Screen brightness on a knob? // EDGETX GLOBAL FUNCTIONS HOW-TO
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0:00 - Your giant color screen is wasting battery. Let's fix that.
0:35 - I hate auto-screen-brightness
2:13 - Set up "global function" to control brightness with a knob
4:35 - Turn off screen with arm switch
7:04 - The final result! It works!
7:55 - What about volume control knob?
A few days ago I upgraded from 2.5 to 2.6 and one thing I noticed is that my screen brightness no longer went all the way down to black. I enquired about this on the ETX discord and found out that this was an intentional change to prevent someone from getting locked-out of their radio because you couldn't see the screen. Just thought I'd share.
Thanks so much for posting that. I am in the middle of making this change and noticed I couldn't go to 0 brightness and it was driving me nuts!
Yes Thankyou for sharing this I've been pulling my hair out wondering why my brightness wouldn't turn sll the way down on edgetx with this method.
At least now I know it's not something I've done wrong or an issue with my radio.
Nice one 👍🏻
ohhhhhh
So that's why. I was getting mad here trying to figure out what was I doing wrong. Thank you for sharing this information.
Pretty smart idea on the Devs side I think.
anyone know a work around to this? i still want to be able to do this LOL
This is why OpenTX/EdgeTX is the best! Tell me I'm wrong!
You're wrong. I don't know what about but I'm really bad about not following advice on the Internet.
You are perfectly right! I switched to EdgeTX after you made the video and I am loving it!
This volume/brightness tutorial isn't working on my TX16S. But yes, EdgeTx is awesome and I'm so glad you posted about moving to 2.5.
Mine dims but doesn't turn off.
@@valentin.kompatscher Thank you very much - that was the reason. :)
I have a TX16S. I am still learning all the cool things it can do. Thank you for this cool video.
I never thought of setting up it this way that's why I love watching your videos
Even though I don't have a Radiomaster tx16s, this video helped me set up the backlight function for my x-lite radio. Thanks a lot. You're the man
You literally read my mind...was trying to set that up last night. Thanks for all you do! Im going to join the patron tonight.
Oh ho ok today is my first day of my vacation so im watching a lots of videos that will help me with the edgetx radios and so far is been great thank you JB.😊
When I dipped my toes in fpv back in the day, none of this content existed, parts were all DIY. Coming back to the hobby after many years I am finding it much easier to get information on these types of things. I have watched many of your videos, in fact the one about phantom spinning motors due to airmode, saved me a LOT of panic and searching! Thanks for this type of content as well. Have a great flight!
This is one of those special videos, love it!!
Yup, one of the first things I set up on my new TX16s with EdgeTX. It's great to be able to tweak the brightness with a knob depending on the light conditions, and to turn it off completely when flying.
Brilliant joshua, works perfectly.
Volume and screen brightness on a knob had been possible on opentx/edgetx radios for some time now. They are great functions.
Love these videos. There are so many possibilities to these radios. Very good watch!
Great video, thank you for this manual!
Oh, that's pretty sweet! 😃
Thanks a lot, Joshua!!!
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Thanks Bardwell! Haven't made the switch but plan to soon
That's actually suuuuuper handy and I don't have any other use for the wheel switch! 👍
cool. Thanks
I just got tx16s recently. You rock!
This was the first thing I did, I put the brightness on a pot and then setup the screen so it’s locked from touch and goes dim while armed. I also have an override switch so I can use the screen while armed if needed. It’s easy to overdo it with all the functions.
This will be a really nice use of the trim switch.
2 Problems solved right away! Thank you!
thank you again
You can implement a special function using a logical function (XOR SF DOWN) in a model to achieve turning screen off if you have the arm down and disarm up - you posed this question in your video.
Hope this helps others. Thanks for vid
ok, that was easy, thanks JB!
This is a underrated trick! Everyone should do this
Elrs devs will probably come up with eye tracking somehow with the tx modual to just turn the screen on when you look at it. I'm only like 50% joking.
It might be possible actually. It could be done by measuring the change in DbM when you are near the transmitter. Sorta like those RF body proximity detectors.
