Thanks Josh - As a dad of 3 who has recently returned to the hobby after a short break. Thank you for all you do, if it wasn't for you many of us would have no idea how to fly. I've done all this before, probably 6 times (once per build) but its so easily forgotten. Building is almost the easiest part. Thank you dude!
I think I will watch all these videos at least 10 times…haha So much information and very entertaining.. Many questions answered and very challenging for me. Thank you.
I love how Jb kind of brushes off frsky :) I am sooo glad I jumped off the frsky train on onto XF. After fooling around with xrsr and xm+, I was so close to getting an R9. Best decision I made ;) Thanks JB
Dear Joshua thank you so much for the effort you make to make us learn and understand more about fpv ,i am new to fpv i have just ordered my nazgul evoque ,it will be my first fpv drone and waiting for its delivery within days and thanks to you i am more confident in setting things up for it without messing the pre tunes that iflight make,but am worried if i update the firmware of the fc would i clear the pre tunes that iflight made after building it??
You should not change the configuration or tune on the Evoque as it is very good already. Especially if you're a beginner, there is no advantage to you flashing new firmware and setting it up from scratch.
Thank you vm, God bless!.. Very helpfull as always, im going to see how many i can binge watch before solder practice,my practice boards are here ,i fixed 3 optical p.lugs yesterday for our 16 year old surround sterio now the plugs dont fall out and im enjoying this series...kinda like a netflix binge...to bad that app is going downhill. Cheers JB!!
Hi, thank you for the effort that you take to educate all of us. Well appreciated. I thought you where using elrs instead of crossfire? Not a fan of elrs?
I've got the jumper t lite pro with built in elrs. Now I see where that extra money goes in the Tx16. On my receiver tab all four (throttle, yaw, pitch, roll) main axis of flight when set to midpoints and neutral are twitching like crazy. ~30 points of movement back and forth at the worst. With no dead band and a properly calibrated quad, watching the 3d model in the receiver tab it's slowly moving on it's own. Had to play with deadband for everything until it finally sat still under no input.
This series has helped me a lot. I'm having trouble though. I have a TinyGo 4K and a Radiomaster Pocket. Finally got everything bound together and working in BetaFlight but my yaw is going crazy. At center it spins like crazy. Full left deflection does nothing. Full right deflection brings the graph to 1500. Any suggestions?
So I am new to drones and I can not get my controller to work I have the dji 03 air unit googles v2 and the dji controller 2 everything is linked together I have the t motor f7 HD flight controller. it is plug and play with the air unit so I have turned on sbus baud fast in beata flight and in the googles I have tried serial rx on each uart just hoping one would make it work I also set it to sbus in the receiver tab also camra and osd works fine any help would be awsoeme I am at a complete loss also everything is on the newest update same with the flight controller
@@brycellewellyn3483 Well it was my fault from wiring it toy previous flight controller wrong and I tested up the 03 air unit ( I used a 12v power that could handel the draw of the air unit) on this flight controller it will work tho I bought another 03 air unit and it's fine now serial rx is uart 5 amd the other uart for the msp is uart 2 also turn sbus baud fast on in your goggles and in beadaflight cli tab and in receiver tab choose cerial rx and the right under that choose sbus amd u have the same tmotor f7 stack and the 03 air unit?
Hey there! I need some help with my Tango II settings. When I push the pitch or roll fully on my remote controller, my drone doesn't achieve the full range of motion. It won't do proper dives or flips; instead, it responds slowly and with limited movement. I've followed various setup guides and checked my remote controller settings, but I still can't figure out what's wrong. Interestingly, when I test the controller in Betaflight's Receiver menu, everything appears to be working fine. Any ideas on what might be causing this issue?
Hi Joshua, very helpful video indeed. I'm setting up telemetry and want to see number of gps satelite in Tx. GPS already working and I can see number of sattelite at OSD but i cannot find 'sats' in telemetry in Tx. Already enabled Telemetry in Configuration tab, delete all in Tx and rediscover but got 10 sensors only. I use radiomaster boxer elrs, happymodel ep1 elrs. Any advice?
