Bought the DJI version. Added bluejay esc, BF4.3, dynamic idle 30, a sweet tune, solid screws in the stack, and lifted up back mount to get to 25%tilt camera; it is now a marvelous piece of technology. This flies much bigger than it is. Not like a woop, like a 3 to 4" quad. Full freestyle on a 450 (4) and most freestyle on 750 (7mins). It's nice to fly at a spot and not be noticed, flying in my DJ I goggles. Love this! Get two and polar one for night. My new favorite.
can you please share your tune? I have issues with BlueJay, BF 4.3 dynamic idle 50 and have terrible low throttle wobbles when coming out of a dive. Thanks
I know this video is over a year old but thank you for it! Im getting into flying FPV Quads and thanks to your amazing videos I have learned so much. My Firefly 2S nano baby 20 is on its way to my house along with a transmitter, box goggles (for now), a charger, and batteries. Without your videos I wouldnt have had the confidence to build and buy my own set of kit for my first Quad and probably would have just got the tinyhawk 3 freestyle RTF. That kit is great but doesnt have much room for growth. So yet again thank you for the amazing information.
No way lol, I just got into the hobby like 2 weeks ago, and i just bought this as my second drone and your video pops up on my feed, posted today - 2 days before i get this drone.... Nice! I love your videos - Your attitude and humor is awesome, your videos are aesthetically pleasing, your very informative and easy to understand. Best FPV youtuber out there, keep it up man
The thorough nature of this video along with references to pertinent past content has inspired my patronage. Well done and thank you. Keep up the diligence.
I want to let everyone that gets the analog version know, that flywoo sends the vtx locked. Gotta press and hold the button for 10 seconds to get it to unlock. Else it will be stuck on 25mw and certain channels won't be available (like race band 8). Took a while for me to realize this and had been flying on 25mw for the longest.
Acro mode is usually best when flying outdoors. I think some beginners will inevitably try flying indoors or in a small space (e.g. bedroom) and if that's the case, deleting horizon/angle mode would be a disaster.
Yeah why are people so against angle for beginners????? Its the best, you get allot of your muscle memory in place and then just switch to acro and learn that. It wasn't a problem for me 3 years ago. Allot less crashing. Its not like angle mode has the sticks flipped or puts the radio in Mode 1. I don't understand why so hostile.
@@cagmuer I guess everyone learns at different paces, I just got into the hobby 2 weeks ago and started in acro mode on sim, i picked it up within 10 minutes, i tried angle mode and it was horrible and hard to control. Im now doing flips and flying under stuff, acro all the way
@@noobfpv2668 I also started flying acro in the sim, when I first got my quad and flew angle, it felt so wrong. Acro was still difficult but after 1-3 packs there I was fine!
@@noobfpv2668 Yeah there wasn't good sims when I started so I was flying for real and trying to avoid crashes. Sims change everything. But even pro whoop pilots fly angle mode and when I'm flying in the house I am in angle mode. Its just another tool. Nothing "wrong" with it.
Once all ExpressLRS receivers and TX modules come with 3.0 pre-flashed, you don't have to reflash. Just set the Binding Phrase in the Web UI, save it and reboot, and they will be paired up.
New to this hobby, just bought a Tango 2 Pro and plan on jumping in to get a FatShark soon. You got a patron in me. Thanks for all the videos a ton of knowledge and helpful tips to get a noob on the way.
Niceeee. Spent months deciding wether to get dji or hdzero. In the end i decided for dji. Will also get hdzero goggles soon if reviews are good. Since it can handle everything except dji. And for dji my only issue atleast for me is that it cant get smaller as other vtx. Now that i see this that fixes that problem. Thanks
Far easier way to bind ELRS to a Firefly(or pretty much any ELRS RX) is to plug the battery in until you hear a beep then quickly disconnect, wait a 1 or 2 count then repeat. Three plug/unplug and the last time you reconnect power the blue LED should be double flashing with two quick pulses together. This indicates bind mode and you can then go to your TX "sys or system" settings scrolling down to ExpressLRS, open the page and scroll down to "bind". You should immediately hear it's connected(something like telemetry connected) or at least see some signal bars on the main transmitter screen. Has worked for me on about 4 different ELRS RXs. On the SPI RX for moblite6 you can go to betaflight receiver page and click bind at bottom then you do same s I stated above for the transmitters half of the binding.
Easiest way to bind ELRS on the firefly for me was to connect to the RX wifi, set a phrase, then connect to the TX wifi and set the same phrase. Paired right up immediately.
I don't like that Bardwell said to delete Horizon mode. If im flying indoor and i dont want the controls to be angle mode and i want the quad to still pilot and be able to do most of the maneuvers in acro but inside with more stability, its the perfect option. Outdoor of course dont use horizon, you dont need it. I learned to fly on simulators using acro / air mode to learn and put in over 100 hours before i got my first fpv drone and over 200 hours since i got my first tiny whoop. Even though i have a perfect grasp on flying acro, and can even do so indoor, being in horizon mode inside allows me to get crazier with the tricks while still maintaining the ability to recover if I hit an object im flying within centimeters from. Bad advice in my honest opinion.