Thanks Joshua I immediately did this on my New Zorro and it's a great feature. Awesome video. More freestyle!!
I'm using the SA arm switch and it's all working fine using the momentary switch accept, it's not turning right off when armed? Still turning all the way down though so a big upgrade for this guy. I did the volume too, who knew setting up two nobs could be so satisfying, lol.
Thanks! This helped me assign backlight and volume to those two knobs. Important functions and I'd yet to find a use for those knobs.
Glad it helped!
Well, I think the momentary switch is a good idea. Because, if in any weird situation you need to look at your screen while armed... You have that.
Oooooo you found another little easter egg for us to have a go at ;) 💚 thankyou JB 😊👊
You could just use the first global function and turn down the brightness all the way down in radio setup. This will have the desired effect of "turning off" the screen while armed. It also works with 3 position switches.
I did learn something, thank you
Thanks for this. T-lite has no momentary switch so set it to my turtle mode switch off. Also had to make 2 globals since I use a 3 way for disarm/angle arm/acro arm
So far no problems running out of battery. Using a 1W module I get 2-3 days. With the 4 in 1 more like 2 weeks. But I could see this being useful for siming in a dark room.
for the boxer:
u need 2 lines
ON________Backlight_____S2
SA(Down)_Backlight_____ (no select) this - - - lines
set the standart backlight brightness to 0
and the auto shutoff to a value what u want or set the backlight Mode to ON
I am a long-time fixed wing rc aircraft that is "trying " to switch from a Spektrum DX8 gen 2 to a Radiomaster TX16S. Wow, long and steep learning curve. I really appreciate your TX16S videos. Well done 👏!
Background I am/was a USMC NFO for the A6Es Intruders. Aaaaarrrrhh!
May I ask why ? I was thinking of doing the same but not sure if it worth the trouble. Thanks.
Moving a lot of my planes from my SX20 to my TX-16S Max. Yeah, there's quite a learning curve, but once you get used to it, it seems a lot more intuitive than the DX20. And the touch screen sure speeds things up.
The NATOPS for the A6 is almost as complicated! 😉
But very ROBUST!!
Just got done packing all my stuff for a trip this weekend and you make me pull my controller back out to set this up. FR tho great video
To use something more "static" than a momentary switch. In Harware, we can set an additional switch, e.g. SI as a toggle, and then we will no longer have a physical switch. Only set the SI which will always have a constant value.
Well, unless someone modified the radio by adding additional buttons.
More reason for me to upgrade from my QX7 to a RM TX16 and load Edge TX. Thanks!!!
Last comment is probably in needs moderation limbo so I'll just omit the link.
Just a heads up, I'm using Edge TX 2.6.0 on the Radiomaster TX16s and it all works except for turning the screen backlighting completely off. They made a change in 2.6.0 so that radios with a color LCD will only go to a certain minimum brightness and not completely off. Even the OFF option in the Mode options has been removed.
Thanks again for the great work and content.
Yeah, I thought my radio was broken and then I found out that screen in edgetx 2.6 can't be set completely off
omg same like me. I think my radio was broken too.. thx bro
Has anyone reported this as a bug?
Joshua, can you help me how to program a 3 position switch to work as On and Off for wheel retracts that will disregard the middle postion of the switch?
I've always thought those big screens benefit fixed wing but not really anything else. Helicopters and fpv their isn't much looking at the transmitter while your flying. Black and white 2d text lcd is good enough for me. Even on a heli with telemetry I would use a vibrating alarm to let me know when the voltage was low and it was time to land before I dropped out of the sky.
Subed josh very good video thanks
Charles you mad man
7:30 you can put Slider Right
while watching Mr.bardwell was waiting for Cut to "this is Joshua from future, there was update in EdgeTX 2.6 etc" as soon as I saw his TX16s screen missing Themes's setting .... :)
Joshua, thanks for all your great work, I have a Jumper T18 and it does not give me the option to add in a special function as you have shown. I can not add a switch to the Backlight function. I have the latest firmware, any idea's would be greatly appreciated.
Edge Tx gang. The days have just been a little sunnier since I switched
Yay 1st like , comment and view!!!!