Hi there if you can pause at 6.25 where you day “it means your not getting any input at all” ??? I have been watching your vids and configuring my drone build build step by step through your video however my color control chart does not move at all in correspondence with my throttle on the controller and I have indeed binded them so I am unsure why it’s not corresponding and moving the chart as I physically move the throttle etc…PLEASE HELP
I tried to configure according to your video although preview responds according to the remote control. However, the motor does not spin, even though I am able to control motors using app. I have configured the flysky transmitter and the receiver with the speedy bee F7 stack. In my Flight controller there are 4 pins for receiver (GND, 5v, R2 and T2). What should I do and what is the problem?
what if @4:58 moving your throttle doesn't do anything on betaflight (even though it is already flashed and binded to receiver)? I've been following all steps from previous parts up to this point 🤔
I really like your arm modes at 23:56 - seems like a perfectly reasonable setup. Actually, I think one could make a random number generator using unreliable gimbals and the beeper 🤔
JB, Good stuff. I've come across something I've never encountered before. Spektrum SRXLS2 Rx soldered correctly and bound BUT no connection shown in BETAFLIGHT so constant beeping. What's really weird is that BETAFLIGHT doesn't show ANY colored bars in the channels area. Never seen that before ... have you??
I have been desperatly trying to be able to read my RSSI in my betaflight config, to add it to my obd. BUT it didn´t work, because of my SBUS protocoll i couldn´t send telemetry.Then I figured out that I (and I have no idea why) have to enter into the CLI (after selecting the correct AUX channel in the receiver tab): set rssi_channel = {AUX CHANNEL NUMBER}, then pressing enter. To then save it I had to typ save into the CLI and again entering it. so in my case I entered: set rssi_channel = 11 {ENTER} save {ENTER} and after a quick (automatic) reboot the rssi value was immediatly visible in the setup screen in betaflight.😄
I would love to see those "reference videos" you referred to at the end. You said there'd be links to them, but I don't see them. I watched a video before that showed me how to set up the switches on my TX12 (EdgeTX), but I forgot how and now can't find the video. Also, setting endpoints. All of my sticks are exactly 11 outside the 1000-2000 range where they're supposed to be (989-2011).
@@JoshuaBardwell Beautiful. Thank you. I spent much of today watching more episodes of your complete walkthrough of BF4.3. Thank you immensely for this whole series!
@@JoshuaBardwell Hi Joshua 👋 I watched the rest of the video you linked here but unfortunately I didn't see anything related to setting endpoints, I have the same issue as @chadstinar7621: all of my sticks are exactly 12 outside the 1000-2000 range where they're supposed to be (988-2012)
If you are having jiggle around the midpoints and do not correct it. Would that cause your quad to slowly roll in Betaflight? Would setting or not setting deadband cause this? Thanks in advance!
guys, I am stuck at the step where my RC suppose to move channels via sticks, but this doesn't happen. RSSI is 0. what should I do if you have an idea?
Hi Josh, are you able to go into some more depth about fixing the RSSI if it is stuck at 0% when all set up? I did take the drone for a quick test flight very close (
I have problems with the drone that I am building, in fact it is the first drone that I build; I connect the drone to betaflight and I can see the receiver flashing and when I turn on the controller the receiver light turns solid, but in betaflight I select receiver to see if the controller can move the bars as I move the joysticks the bars do not move it will be devo connect a battery to the drone? and another thing RSSI is at zero the receiver the mate-elsdr-r24-s, to which I had to do a full eraces with the help of the matekesys tech because I couldn't update it with express elsr to ver 3.2.1. Joshua B. can you help me with this??? This is translated from Spanish to English in case I wrote something wrong!
Dear Sir, Thank you for a great video on Betaflight. I'm having a small issue trying to set up my FlySky FS-iA6B receiver to my SpeedyBee F405 V3 flight controller soldered to R2 using Betaflight Configurator 10.9.0 (697943b). I set the Serial RX to UART2 (where I soldered the PPM output pin to), and saved and rebooted. Then in the Receiver tab I set the Receiver to PPM/CPPM but when I save and reboot it changes back to Serial (via UART), and I have not transmitter input showing up on the screen. TELEMETRY, and RSSI_ADC are off. The receiver was set to output PPM from the transmitter, and they are bound. What am I doing wrong. This is my first build and It's causing me to channel the spirit of Yosemite Sam. Thank you for your help.
When I set up my Radiomaster, I had the option of different channel map softwares. Which one would you install? I know you can change the order in Betaflight, but do the map orders need to be the same between tx and Betaflight?
The channel mapping must be the same from TX the flight controller. But you can change the channel map on both your radio and your flight controller. But the map you change on one will not change the other so when you change betaflight to something like an TEAR channel map from an AETR in betaflight, if your radio is AETR it will stay AETR.
For error I connected my Caddx vista wrong, I conected sbus in voltage and then I changed it to the right pad but now I can’t bind my DJI controller, do you believe the pad has been damaged?
Is there surely no way to use ADC RSSI from Rx to FC if it doesn't have a dedicated pad? Like through a UART or Softserial resource remapping or something? I have L9R Rx without telemetry and would dearly like to receive RSSI to my f411 FC
Need help. I have the JB AIO FC stack F4 and trying to convert from FrSky to GHST. I am connected to ghost on transmitter and receiver but cannot get it to work with the FC. Any suggestions? does ghost not work with this F4 board?