Great video for beginners, my DJI goggles, V2 and vistas are rooted and working just fine rooting process is a little Corky took a couple of times to complete the process
Not much heavier! Naked Vistas are about 12g. A person can build their own that comes out quite a bit lighter and more agile than this! Good for Flywoo though!!!! At least they are trying to build digital BNF ultra small micros! I built a similar carbon fiber 75mm DJI naked Vista RIPPER that weighs a mere 38g with a physical beeper. A guy I chat with here on TH-cam flies his 35g 75mm whoop very competitively! He thinks he can get one built just under 30 grams! 😳🤘 None of the other manufacturers have done any building and pushing the ultra light builds lower and lower in weight. They built those stupid, way to heavy 80g or so DJI digital micros, right when DJI entered the digital FPV game, back in late 2019, but have failed to come out with anything else! Even BetaFPV hasn't done JACK, and they specialize in micros a lot. It's disappointing to say the least! They all just quit!!! 😩
I ordered the walksnail version of this through Flywoo on 11/24 at 2am est, a few hours later I got an email from them with their Black Friday sale and it’s about $50 off. I sent them an email but didn’t hear anything. The day after the sale ended I got an email saying that it shipped so I replied to the email and they said “they never got my first email and now the Black Friday sale is over”. They gave me a store credit of a 10% discount code. I’d have to spend another $450 to get my money back. This is BULLCRAP!!!!
I'm a masochist I guess. Watch all your videos, longer the better. Whether I need to or not. For those choosing to root their dji goggles, I've recently done it. Well worth it. I also use SNEAKY_FPV betaflight fonts. Very cool, color fonts. 😎
Nice video! One question, did you notice that the temperature of the VTX is like >80ºC?(min 23:34) It happens to me too even when I set it in 25mW, is that normal? I feel like it's not safe enough.
It's normal for the vTX to get that hot if there isn't any airflow from the props. Best practice is to blow a fan on it when working on the bench. These are high powered vTX with almost no thermal mass. They get super hot.
Hey Joshua! Would you pick the hdzero one over a whoop with elrs and hd zero for mostly flying in the garden and sometimes in the house (with mounted propguards)?
I've got the Nano Baby 20 Hdzero edition. Connected Jumper Tlite ELRS to quad, there is a C in elrs section of controller yet nothing moving in betaflight! No stick inputs at all! Yes I'm a STUPID NEWB! Been watching videos for weeks(eyes are bleeding)! Any help would greatly be appreciated! Thank You!
I thought that maybe the price was too high and I didn't get the hdzero. I think I priced it and buying an analog bnf and adding hdzero would have been cheaper
Thanks for this video! I really enjoy all the FPV knowledge you share. I recently got into FPV and got the analog version of this drone with FrSky (pairing with my emax E8 controller). Are you able to give an example of pairing with Frsky for this drone? For the life of me I can't find a button on the transmitter (I think it's the FrSky R-XSR) to bind with. Thanks!
Resolved. In case others run into this. The button is very small/smooth and looks a bit like a lump of solder on the top near where the wires stick out. Pressing that enabled it to bind. Once bound a green light turns on. If betaflight cannot sense the inputs, then plug in the quad, hold the button for 4 seconds until a blue light goes on (green light will still be on if transmitter is connected). Unplug, replug, and then betaflight should see the stick inputs. In my case the mappings were all wrong, so they needed to be fixed.
Have you noticed these quads (specifically the analog) getting very hot? I got the analog version and the baseplate feels hot/very warm. I can put my hand over it and feel heat rising. It also emits a smell like something is burning. I don't see smoke, and when I look in my goggles it has a temperature warning at around 178F. Is this normal? Have you experienced it?
I just got a notification from Getftv that the Firefly 2S Nano Baby 20 DJI Vista has been discontinued and my order has been canceled.. I feel so let down..
Omg im getting a device descriptor request failed message on my driver for my flywoo nano it worked the first day and my baby ape connects what did i do .... Zadig doesn't fix it not sure i installed the cp210x drivers correctly but ive been through it a few times and it's installed correctly as far as i can tell😢 any help would be appreciated Thanku
I just got my skyzone 04x v2 and the goggles won't connect to any drone unless I switch to normal rf mode then switch back to the steadyveiw module every time I turn my goggles on any ideas why this may be ?
Mr Bardwell. Can you tell me if the dji version has a voltage regulator to power the vista since the fc doesn't have a 9v pad or will it work by just soldering the vista to the vcc pad with the power wires. Please if anyone has this drone please take and look and let me know what flywoo did. I'm building one from parts cause I already had a vista sitting around.
what 5V pad should I solder to?! Im running the 1s Walksnail Mini kit with the Versatile 12a AIO... Please help, had terrible range on first flight and terrible flight times. worried I should use a different 5v pad. You always save me!
@@JoshuaBardwell i can't resolve why I have brown outs within a minute of flying my walksnail. Its on the 5v pad... but my WS OSD is showing voltage drops to that pad...
@@JoshuaBardwellthanks Josh, is it possible that the 5v BEC isn't addiquite when powered with a 1s lipo? Also. I have "5v" and "+5v" pads. Any idea the difference??
Hey JB do you have a pid tune for this mini quad? mine came with default pid tunes, everything at zero. I dont know if they all come this way but does anyone have a pid tune i can copy ? i have the Firefly Nano Baby 2s HD dji
Hi. My DJI V2's displaying only 25mW output. Do you know why? It came that way. How can i change to 700? On my caddx vista (nazgul) FCC hack works perfectly but on flywoo I can't put the file inside the air unit. Can you help?
@@JoshuaBardwell Thanks JB. I managed to do that. In my case laptop didn't always detect the air unit. And also i had to power up the quad for the air unit to be visible to the PC. Thanks again.
It's the DJI foam shoe-horned onto the Walksnail. It doesn't fit well but it works ok. You can find a link to the foam on my website www.fpvknowitall.com.
