He's not kidding about taking your props off for this. I have neat looking tiger stripe scars on my back from leaving my props on. I also have 4 lock-nut shaped holes in my ceiling in a perfect square.
I did the same but as I went to unplug the battery my pinky was just a little bit too close to a prop and just like that there was blood all over my room. I beg you to not be as stupid as me. Ps. All my throttle values was at 0. You can not trust your quad to be idle during an ESC calibration.
I dismounted all props, and it payed off! During receiver configuration after a few minutes of playing with the little simulation, suddenly the motors started to execute my controls. They went wild, so I had to unplug the battery. When I plugged in again, same thing happened after a few minutes. That was the first time I realized taking off props is not a joke. Kinda shocked, because I never took it seriously before
Josh. i have been stuck for 2 weeks trying to find out why every quad i touch stops arming the motors. After scouring for an answer, and becoming frustrated regularly, you my friend, have solved this issue for me. Thank you so much, and your delivery was exceptional. 10/10 Video/deliverance
I have been building quads for a couple years now so I have built a couple and have watched more how to videos than I can remember and this video by far is THE MOST thorough, complete video that I have watched. Thank you for posting it. Very Helpful!!
As a noob, I can't imagine how long it would have taken me to ferret all this out from the world of internet sources. It's almost like cheating but I should now have a base to build on for any other quads. THANKS! (yes, I'm shouting)
Got my wizard flashed, configured, all secured and ready for maiden. One all nighter and your vid was what made it a succes. My hat is off to you again!
Watched this video to put me the straight and narrow (with my Wizard) 5 months back and now I'm back again for my first scratch build. Thank you for all your help!!
Thanks for the tips. I have 3 comments: 1. Instead of setting board orientation to 270 Yaw degrees, I have set *GYRO and ACCEL Alignments to "180 CW"*. This alleviates calculations done at the software and the MPU6050 chip will do this at the hardware level, saving some cycles. 2. How about adding some *RC and Yaw Deadbands*? I use deadband of "4" for my X9D+. 3. I flashed my board *without going into bootloader mode*. All I did was to enable full chip erase, manual baud at 115200.
Using Gyro and Accel align instead does save cycles, you're right. Deadband is only needed if your transmitter gimbals are jittery. FWIW, I have never been able to do #3, no matter what I tried. But I just did what you described and it worked, so who freaking knows?
My X9D+ and FlySky i6 transmitters are jittery, and would benefit from having deadbands. I've watched your video on the Halls Effect gimbals, so I guess you have them on your transmitters and therefore not requiring any deadbands. But it might be useful to highlight adding deadbands to audiences who do not have good gimbals. I wasn't aware of the need for the bootloader trick so since a long time ago, I have been updating my all my Naze32 and SPR F3 boards without going thru the bootloader. I do get failures, and like what you have described in this video, I resolved them by setting the correct baud rate, or I have to click "Flash Firmware" for the second or third time.
mrtwisty, as explained in point #1 of my comment, doing so saves CPU cycles and reduces processing load. Do you need it? Maybe, maybe not. But think about it - there is really no harm with this setting, while at the same time it improves efficiency.
Started over and it worked. The first go'round did not give me the load online option. Thanks for all of your hard work making these videos, your help has been unquantifiable.
Even after 4 years, this video is still useful. Had Wizard for years, no time to play with it. Setting CPPM receiver was new for me, as I not needed this for planes. All done in short time just following your steps. Now I can't wait for test flight in our club.
I have an odd problem. After a minor crash, I had a motor lagging behind. It didn't want to spin up as fast, and on punch out, it would definitely lean to the direction of that motor. I purchased extra motors when I ordered the drone, so I replaced the motor. Now, when in acro, and I punch out, it rolls over. It doesn't do this in angle. Im beginning to suspect the problem wasn't initially the motor in the first place. But what else could it be? A failed ESC? But it still fly's fine, just not with hard acceleration. Any ideas?
This is one of the best videos I've seen online for setup. I've had a problem with my quad for over a month. I've searched for help on every forum I could find. After following along with this video it works again! I don't know why, but at least I'm back in the air. Thank you for helping noobs without the attitude. Subscribing now!
Indeed, just wanted to post this, my settings for flashing are • 256000 baud • Manual • Full Chip erase I see it also in the F3 manual :) the 256K baud does something, puts it in bootloader mode or something...
was going to make same comment, SPRF3 flashes just fine in regular mode every single time- with manual baud (but I'm using OSX, so I guess windows is the problem, as is so very often the case) Quad pilots should use a mac. All this driver trouble I see on the internet :(
Ryan Roberts???:) Joshua Bardwell???:) ANYBODY???:) *PLEASE HELP*:) Everything Seams to Work Great!!! *BUT,* MY FAIL-SAFE DOES NOT WORK ANYMORE WHEN I TURN OFF THE TRANSMITTER. EVEN STRANGER, THE MOTORS ACTUALLY (ARM)??? EVERY TIME I TURN OFF THE TRANSMITTER WITH THE SWA SWITCH IN THE DISARMED POSITION????????? (USING FLYSKY RECEIVER) I Finally Got the time to Flash The (*Latest Version of Beta Flight*) Last night on 3-23-17 I Downloaded Beta Flight using Windows 10 with the Chrome App. Does ANYONE Have A Clue WHAT I Screwed up?????? (THE BETA FLIGHT VERSION SHOWS "STABLE") I'm Using the SW1 Switch To ARM The Motors To IDLE For AUX 1. I'm Using The SWC Switch For ALL THREE Flight Modes in AUX 2. (BTW Everyone) IT FLYS LIKE A DREAM NOW!!!!!!:) I'm Just NOT Going to Fly FPV Until FAIL-SAFE Works Correctly:/ THANK YOU VERY MUCH IN ADVANCE!!!!!!!:)
Joshua, I’m pretty new in racing drones, I bought a Taranis and I’m starting in DRL simulator, and yes, it is more difficult than flying my DJI, but all your videos are improving my knowledge about racing drones, I expect start with a wizard x220, and all of this video, like all of your videos, is already helping me a lot. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Awesome video - these RTF guys owe you one! The F210 I progressed with had nothing comparable - I'm sure you've spared a lot of heartache with what you've done.