Totally random question. But are you going to do another micro drone shootout? Been out of the game a while and have not seen a lot about micro drones being compared. Love your content! Keep it up
@ Joshua Bardwell, I wonder if you or someone in the community could assist as I’m in South Africa KZN, and there’s not a person to talk too about my hobby. I have a speedybee F7 mini stack with 35a esc, transmitter is a Flysky FS-i6 updated to ten channels and receiver is the FS-ia6b receiver and using the sbus slot, motors are 2203 cobra, the problem is my receiver is bound and soldered with no cross joints to the FC and was working perfectly for a while, then I bought a new frame and changed over without having to re solder anything so more plug and play, yet now I cannot see my receiver in beta flight. I have reflashed firmware to latest but with no luck. I do realise that my setup on the transmitter side might be outdated to what you guys are using that side would you feel that upgrading that would possibly solve my problem or do could it be something more sinister?
My mobula 7 is straight throttle no expo or anything and flys better through hoop race gates 12 inches around instead of 5 or 10 feet professional gates
Hello Bardwell, love youre videos very helpfull been a subscriber from a few years, binded and build a few drones but latley I accedenly deleted all my modes dont ask me how and had to set them up again. I came across a new problem which I never had like this as I remember maybe you can help me out. I recalibrated my mambo tbs radio and the stick still seem to jiggle somehow a bit, this I notice a lot inside BF when I go to the receiver tab where the drone starts to move in unwanted directions. tried to change AETR1234 to TAER1234 and visversa also re-linked it to the right receiver in the configurator tab to CSRF updated all to the latest firmware. Still having the same problem this happens exact the same to when I enter in all my other drones, my conclusion is that it might be a problem coming from my radio but it strange. Hope you have a solution for my problem :/
The official Betaflight tuning notes tell me, and let me quote "Crossfire users should lock to 50Hz or 150Hz and use an 'RC_LINK' preset in the configurator preset system to set up. We have encountered problems with the default Crossfire dynamic system." Does anyone know if that's here to stay, is it a feature or a bug?😄 I don't really want to lock into either one because I fly medium range and freestyle with the same quads.
Are flight controllers multi platform? How do you know if a flight controller that comes with firmware other than BetaFlight be re-flashed to BetaFlight?
Hi Joshua, I've just recently got back into my drone after a few years. I am having to relearn everything! I have run into a problem. I can confirm that my Tx and Rx are linked (green light on Rx), however, when I move the sticks, the rotors don't spin and no signal change is noted on BetaFlight! This only started since I updated the Firmware the other week. I'm thinking it may be an issue with the receiver protocol I have selected... I don't remember ever having to choose one on older versions of Betaflight (circa 2018)! Is there a way to find out which receiver protocol your Rx uses? I've googled the model number with no answer! Tx is Taranis X7, Rx is a FrSky XM Plus Micro D16 SBUS, FC is a RacerStar Shot 30A 4in1. Any guidance would be much appreciated!
Connect signal wire to UART tx, not rx. In Betaflight receiver tab set protocol srxl2. In Ports tab enable serial rx for the UART number you soldered to. In cli type set serialrx_halfduplex = on save
Hi Joshua, could you please tell me if i will automatically get the RSSI reading in my DJI v2 goggles if im using the Caddex Vista and CRSF receiver. Thanks much.
I have one problem with my throttle when I move it slightly, my motors automatically starts accelerating even if I am not increasing it. Is it my throttle problem or my configuration?
I feel so dumb now. What happened to the crossfire LQ readout? the 2/100, 1/100 etc...? Are we back to the good old RSSI only?? Crossfire 99% for ever? :D
@@JoshuaBardwell Thank you for the quick answer! Ok I was irritated because you didn't mention lq. Had a bit of a break since last quad setup. So wouldn't it be more reliable to get the lq as well? Rssi at 78% with 1.5 meter distance is scary.
I'm on bf4.4.1 and just above the RSSI is a telemetry on/off switch. My FCs came with telemetry and RSSI off. I run ELRS on all my kwads and from what I understand, ELRS receivers send out telemetry and RSSI automatically. Do I need to switch either of those options to on? Thanks in advance for anybody's help.
rc smoothing is very important! much more than you say! a freestyle preset can take your 150htz and turn it into a quad with >50htz latency! you must always use "race" in the preset in order to take advantage of your fast radio link, because the smoothing rc in the "freestyle" preset adds a lot of latency. me personally (crossfire), either I put "race" on the preset, or I cut/disable rc smoothing. quite simply. this is the only way to optimize the latency of your system as much as possible. and not be slowed down by rc smoothing. after if you have no problems with latency, it's ok, but why have a good system if it's to curb it with this function? especially for 2.5ghz links, for crossfire, it's less important, but for elrs, you have to take full advantage of the equipment, otherwise there's no point in buying it! No?