Through trial and error i THINK i have a solution for where you pull to arm and push to disarm. Did this on my FrSky XLite. I have the radio backlight setting set to ON. Reading from left to right as I dont know what the field names are off the top of my head. In Global Functions: I have the first field set to my arm switch down (disarm positon), second field backlight. The third field is set to a knob/pot, in my case S2 (right shoulder dial). Checkbox enabled. Now. In the disarm mode. Backlight is ON. Dial does nothing. When armed, dial controls brightness. I just keep the knob at zero but it lets me dial up the brightness to peek at the screen if need be while armed.
This is all great. But where do i get the replacement touch screen/ parts for my jumper t18 to take full advantage of edge tx?🤪
Brilliant! Now can you do a video showing how to do this on the Commando 8 (915 mhz)?
Really, it's the same. All edgetx radios have almost the same functionality.
What's your favorite EdgeTX feature that you wish more people knew about?
for me, it did seem to make a difference in the simulator, more responsive.
Lock your touchscreen on EdgeTX with a switch.
This one, pretty awesome JB!
T5 and T6 can be used as switches
👍👍👍👍👍
Worked out where in edge TX you can set trims to sub trims? I haven't found it yet....
Is the x9 lite a good beginner transmitter?
Love my TX16S hate you need 17 degrees to operate it I've been trying to turn up my volume since I owned it lol guess it will stay on low volume cause I'm not smart enough to figure it out much less the brightness lol
Super simple I went ahead and put my volume on a left slide as well so I don’t bug wifey programming in the bed😂😂😂😂
The sound on knob 2 is configured the same way - is it?
I have a 2 month old TX16S... my Global Functions page looks different than yours... after ON and Backlight actions, it looked like you pressed the Roller switch while your cursor was on "Trainer" ?? I can't figure out the step of assigning a Value? Thanks again for your videos; they really help us FPV newbies !
After clicking the jog dial, simply flip the switch in question to auto-fill that switch as the value.
I just set this up on edge tx 2.6.0. I used S1 as you showed, but turning the knob all the way down doesn't turn the screen all the way off. I calibrated all the knobs as well as the sticks after flashing 2.6.0. Just in case I tried it with S2 and also the left slider. All give the same results, all the way down makes the screen dim but not off. Do you have any suggestions on where I may be going wrong? I'm new to FPV and your channel has been so helpful, thank you!
EdgeTX 2.6 doesn't go all the way to 0% because they don't want to risk you not being able to see the screen if you screw up the programming.
How can I implement yellow collor in functions on the screen? like flight control bars.
dont' forget to lock your touch screen with a switch, and put volume on a nob as well. But unfortunately the brightness doesn't go completely off to 0 anymore with the newest EdgeTX update. So that makes me sad.
than you for posting this, I was starting to think I lost my mind.
Nice..... BUT...... Mine dims but doesn't turn off....... WHY????..... I use TX16S open TX.
Doesn't value parameter has same 'on' and 'off' values in list like swith parameter has?
On my Boxer the knob has that potentiometer jittering so the screen starts flashing randomly if the knob is between the potentiometer positions.
When I tried to use it for volume control every time I restart - the knob has different range of adjustment.
My guess is that when you calibrated the sticks, you didn't calibrate the pots. You have to calibrate all analog inputs including the 6-position button.
Very nice (though I'm wondering about the situation where a programming goof disables the backlight, preventing viewing the display to fix it - maybe it's still legible with the backlight off?)
It is barely visible, but if you have a flashlight, you can shine the light into the screen, and this helps enough to be able to fix your blunder :)
With 2.6 you can not switch the display on brightness to be off and the timeout for automatic off is at least 5 seconds to prevent this from happening.
@@malte9999 is this why I can't get the screen to turn off when I arm like this video? I mean, it works but it doesn't turn off completely.. Just dims when I arm. Not really useful if I can't turn the screen off completely.
I did notice once I updated to 2.6 it didn't turn off completely with the S2 knob anymore
Does it work on the latest opentx firmware?
what can be the reason for s1 and s2 knobs not working even though I did exactly the same things ?
I have edgeTX 2.6.0 but cant turn off completly screen off like u can, do I need latest?