Thanks Joshua. This "RTF" was anything but. The good news is that making the adjustments to get it to fly taught me a lot. I was having a great deal of difficulty controlling it so I also reduced each throttle curve setting by almost half. The 100% settings were a little too tight. With what I have learned I may be ready to update betaflight as my next "adventure". I doubt I would have conquered all this without your videos and your help. Its nice to have an SME, Subject Matter Expert, available.
This is the "Golden Ticket" for anyone looking to get there fpv quad going. Thanks Joshua. I would have paid good money for someone to unload this sort of knowledge. Thanks
tried the 3m dual lock today n its brilliant stuff. i dunno bout using it for my batteries instead of velcro but everywhere else i use velcro is now 3m dual lock. thanks Joshua
Your an absolute diamond💎 I've had my arf wizard about 2 weeks now and ran into trouble with the drivers got those sorted 👍🏻and have just done the basics on beta flight (air mode,switches and arming on switch.just need some good weather to test it out and then do the same with my qx95 bnf.i honestly cannot thank you enough for your clear and detailed videos. Legend
Even though I have done this stuff a couple times now and watched countless videos on this stuff over the last half a year of flying, I still learned a couple new things from this video to apply to my quads. Thanks! Keep it up!
Hey Guys. For the RTF model that came with the Naze 32 FC, be careful with the PID loop frequency @ 2kHz if you are fly in angle or horizon mode. Keep it at 1kHz if you fly in Angle/Horizon Mode. Great video Joshua.
josh I don't even have a wizard but I still watched this video as your voice is so easy listing too!! keep up the good work, you have helped me through a lot.
One of the most informative video's on you tube! Only thing that could add to this video is add the RTF Flysky transmitter and show setup using it. Not knowing Betaflight and the Flysky tx it took me many hours watching video's trying to get everything set the correct way. Setting the vacant switches and getting them to work correctly was a challenge. One reason, I wanted the Arm switch. Next I had to figure the different on off for my 3 position switch because I still need angle and horizon. And the most time consuming was finding out why the motors spun without throttle. Air Mode, who knew. Eachine has sold thousands of these and after viewers see your positive feedback the wait list will be 2 months instead of the 1 month I had to wait after I paid for it. Thanks, Thanks, THX!!!
thanks again Joshua. sorted my failsafe n will be taking flight as soon as my trainer cable has arrived. you helped me out after hobby stores turned their backs on me.
I just implemented everything from this video over the last couple of weeks! Super helpful! I took your advice and waited on PID tuning. Today I copied your numbers and went out and flew! The difference was huge! The controls were much smoother and I was able accelerate better and maintain control! Thanks!
OMG this video would have been SOOO helpful Christmas day when my brother got his wizard. We bricked his board by mucking about with the UART settings and could not get the bootloader to flash Betaflight. We tried the paperclip for hours with no luck. Tweezers ended up saving the day.
Thanks for your help Joshua. Just joined your patrons group. Not looking for a thank you just want others to hear from me. Patreon support is very easy people. Support the folks that are helping you.
Fantastic timing, many thanks... I have searched everywhere for this sort of guide, and have not updated for fear of screwing it up. I made that mistake on a donor AIO FC, and completely lost the barometric functionality after flashing.
Before you start mucking about, go to the CLI and do a dump of the config and save it out so you can go back if you need to. th-cam.com/video/HsxTqp76Brs/w-d-xo.html
Yup, learned that the hard way, thanks for the help.. I eventually figured out the set baro_hardware = 0 (default on), 1 = disabled command. Its sortof working now, but not terribly accurate with a lot of drift. this may be a limitation of the FLIP32 AIO board I got. Its very compact, which may be inducing all sorts of noise into the Baro
Awsome. really helped me when no hobby stores were interested. one place that apparently specializes in multi rotors told me they'd never heard of the wizard or betaflight! a××holes! But thank you Joshua u've taught me a lot about this quad and i've learnt a little more about myself. keep up the brilliant work. u r the wizard. oh, i still haven't solved the failsafe issue but when my head cools off I'll have another go
Great video Josh! After 3 failed attempts at take off, I went back to the drawing board and luckily stumbled onto your video. 270 yaw....who knew!? You just gained a new sub. Thanks bud.
Welcome. Board align has to be correct or the copter thinks its rolling when it's really pitching, and the whole thing flips out. Here is a video about that: th-cam.com/video/X4746_KLVEI/w-d-xo.html
One more quick question Josh. When installing the props, do you have to keep turning them until there's no space between the props and the motor or should there be a small space?
Thought I bricked my Youbi XV-130 board (my first drone). Darn thing didn't have any lights on after a bad flash, so I thought it was dead. Followed your flashing guide at the end. Eureka it worked. Thanks Bro.
You can almost always recover these boards unless you physically damage the board in some way (damaged CP210 chip, broken bootloader button). Failure to flash is usually a driver or usage issue.
I know I`m late to the Party (VERY late). But Thanx alot, JB, this really helped me out!!! The Wizard was in my shelf for about 2 years. Now, after having flown myriads of fixed wing models, I finally got into quads. I allread flew the Tinyhawk freestyle II. This wil be my first 5-incher. (Nazgul is on the way, though)
Many thanks for taking the time to make this. The best tuition in betaflight anyone could have. Saved my quad and salvaged a bit of my sanity! You're a legend.
Great video, I failed flashing my Wizards and just gave up after messing with the drivers. Figured 3.0.1 was good enough. Ill try this when I get home.
Hi Josh, you are seriously very very helpful. Watching your videos made me buy my first racing drone (including Taranis). First flight still few days away. Keep up the great work.
I'll definitely have to got through the flashing steppe you took. I've been having trouble flashing my board but I'll try your list of steps. 3.1 here I come.
Mate, thank you so much for your help. I was beating my head against the wall, Throttle was set to Gyro not Accel, and I couldn't get any life. Now I'm off to have some fun!
Hey Joshua, first I want to say how much I appreciate your work. Thx for that. Im kind of new to the hobby and so I flashed my SPRacing F3 in the wizard with BF 3.0.1 WITHOUT putting the board into bootloader mode. Maybe its because I use a Mac, but I've never had any trouble doing so.