I'm using BF 4.3 (Bi-directional D-shot enabled and using dynamic idle) and when I changed my low throttle threshold from 1090 to 1010 (stick ranges correctly from 1000-2000) it started wobbling like crazy every time I lowered throttle all the way down after a punch out, as if the pids just turned off. People talked about this for BF 4.2 where one needed to adjust the idle value alongside with dynamic idle, but in 4.3 only the dynamic idle is supposed to be used. I moved it back to 1090 so I can keep flying. Do you know why this happened? It was a 3.5" quad and I tested 30-65 dynamic idle but no change.
The low throttle threshold is not related to the idle value. As long as your throttle goes below the low throttle threshold at all, Betaflight doesn't care how much below the threshold it is.
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Thanks Josh - As a dad of 3 who has recently returned to the hobby after a short break. Thank you for all you do, if it wasn't for you many of us would have no idea how to fly. I've done all this before, probably 6 times (once per build) but its so easily forgotten. Building is almost the easiest part. Thank you dude!
About damn time Bardwell.
I was worried I wouldn't learn anything today.
I know man. I'm on like day six now of upgrading to 4.3 and I'm wanting to fly this weekend.
One month ago i still used his walkthrough for betaflight 3.7 to setup my quad xD
Hehe good one!, i dont know what ide do not watching 1 JB video a day... even the old ones are helpfull.God bless!
The master at work.... No body does it better... and only a few are as competent and knowledgeable.
I can’t tell you how much these type of videos are appreciated, they allow us to get into this mesmerizing hobby and keep us here, thank you
That was very well explained and super helpful - trying to watch the rest of the playlist today - thanks for posting this (it's a ton of work!)
I think I will watch all these videos at least 10 times…haha
So much information and very entertaining..
Many questions answered and very challenging for me.
Thank you.
this series is excellent. Your teaching style is solid. thanks
This is really informative. Thank you for putting this series together. I've learned a few somethings from each one.
I have never clicked on a upload notification so fast in my life lmao
😂Right? All about timing.
Thanks for your hard work JB! Best series you’ve put out. Answered a lot of questions I had. Much appreciated!
I love how Jb kind of brushes off frsky :)
I am sooo glad I jumped off the frsky train on onto XF. After fooling around with xrsr and xm+, I was so close to getting an R9. Best decision I made ;)
Thanks JB
Josh, I just learnt something today 😊 thank you
Awesome again, Joshua! Thanks a bunch! 😊
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
thanks , your really go in to deep rabbits hall 💪
What receiver option do we put on if we are using the o3 air Unit?
Dear Joshua thank you so much for the effort you make to make us learn and understand more about fpv ,i am new to fpv i have just ordered my nazgul evoque ,it will be my first fpv drone and waiting for its delivery within days and thanks to you i am more confident in setting things up for it without messing the pre tunes that iflight make,but am worried if i update the firmware of the fc would i clear the pre tunes that iflight made after building it??
You should not change the configuration or tune on the Evoque as it is very good already. Especially if you're a beginner, there is no advantage to you flashing new firmware and setting it up from scratch.
@@JoshuaBardwell Thank you so much for the fast reply, cant wait for Part 4
These videos are so helpful. Thanks again very much!!!
Tanks JB, always gonna learn something today.. next.. 👍😁
Thank you vm, God bless!.. Very helpfull as always, im going to see how many i can binge watch before solder practice,my practice boards are here ,i fixed 3 optical p.lugs yesterday for our 16 year old surround sterio now the plugs dont fall out and im enjoying this series...kinda like a netflix binge...to bad that app is going downhill. Cheers JB!!
Hi, thank you for the effort that you take to educate all of us. Well appreciated. I thought you where using elrs instead of crossfire? Not a fan of elrs?
I have a lot of different receivers on a lot of different quads. This one is a bind n fly which came with Crossfire.
Another great tutorial J.B. thank you.
I’ve been waiting for this video to upload
I've got the jumper t lite pro with built in elrs. Now I see where that extra money goes in the Tx16. On my receiver tab all four (throttle, yaw, pitch, roll) main axis of flight when set to midpoints and neutral are twitching like crazy. ~30 points of movement back and forth at the worst. With no dead band and a properly calibrated quad, watching the 3d model in the receiver tab it's slowly moving on it's own. Had to play with deadband for everything until it finally sat still under no input.
love this serie thank you
Part 3.. Excellent..
