Betaflight / Cleanflight Flight Controller Won't Connect | FIXED
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If your Cleanflight or Betaflight flight controller won't connect to your computer, the most likely cause is that your drivers aren't installed correctly. I'll show you how to install them correctly. I'll also show you the most common ways that people mess them up, how to tell what's gone wrong, and how to fix it. The good news is, if you think you've bricked your flight controller, you probably haven't. It's nearly impossible to brick these devices simply by flashing them incorrectly.
The flight controller in the video is the Lumenier Lux v2. Same great layout and features as the Lux v1, but with the (superior!) 6000 gyro and an on-board SD card reader. This board was provided by GetFPV.
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I don't know if it's been said, but since project blue falcon went AWOL you are the best consolidated knowledge base we have left. thank you for putting this together, as always, your content is on point. I would argue you are one of the reasons this community grows as fast as it can.
Kwad Skwad he's back and spittin out videos at a rapid rate
Sadly, Project Blue Falcon was in a terrible motorcycle accident last week. He did not survive. :( Rest in Peace.
floorpizza what really. How sad.
I have an xrotor f4 fc the one that plugs in to the 4 in 1 I was able to connect until I flashed the new betaflight 3.0. I can flash any version with out problem but now it won’t connect to let me in I have racked my brain any advice would be greatly appreciated
Project Blue Falcon didn't go AWOL, he died. Show some respect bruh!
This is probably the simplest and most logical driver explanation I've seen yet.
Joshua! Thank you so much for your videos. I can't say it enough. You're the only reason I've been able to enjoy flying. I've referenced this video for several quads at this point. Much love and respect! Thanks again!
Brilliant! This process is so confusing for a noob and even intermediates and until now I haven't found any other explanation as concise and helpful as this. Please keep up the quality work. Thanks Josh
This is great if you have a window computer. For those of use with MACS this doesn't apply beyond loading the CP210x Drivers. I'm still not able to communicate with my old Naze32 Rev 5 FC.
Josh, thank you so much. So many challenges until the part with the Zadig installing the correct driver. I've watched you for a few years. You're the man
I just watched this video to set up the Wizard and I'm lost I downloaded the drivers at connected the drone but nothing
I've found the answer to my problem in this very video, 5 years later. Thanks a lot Joshua Bardwell. Keep them coming!
Great vid explaining this stuff Josh. You are an asset to the hobby :D
+Liam Lambkin thanks!
I second that. I've been watching for a few months now and I've learned quite a bit from you Joshua. Thank you for the great videos.
3rd That, i have been watching your videos right from the start. Thank you!
I'll fourth that, I just had to rewatch this video after 1 year to get my board up and running. Thanks again Josh.
A great asset. I learned to fly acro from Joshua on the sim. I went from not being able to get to a gate to flying my own quad semi- proficiently. This video was huge. I'm an electrical engineer and not a luddite, but I needed something like this bad. How would you find all this stuff without this video. Surely if this vanished, Betaflight wouldn't die...
OCT 2022: This video gave me enough info to bring my new FC back to life. It was stuck half way between bootloader mode and who knows what... The steps regarding loading the right drivers at the right time is still relevant today. Thanks Joshua!
I am also stuck in bootloader mode. The indicator is constantly on. Tell me how you managed to get out of this mode?
I thought I knew my way around the different drivers of different boards but damn! This really explains the mess that is stm32 drivers! Awesome video!
It's only really a mess on windows with Chrome.
I've thought of buying a Macbook for FC Comfigurators. Ya think it's worth it?
Jeez, I watched more than 50 videos & read too many hours trying to resolve my boot-loading issues. You Josh, saved the day & got directly to heart of my problem. THANK YOU VERY MUCH! Wish I could pay you back somehow...
If only there were a way...
@@JoshuaBardwell love the sarcasm in here
I had many instances between vcp vs bootloader failing to even be captured by USB. Days and hours trying to troubleshoot it, different USB ports, onboard vs add-in, etc. Driver install/reinstall/update. Came down to several of my usb cables that don't work for VCP OR bootloader even though the successfuly transfer data.
Go figure.