Update: I fried the FC an few days ago (soldering on ESC while usb still connected to FC). Today the new SPRACING F3 V1 arrived and I had no luck flashing without putting a jumper on the boot loader pins).
thanks Joshua I have one x220, im very happy with the performance, I will try to do your setup, to see iff have any different, for what my friend did, he tune my x220, flying very good , but im not a professional like you guys, thanks for the inf
My sincere shout out is to you Joshua, Thanks you for all the info in your vids..i have successfully installed a FS-x6b onto my wizard x220s with ibus and beta 3.2 wow !! what a brain strain. its my second racer and my first arf..all works great so thank you buddy, ill be a member and support you for sure.who wouldn't for that kind of info..ill be in your play lists to learn more and really do appreciate your work. TY again, chris.
Thank you so much for a clean and clear no nonsense tutorial. I am new to the hobby as in the wizard is my first drone, your video made it simple to get in the air. I also like how your not full of yourself and come across really well thank you 😁
Thanks for all you do Joshua. Your vids are always helpful. My X220 came in the mail yesterday. The only problem is that I broke my wrist last week and won't be able to fly for at least 2 months. :(
I don't usually post but your video are great and full of info. I am new to the hobby and have done all the wrong thing to get started. I started building a pixhawk 450 and wasted lots of money it is under my table all apart hope to one day be able to get it up in the air. I am now with flight sim and mini brush. I love to fly but suck at it, hope to get it sometime. It is because of your channel, as well as RC model review and Andy RC that keep me going in hope to be able to fly in the future, keep the video going. thanks your the best./
If I may give a small tip to newbies like me. Have a switch with 2 options: "Fly" mode (acro/rate WITH air), or "Land" mode (angle WITHOUT air). You just need to setup the mode AUX-rates correctly. No need to have Air permanently on... Now you can take off and land, a LOT easier. Gain some confidence. Try landing in "Fly" mode later on, after you developed basic skills. Also, look into having a Headfree toggle switch for line of sight flying :-)
Thank you so much for doing this series. I've now clocked a few hours watching your videos. Excellent work. Huge help for getting new pilots up to speed with what is frankly an overwhelming learning curve.
I have learnt so much from lots of your videos, thank you for your time and efforts. I deem the "Quad God"!! Keep up the good work, it is truly appreciated by many.
This is a super video. I wish you had published it a couple months ago when I tried to flash BetaFlight without shorting the bootloader pins on my SP racing F3. The quad was down for a few weeks and I was thinking about ordering a new controller.
Yah. Every single SP3 I've tried flashing without putting into bootloader first "bricks". It's not truly bricked because you can flash it if you put it into bootloader, but the config is lost. There definitely are other boards where you can simply hit flash and the GUI will put the board into bootloader mode and flash it with no additional action.k
I had some success flashing a couple of other boards but was very disappointed when I thought I had bricked the SP3. I am too old to ever be much of a pilot but enjoy the hobby because of the technical side of building and configuring quadcopters. I continue to hope my flying skills will improve in the future.
Thanks Joshua this was super helpful! I just happened to have my quad (not a X220) sitting by my PC so ran through all the settings you explained, made a couple of changes and learnt a few things along the way. I never realised my SPF3 had on-board logging capability, so will be checking out some of your blackbox vids over the next few days.
Joshua, THANK YOU very much for this. I've been searching all over for something like this & once again, you've come through in fantastic form. You have the heart of a teacher, bro.
Thanks, Josh! Great tips, you were a big help with setting up the wizard. It's a little scary that it's marketed as an ARF, yet the pre-programmed Betaflight doesn't have the board aligned correctly? Yikes. That could be bad for someone who is unaware. Also I will second, third, and fourth the recommendation to always work do your setup with PROPS OFF! I was lucky and had a mishap when I first got into quads, with a small brushed copter. Had that been something like the wizard spinning big sharp props, it would have been much worse.
Well on the one hand I'm feeling pretty good as I managed to muddle through getting the correct drivers and firmware loaded and the computer talking to fc, finally. On the other I wish I had watched all the way to the end of this video before giving up last time. Anyway, I have learned a lot in the process and think I understand way more than I did even this morning. Thanks for this video and the others which I'm going to use as well.
I don't have this quad, but I absolutely enjoyed watching this video. Such great info on here. Going to share it to all my buddies on Facebook that own the Eachine Wizard. Thanks Josh! Farner
OUTSTANDING! I did a dry run just watching the vid. My Frsky Micro d16 sbus should arrive soon and then... Woohooo! Best darn tutorial Joshua! Will have to check you out on patreon. Keep up the fine work.
Great video! I don't own a wizard, but you helped explain so much of what Betaflight can do. You mentioned in the video, using telemetry. I have my x4r-sb connected via smartport to my board and am getting voltage readings, but I'm really in the dark as to the best way to use it. Would love a video showing your setup for telemtery on the taranis!
Hi joshua! Im quite new to the hobby and all i have to say. This type of videos are well appreciated i still made mistakes setting up my quad buy man did i learn alot! Kudos to you and stu of uavfutures keep it up!
Thank you for all this very thoughtful work. I hope you know how much some people, like myself, really appreciate this. As you stated at the beginning, I definitely learned something today.