This series has helped me a lot. I'm having trouble though. I have a TinyGo 4K and a Radiomaster Pocket. Finally got everything bound together and working in BetaFlight but my yaw is going crazy. At center it spins like crazy. Full left deflection does nothing. Full right deflection brings the graph to 1500. Any suggestions?
I love this guy☝️
So I am new to drones and I can not get my controller to work I have the dji 03 air unit googles v2 and the dji controller 2 everything is linked together I have the t motor f7 HD flight controller. it is plug and play with the air unit so I have turned on sbus baud fast in beata flight and in the googles I have tried serial rx on each uart just hoping one would make it work I also set it to sbus in the receiver tab also camra and osd works fine any help would be awsoeme I am at a complete loss also everything is on the newest update same with the flight controller
how did you go, im in the same boat
@@brycellewellyn3483 Well it was my fault from wiring it toy previous flight controller wrong and I tested up the 03 air unit ( I used a 12v power that could handel the draw of the air unit) on this flight controller it will work tho I bought another 03 air unit and it's fine now serial rx is uart 5 amd the other uart for the msp is uart 2 also turn sbus baud fast on in your goggles and in beadaflight cli tab and in receiver tab choose cerial rx and the right under that choose sbus amd u have the same tmotor f7 stack and the 03 air unit?
U can also email Bardwell and he should help you
Thank you Joshua!🙏💪
Hey there! I need some help with my Tango II settings. When I push the pitch or roll fully on my remote controller, my drone doesn't achieve the full range of motion. It won't do proper dives or flips; instead, it responds slowly and with limited movement. I've followed various setup guides and checked my remote controller settings, but I still can't figure out what's wrong. Interestingly, when I test the controller in Betaflight's Receiver menu, everything appears to be working fine. Any ideas on what might be causing this issue?
Wow, lots to know. What is the DJI transmitter value as I did not see it.
I bought a RTR 6s from a well know site. Man they were wrong
Hi Joshua, very helpful video indeed. I'm setting up telemetry and want to see number of gps satelite in Tx. GPS already working and I can see number of sattelite at OSD but i cannot find 'sats' in telemetry in Tx. Already enabled Telemetry in Configuration tab, delete all in Tx and rediscover but got 10 sensors only. I use radiomaster boxer elrs, happymodel ep1 elrs. Any advice?
Amazing work. Thank you!
Hi there if you can pause at 6.25 where you day “it means your not getting any input at all”
???
I have been watching your vids and configuring my drone build build step by step through your video however my color control chart does not move at all in correspondence with my throttle on the controller and I have indeed binded them so I am unsure why it’s not corresponding and moving the chart as I physically move the throttle etc…PLEASE HELP
I tried to configure according to your video although preview responds according to the remote control. However, the motor does not spin, even though I am able to control motors using app.
I have configured the flysky transmitter and the receiver with the speedy bee F7 stack. In my Flight controller there are 4 pins for receiver (GND, 5v, R2 and T2). What should I do and what is the problem?
Brilliant video
Outstanding lesson, as always. Question: What if the channels move but the preview model doesn’t? The model moves in the setup and pods/rates tabs.
Model not moving usually means rates are set to zero.
@@JoshuaBardwell Thanks Joshua! I’ll become a patron. You help a lot of people like me.
what if @4:58 moving your throttle doesn't do anything on betaflight (even though it is already flashed and binded to receiver)? I've been following all steps from previous parts up to this point 🤔
I really like your arm modes at 23:56 - seems like a perfectly reasonable setup. Actually, I think one could make a random number generator using unreliable gimbals and the beeper 🤔
Could you add a link to the video you mentioned at 16:38 of the endpoints?
Thanks!
JB, Good stuff. I've come across something I've never encountered before. Spektrum SRXLS2 Rx soldered correctly and bound BUT no connection shown in BETAFLIGHT so constant beeping. What's really weird is that BETAFLIGHT doesn't show ANY colored bars in the channels area. Never seen that before ... have you??
