about crashing. I need to find a friend who is into quads. Have some grandkids, but I would not trust them on the quad without a lot of stick time. Need to get them a tiny whoop or something.
Did you ever find out if this is possible with digital?
Great video thanks have my first smart audio vtx on the way and will definitely use this!
This is exactly what I use the six position switch for. Very handy. Unfortunately the smart audio protocol is really not well designed. To got around this, many transmitters boot up it pit mode, or they have some funky behavior where if you send the wrong command over smart audio, it goes to the default/boot up power. It's just something to be aware of. It took me days to get mine working by bodging the setting and vtx tables and whatnot, and I'm still not really sure why it does work. Also, FYI you don't need to create a mix in OpenTX, you can just assign the physical input to your aux channel. It will save some time and processor cycles.
Great! Its been waay long time since you last shared these kind of useful tips!
LOL That's like saying - "you always share useless tips......but TODAY you shared a great, useful tip......" 🤣
You can use a sticky with global variables on a trim switch to trigger all 8 channels.
In order to make this work you might need to make an extra vtx power level. On my GepRC Phantom the CLI didn't take the 3rd power level of 200 mW and gave me a 'parse error' until I made a 4th level (which I set to 0 mW)
I just got bit by this bug myself, was kind of wondering if adding a 4th level in my vtx settings was going to be the solution. Came here to read the comments as a google search for "vtx parse error" didn't yield much. I was expecting to see a lot more people with this issue and came to search the comments for a possible solution.
Inav has this option in the GUI now. I have the activation tied to the arming switch and then another 3 position switch cycles through 4 power levels up or down. Works well.
Inav has had this feature for a while,inav 2.6 has an even better system now,I use it with great success,its a good system isn't it Robert.
Have a great day
@@M-H433 Yes it is! Especially when you want to head out and explore long distances. Do you have the VTX power levels set up to change automatically based on distance from home?
Yes Robert i do
Im using a Tramp vtx,but for the moment only using the first 4 power levels,that's getting me out consistently 12- 15 klm at the moment,I'm using a myflydream aat with a black cannon,I see no breaking up of video yet,I just need bigger balls to go further.....🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@M-H433 Damn that's a serious setup. I've managed 3.2 miles on 5.8 ghz with Ardupilot and that's the limit of my lipo. 15 km is out there. Are you using 5.8?
Wow, this is totally going on a knob. Thank you!
That's pretty interesting! 😃
Thanks a lot, Joshua!!!
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
BTW, about the "thank you programmers"... You're welcome. 😝
Super helpful as always with your tutorials!! Thank you Mr Bardwell
Hello Joshua, please make a video on installing a backup battery on the Crossfire Diversity Nano Rx, and how it works. ID APPRECIATE IT!!! also worth mentioning, I also have the TBS Unify pro 32. Thank you SO much
Great video JB! Looking forward to setting this up.
Hey !
I'm sorry that I deleted my previous comment before I see the answer, I watched the video again and found out about the index.
Thanks a lot for your help !
Thank you Joshua and "schon richtig" for that. It's very helpful.
This are the type of videos I really like !
What about the two knobs, one for channel letter and one for channel number.
Thanks so much JB. I am having a issue with my Mach 3 vtx starting power is 200mw. Is there any way to set default to 25
It would be interesting to see your review of the Skyzone Cobra X
He told me it's scheduled for friday
Awesome! Thank you Joshua!
I have been doing this for years! I have my quad at pit mode before arming and have the ability to change power through a LUA script. I don't quite remember where I was able to find how to do that though..
Finally Betaflight. INav has this for a while now and it saved my skin many times.
Last thing I want is powering up my wing and vtx would go straight into 1200+mw while waiting for gps lock.
Well to be fair BF has also had this for a long time I just didn't know about it.
@@JoshuaBardwell Oh. Well that's something I didn't know either. I Guess we did learn something today 😬😊
It's a good upgrade for different flights, short range or long range, without using betaflight. But I have a question : there is a possibility to set the low voltage alarm on a switch ? (3.5v for lipo, and 2.6v or other for li-ion ?)
Great content, Joshua. Happy to support you in Patreon and encourage others to do the same.