Wow i only have read half your video and i just had to say something! I have been flying quadcopters since they were invented and have at least 20 transmitters. Yes suddenly things changed. Now comes BNF no transmitter, a receiver of many types to choose from, which one? etc etc .. and now beta flight and clean flight, and just too much all at once for an old guy. I have a FuriBee F90 Wasp which i have never flown yet. It doesnt bind with any of my transmitters. I plugged it into beta flight and no joy, nothing even works and beta flt doesn't recognize it. I am considering the X220 and will purchase it thru your youtube link and probably will have to get it RTF and add another flysky duplicate transmitter to my collection. Your video is amazing that it begins to explain these sudden changes to the entire system, which seems to allow one to purchase a quad and correct receiver to link somehow with one of your existing transmitters, if i understand this correctly and maybe just reading your great video will help this 75 year old to understand how this all comes together. Happy Flying GrampaKenCanada
very helpful. I am going to put some of these tips to good use on my wizard. i really like the cli stuff. I've always been a little scared of that tab. thanks
ok then. yesterday was my maiden run 5 packs all los. lost confidence when i had the goggles on but will try again on a not so windy day. was really windy. thanks again for all your help
Hi I recently got the latest wizard x220s with the real carbon fiber chasis ; I notice most of what the old wizard x220 had has been updated ; I hope you could also update a beta flight configuration; because I'm really new in this hobby and i dont see a lot of updated videos with the latest wizard x220s
you saved my bacon man. after i messed up my settings, followed your video and boom it's hovering again, it's feels really quick on a 3s not sure I should go with a 4s yet. still learning acro! lol
1 year later... lol i just got this quad copter and im curious on which battery had been your best experience? your answer is much appreciated. thank you in advance and keep up the good work!
Thanks for this Joshua, I went from Betaflight zero to paperclip bending hacker in 30 minutes (plus the Drivers video, which you shuould really link in the description of this video). Just need my Radio TX to arrive now...
+Chris Fitzsimmons the drivers video is in the cards for this one which you can access by clicking the 'i' in the upper right. Bit I'll add it to the description too.
Hey Josh, I have a spracingf3, and I never have to physically short the pins any more, since like betaflight 3.0 maybe, I'm not sure. One thing I have found to almost always have a successful flash, (really always for me since doing this but I hate to say ALWAYS) is manual baudrate 256000, and this is what's made a big difference, don't connect before flashing. So if I have been in the config at all before I flash, I unplug the board and plug it back in making sure it doesn't auto connect. Since doing this practice its always flashed no dfu mode, and not failing making me have to short the pins and go to dfu mode. Can't remember the last time I had to short the pins. Just a heads up, try it next time you have to flash an spracingf3, and really I do the fresh plug in on all my Flight controllers anymore and I can't tell you the last time I had a failed, or had to short the pins on any of them. Anyhow, happy flashing/flying!
Sometimes flashing your board even doesn't work like explained here, but... it always works if you use the Flash Loader Demo Program from STM Microelectronics. - download the *.hex file for your FC - download and install the program - short the bootloader pins (I always solder them, or if I have soldered pins to them I just short them by a plug) - start the program and select right com port and baud rate 256000 (This is mandatory !!) - click NEXT - click REMOVE PROTECTION and NEXT - click NEXT - tick DOWNLOAD to DEVICE and choose the *.hex file you have downloaded (don't forget to choose a *.hex and not a *.S19 file) - click NEXT and your *.hex file is flashed all the time and this works very reliable!
Flash Loader Program has to be downloaded and installed on a PC only once. Only disadvantage is, that one has to download the *.hex file for the FC you want to flash.
Hey Joshua, thanks heaps for taking the time to do this great tutorial and I'll be keen to show my thanks with some well spent bucks soon. Time for me to get a spreadsheet with comparisons happening. Hey, anyone else out there have the Betaflight 'block' model visual in Chrome? Mine worked once on this old PC, but I guess Betaflight gave up doing that.
some body needs to make a list explaining what terms like PID yaw roll pitch and certain other terms are...a noob has no idea what they are and so they don't get discouraged please help them and us out by posting a wiki of these terms since your MR. KNOW IT ALL we are counting on you .. THANK YOU ive learned most of what I know from watching you channel dude you Rock
He's not kidding about taking your props off for this. I have neat looking tiger stripe scars on my back from leaving my props on. I also have 4 lock-nut shaped holes in my ceiling in a perfect square.
I forced my quad down while I was dong it, but it never tried taking off...
i thought prop nut holes in the ceiling came standard with the fpv surname ?
haha perfect square ;p
I did the same but as I went to unplug the battery my pinky was just a little bit too close to a prop and just like that there was blood all over my room. I beg you to not be as stupid as me.
Ps. All my throttle values was at 0. You can not trust your quad to be idle during an ESC calibration.
I dismounted all props, and it payed off! During receiver configuration after a few minutes of playing with the little simulation, suddenly the motors started to execute my controls. They went wild, so I had to unplug the battery. When I plugged in again, same thing happened after a few minutes.
That was the first time I realized taking off props is not a joke. Kinda shocked, because I never took it seriously before
Josh. i have been stuck for 2 weeks trying to find out why every quad i touch stops arming the motors. After scouring for an answer, and becoming frustrated regularly, you my friend, have solved this issue for me. Thank you so much, and your delivery was exceptional. 10/10 Video/deliverance
AWESOME.
SO FREAKING HELPFUL!!! I don't even have a wizard, but found out so many new tips and tricks in beta flight! thanks again :)
I have been building quads for a couple years now so I have built a couple and have watched more how to videos than I can remember and this video by far is THE MOST thorough, complete video that I have watched. Thank you for posting it. Very Helpful!!
As a noob, I can't imagine how long it would have taken me to ferret all this out from the world of internet sources. It's almost like cheating but I should now have a base to build on for any other quads.
THANKS! (yes, I'm shouting)
Got my wizard flashed, configured, all secured and ready for maiden. One all nighter and your vid was what made it a succes. My hat is off to you again!
Ranks way up there on my 'quickest 30 mins I've ever experienced list'.
Watched this video to put me the straight and narrow (with my Wizard) 5 months back and now I'm back again for my first scratch build. Thank you for all your help!!
Thanks for the tips. I have 3 comments:
1. Instead of setting board orientation to 270 Yaw degrees, I have set *GYRO and ACCEL Alignments to "180 CW"*. This alleviates calculations done at the software and the MPU6050 chip will do this at the hardware level, saving some cycles.
2. How about adding some *RC and Yaw Deadbands*? I use deadband of "4" for my X9D+.
3. I flashed my board *without going into bootloader mode*. All I did was to enable full chip erase, manual baud at 115200.
Using Gyro and Accel align instead does save cycles, you're right.
Deadband is only needed if your transmitter gimbals are jittery.
FWIW, I have never been able to do #3, no matter what I tried. But I just did what you described and it worked, so who freaking knows?