This is the reason th-cam.com/video/YmTq68M-NkU/w-d-xo.htmlsi=6arnTl5KLVHXy9Kq
I have been desperatly trying to be able to read my RSSI in my betaflight config, to add it to my obd. BUT it didn´t work, because of my SBUS protocoll i couldn´t send telemetry.Then I figured out that I (and I have no idea why) have to enter into the CLI (after selecting the correct AUX channel in the receiver tab):
set rssi_channel = {AUX CHANNEL NUMBER}, then pressing enter. To then save it I had to typ save into the CLI and again entering it.
so in my case I entered:
set rssi_channel = 11
{ENTER}
save
{ENTER}
and after a quick (automatic) reboot the rssi value was immediatly visible in the setup screen in betaflight.😄
I would love to see those "reference videos" you referred to at the end. You said there'd be links to them, but I don't see them. I watched a video before that showed me how to set up the switches on my TX12 (EdgeTX), but I forgot how and now can't find the video. Also, setting endpoints. All of my sticks are exactly 11 outside the 1000-2000 range where they're supposed to be (989-2011).
Sorry about that. Start here: th-cam.com/video/5ke6LabvtGM/w-d-xo.html
@@JoshuaBardwell Beautiful. Thank you. I spent much of today watching more episodes of your complete walkthrough of BF4.3. Thank you immensely for this whole series!
@@JoshuaBardwell Hi Joshua 👋
I watched the rest of the video you linked here but unfortunately I didn't see anything related to setting endpoints, I have the same issue as @chadstinar7621: all of my sticks are exactly 12 outside the 1000-2000 range where they're supposed to be (988-2012)
I have bounded my controller to the drone but i cant get the values to move in the reciever tab when moving the sticks?
is there a posibillity to invert the pitch input? so the quad turns forward if i pull the stick backwarts?
If you are having jiggle around the midpoints and do not correct it. Would that cause your quad to slowly roll in Betaflight? Would setting or not setting deadband cause this? Thanks in advance!
I need help setting up my spektrum with a t motor r7 I’m on beta flight 4.5
guys, I am stuck at the step where my RC suppose to move channels via sticks, but this doesn't happen. RSSI is 0. what should I do if you have an idea?
Hi Josh, are you able to go into some more depth about fixing the RSSI if it is stuck at 0% when all set up? I did take the drone for a quick test flight very close (
Using DJI Controller & Goggles V2 on a Nazgul F5 V2. Many thanks!
I have problems with the drone that I am building, in fact it is the first drone that I build; I connect the drone to betaflight and I can see the receiver flashing and when I turn on the controller the receiver light turns solid, but in betaflight I select receiver to see if the controller can move the bars as I move the joysticks the bars do not move it will be devo connect a battery to the drone? and another thing RSSI is at zero the receiver the mate-elsdr-r24-s, to which I had to do a full eraces with the help of the matekesys tech because I couldn't update it with express elsr to ver 3.2.1. Joshua B. can you help me with this??? This is translated from Spanish to English in case I wrote something wrong!
Awesome video!
I am a newbie with drones. What is the difference between TBS 150hz and TBS 50Hz. How does one know which one to pick?
Dear Sir, Thank you for a great video on Betaflight. I'm having a small issue trying to set up my FlySky FS-iA6B receiver to my SpeedyBee F405 V3 flight controller soldered to R2 using Betaflight Configurator 10.9.0 (697943b). I set the Serial RX to UART2 (where I soldered the PPM output pin to), and saved and rebooted. Then in the Receiver tab I set the Receiver to PPM/CPPM but when I save and reboot it changes back to Serial (via UART), and I have not transmitter input showing up on the screen. TELEMETRY, and RSSI_ADC are off. The receiver was set to output PPM from the transmitter, and they are bound. What am I doing wrong. This is my first build and It's causing me to channel the spirit of Yosemite Sam. Thank you for your help.
Hi how can i control quad using pymavlink?
When I set up my Radiomaster, I had the option of different channel map softwares. Which one would you install? I know you can change the order in Betaflight, but do the map orders need to be the same between tx and Betaflight?
The channel mapping must be the same from TX the flight controller. But you can change the channel map on both your radio and your flight controller. But the map you change on one will not change the other so when you change betaflight to something like an TEAR channel map from an AETR in betaflight, if your radio is AETR it will stay AETR.
JB, Would you kindly share a link to a video on how to fix the endpoints of the radio?
Is it remote or BF related? TNX
You can do it in the radio OUTPUTS screen or in Betaflight CLI by use of the rxrange command.
For error I connected my Caddx vista wrong, I conected sbus in voltage and then I changed it to the right pad but now I can’t bind my DJI controller, do you believe the pad has been damaged?
Is there surely no way to use ADC RSSI from Rx to FC if it doesn't have a dedicated pad?
Like through a UART or Softserial resource remapping or something?
I have L9R Rx without telemetry and would dearly like to receive RSSI to my f411 FC
I have omnibus f4, and I think u lose the telemetry output menu from receiver tab, isn't it?