Hopefully someone can help me here. I flashed (I know I shouldn't have) Bluejay to my esc's using esc-configurator, after watching JB's video on it, to my ELRS NanoBaby2s analog. After I did this I checked it on esc-configurator and the motors seemed to work fine through the web page motor check. I also went to BetaFlight and checked the motors there and had no errors and also had full control and full throttle range on the motor checks through Beta. But when I disconnected from Beta and armed the quad with my radio (TX12ELRS 3.1.1) the motors initially spin properly, but as soon as I gave it some throttle, it went to 100% throttle on it's own and didn't stop when I dropped the throttle down until I disarmed. When I disarmed they stopped immediately. All of my receiver settings are correct on Beta. I am not sure of the other settings though, because I am a newb. I haven't let it run when it does this and I don't believe I fried anything because I sit the quad in front of a fan whenever it's plugged in and make sure to cut it off as soon as it does this each time. Also, the motors make the 3 and then 2 beeps ok every time I plug the battery in, so according to the video JB uploaded a while back, the esc is fine. So I went to the FlyWoo site AFTER (ugh!) doing all this and saw that they warn against flashing the esc's. If you do though, they have the original firmware which you can re-flash back. So I went to esc-configurator and flashed my esc's again with the original firmware from FlyWoo and now it ALMOST works, I have throttle control for the first 10% of the stick up range, but if I go above 10% it goes 100% throttle again. If I use the roll and pitch stick the motors work just fine. It only seems to do this when I give it throttle. If anyone can help me I would appreciate it. I have been at this for many days now and I have even reached out to JB, but haven't heard back from him yet. I posted this here because I hope that if someone else makes the same mistakes I made they might find an answer. I am pretty sure I changed a setting somewhere and that is the issue, but I am no expert and don't have a clue if a "fried" esc would result in this type of problem or not. Thanks for reading and helping.
One or more of your motors are spinning the wrong direction after the flash is my best guess. Go back and check the motor direction and if the motor direction is spinning the wrong way, reverse it in BlueJay.
@@JoshuaBardwell Hi! So I finally got the throttle to respond after 6 days of struggling! I flashed the esc's back to the original BLHeli_S firmware which was on the Flywoo site. That didn't stop the problem though. Then I went into my configuration tab on BF4.3 where I had airmode permanently enabled. After disabling it, it stopped going full throttle and the motors are responding to my stick inputs, finally. I am sure there are a few more settings that are messed up though if that was the solution, and I still haven't flown it yet, but I am glad that the motors spool up and down according to my stick position finally. I have A LOT to learn about ELRS and BF. The past 6 days were a crash course. Hopefully it doesn't end with a crash. If you have advice or videos which you think might be relevant to what I did, I appreciate any additional guidance. Thank you!
any idea how to pair this drone with 'nebula pro nano', 'HD DJI Vista' to dji integra googles? Flywoo confirmed twice that these are compatible, but I put googles into pairing mode, it's beeping, I press button on drone, and nothing happnes. Both in 'dji fpv air unit' mode and in 'dji o3 air unit' mode. Any suggestions?
Put the Integra into "DJI Air Unit" mode. Then it will bind to Vista. You might need to update firmware on both the goggles and the Vista if you haven't updated them in a while.
@@JoshuaBardwell Thanks for reply! There is no such option. Based on your video I checked if I have latest firmware, and I have - V01.06.0000 from 2024-05-28, and this have only(among others) 'dji fpv air unit' and 'dji o3 air unit' neither of which binds. Please help: which version of integra googles did you use when it worked for you? Or is there some secret handshake outside of start pairing on googles, start pairing on quad(Firefly 2S Nano Baby 20 HD DJI Vista Micro Drone)? I tried short press on quad, long press. There is undocumented discotheque of colors flashing, but I have no idea what that means :)
@@gucciman420 the more you know the easier it will be in the long run. I understand for some it’s fine to just copy paste settings and such. But I prefer to know why it’s the way it is in the event maybe I’d prefer that at an opposite setting but if I don’t know what it does I’ll never mess with it. To each there own.
This is a great video, but you completely skip over the essential steps. I have no idea how to plug my controller to the computer, what option on the controller should be selected..ie. USB, the other two options. Also, if the controller and quad have to be bound with the same binding phrase, how do I get the binding phrase from the quad??
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think this video ever tells you to plug your controller into your computer. I haven't re-watched the whole 40 minute video to be sure but just based on the chapter titles, I don't see anything that would require you to plug the controller into the computer. Why is it that you're trying to do that? What timestamp in the video are you at? You don't "get the bind phrase from the quad". You make up a bind phrase and put the same bind phrase on both the quad and the controller. Details on that are in the "ExpressLRS definitive getting started guide" that I link to in the video description and mention in the video.
@Joshua Bardwell you're correct, you don't say that. As a beginner I'm confused, how to I flash my controller if I don't connect it to my computer? I already have the tx12 I bought with another quad. I then purchased the flywoo on its own, so need to bind the controller and the dominator goggles.
@@JoshuaBardwell My bad Josh! I got too excited and got ahead of myself!! Your videos have been a live saver once I slowed down a bit. Sometime I have to pump the brakes on my ADHD ;)
Don’t caveat facts with ‘my opinion’ man, that takes away from your expertise. ‘From how I see it’ would be better for some applications. But the radiomaster being one of the most popular radios is just a fact, don’t undermine that 😉
No offense, JB, but so much basic set up for controllers in this video. You have to have a video you could have linked to cover all of the basics for the newbies. This video is sooooo long with all of that basic controller set up, like setting up mode switches. 😴🥱Yes, I jumped ahead thanks to your wonderful chapters. 👍Still I would have liked it to start on analog video set up @ 21:20. New title: Beginners Set Up Guide to Flywoo Firefly Nano Baby 2S What? No review on this little guy? I just bought the previous model on clearance at GetFPV! It's in transit, so I wanted to hear what you thought about this new one, and how it flies. Another video with a review on it? 🤞👏😎
The review is coming. I have to set it up before I review it. The reason this info is in one video is that for a beginner, having to jump around between 500 videos can be really overwhelming especially because there are usually 20 different versions of the same video from a 5 year timespan. So every once in a while I just try to put a bunch of it in one place.