My X9D+ and FlySky i6 transmitters are jittery, and would benefit from having deadbands. I've watched your video on the Halls Effect gimbals, so I guess you have them on your transmitters and therefore not requiring any deadbands. But it might be useful to highlight adding deadbands to audiences who do not have good gimbals.
I wasn't aware of the need for the bootloader trick so since a long time ago, I have been updating my all my Naze32 and SPR F3 boards without going thru the bootloader. I do get failures, and like what you have described in this video, I resolved them by setting the correct baud rate, or I have to click "Flash Firmware" for the second or third time.
I use -90 yaw compinsation. seems to work. any reason not to?
mrtwisty, as explained in point #1 of my comment, doing so saves CPU cycles and reduces processing load. Do you need it? Maybe, maybe not. But think about it - there is really no harm with this setting, while at the same time it improves efficiency.
I have mine set to -90
Started over and it worked. The first go'round did not give me the load online option. Thanks for all of your hard work making these videos, your help has been unquantifiable.
Love you, Josh [:
PS: Could you make a tutorial of how to add the telemetry? Or just video comment what you soldered where with your very useful tips
Even after 4 years, this video is still useful. Had Wizard for years, no time to play with it. Setting CPPM receiver was new for me, as I not needed this for planes. All done in short time just following your steps. Now I can't wait for test flight in our club.
I have an odd problem. After a minor crash, I had a motor lagging behind. It didn't want to spin up as fast, and on punch out, it would definitely lean to the direction of that motor. I purchased extra motors when I ordered the drone, so I replaced the motor. Now, when in acro, and I punch out, it rolls over. It doesn't do this in angle. Im beginning to suspect the problem wasn't initially the motor in the first place. But what else could it be? A failed ESC? But it still fly's fine, just not with hard acceleration. Any ideas?
This is one of the best videos I've seen online for setup. I've had a problem with my quad for over a month. I've searched for help on every forum I could find. After following along with this video it works again! I don't know why, but at least I'm back in the air. Thank you for helping noobs without the attitude. Subscribing now!
Glad it could help.
you can flash this board and the clones enabling and changing to manual baud rate to 256000, without shorting the jumper
Indeed, just wanted to post this, my settings for flashing are
• 256000 baud
• Manual
• Full Chip erase
I see it also in the F3 manual :)
the 256K baud does something, puts it in bootloader mode or something...
was going to make same comment, SPRF3 flashes just fine in regular mode every single time- with manual baud (but I'm using OSX, so I guess windows is the problem, as is so very often the case)
Quad pilots should use a mac. All this driver trouble I see on the internet :(
I use windows, no problem flashing :)
Ditto, just flashed, no problems!
Ryan Roberts???:)
Joshua Bardwell???:)
ANYBODY???:)
*PLEASE HELP*:)
Everything Seams to Work Great!!! *BUT,* MY FAIL-SAFE DOES NOT WORK ANYMORE WHEN I TURN OFF THE TRANSMITTER.
EVEN STRANGER, THE MOTORS ACTUALLY (ARM)??? EVERY TIME I TURN OFF THE TRANSMITTER WITH THE SWA SWITCH IN THE DISARMED POSITION?????????
(USING FLYSKY RECEIVER)
I Finally Got the time to Flash The (*Latest Version of Beta Flight*) Last night on 3-23-17
I Downloaded Beta Flight using Windows 10 with the Chrome App.
Does ANYONE Have A Clue WHAT I Screwed up??????
(THE BETA FLIGHT VERSION SHOWS "STABLE")
I'm Using the SW1 Switch To ARM The Motors To IDLE For AUX 1.
I'm Using The SWC Switch For ALL THREE Flight Modes in AUX 2.
(BTW Everyone) IT FLYS LIKE A DREAM NOW!!!!!!:)
I'm Just NOT Going to Fly FPV Until FAIL-SAFE Works Correctly:/
THANK YOU VERY MUCH IN ADVANCE!!!!!!!:)
Joshua, I’m pretty new in racing drones, I bought a Taranis and I’m starting in DRL simulator, and yes, it is more difficult than flying my DJI, but all your videos are improving my knowledge about racing drones, I expect start with a wizard x220, and all of this video, like all of your videos, is already helping me a lot.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Hey Joshua, I love how you go deep, while laying it down like you're speaking to a noob. You're a guru.
Thanks, that's a very good compliment for me.
Awesome video - these RTF guys owe you one! The F210 I progressed with had nothing comparable - I'm sure you've spared a lot of heartache with what you've done.
Thanks Joshua. This "RTF" was anything but. The good news is that making the adjustments to get it to fly taught me a lot. I was having a great deal of difficulty controlling it so I also reduced each throttle curve setting by almost half. The 100% settings were a little too tight.
With what I have learned I may be ready to update betaflight as my next "adventure".
I doubt I would have conquered all this without your videos and your help. Its nice to have an SME, Subject Matter Expert, available.
Hmmm... should I have used Expo to reduce the sensitivity of the throttle?
This is the "Golden Ticket" for anyone looking to get there fpv quad going. Thanks Joshua. I would have paid good money for someone to unload this sort of knowledge. Thanks
Well, nobody's stopping you!
Glad it was helpful.
tried the 3m dual lock today n its brilliant stuff. i dunno bout using it for my batteries instead of velcro but everywhere else i use velcro is now 3m dual lock. thanks Joshua
Your an absolute diamond💎
I've had my arf wizard about 2 weeks now and ran into trouble with the drivers got those sorted 👍🏻and have just done the basics on beta flight (air mode,switches and arming on switch.just need some good weather to test it out and then do the same with my qx95 bnf.i honestly cannot thank you enough for your clear and detailed videos. Legend
Even though I have done this stuff a couple times now and watched countless videos on this stuff over the last half a year of flying, I still learned a couple new things from this video to apply to my quads. Thanks! Keep it up!
That's my motto!
Reading through the comments that seems to be the trend, people without Wizards but still picking up lots of tips and tricks to apply to their rigs.
Hey Guys. For the RTF model that came with the Naze 32 FC, be careful with the PID loop frequency @ 2kHz if you are fly in angle or horizon mode. Keep it at 1kHz if you fly in Angle/Horizon Mode. Great video Joshua.
josh I don't even have a wizard but I still watched this video as your voice is so easy listing too!! keep up the good work, you have helped me through a lot.