Need help. I have the JB AIO FC stack F4 and trying to convert from FrSky to GHST. I am connected to ghost on transmitter and receiver but cannot get it to work with the FC. Any suggestions? does ghost not work with this F4 board?
Спасибо большое Бардуэлл.
Залюбки, будь ласка.
Totally random question. But are you going to do another micro drone shootout? Been out of the game a while and have not seen a lot about micro drones being compared. Love your content! Keep it up
Check out Nick Burns, his channel is 99% micro quads.
Danke!
@ Joshua Bardwell, I wonder if you or someone in the community could assist as I’m in South Africa KZN, and there’s not a person to talk too about my hobby. I have a speedybee F7 mini stack with 35a esc, transmitter is a Flysky FS-i6 updated to ten channels and receiver is the FS-ia6b receiver and using the sbus slot, motors are 2203 cobra, the problem is my receiver is bound and soldered with no cross joints to the FC and was working perfectly for a while, then I bought a new frame and changed over without having to re solder anything so more plug and play, yet now I cannot see my receiver in beta flight. I have reflashed firmware to latest but with no luck. I do realise that my setup on the transmitter side might be outdated to what you guys are using that side would you feel that upgrading that would possibly solve my problem or do could it be something more sinister?
Absolutely confused, How do I get the TX16s set up? :(
Hi Joshua, please could you tell me how to set up tiny button in tbs tango 2 pro at the back off controler i mean E and F to use them in betaflight?
th-cam.com/video/wa43z6XohW4/w-d-xo.html
I wish they kept all the options that require a save and reboot configuration tab
My mobula 7 is straight throttle no expo or anything and flys better through hoop race gates 12 inches around instead of 5 or 10 feet professional gates
Hello Bardwell,
love youre videos very helpfull been a subscriber from a few years, binded and build a few drones but latley I accedenly deleted all my modes dont ask me how and had to set them up again.
I came across a new problem which I never had like this as I remember maybe you can help me out.
I recalibrated my mambo tbs radio and the stick still seem to jiggle somehow a bit, this I notice a lot inside BF when I go to the receiver tab where the drone starts to move in unwanted directions.
tried to change AETR1234 to TAER1234 and visversa also re-linked it to the right receiver in the configurator tab to CSRF updated all to the latest firmware. Still having the same problem this happens exact the same to when I enter in all my other drones, my conclusion is that it might be a problem coming from my radio but it strange.
Hope you have a solution for my problem :/
hate to say this...
some changes since 4.3.1...
Telemetry option is back... when is that used??
Were you able to figure it out? Currently trying to learn what it does.
The official Betaflight tuning notes tell me, and let me quote "Crossfire users should lock to 50Hz or 150Hz and use an 'RC_LINK' preset in the configurator preset system to set up. We have encountered problems with the default Crossfire dynamic system."
Does anyone know if that's here to stay, is it a feature or a bug?😄
I don't really want to lock into either one because I fly medium range and freestyle with the same quads.
Are flight controllers multi platform? How do you know if a flight controller that comes with firmware other than BetaFlight be re-flashed to BetaFlight?
Hi Joshua, I've just recently got back into my drone after a few years. I am having to relearn everything!
I have run into a problem. I can confirm that my Tx and Rx are linked (green light on Rx), however, when I move the sticks, the rotors don't spin and no signal change is noted on BetaFlight! This only started since I updated the Firmware the other week.
I'm thinking it may be an issue with the receiver protocol I have selected... I don't remember ever having to choose one on older versions of Betaflight (circa 2018)!
Is there a way to find out which receiver protocol your Rx uses? I've googled the model number with no answer!
Tx is Taranis X7, Rx is a FrSky XM Plus Micro D16 SBUS, FC is a RacerStar Shot 30A 4in1.
Any guidance would be much appreciated!
For that receiver, SBUS would be the correct protocol.
Hello 👋🏻, at 4:32 nothing moves on my screen, I tried a lot of things... does anyone have an idea where the problem can come from?
my rssi stand on 51% and don't move, what can i do in this case?
watched almost all vids but still can't connect radio to beta flight. Using Spektrum srxlv2. IDK
Connect signal wire to UART tx, not rx.
In Betaflight receiver tab set protocol srxl2.
In Ports tab enable serial rx for the UART number you soldered to.
In cli type
set serialrx_halfduplex = on
save
Mr. Bardwell is the “Mr. Anderson” in the FPV Matrix……
When using ExpressLRS, what do I set the "Serial Receiver Provider" to?
Crossfire
Hi Joshua, could you please tell me if i will automatically get the RSSI reading in my DJI v2 goggles if im using the Caddex Vista and CRSF receiver. Thanks much.
No you won't. You need to use the aux channel method.