So, if you've done everything, install, remove, update, Zadig, etc with no joy. Try a different cable. Or try it first and save yourself some potential time and frustration. Arrrrrgggghhhh! (And that's being polite, lol)
Fingers crossed here. I'm having what I suspect to be driver issues with a Kiss board. It will not enter dfu/bootloader mode and have tried on 3 separate PCs without pre-existing drivers. I know this video was for cleanflight, but I'm checking anything related to driver issues these days. Maybe it is the wire, because I cannot finding a conflicting driver and DFuse isn't recognizing anything.
James Kuhlman thanks for the advice, I was going crazy with the same problem and tried another USB cable and of course it worked!
Mike Pregler Glad I could help! Nice to know when all that cussin' was for a good cause.
Lesson learned for me was that there IS a reason to have a couple of quality cables about.
James Kuhlman this just saved me so much trouble. I had already spent 4 hours troubleshooting when really the USB cable wasn't working and I had to use another one. Thank you so much!!!!
David Parks My pleasure! this was one of those rare times when I opened my mouth and did not come back with the tang of toe jam...
Joshua Bardwell Thank you so much for this video! I had no problems flashing my SPRacingF3 board with my 1st 2 builds but with this 3rd build I have an Omnibus F4 Pro V3 and I couldn’t get it to flash at all. I ended up cleaning house and deleting all the drivers installed for BF and started from scratch. I then watched this video and followed step by step and I was finally able to flash the latest firmware on my FC. I’ve been fighting this issue for 2 days now, so thank you for the help Josh! I’m finally ready to start wiring my 3rd build! I’ll be flying this weekend finally!
Wish I had this last week! Could have saved me hours of searching.
YOU ARE MY HERO! 3 Years later you saved me from returning my first drone. I've spent days looking for this information. Do you know that you are the only one who shows where the boot loader button is?!?!
I may be some what of a geek, but you had my head swimming. this process needs to be slimmed down, it is just toooooo messy!!!!!!!!!
I would've been screwed without this video. You got every man and his dog showing how to tune but not one video that I could find that explains this. Ta!
Hey Joshua - what is your suggestion for downloading the STM32 Virtual COM Port Driver on a Mac? The file is a .exe on wont work on a Mac. Thanks!
MrJRide2345 I want to know this too! I used to be able to connect with my mac no problem. After I flashed my FC with betaflight 3.1 it stopped working? Quad comes on and activates with trigger switch per Joshua's "CLI" settings. It just doesn't connect anymore???? NEED HELP JOSHUA
Dylan Chislett connect battery to quad. then open betaflight. connect USB to quad and computer. then hit connect on betaflight. solved.
just put it into bootloader and flash it
I use implus and a mac conveder from exe to mac file and it work 👍🏼
hi Raymond, can you explain this a bit in depth, I have the same issue as above and am a newbie in mac to exe convertors, thanks!
Man I came back for this again... my diatone 2017 got an issue they send me a new FC now during my holiday break I change my FC watching your video again. You rock JB!!
You are a boss, this has been defeating me for 2 weeks on my Babyhawk. Finally a resource that speaks simple English. You have another subscriber. Thank You Josh......now if I can just get settings to actually save.
Dooooood!
I just flashed my Omnibus F3 nano V2 using the Zadig driver you show in your video as it has VCP. I'm so proud of myself haha. I would've had NO IDEA how to solve this without this video. What would we do without you!?
Thank you thank you thank you!
Glad it was helpful.
I did learn something today! Getting my firmware updated got rid of my receiver connection errors. Gave this video a thumbs up.
Thank you so much for providing this free tutorial service! Your channel has helped me immeasurably while learning this hobby! All the best!
Josh I freakin love you! I am super proud to be a patreon supporter .You have no idea being new at this how much of a headache this was for me to fix this until I spoke with you .THANK-YOU
Glad I could help you get it sorted out.
Excellent explanations for the USB driver nightmare... I spent 10 hours yesterday screwing around trying to get my BeeBrain to talk with Windows 7. I finally got it to work. Looking at this video nicely summed up the issue with the drivers hell I went through. Thanks for taking the time to do this video. Much appreciated...
Really sorry you had to go through that. There is no reason for this to be more than a 15 minute process. This is one of a few issues that I desperately wish Betaflight would do better.
Maybe now that BF Configurator is an EXE file instead of a Chrome app we can move off of the winusb DFU driver.