Thanks for watching. Glad it's helpful and glad you like it.
One of the most informative video's on you tube! Only thing that could add to this video is add the RTF Flysky transmitter and show setup using it. Not knowing Betaflight and the Flysky tx it took me many hours watching video's trying to get everything set the correct way. Setting the vacant switches and getting them to work correctly was a challenge. One reason, I wanted the Arm switch. Next I had to figure the different on off for my 3 position switch because I still need angle and horizon. And the most time consuming was finding out why the motors spun without throttle. Air Mode, who knew. Eachine has sold thousands of these and after viewers see your positive feedback the wait list will be 2 months instead of the 1 month I had to wait after I paid for it. Thanks, Thanks, THX!!!
+Bruce Smith if you watch my flight review of the Falcon, you'll see why I rejected the Eachine transmitter.
Oh man oh man, thank you so much for making the config dump public. You have no idea how this is useful for me. Thank you.
thanks again Joshua. sorted my failsafe n will be taking flight as soon as my trainer cable has arrived. you helped me out after hobby stores turned their backs on me.
I just implemented everything from this video over the last couple of weeks! Super helpful! I took your advice and waited on PID tuning. Today I copied your numbers and went out and flew! The difference was huge! The controls were much smoother and I was able accelerate better and maintain control! Thanks!
Also if you have any recommendations on my next quad, preferably a self build, I'm all ears!
Glad it helped you out!
OMG this video would have been SOOO helpful Christmas day when my brother got his wizard. We bricked his board by mucking about with the UART settings and could not get the bootloader to flash Betaflight. We tried the paperclip for hours with no luck. Tweezers ended up saving the day.
Thanks for your help Joshua. Just joined your patrons group. Not looking for a thank you just want others to hear from me. Patreon support is very easy people. Support the folks that are helping you.
Thank you!
WOW.. cant wait to get my first FPV quad.. I got hooked just by watching your videos and trying a sim..
Fantastic timing, many thanks... I have searched everywhere for this sort of guide, and have not updated for fear of screwing it up. I made that mistake on a donor AIO FC, and completely lost the barometric functionality after flashing.
Before you start mucking about, go to the CLI and do a dump of the config and save it out so you can go back if you need to.
th-cam.com/video/HsxTqp76Brs/w-d-xo.html
Yup, learned that the hard way, thanks for the help.. I eventually figured out the set baro_hardware = 0 (default on), 1 = disabled command. Its sortof working now, but not terribly accurate with a lot of drift. this may be a limitation of the FLIP32 AIO board I got. Its very compact, which may be inducing all sorts of noise into the Baro
Awsome. really helped me when no hobby stores were interested. one place that apparently specializes in multi rotors told me they'd never heard of the wizard or betaflight! a××holes! But thank you Joshua u've taught me a lot about this quad and i've learnt a little more about myself. keep up the brilliant work. u r the wizard. oh, i still haven't solved the failsafe issue but when my head cools off I'll have another go
Great video Josh! After 3 failed attempts at take off, I went back to the drawing board and luckily stumbled onto your video. 270 yaw....who knew!? You just gained a new sub. Thanks bud.
Welcome. Board align has to be correct or the copter thinks its rolling when it's really pitching, and the whole thing flips out. Here is a video about that: th-cam.com/video/X4746_KLVEI/w-d-xo.html
One more quick question Josh. When installing the props, do you have to keep turning them until there's no space between the props and the motor or should there be a small space?
Thought I bricked my Youbi XV-130 board (my first drone). Darn thing didn't have any lights on after a bad flash, so I thought it was dead. Followed your flashing guide at the end. Eureka it worked. Thanks Bro.
You can almost always recover these boards unless you physically damage the board in some way (damaged CP210 chip, broken bootloader button). Failure to flash is usually a driver or usage issue.
Thanks Josh!! Got betaflight 3.1.7 successfully installed onto FC without a hitch all thanks to your videos. Keep up the good work.
Ok, now good luck not crashing.
I know I`m late to the Party (VERY late). But Thanx alot, JB, this really helped me out!!! The Wizard was in my shelf for about 2 years. Now, after having flown myriads of fixed wing models, I finally got into quads. I allread flew the Tinyhawk freestyle II. This wil be my first 5-incher. (Nazgul is on the way, though)
Your confidence is contagious! Thank you JB!
Without this thorough video I would still be sitting here trembling with my wizard in my lap LOL
Many thanks for taking the time to make this. The best tuition in betaflight anyone could have. Saved my quad and salvaged a bit of my sanity! You're a legend.
Great video, I failed flashing my Wizards and just gave up after messing with the drivers. Figured 3.0.1 was good enough. Ill try this when I get home.
Just select manual baudrate "256000" and youre good to go without bootpins
as per betaflight comment for spracingf3 on instalaron page, baud rate 115200
Hi Josh, you are seriously very very helpful. Watching your videos made me buy my first racing drone (including Taranis). First flight still few days away. Keep up the great work.
Congrats! Be sure to put in your simulator time though. Get your first 50 or 100 crashes out in the computer where there is no consequence.
I'll definitely have to got through the flashing steppe you took. I've been having trouble flashing my board but I'll try your list of steps. 3.1 here I come.
thanks Josh! worked wonders for me. If there is one suggestion it is to make sure your radio auxiliary switches are assigned prior to this video.
Mate, thank you so much for your help. I was beating my head against the wall, Throttle was set to Gyro not Accel, and I couldn't get any life. Now I'm off to have some fun!
So glad you did this for the community! Makes it so easy for folks to upgrade their machines.
Hey Joshua, first I want to say how much I appreciate your work. Thx for that. Im kind of new to the hobby and so I flashed my SPRacing F3 in the wizard with BF 3.0.1 WITHOUT putting the board into bootloader mode. Maybe its because I use a Mac, but I've never had any trouble doing so.
Update: I fried the FC an few days ago (soldering on ESC while usb still connected to FC).