I tried horizon that one time when I first started flying… any time I had to make a quick maneuver the quad rolled 😂 it was super awkward. I gave up on it then and there. Maybe it’s different now? I fly exclusively acro for a long time. Not gonna change that, it works.
@@lemonsquareFPV I agree acro is the best and everyone should have the goal of trying to learn it. Beginners can benefit from angle mode because it can prevent them from getting into trouble like you described. But there was a period when experienced tiny whoop racers tended to fly in angle mode and I never understood it. If someone wants to use auto-level that's fine, but why limit the angle? In horizon mode you can go inverted when you need to
@@BrianKrumheuer horizon mode when I tried it had no control of inverted angle and did auto rotations when the stick was too far off centre. Sounds like it is different nowadays. It was uncontrolled movement when I flew it. I flew angle a bit, but as soon as I was brave enough to try acro, I just kept flying it. It is so much easier and, I have full control with no weirdness or jerkiness. Just smooth controlled flight. Never understood angle, it reminds me more of remote control cars on the ground, instead of maneuverable high performance flying machines. I fly upside down and sideways a lot, maybe it’s just not compatible with my style. I might try it this weekend, now I’m all curious. :p I’ll put together something disposable and give it a go. I am committing to this experiment!
First off - thank you Josh, this is just one of 100s of amazing instructive (and basically mandatory for new pilots in hobby) videos that you have labored to create since genesis of FPV. What I am going to say now may piss off some so be it. Why does it take this level of understanding (including good am't largely arcane and non intuitive info) and technical ability to be able to get to the point where you are flying these quads?? These are largely a good example of the larger hobby and quad / video / controller manufacturers. You personally may like the barrier to entry the aforementioned represents however, the hobby will die if it continues in this guise of non intuitive non user friendly set up for a basic FPV quad and req'd ancillaries. Yes, it will die as I assume it is slowly doing currently. DJI was only mfg that worked against this trend and they appear to be moving away from supporting BNF DJI equipped hobby quads. I dont want FPV to die but many things need to change that wont happen without a change and sea change in how betaflight, RC controller protocols, and HD video systems work together out of the box. Not dummy proof but something not full of hang ups and technical gotchas that detract from overall enjoyment of the hobby
Yeah, I'm going to have to VETO FLYWOO. Flywoo advertises a 5% discount for signing up for a newsletter which I did, no exceptions stated. I applied the code they sent me and it doesn't work. Tech support stated this: "FLYWOOHI ，New user discount is not valid for some products". What dishonest bullshit. No Thanks, never doing business with business that has a slimey tactic
thank you for all you do for FPV..... iv only started this hobby 2 months ago and you have become my TH-cam honey hole..... 😁
Welcome to the community, dude! 🖖😊
agreed , he has taught me threw all my issues so far!
Honey hole, bwahahahahahahahah. Love it.
Bought the DJI version. Added bluejay esc, BF4.3, dynamic idle 30, a sweet tune, solid screws in the stack, and lifted up back mount to get to 25%tilt camera; it is now a marvelous piece of technology.
This flies much bigger than it is. Not like a woop, like a 3 to 4" quad. Full freestyle on a 450 (4) and most freestyle on 750 (7mins). It's nice to fly at a spot and not be noticed, flying in my DJ I goggles. Love this! Get two and polar one for night. My new favorite.
hey why do you want a bluejay esc? what is dynamic idle 30? and do you prefer BF4.3 over the latest 4.4? thanks mate
can you please share your tune? I have issues with BlueJay, BF 4.3 dynamic idle 50 and have terrible low throttle wobbles when coming out of a dive. Thanks
Thanks a million for making this video and for what you do. You give beginners a much better way of getting into this hobby.
I know this video is over a year old but thank you for it! Im getting into flying FPV Quads and thanks to your amazing videos I have learned so much. My Firefly 2S nano baby 20 is on its way to my house along with a transmitter, box goggles (for now), a charger, and batteries. Without your videos I wouldnt have had the confidence to build and buy my own set of kit for my first Quad and probably would have just got the tinyhawk 3 freestyle RTF. That kit is great but doesnt have much room for growth. So yet again thank you for the amazing information.
No way lol, I just got into the hobby like 2 weeks ago, and i just bought this as my second drone and your video pops up on my feed, posted today - 2 days before i get this drone.... Nice! I love your videos - Your attitude and humor is awesome, your videos are aesthetically pleasing, your very informative and easy to understand. Best FPV youtuber out there, keep it up man
Destiny my friend!
The thorough nature of this video along with references to pertinent past content has inspired my patronage. Well done and thank you. Keep up the diligence.
I want to let everyone that gets the analog version know, that flywoo sends the vtx locked.
Gotta press and hold the button for 10 seconds to get it to unlock. Else it will be stuck on 25mw and certain channels won't be available (like race band 8).
Took a while for me to realize this and had been flying on 25mw for the longest.
The easiest way to know if it's locked is by trying to go to raceband 1,2,3,7 or 8. If it doesn't work immediately, it's locked.
FFFFFF I ran into this if you watch the video but I couldn't find ANY reference to unlocking it. Thank you!
OMG, thank you! I bought mine day one, had the same issue and kinda gave up on it.
I was able to get on Raceband 8 immediately after unboxing
@@IsJustJason interesting. So they aren't doing the exact same things on all of them then.
Thanks JB! Bought the dji version of this quad two weeks ago and I’ve been loving it. This video helped me refine some things.
How does it fly and do you fly it inside and out side ?
Acro mode is usually best when flying outdoors. I think some beginners will inevitably try flying indoors or in a small space (e.g. bedroom) and if that's the case, deleting horizon/angle mode would be a disaster.