Hi Joshua, I cannot thank you enough for saving my beginner arse again. Thought I bricked my Flywoo Firefly 1S baby Nano, then was able to follow your instructions here to get it in DFU and flash to the latest firmware. Saved the day phew. I have just signed up as a patreon using paypal. Keep up the great work. Do you have any videos or tips on how to enable VTX IRC Tramp, as the Video Transmitter tab in Betaflight sadly says 'Device ready No'. That is the last piece of my puzzle before I am able to start flying the quad in my garden.
I was struggling to connect my quad to BetaFlight for so long and tried everything on here multiple times... then I tried a different microUSB cable... and it worked! Turns out, the ones that come with your GoPro are only good as charging cables xD
Thanks JB... Joshua Bardwell for all the videos! I refer to them for nearly all of my FPV needs!
Joshua, You've done it again! Thank you so much for the info on the drivers. I just went and deleted what drivers were installed because I've been having problems flashing and changing settings. This video was a great help! Now Betaflight works, no problems flashing new firmware and changing settings. Thanks again!!
I freaking love you man, I was racking my brain hardcore after my first build trying to get this to program. You sir, are awesome.
Glad it worked for you.
I've been watching your videos for two months based on my friend suggestion, now i learned a lot from you. Thank you for your great videos, Josh. It was helping me a lot, sorry for my bad English.😙👍🏻
thank you joshua for being here doing what you re doing ,youtube wouldn t be the same without you!
Great video Josh, I have been trying to connect to Betaflight, tried everything, turns out I was using a usb charging cable and not a data cable, didn't realize there was a difference. Everyone having issues please try a data cable, you will save tons of time!
How do you tell the difference?
thanks man, i've been checking so many videos around on how to do this, but youre actually the only one i could follow and get over with this nasty process. thanks a lot for your work!
The best video of all fpv/quad on TH-cam !! ***** 5stars !!!
I don't know how you know everything but I feel like I can always count on you to get me where I need to be
this video really saved me from probably returning my flight controller, thanks
USB CABLES - Thanks Josh and thanks to James Kuhlman, read his posts below. You solved the problem for many of us, not driver related at all.
THANK YOU James Kuhlman!!! I didn't take any notice of your comment because "I Always Use This Cable" with no problems at all" BUT just because I am completely out of options trying to connect a Brand New Mamba FC for my GT R-349 HD I did try a different cable and HELLO! DFU Mode BabY!! Go F@#$ing Figure, WTF and all that stuff... if you are having trouble DO IT, you never know, it worked for about 20 of us here so you have nothing to lose, blew me away! Thank again man, rockin. Change Your USB Cable!
Dude, you have saved me so many hours of frustration over the years
Man, u r god send. I've been fooling around my new F3 EVO board for 2 days to get it to connect in DFU mode for firmware flashing without any success. After your vdo, everything is done in like 5 minutes. The reason why I can't find this vdo is because you refer to LUX flight controller and I just stumble upon it while searching about VCP driver problem. My Windows7 shows the board in STM32 DFU device but no DFU in Cleanflight pull down menu for com port. All the talks about VCP driver issue never stated clearly as your VDO did, which driver you are suppose to install to get thing working.
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.
it took my slow ass two days but got it done thanks to this video. Thank you Joshua.
Thank you for that Little Zadig step... Worked right away. Wonderful. Headaches avoided!!
Only guy who says how it's done!! Thanks lots!!!!
I know I'm super late to the party on this one, but this video solved my problems. Thanks for your hard work and insight.
Josh,Wanted to personally thank you for this instructional video. Even though it's a year old, you have saved me many evenings of headaches. I was finally able to flash my betaflight F4 controller. Your videos are an invaluable asset to this hobby. Subscribed!
I posted a comment several months ago about how I got around all my driver issues by going with a chromebook and using the Chrome apps. Well, I just tested with a $35 Raspberry Pi 3 and it works!! At least on the first three copters I grabbed off my wall. I tested all 17 flight controllers with my chromebook and they all worked the first time. I don't have the time or motivation to confirm that with the rasberry pi but I have a feeling that it will work just as flawlessly. I am actually on my raspberry pi 3 typing this comment right now. I will say that BLheli-32 doesn't work with the chromebook and I don't expect it to work with the raspberry pi either because it isn't supported in the chrome app. But $40 to never fight drivers again? that's your call. But it would be an easy one for me.
This video is old but still relevant. This helped me fix my Betaflight 4.1 flashing issues on Windows 10. Thanks!