Today the new SPRACING F3 V1 arrived and I had no luck flashing without putting a jumper on the boot loader pins).
thanks Joshua I have one x220, im very happy with the performance, I will try to do your setup, to see iff have any different, for what my friend did, he tune my x220, flying very good , but im not a professional like you guys, thanks for the inf
My sincere shout out is to you Joshua, Thanks you for all the info in your vids..i have successfully installed a FS-x6b onto my wizard x220s with ibus and beta 3.2 wow !! what a brain strain. its my second racer and my first arf..all works great so thank you buddy, ill be a member and support you for sure.who wouldn't for that kind of info..ill be in your play lists to learn more and really do appreciate your work.
TY again,
chris.
Glad you pulled it off. Happy flying!
Thank you so much for a clean and clear no nonsense tutorial. I am new to the hobby as in the wizard is my first drone, your video made it simple to get in the air. I also like how your not full of yourself and come across really well thank you 😁
Thanks for all you do Joshua. Your vids are always helpful. My X220 came in the mail yesterday. The only problem is that I broke my wrist last week and won't be able to fly for at least 2 months. :(
I don't usually post but your video are great and full of info. I am new to the hobby and have done all the wrong thing to get started. I started building a pixhawk 450 and wasted lots of money it is under my table all apart hope to one day be able to get it up in the air. I am now with flight sim and mini brush. I love to fly but suck at it, hope to get it sometime. It is because of your channel, as well as RC model review and Andy RC that keep me going in hope to be able to fly in the future, keep the video going. thanks your the best./
Thanks for the kind words. Stick with it! The hobby can be really rewarding.
Words can not tell you how much this helps.
If I may give a small tip to newbies like me. Have a switch with 2 options: "Fly" mode (acro/rate WITH air), or "Land" mode (angle WITHOUT air). You just need to setup the mode AUX-rates correctly. No need to have Air permanently on... Now you can take off and land, a LOT easier. Gain some confidence. Try landing in "Fly" mode later on, after you developed basic skills. Also, look into having a Headfree toggle switch for line of sight flying :-)
Awesome video. Josh, you are becoming one of my favorite FPV instructors!
Thank you so much for doing this series. I've now clocked a few hours watching your videos. Excellent work. Huge help for getting new pilots up to speed with what is frankly an overwhelming learning curve.
This is such a great video. I have been searching weeks for something like this and my wizard should be here in the next day or two, amazing timing!
New pilots and old to this hobby thank you very much for all of the info.
I have learnt so much from lots of your videos, thank you for your time and efforts. I deem the "Quad God"!!
Keep up the good work, it is truly appreciated by many.
This is a super video. I wish you had published it a couple months ago when I tried to flash BetaFlight without shorting the bootloader pins on my SP racing F3. The quad was down for a few weeks and I was thinking about ordering a new controller.
Yah. Every single SP3 I've tried flashing without putting into bootloader first "bricks". It's not truly bricked because you can flash it if you put it into bootloader, but the config is lost. There definitely are other boards where you can simply hit flash and the GUI will put the board into bootloader mode and flash it with no additional action.k
I had some success flashing a couple of other boards but was very disappointed when I thought I had bricked the SP3. I am too old to ever be much of a pilot but enjoy the hobby because of the technical side of building and configuring quadcopters. I continue to hope my flying skills will improve in the future.
Thanks Joshua this was super helpful! I just happened to have my quad (not a X220) sitting by my PC so ran through all the settings you explained, made a couple of changes and learnt a few things along the way.
I never realised my SPF3 had on-board logging capability, so will be checking out some of your blackbox vids over the next few days.
Awesome video helped wonders setting up my new Wizard and now she's ready to fly! Thank you very much!
Great Information. Your are detailed and do a great job explain why you do something, rather than just stating the changes you need to make.
Joshua, THANK YOU very much for this. I've been searching all over for something like this & once again, you've come through in fantastic form. You have the heart of a teacher, bro.
IT WORKED !! YES I've manage to flash my firmware. Joshua thank you so much, i am so grateful to you. Thank you for your time my friend
Oh my god thank you so much for that. I was feeling so dumb not being able to get the configuration right!
Thank you! This will be very helpful, my x220 is on its way after a couple of years playing with toys.
Thanks, Josh! Great tips, you were a big help with setting up the wizard. It's a little scary that it's marketed as an ARF, yet the pre-programmed Betaflight doesn't have the board aligned correctly? Yikes. That could be bad for someone who is unaware. Also I will second, third, and fourth the recommendation to always work do your setup with PROPS OFF! I was lucky and had a mishap when I first got into quads, with a small brushed copter. Had that been something like the wizard spinning big sharp props, it would have been much worse.
What a great video man. I own the wizard and it's my first fpv race drone. I am going to flash my board with your help. Thanks a lot!
Awesome!
Well on the one hand I'm feeling pretty good as I managed to muddle through getting the correct drivers and firmware loaded and the computer talking to fc, finally. On the other I wish I had watched all the way to the end of this video before giving up last time. Anyway, I have learned a lot in the process and think I understand way more than I did even this morning. Thanks for this video and the others which I'm going to use as well.
I don't have this quad, but I absolutely enjoyed watching this video. Such great info on here. Going to share it to all my buddies on Facebook that own the Eachine Wizard.
Thanks Josh!
Farner
best video for the wizard. watch this whenever I setup a new wiz
OUTSTANDING! I did a dry run just watching the vid. My Frsky Micro d16 sbus should arrive soon and then... Woohooo! Best darn tutorial Joshua! Will have to check you out on patreon. Keep up the fine work.
Excellent tutorial, it's good to see content targeting beginners, I wish I watched this 6 months ago, lol.
Great video! I don't own a wizard, but you helped explain so much of what Betaflight can do.
You mentioned in the video, using telemetry. I have my x4r-sb connected via smartport to my board and am getting voltage readings, but I'm really in the dark as to the best way to use it.
Would love a video showing your setup for telemtery on the taranis!
Hi joshua! Im quite new to the hobby and all i have to say. This type of videos are well appreciated i still made mistakes setting up my quad buy man did i learn alot! Kudos to you and stu of uavfutures keep it up!