Yeah why are people so against angle for beginners????? Its the best, you get allot of your muscle memory in place and then just switch to acro and learn that. It wasn't a problem for me 3 years ago. Allot less crashing. Its not like angle mode has the sticks flipped or puts the radio in Mode 1. I don't understand why so hostile.
@@cagmuer I guess everyone learns at different paces, I just got into the hobby 2 weeks ago and started in acro mode on sim, i picked it up within 10 minutes, i tried angle mode and it was horrible and hard to control. Im now doing flips and flying under stuff, acro all the way
@@noobfpv2668 I also started flying acro in the sim, when I first got my quad and flew angle, it felt so wrong. Acro was still difficult but after 1-3 packs there I was fine!
@@noobfpv2668 Yeah there wasn't good sims when I started so I was flying for real and trying to avoid crashes. Sims change everything. But even pro whoop pilots fly angle mode and when I'm flying in the house I am in angle mode. Its just another tool. Nothing "wrong" with it.
I am already fly for 5 months, fly on acro and use angle mode for landing. Angle mode are super useful for beginners
I like how you made it for beginner flyers. Nobody else did that in their reviews
As a total noob, this video is invaluable, thanks JB!
brilliant video, jb! So nice to see how you explain everything for beginners
Fantastic video, Joshua! Thanks a lot! 😊
Looking forward to the review and comparison!!!
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Once all ExpressLRS receivers and TX modules come with 3.0 pre-flashed, you don't have to reflash. Just set the Binding Phrase in the Web UI, save it and reboot, and they will be paired up.
New to this hobby, just bought a Tango 2 Pro and plan on jumping in to get a FatShark soon. You got a patron in me. Thanks for all the videos a ton of knowledge and helpful tips to get a noob on the way.
Niceeee. Spent months deciding wether to get dji or hdzero. In the end i decided for dji. Will also get hdzero goggles soon if reviews are good. Since it can handle everything except dji. And for dji my only issue atleast for me is that it cant get smaller as other vtx. Now that i see this that fixes that problem. Thanks
SO I JUST BOUGHT ALL FOUR!
Weird question to ask, but is there a Joshua Bardwell for rc planes like this? Or does someone need to fill the role 🤔
Love the coincidences lately, been lookin' at this baby yesterday and bam! JB provides additional info :D Love this channel !
Bro, radio master are awesome; charging premium for open source is a hard pill to swallow. I’d totes buy TBS over ELRS @ this price.
Far easier way to bind ELRS to a Firefly(or pretty much any ELRS RX) is to plug the battery in until you hear a beep then quickly disconnect, wait a 1 or 2 count then repeat. Three plug/unplug and the last time you reconnect power the blue LED should be double flashing with two quick pulses together. This indicates bind mode and you can then go to your TX "sys or system" settings scrolling down to ExpressLRS, open the page and scroll down to "bind". You should immediately hear it's connected(something like telemetry connected) or at least see some signal bars on the main transmitter screen. Has worked for me on about 4 different ELRS RXs. On the SPI RX for moblite6 you can go to betaflight receiver page and click bind at bottom then you do same s I stated above for the transmitters half of the binding.
Is there any disadvantages of binding this way?
Easiest way to bind ELRS on the firefly for me was to connect to the RX wifi, set a phrase, then connect to the TX wifi and set the same phrase. Paired right up immediately.
The power hack is required on Walksnail to get High Frame rate, so that’s a reason to do it even on the 1S
Thanks Joshua Im new and got this exact drone, having you putting video on it its a godsend!
I don't like that Bardwell said to delete Horizon mode. If im flying indoor and i dont want the controls to be angle mode and i want the quad to still pilot and be able to do most of the maneuvers in acro but inside with more stability, its the perfect option. Outdoor of course dont use horizon, you dont need it. I learned to fly on simulators using acro / air mode to learn and put in over 100 hours before i got my first fpv drone and over 200 hours since i got my first tiny whoop. Even though i have a perfect grasp on flying acro, and can even do so indoor, being in horizon mode inside allows me to get crazier with the tricks while still maintaining the ability to recover if I hit an object im flying within centimeters from. Bad advice in my honest opinion.
Great video for beginners, my DJI goggles, V2 and vistas are rooted and working just fine rooting process is a little Corky took a couple of times to complete the process
how do you bind the fc to the goggles? i can't get the FC to bind.. :(
@@brian6622 the goggles blind to the video transmitter not the FC
Watching here from philippines
Are you going to do a comparison of flights with each video transmitter? I’m curious how DJI stacks up because I think it’s heavier than the others.
Yep, exactly.
Not much heavier! Naked Vistas are about 12g. A person can build their own that comes out quite a bit lighter and more agile than this! Good for Flywoo though!!!! At least they are trying to build digital BNF ultra small micros! I built a similar carbon fiber 75mm DJI naked Vista RIPPER that weighs a mere 38g with a physical beeper. A guy I chat with here on TH-cam flies his 35g 75mm whoop very competitively! He thinks he can get one built just under 30 grams! 😳🤘
None of the other manufacturers have done any building and pushing the ultra light builds lower and lower in weight. They built those stupid, way to heavy 80g or so DJI digital micros, right when DJI entered the digital FPV game, back in late 2019, but have failed to come out with anything else! Even BetaFPV hasn't done JACK, and they specialize in micros a lot. It's disappointing to say the least! They all just quit!!! 😩
@Jb your Tx16 edition has some Prince Purple rain touch. Very cool.