Thanks Joshua! This video of yours was really useful and I avoided to throw in the garbage a Omnibus clone flight controller.
omg, you rock!!!! just a little advice for anyone using Windows XP. The zadig device says it doesn't support XP anymore. There is an option that says other version, click that and find the version that says XP.. (mine was 2.2xp) and it worked beautifully.... thanks so much Josh.. PS. I know nothing about computers and got it to work thanks to you, keep up the easy to follow videos for us super newb's, lol
Once again, you have stepped in and saved the day! Thank you for going step-by-step through the process. Really helpful!
Thankyou JB this was too much information to ask you on a live stream , and after learning open tx and not being a computer guy . I have only betaflight to learn and I'm properly in to this hobby. Soldering and batteries all been ticked off . Just got build a qwad or 2 . Awesome info
Thanks a lot for this video. I was totally lost and couldn't find any documentation about flashing a FC
JB, So happy i found this video, needed to update some FC's and this video helped me even though its 6 yrs old. Thank you.
I just to start with I wish I could click the thumbs up button more then one time because you my friend are the MAN! you made that so simple and understandable!! thanks again. keep up the great work Happy flying sir
Josh, what do you think of the Lux v2? It looks like a great board. Just ordered one.
+tchthsky it's a really solid board, yes.
IMPORTANT: possible fix!
Try using another usb cable! Cleanflight manual says: "If you see no signs of life on your host computer when you plug in your board, check your cable with your mobile phone or some other USB device - some charging cables have only the power pins connected. These will power up the board, so the leds light up, but the host computer will not react to the device at all. You need a proper USB cable to connect your board to the Cleanflight Configurator." Worked for me!
K helpfull thx
Got it Joshua, Thanks for taking the time to reply on a Sunday. I didn't expect to here from you till Monday. Thanks for your dedication to the hobby.................
Thanks Joshua! You no your way round this better than any man
You're the best man. I've been screwing with this board for 3 days (actually already have a replacement coming) and finally, thanks to you, it is connected and working fine. Thanks so much!
You do such a fantastic job of explaining this kind of stuff. By far the best at explaining this stuff. With that said, it's still hard to follow and still hit or miss. I think stuff like this is a part of this hobby and technology that still has a TON of room for improvement. I dread flashing a board. It seems like such a high percentage of times I have issues in one way or another. I just installed a Betaflight F4 and I can't get that to flash. It's kind of ridiculous that we have to jump through so many hoops to flash the latest version of BF onto a BF board! I thought I had this stuff figured out and have had no issues flashing the last several boards I have built with but again I find myself going to Joshua for guidance because even a person like myself that has been in the hobby for years still can't flash a flight controller with confidence LOL.
Wanted to say thanks for your videos. Coming from a person that can take what someone says 3 different ways you make things understandable. I get what you say the first time without having to worry about , did he mean this way or this way. When I have trouble ( new to fpv) you are my go to person. I look for videos done by you first. Keep up the good work.
Such a great video Joshua, Even after being at this hobby for over 12 months, I must have had issues with this step a dozen times or more. Thanks for your work and support
This is the most useful video on flashing a flight controller board. Thanks so much!
Just need to add to the chorus of kudos & thanks.
I was ready to send my clone F4 FC back after spending a couple hours try & failing to get it configured. All I needed was the right BF drivers so I could flash a current firmware version.
Today, like so many days I learned something.
Thank you for a brilliant and easy to follow video. It really helped me understand how to flash my Omnibusf4
Thank you Joshua, this totally just saved me, I bought the omnibus f3 AIO on your recommondation and could not get it flashed but as usual Josh saves the day. Thank you for what you do!
Thanks Joshua my first inclination was it was defective but just couldn’t toss it out. It’s been on my bench for months. I never got around to returning it. Thought It wouldn’t hurt to ask about It before it went in the trash. I’ll check your suggestion and hope to resurrect it. Pretty bummed when it wouldn’t work. I spent a lot of time on the build all for nothing. Thanks again for your reply.
would like to personally ty for your time on this vid. im new to the quad hobby seen and the learning curve is tough. you successfully walked me thru in great detail on how to set up all the drivers and flash beta flight. very good job ty very much for this vid.
+charles lathan thank you!
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU I could not understand why my evo F3 would not update because I didn't have the zadig instald because I have a VTC port.
At last a video that the computer dummies like me can understand, some off your vid's are toooo much for me. Cheers.