Hello Joshua, is there as way to do this Globally if using a sticky arming switch. I place sw SD- and toggle the momentary SHup for .5sec and It activates Aux1 and moving SD to either other up or dn will disarm for quads.I use the SDdn sw as a throttle cut for my planes. Is there away to Globally work with a logical sticky ARMING for this or will this have to go into the functions for all my quads.
This has to be on a per model basis.
hello joshua, I would like to have your opinion for a problem that I encounter on my analog nazgul 5 v2 on which I have just mounted t-motor 2306.5 in 1950kv, and since then I have vibrations at high speed. I put the PID settings and filters in the middle on betaflight 4.2, and I tried new propellers but Ruen did not. tomorrow I'll try the esc in 48 mhz instead of 24, we'll see. would you have an idea?
I’d suggest joining his live Q&As. Joshua or fellow fpv peeps in chat may be able to help ya
you can use a logical switch that you drive with your arm switch
That is model specific. You'd need to set it up on every single model.
@@JoshuaBardwell true. thats not good. but while you have bleeding fingers from setting up the fucking widgets for each model you may as well throw this one in.
that you can copy widgets and cant make them with the configurator is the most idiotic thing about edge. who comes up with that?
Full brightness off does not not work with EdgeTX 2.6.0 on the TX16s as other have mention in the comments.
I have made sure to follow the steps exactly(edge tx 2.7.1).. issue# 1 my radio wont allow me to select 0s for the backlight timer and issue#2 is that my radio does what yours is doing except it just dims the screen instead of shutting off. Is there anything I'm missing here?
My new tx16s does the same
My biggest gripe with the TX16S is that the screen goes dark when you wear polarized sunglasses as it's a polarized screen. If they'd just rotate the screen 90 degrees that problem would go away. Sadly, I have been unable to find sunglasses (particularly ones that fit over prescription glasses) that have a compatible (or no) polarization, and almost all good sunglasses these days are polarized. It's really annoying. Do I want to be able to see my airplane? or see my screen? It shouldn't be a dilemma like that.
I found that if I temporarily set Logical Switch 64 to be active and assign the global function to turn off the backlight.... then delete the L64 switch from my model it will then behave properly..... it's a bit of a hack but it doesn't tie any additional physical switches and I don't think I will be using all 64 logical switches.
Hello, I have the version of Edge TX 2.7.1 and there is no mode off and the selection Backlight (radio setup), using the Poti S1 in the GF menu is functional but the screen cannot be completely darkened. In order to save as much power as possible, I can only select the option (Both) in the menu (Radio Setup / Backlight) and force the backlight to turn off, but as soon as even one stick or other component is moved, the screen switches on again with the preset potentiometer value . It would sometimes be really helpful to know which firmware is requirement in case of any problems, I only read after a while that with the version 2.6.1 the complete darkening is no longer possible. A reference to this should actually be given along with a current video like this one.
Thanks for confirming the inability to completely darken screen as well as stating the reason WHY :D Your comment helped clear my confusion as to why I couldn't achieve the same results as the video.
This is awesome. For some reason, when I set this up, my brightness does not turn all the way off when the knob is in its low setting. Is there a reason for this? I was in EDGETX 2.6
Edgetx 2.6 won't let it go full dark to prevent accidentally setting up the logic to lock out the screen.
@@JoshuaBardwell Thanks for the reply. What's your take on upgrading to 2.8?
I'm about to do it.
When turn my knob to 0 my screen can be off, how to set off like you? Mode ON backlight menu can't set to 0s like you, minimum set is 5s. I using edge tx
When my knob is 0 he just reduce off brightnes until 10% I think not to be 0% brightness
Hey Joshua. I think I may send my TX16s to the TV show Unsolved Mysteries. For several months after going from Opentx to Edge TX, I have had a touch screen. Suddenly it's gone. Special functions has a choice "no touch". I never selected it. Why is it even a choice? I upgraded to Edgetx 2.9.3 (providence) hoping it would restore touch screen, but it didn't. Is there a way you know of to restore touch screen ?