I ordered the walksnail version of this through Flywoo on 11/24 at 2am est, a few hours later I got an email from them with their Black Friday sale and it’s about $50 off. I sent them an email but didn’t hear anything. The day after the sale ended I got an email saying that it shipped so I replied to the email and they said “they never got my first email and now the Black Friday sale is over”. They gave me a store credit of a 10% discount code. I’d have to spend another $450 to get my money back. This is BULLCRAP!!!!
I'm a masochist I guess. Watch all your videos, longer the better. Whether I need to or not. For those choosing to root their dji goggles, I've recently done it. Well worth it. I also use SNEAKY_FPV betaflight fonts. Very cool, color fonts. 😎
Nice video! One question, did you notice that the temperature of the VTX is like >80ºC?(min 23:34) It happens to me too even when I set it in 25mW, is that normal? I feel like it's not safe enough.
It's normal for the vTX to get that hot if there isn't any airflow from the props. Best practice is to blow a fan on it when working on the bench. These are high powered vTX with almost no thermal mass. They get super hot.
@@JoshuaBardwell Do you think could be nice to put some thermal pad?
Bardwell, I see you’ve got the new radiomaster module there. What are your thoughts on purchasing the regular Micro vs is big boy?
Mine I got a few weeks ago and it came with betaflight 4.2.8, yours seem to come with 4.3
Hey Joshua! Would you pick the hdzero one over a whoop with elrs and hd zero for mostly flying in the garden and sometimes in the house (with mounted propguards)?
i need elrs 3.0 for my modules. betaflight passthrough failed ugh
Thanks!
I've got the Nano Baby 20 Hdzero edition. Connected Jumper Tlite ELRS to quad, there is a C in elrs section of controller yet nothing moving in betaflight! No stick inputs at all! Yes I'm a STUPID NEWB! Been watching videos for weeks(eyes are bleeding)! Any help would greatly be appreciated! Thank You!
I thought that maybe the price was too high and I didn't get the hdzero.
I think I priced it and buying an analog bnf and adding hdzero would have been cheaper
Thanks for this video! I really enjoy all the FPV knowledge you share. I recently got into FPV and got the analog version of this drone with FrSky (pairing with my emax E8 controller). Are you able to give an example of pairing with Frsky for this drone? For the life of me I can't find a button on the transmitter (I think it's the FrSky R-XSR) to bind with. Thanks!
Resolved. In case others run into this. The button is very small/smooth and looks a bit like a lump of solder on the top near where the wires stick out. Pressing that enabled it to bind. Once bound a green light turns on. If betaflight cannot sense the inputs, then plug in the quad, hold the button for 4 seconds until a blue light goes on (green light will still be on if transmitter is connected). Unplug, replug, and then betaflight should see the stick inputs. In my case the mappings were all wrong, so they needed to be fixed.
Have you noticed these quads (specifically the analog) getting very hot? I got the analog version and the baseplate feels hot/very warm. I can put my hand over it and feel heat rising. It also emits a smell like something is burning. I don't see smoke, and when I look in my goggles it has a temperature warning at around 178F.
Is this normal? Have you experienced it?
I Love you so much for this video and all the others
I just got a notification from Getftv that the Firefly 2S Nano Baby 20 DJI Vista has been discontinued and my order has been canceled.. I feel so let down..
Good work pronouncing the name :)
Omg im getting a device descriptor request failed message on my driver for my flywoo nano it worked the first day and my baby ape connects what did i do ....
Zadig doesn't fix it not sure i installed the cp210x drivers correctly but ive been through it a few times and it's installed correctly as far as i can tell😢 any help would be appreciated Thanku
Thought you used to set the endpoints using rxrange in Betaflight. Why the change to setting them using the radio?
I go back and forth depending on my mood.
Love this quad ❤
been waiting for this!!! Now to wait for the vista version to get back in stock with ELRS ;(
Is it possible to update the firmware to Betaflight 4.4.* on this quad?
Hi I did a elrs receiver flash to update on my nano baby 20 to my version and now I can't bind , or get wifi to work please help.
I just got my skyzone 04x v2 and the goggles won't connect to any drone unless I switch to normal rf mode then switch back to the steadyveiw module every time I turn my goggles on any ideas why this may be ?
My dji firefly baby 20 it bind with my dji controller 2 but it not work what can I do help😢
fricken awesome once again. Thanks Josh
Mr Bardwell. Can you tell me if the dji version has a voltage regulator to power the vista since the fc doesn't have a 9v pad or will it work by just soldering the vista to the vcc pad with the power wires. Please if anyone has this drone please take and look and let me know what flywoo did. I'm building one from parts cause I already had a vista sitting around.
what 5V pad should I solder to?! Im running the 1s Walksnail Mini kit with the Versatile 12a AIO... Please help, had terrible range on first flight and terrible flight times. worried I should use a different 5v pad. You always save me!
All 5v pads are equivalent.
@@JoshuaBardwell i can't resolve why I have brown outs within a minute of flying my walksnail. Its on the 5v pad... but my WS OSD is showing voltage drops to that pad...
Maybe your 5v regulator can't handle the current draw of the vTX.
@@JoshuaBardwellthanks Josh, is it possible that the 5v BEC isn't addiquite when powered with a 1s lipo? Also. I have "5v" and "+5v" pads. Any idea the difference??
Someone can tell me which motor/esc presets i have to choose for default settings ?? THX
how do i put on the prop guards
Nice video and t-shirt is incredible!!!
Do I have to select BNF-DJI when I purchase if I have the googles 2 and the controller 2?
Yes.
@@JoshuaBardwellHallo. Does it also work with DJI Googles V2 ?
Why does mine not show up in betaflight? (MAC- failed to open serial port)
Hey JB do you have a pid tune for this mini quad? mine came with default pid tunes, everything at zero. I dont know if they all come this way but does anyone have a pid tune i can copy ? i have the Firefly Nano Baby 2s HD dji
Is anyone else getting a ton of prop wash when punching the throttle? Anyone have any advice on how to tune that out?