This fixed an incomprehensible problem for me - why BetaFlight on my Windows PC wouldn’t connect to my FC in boot loader mode. Thank you for the detailed explanation of the problem and the resolution.
P.S. the dfu CLI command makes the bootload process a whole lot easier
Bear in mind that BF 3.2 changed that command to the more generic, "bootloader". The actual command is "bl".
"you can just type the "dfu" command into the CLI..... ooooh yeah" . Ooooh yeah indeed!! Didn't know that. I learnt something today....
Except now it has changed to "bl" for bootloader.
Thanks JB, fantastico, finally my drivers now work and 3.5 is on my whoop, yeeha! You da man. Now all my Mockingbird settings are gone do I need to set up from scratch again or can I run my BF 3.2.2 Dump into CLI? I read that is not a good idea but keen to hear it from you :-) Would certainly save time, what would you do?
Honestly thank you so much, you don't know how helpful this is!
My pleasure.
Well it's about time someone explains this process. Very well done Joshua and much appreciated!!
Wow, thanks Josh! I've been sitting on a "dead" f4 v3 for about 3 years now. Only kept it as a reminder to test what I buy... I think you just got it working! :)
This video was awesome. Just flashed by two new boards to BF 4.1!
Thank you for your shared passion, I have yet to see or hear such informative intuitive videos.
Lol, you read my mind. I'm troubleshooting problems connecting my first f3 board. May have missed the stm unwrap step. Hope this solves my problem. Thanks!
I swear this is one of the most helpful channels in the world love u bardwell!
It works!!!! Thankyou For the advice. Been stumped for at least a week with this darn thing. Im sure ill be asking more advice. Keep the videos comming
Found out exactly what I needed to know from this video. Thanks, Josh! You are an asset to the FPV community.
Thank you so much i followed this guide and now my quad is ready to go. F4 boards are so much nicer man, i plugged my F4 in and it was good to go, F3 board was a week of mucking around till i found this, and when i went to replace it, a week of mucking around on my new PC to do the same
Awesome! I got my first FC yesterday and was goofing around with it fine, but then wanted to update the CF version, and was stuck on this exact set of things. Thanks!
THANK YOU JB ITS A GRATE DAY WHEN THINGS COME TOGETHER YOUR THE MAN THANK YOU
SHAWN
Ive been trying to flash my 1st board for 2 days, this will help thx. One of the most annoying problems is finding out what board to select, I have no idea, QX65 BeeCore V2 board on whoop, others say use Omnibus, how do I know if that's correct? Having loads of problems with this, 2 of us trying we can't seem to get it to flash, just red bar failed each time. Will start fresh following your vid. One quad screams when plugged in, why is all this so difficult, crazy! Thx J.
Thanks, Joshua! This is just what i needed! I'm referring to this video for everyone who has trouble flashing his board! 🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪
Thank you for helping me troubleshoot the issue. Turned out I just needed the driver installing.
By far the most helpful video i saw, you saved my FC!! Thanks!
Thanks so much. You have walked me through a multitude of problems. I greatly appreciate you. Keep it up buddy
Great tutorial Joshua, worked like a charm for me!!
Many thanks for this guide, I would have been totally lost without it.
you saved the small patch of hair on my head from getting pulled out, thank you kind sir!
AWESOME.
Cheers Joshua! This put me back on track! Loving ALL your videos! Great reference for us newbies!
Thank you so much brother, finally got it working....my quad is 100% better
JB you the man thanks for all the help. Wanted to leave a tip. I run other quads for long range with mission planner my TX comes thtrough my computer using bluetooth and create a virtual com port. I couldn't get into DFU until I rebooted and I also turned my bluetooth off. Not sure if BT made a difference or not. But something that might cause some issues if using dragonlink with the virtual com port through BT. Thanks again dude
Thanks soo much Joshua. The zadig step was what I needed to do. Thanks for explaining it in so much detail.
excellent video, I will probably link this to many many people from now on if they have trouble :)
Joshua thank you for all the knowledge sir. Ok real quick I am new to beta flight and I just want to make a few simple changes and setup my switches. So basically bind n flys is my aim. Nobody can answer this do I need the drivers installed if I am not going to be flashing. I just want basic simple setup.
Thank you for this video. Once I did the "Zadig thing" I was easily able to flash the firmware. I am a first time quad builder and this cleared things up for me a bit
After pulling my hair out trying to flash my flight controller, I got it to work. Thanks. Now onto my other problems.