*Locked In PID's!* ( a good start for you) Wizard x220(2205 motors) - 4s liPo - XSOUL 5040 V2 props. Betaflight 3.1.7
Pgain [roll 47] [pitch 60] [yaw 79]
Igain [roll 41] [pitch 49] [yaw 45]
Dgain [roll 23] [pitch 24]
Throttle MID [ 0.44]
TPA Breakpoint [TPA 0.22] [Breakpoint 1790]
My Rates - RC rate [p/r 1.25] [sr 0.75] Expo [ 0.23] - [ yaw 1.20] [sr 0.65] Expo [ 0.20]
Thank you for all this very thoughtful work. I hope you know how much some people, like myself, really appreciate this. As you stated at the beginning, I definitely learned something today.
Wow i only have read half your video and i just had to say something! I have been flying quadcopters since they were invented and have at least 20 transmitters. Yes suddenly things changed. Now comes BNF no transmitter, a receiver of many types to choose from, which one? etc etc .. and now beta flight and clean flight, and just too much all at once for an old guy. I have a FuriBee F90 Wasp which i have never flown yet. It doesnt bind with any of my transmitters. I plugged it into beta flight and no joy, nothing even works and beta flt doesn't recognize it. I am considering the X220 and will purchase it thru your youtube link and probably will have to get it RTF and add another flysky duplicate transmitter to my collection. Your video is amazing that it begins to explain these sudden changes to the entire system, which seems to allow one to purchase a quad and correct receiver to link somehow with one of your existing transmitters, if i understand this correctly and maybe just reading your great video will help this 75 year old to understand how this all comes together. Happy Flying GrampaKenCanada
THANK YOU for taking the time to make this video so detailed. You're a good man!
I just wanted to say a BIG THANK YOU!!! for this video and helping me get through my journey of setting up my x220 keep up the good work 👍
I see the betaflight release notes are now linking to some your videos! Good job Joshua :-)
very helpful. I am going to put some of these tips to good use on my wizard. i really like the cli stuff. I've always been a little scared of that tab. thanks
ok then. yesterday was my maiden run 5 packs all los. lost confidence when i had the goggles on but will try again on a not so windy day. was really windy. thanks again for all your help
Hi I recently got the latest wizard x220s with the real carbon fiber chasis ; I notice most of what the old wizard x220 had has been updated ; I hope you could also update a beta flight configuration; because I'm really new in this hobby and i dont see a lot of updated videos with the latest wizard x220s
thanks for everything you've helped me a lot, I'd love to see you do more on the wizard X220, telemetry, vbat & such. thanks again always so helpful
Thanks for this great video. Ordered my Wizard today mainly because of your videos and recommendation.
you saved my bacon man. after i messed up my settings, followed your video and boom it's hovering again, it's feels really quick on a 3s not sure I should go with a 4s yet. still learning acro! lol
Sweet.
All I had to do is go to the archives to learn something today!
1 year later... lol i just got this quad copter and im curious on which battery had been your best experience? your answer is much appreciated. thank you in advance and keep up the good work!
Thanks for this Joshua, I went from Betaflight zero to paperclip bending hacker in 30 minutes (plus the Drivers video, which you shuould really link in the description of this video). Just need my Radio TX to arrive now...
+Chris Fitzsimmons the drivers video is in the cards for this one which you can access by clicking the 'i' in the upper right. Bit I'll add it to the description too.
Great instructional will be very helpful to refine some of my wizard setup. Thanks a lot for doing this one Joshua.
if i would see that video earlier, it would save me a few hours of my life!
Hey Josh, I have a spracingf3, and I never have to physically short the pins any more, since like betaflight 3.0 maybe, I'm not sure. One thing I have found to almost always have a successful flash, (really always for me since doing this but I hate to say ALWAYS) is manual baudrate 256000, and this is what's made a big difference, don't connect before flashing. So if I have been in the config at all before I flash, I unplug the board and plug it back in making sure it doesn't auto connect. Since doing this practice its always flashed no dfu mode, and not failing making me have to short the pins and go to dfu mode. Can't remember the last time I had to short the pins. Just a heads up, try it next time you have to flash an spracingf3, and really I do the fresh plug in on all my Flight controllers anymore and I can't tell you the last time I had a failed, or had to short the pins on any of them. Anyhow, happy flashing/flying!
4:15 - wow this is exactly what happened to mine! thank you JB!
Cheers ! Find your videos so helpful and has definitely helped mine fly better , keep them coming
Sometimes flashing your board even doesn't work like explained here, but... it always works if you use the Flash Loader Demo Program from STM Microelectronics.
- download the *.hex file for your FC
- download and install the program
- short the bootloader pins (I always solder them, or if I have soldered pins to them I just short them by a plug)
- start the program and select right com port and baud rate 256000 (This is mandatory !!)
- click NEXT
- click REMOVE PROTECTION and NEXT
- click NEXT
- tick DOWNLOAD to DEVICE and choose the *.hex file you have downloaded (don't forget to choose a *.hex and not a *.S19 file)
- click NEXT
and your *.hex file is flashed all the time and this works very reliable!
This definitely will get the job done, but it's a bit of a long way around to go.
Flash Loader Program has to be downloaded and installed on a PC only once. Only disadvantage is, that one has to download the *.hex file for the FC you want to flash.
Hey Joshua, thanks heaps for taking the time to do this great tutorial and
I'll be keen to show my thanks with some well spent bucks soon.
Time for me to get a spreadsheet with comparisons happening.
Hey, anyone else out there have the Betaflight 'block' model visual in Chrome?
Mine worked once on this old PC, but I guess Betaflight gave up doing that.
+Phil B either you have a custom motor mix or your 3d drivers are having an issue. Maybe Chrome is having an issue.
some body needs to make a list explaining what terms like PID yaw roll pitch and certain other terms are...a noob has no idea what they are and so they don't get discouraged please help them and us out by posting a wiki of these terms since your MR. KNOW IT ALL we are counting on you .. THANK YOU ive learned most of what I know from watching you channel dude you Rock
Please check out my playlist, "PID Tuning Masterclass".
God thanks for the tutorial! For me as a newbie I even didnt knew such a program existed :) Thanks alot!