Hi. My DJI V2's displaying only 25mW output. Do you know why? It came that way. How can i change to 700? On my caddx vista (nazgul) FCC hack works perfectly but on flywoo I can't put the file inside the air unit. Can you help?
You need to do the FCC hack on the air unit. That's the way. If it's Vista, a USB drive will pop up when you power up and plug in USB.
@@JoshuaBardwell Thanks JB. I managed to do that. In my case laptop didn't always detect the air unit. And also i had to power up the quad for the air unit to be visible to the PC. Thanks again.
hi @Joshua Bardwell what faceplate foam do you have mounted on your Fatshark/Walksnail goggles ?
It's the DJI foam shoe-horned onto the Walksnail. It doesn't fit well but it works ok. You can find a link to the foam on my website www.fpvknowitall.com.
@@JoshuaBardwell thank you
Hopefully someone can help me here. I flashed (I know I shouldn't have) Bluejay to my esc's using esc-configurator, after watching JB's video on it, to my ELRS NanoBaby2s analog. After I did this I checked it on esc-configurator and the motors seemed to work fine through the web page motor check. I also went to BetaFlight and checked the motors there and had no errors and also had full control and full throttle range on the motor checks through Beta.
But when I disconnected from Beta and armed the quad with my radio (TX12ELRS 3.1.1) the motors initially spin properly, but as soon as I gave it some throttle, it went to 100% throttle on it's own and didn't stop when I dropped the throttle down until I disarmed. When I disarmed they stopped immediately. All of my receiver settings are correct on Beta. I am not sure of the other settings though, because I am a newb. I haven't let it run when it does this and I don't believe I fried anything because I sit the quad in front of a fan whenever it's plugged in and make sure to cut it off as soon as it does this each time. Also, the motors make the 3 and then 2 beeps ok every time I plug the battery in, so according to the video JB uploaded a while back, the esc is fine.
So I went to the FlyWoo site AFTER (ugh!) doing all this and saw that they warn against flashing the esc's. If you do though, they have the original firmware which you can re-flash back. So I went to esc-configurator and flashed my esc's again with the original firmware from FlyWoo and now it ALMOST works, I have throttle control for the first 10% of the stick up range, but if I go above 10% it goes 100% throttle again. If I use the roll and pitch stick the motors work just fine. It only seems to do this when I give it throttle.
If anyone can help me I would appreciate it. I have been at this for many days now and I have even reached out to JB, but haven't heard back from him yet. I posted this here because I hope that if someone else makes the same mistakes I made they might find an answer. I am pretty sure I changed a setting somewhere and that is the issue, but I am no expert and don't have a clue if a "fried" esc would result in this type of problem or not. Thanks for reading and helping.
One or more of your motors are spinning the wrong direction after the flash is my best guess. Go back and check the motor direction and if the motor direction is spinning the wrong way, reverse it in BlueJay.
@@JoshuaBardwell Hi! So I finally got the throttle to respond after 6 days of struggling! I flashed the esc's back to the original BLHeli_S firmware which was on the Flywoo site. That didn't stop the problem though. Then I went into my configuration tab on BF4.3 where I had airmode permanently enabled. After disabling it, it stopped going full throttle and the motors are responding to my stick inputs, finally. I am sure there are a few more settings that are messed up though if that was the solution, and I still haven't flown it yet, but I am glad that the motors spool up and down according to my stick position finally. I have A LOT to learn about ELRS and BF. The past 6 days were a crash course. Hopefully it doesn't end with a crash. If you have advice or videos which you think might be relevant to what I did, I appreciate any additional guidance. Thank you!
any idea how to pair this drone with 'nebula pro nano', 'HD DJI Vista' to dji integra googles? Flywoo confirmed twice that these are compatible, but I put googles into pairing mode, it's beeping, I press button on drone, and nothing happnes. Both in 'dji fpv air unit' mode and in 'dji o3 air unit' mode. Any suggestions?
Put the Integra into "DJI Air Unit" mode. Then it will bind to Vista. You might need to update firmware on both the goggles and the Vista if you haven't updated them in a while.
@@JoshuaBardwell Thanks for reply! There is no such option. Based on your video I checked if I have latest firmware, and I have - V01.06.0000 from 2024-05-28, and this have only(among others) 'dji fpv air unit' and 'dji o3 air unit' neither of which binds. Please help: which version of integra googles did you use when it worked for you? Or is there some secret handshake outside of start pairing on googles, start pairing on quad(Firefly 2S Nano Baby 20 HD DJI Vista Micro Drone)? I tried short press on quad, long press. There is undocumented discotheque of colors flashing, but I have no idea what that means :)
@Joshua Bardwell No product test and review? How does she fly?
Have to set it up before I review it. Review is coming!
@@JoshuaBardwell of course of course, I just wanted you to know how much we like your reviews 😃
So the version doesnt need to match with receiver just binding phrase
It needs to be the same major version like 2.x vs 3.x
@@JoshuaBardwell Thank you very much i didnt think you would respond...
does anyone have a betaflight cfg for this drone? i need it really bad because i updated and forgot to create a backup of my settings smh
I don’t think people wanting to know all the information are masochist, just intelligent for wanting to know more than the bare minimum.
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*sad dev noises*
Yeah, I hate looking at options and having no clue what they mean. I just need to know.
@@gucciman420 the more you know the easier it will be in the long run. I understand for some it’s fine to just copy paste settings and such. But I prefer to know why it’s the way it is in the event maybe I’d prefer that at an opposite setting but if I don’t know what it does I’ll never mess with it. To each there own.