You could also use the 6 position switch for the second global function the first one is also '0' and selected on startup. Who uses these ugly things anyways, right ;-)
Does anyone else miss Josh's piano outro???
My tx16s controller doesn't turn on when connected to the pc for sim practice. I have to disconnect it and turn in on then reconnected again, can any body give me a hand or point me in the right direction. PLEASE...??
Sorry mate this is not working on my new Radiomaster Boxer.... I did everything you mentioned to no avail.
it works
u need 2 lines
ON________Backlight_____S2
SA(Down)_Backlight_____ (no select) this - - - lines
Set the normal backlight to 0
And the auto shutoff to a value what u want or set the backlight Mode to ON
Followed your video, I'm on edgeTX 2.6 on the TX16S. Strange thing in my case can't alter the timeout of the screen in on mode and in other modes can't get it to 0. Also when setting up the knob It's kinda working but can't get the screen turned down completely to black
I commented directly but after your comment, they made a change in 2.6 so that the screen can't go bellow a minimum brightness only for controllers with a color LCD.
On edgeTX 2.6 it will go down to only 5s. The lowest brightness is just min brightness but not OFF.
Yeah. I just found out the same thing. Thought I screwed something up. 🤓
Same for me with edgetx 2.6.
The tips working fine finally , because the goal is to reduce the discharge of the battery…
@@pink_kaju Like mine! Do you find out how to turn brightness OFF? Thanks
Why does mine only dim all the way when I arm instead of turning off completely?! I been trying to figure it out for like... An hour. I have it setup just like you, except the SH as value. Trying to get the screen off completely when I arm, but it only dims.
EdgeTX 2.6 and newer won't go full dark to keep you from accidentally disabling your radio screen if you mess up the settings.
@@JoshuaBardwell well that kinda stinks!
My screen only goes dim, it doesn't go black. I am on edgetx. Any suggestions?
This is a change in Edgetx 2.6 to keep you from locking yourself out of your radio.
so weird for the life of me i can't get my screen to shut off it dims all the way down after setting it up with the exact settings but not off unless i set the setting to BOTH with a 5s timeout. I did notice that i can't make that 0s no matter how hard i try it only goes from 5s - 600s. but as soon as I touch a switch it turns back on
Ok so just set mine up and it only works for half the switch if you get what I mean brightness won't go all way down to screen off will go so far then if you turn it back up again it uses half the switch to full brightness other half is dead 🥴
My tx16s won’t turn the screen off. It’ll dim to the lowest ‘dimmerM setting but won’t go completely dark 😕
They made this change in Edgetx 2.6 to prevent you locking yourself out of your radio.
This does not work on mine?
would that work with a X9D+ too?
I could try at the weekend
I tried on an X9 Lite and Mambo, and the backlight function did not seem to have any effect.
thanks for trying it
For some reason I can’t get it to change the switch to On. It won’t scroll down there. I’m on Edge 2.6, is there a bug?
It definitely works on 2.6. But I don't know why yours witn change to ON.
My commands work great and then stop working, any ideas?
Screen brightness, global functions, widgets ? ... no it's not.
It already available in openTX UFPV or FlySky version for NV14 🙂
Dim screen with knobs or pots might interesting in the beginning, but then I choose auto off after N sec. and on by touch on screen or move the stick and switch. Back in the day at the first time use of NV14, I'm also play my fav. song on my radio each time I start arming or play another song set to other switch, and another pilots will just amazed seeing that and start joking "can you make a call or send a message with NV14 ?" 🤣
Hmm, in EdgeTX 2.6.0 screen no longer goes to completely dark like 2.5.0.
if wanna go to dark I have to 2.5.0? I try in 2.6.0 my screen goes not completely dark, just reduce until 10% I though
@@SmudgeFPV I am on 2.6 with a TX16S and it goes 100% dark???
@@afterburnerrc6333 how to set? many people can't do it
@@SmudgeFPV You know I stand corrected, it looks to be 100% dark but your right, I can see (only in bright light) a few of the white menus. When on the home screen I see nothing. I would say it's not 10% but much lower than that, maybe 3% if that. I wonder if this can be fixed in future releases although for me, I can't even see it so looks good to me LOL.