Can you please link the video that you mentioned at 5:30 🙏 I’m trying to check these for a tango 2 pro and can’t find a good video
th-cam.com/video/2HzxNW6N2Hw/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=JoshuaBardwell
@@JoshuaBardwell 🙏🙏
I have one problem with my throttle when I move it slightly, my motors automatically starts accelerating even if I am not increasing it. Is it my throttle problem or my configuration?
th-cam.com/video/xBaefeQtA1c/w-d-xo.html
Quick Question.... Can i set up OSD in betaflight with your old F4 a10 fc ?
Yes it has Betaflight osd.
@JoshuaBardwell how to fix channel endpoints in TBS Tango 2 to be 1000-2000 and not 988-2011?
Same as any other opentx radio. In the OUTPUTS screen, adjust the endpoints there. th-cam.com/video/1azl1f8qJ84/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=JoshuaBardwell
My throttle is reversed. I couldn't figure out to invert it, so I just fly goofy. Any idea how to invert the throttle direction?
In an opentx radio, channels can be reversed in the OUTPUTS screen.
In Betaflight, reverse the throttle using the CLI command
rxrange 3 2000 1000
save
I feel so dumb now. What happened to the crossfire LQ readout? the 2/100, 1/100 etc...? Are we back to the good old RSSI only?? Crossfire 99% for ever? :D
Crossfire lq works same as ever. Not sure whats going on....
@@JoshuaBardwell Thank you for the quick answer! Ok I was irritated because you didn't mention lq. Had a bit of a break since last quad setup.
So wouldn't it be more reliable to get the lq as well? Rssi at 78% with 1.5 meter distance is scary.
I'm on bf4.4.1 and just above the RSSI is a telemetry on/off switch. My FCs came with telemetry and RSSI off. I run ELRS on all my kwads and from what I understand, ELRS receivers send out telemetry and RSSI automatically. Do I need to switch either of those options to on? Thanks in advance for anybody's help.
RSSI no telemetry yes.
@@JoshuaBardwell how come in your video there was no telemetry option? Just an older version of BF?
Why You explain the betaflight 4.3 configuration on the board with 4.29 installed, no big differences?
The configurator options are the same :-)
@@JoshuaBardwell not true. In this video you couldn’t show IRC Ghost as a RC Protocol because 4.2.9 doesn’t have it.
Explains a lot of stuff that I just did automatically and forgot why
nice
rc smoothing is very important! much more than you say! a freestyle preset can take your 150htz and turn it into a quad with >50htz latency! you must always use "race" in the preset in order to take advantage of your fast radio link, because the smoothing rc in the "freestyle" preset adds a lot of latency. me personally (crossfire), either I put "race" on the preset, or I cut/disable rc smoothing. quite simply. this is the only way to optimize the latency of your system as much as possible. and not be slowed down by rc smoothing. after if you have no problems with latency, it's ok, but why have a good system if it's to curb it with this function? especially for 2.5ghz links, for crossfire, it's less important, but for elrs, you have to take full advantage of the equipment, otherwise there's no point in buying it! No?
4:20 what about dji?
DJI uses SBUS.
genial!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I'm using BF 4.3 (Bi-directional D-shot enabled and using dynamic idle) and when I changed my low throttle threshold from 1090 to 1010 (stick ranges correctly from 1000-2000) it started wobbling like crazy every time I lowered throttle all the way down after a punch out, as if the pids just turned off. People talked about this for BF 4.2 where one needed to adjust the idle value alongside with dynamic idle, but in 4.3 only the dynamic idle is supposed to be used. I moved it back to 1090 so I can keep flying. Do you know why this happened? It was a 3.5" quad and I tested 30-65 dynamic idle but no change.
The low throttle threshold is not related to the idle value. As long as your throttle goes below the low throttle threshold at all, Betaflight doesn't care how much below the threshold it is.
@@JoshuaBardwell I don't remember changing any other setting alongside this one, so I have no idea why the quad decided to act like it did.
how to install betaflight and how to learn how to use does anyone have a tutorial video ?
@@valentin.kompatscher lets go thanks !
Thanks nothing but problems and now my drone won’t even make one beep
I’ve got hd goggles a 6s and a 4s iflight drones I cannot figure out on beta flight 1500$ for everything got 2 grand into it so steal of a deal message me if Interested
This does not help me at all I need to bind my receiver to controller to be able to do this step but you wont show me how
i mean......rc deadband......couldnt have editied in a proper answer........lol, im such a dick
This is a "Betaflight 4.3 Complete Walkthrough" and you are using Betaflight 4.2.9 firmware... C'mon Joshua, you can do better!!!