This is a great video, but you completely skip over the essential steps. I have no idea how to plug my controller to the computer, what option on the controller should be selected..ie. USB, the other two options. Also, if the controller and quad have to be bound with the same binding phrase, how do I get the binding phrase from the quad??
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think this video ever tells you to plug your controller into your computer. I haven't re-watched the whole 40 minute video to be sure but just based on the chapter titles, I don't see anything that would require you to plug the controller into the computer.
Why is it that you're trying to do that? What timestamp in the video are you at?
You don't "get the bind phrase from the quad". You make up a bind phrase and put the same bind phrase on both the quad and the controller. Details on that are in the "ExpressLRS definitive getting started guide" that I link to in the video description and mention in the video.
@Joshua Bardwell you're correct, you don't say that. As a beginner I'm confused, how to I flash my controller if I don't connect it to my computer? I already have the tx12 I bought with another quad. I then purchased the flywoo on its own, so need to bind the controller and the dominator goggles.
Please watch the video, "expresslrs definitive getting started guide" linked in the video description, for instructions on how to flash your radio.
@@JoshuaBardwell My bad Josh! I got too excited and got ahead of myself!! Your videos have been a live saver once I slowed down a bit. Sometime I have to pump the brakes on my ADHD ;)
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"They're masochists, I assume" - Best description of an open source developer ever.
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Applied preset.....and now onscreen says "Waiting for OSD......." Anyone else running WTFOS getting this issue?
Did you select the correct UART in the preset? It should already be selected if it came with DJI already.
@@JoshuaBardwell Thanks JB. Always appreciate the reply. I'll give you a thumbs up if that is the fix!!
Don’t caveat facts with ‘my opinion’ man, that takes away from your expertise. ‘From how I see it’ would be better for some applications. But the radiomaster being one of the most popular radios is just a fact, don’t undermine that 😉
No offense, JB, but so much basic set up for controllers in this video. You have to have a video you could have linked to cover all of the basics for the newbies. This video is sooooo long with all of that basic controller set up, like setting up mode switches. 😴🥱Yes, I jumped ahead thanks to your wonderful chapters. 👍Still I would have liked it to start on analog video set up @ 21:20.
New title: Beginners Set Up Guide to Flywoo Firefly Nano Baby 2S
What? No review on this little guy? I just bought the previous model on clearance at GetFPV! It's in transit, so I wanted to hear what you thought about this new one, and how it flies. Another video with a review on it? 🤞👏😎
The review is coming. I have to set it up before I review it. The reason this info is in one video is that for a beginner, having to jump around between 500 videos can be really overwhelming especially because there are usually 20 different versions of the same video from a 5 year timespan. So every once in a while I just try to put a bunch of it in one place.
That's very considerate for the noob! Yes, they should be able to get theirs up and flying in no time, with this! :)
no flying vid?
This is bind/configure vid. Flying vid comes after bind/configure. I'm going to review all of these :-)
@@JoshuaBardwell so hows it rip bro?
Horizon mode > angle mode. Fight me.
I tried horizon that one time when I first started flying… any time I had to make a quick maneuver the quad rolled 😂 it was super awkward. I gave up on it then and there. Maybe it’s different now? I fly exclusively acro for a long time. Not gonna change that, it works.
@@lemonsquareFPV I agree acro is the best and everyone should have the goal of trying to learn it. Beginners can benefit from angle mode because it can prevent them from getting into trouble like you described. But there was a period when experienced tiny whoop racers tended to fly in angle mode and I never understood it. If someone wants to use auto-level that's fine, but why limit the angle? In horizon mode you can go inverted when you need to
@@BrianKrumheuer horizon mode when I tried it had no control of inverted angle and did auto rotations when the stick was too far off centre. Sounds like it is different nowadays. It was uncontrolled movement when I flew it.
I flew angle a bit, but as soon as I was brave enough to try acro, I just kept flying it. It is so much easier and, I have full control with no weirdness or jerkiness. Just smooth controlled flight.
Never understood angle, it reminds me more of remote control cars on the ground, instead of maneuverable high performance flying machines. I fly upside down and sideways a lot, maybe it’s just not compatible with my style. I might try it this weekend, now I’m all curious. :p I’ll put together something disposable and give it a go. I am committing to this experiment!
First off - thank you Josh, this is just one of 100s of amazing instructive (and basically mandatory for new pilots in hobby) videos that you have labored to create since genesis of FPV. What I am going to say now may piss off some so be it. Why does it take this level of understanding (including good am't largely arcane and non intuitive info) and technical ability to be able to get to the point where you are flying these quads?? These are largely a good example of the larger hobby and quad / video / controller manufacturers. You personally may like the barrier to entry the aforementioned represents however, the hobby will die if it continues in this guise of non intuitive non user friendly set up for a basic FPV quad and req'd ancillaries. Yes, it will die as I assume it is slowly doing currently. DJI was only mfg that worked against this trend and they appear to be moving away from supporting BNF DJI equipped hobby quads. I dont want FPV to die but many things need to change that wont happen without a change and sea change in how betaflight, RC controller protocols, and HD video systems work together out of the box. Not dummy proof but something not full of hang ups and technical gotchas that detract from overall enjoyment of the hobby
M@STER 'know it all' !!! thx ¶ ; - )
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Again commercials…
Which part of this was a commercial?
Im joke... They care or without care.. Its doesnt matter to me.. What if they mad??? Disapointed with my word????
Junk quads at high prices that's flywoo
Yeah, I'm going to have to VETO FLYWOO. Flywoo advertises a 5% discount for signing up for a newsletter which I did, no exceptions stated. I applied the code they sent me and it doesn't work. Tech support stated this: "FLYWOOHI ，New user discount is not valid for some products". What dishonest bullshit. No Thanks, never doing business with business that has a slimey tactic
Thanks!