Just a heads up, I just got my Pocket and the timer didn't automatically start after that initial configuration (before setting it to the arm trigger). It would only count down if the throttle stick was actually engaged (not at the bottom). I looked it up and TH% means the timer counts down in coordination with your throttle. So at fully throttle it counts down normally, at half throttle it counts down more slowly, at no throttle (stick at pulled all the way down) it doesn't count down at all. I'm assuming this is because the version of EdgeTX that shipped with my radio is a newer version.
I guess I don't understand the need for a timer at all. Is it important? It's number one in this video. Please excuse my ignorance. I'm not trying to be a smart alec.
Thank you ggochalleng. That does seem helpful if you know about how long your typical flight time is. Say you have a quad that typically flies about 10 minutes with a certain battery, a certain flight style, under certain conditions like wind... you could set your timer for eight or nine minutes knowing you should be looking to land when your timer beeps. I guess I'm just accustomed to monitoring my voltage and never thought to set a timer. Thanks for the reply amigo.
Wow I just spent 24 hours solid trying to get my Pocket to work with a NANO ERLS module and couldn't as it appears it was in some kind of training mode. This video gave me enough info on what I should be seeing to actually end this madness. lol For this I am greatful... you made the world a better place!
I'm absolutely clueless on Betaflight but this video does break down many of the myths regarding set up. I have the old Jumper T8SG radio on deviation but the Radiomaster with Open TX looks a great option. Thank you for this video Steve.
Thank you for this video, very helpful. One question. At 3:10 when i go back to the main dashboard i see a blinking value -6.36 instead of 4.39 as in your case. Also there is no reset flight menu when i press the scroll wheel. What might be the problem in my settings?
I hate ExpressLRS so much right now I've been trying to connect my Mobula8 to my Pocket for 8 hours now, spread over a week. Nothing works. No flashing (both drone and remote) no passphrase, no "classic" binding... Something jiggles on the channels in Betaflight configurator when I press bind like described here, but the connection seems to be lost immediately. How TF can I get this to work!?!?
Binding ELRS is super simple, as shown in my video. If yours doesn’t work then it is due to two possibilities. 1. You’re doing it wrong, and/or; 2. Your receiver and transmitter are on different firmware versions. If one is on firmware 2.x and the other on 3.x they will never bind. You need to then either upgrade the firmware on one or downgrade the firmware on the other.
@@CAPTAINDRONE798 Thank you very much for your answer, but I sure checked the obvious stuff in these 8 hours ;-) After 9 hours I found the problem: The SPI receivers in the Mob6 and Mob8 don't work with D(D250, D500), F(F500, F1000) and Full Res(100Hz Full Res, 333Hz Full Res) Modes. That was not very obvious
Just bought this radio for use with a Mobula 6 ELRS. I'm as excited to get the radio as i am to get the drone. It seems like a banger of a radio for the price.
Hi drone Cap😊 I have a mobula 8 analog ELRS and radio master pocket ELRS VERSION. Will this bind method work for my drone? If not what do I watch to learn? Or could you just tell me? I'm familiar with beta flight so instructions will be easy for me please
Thank you so much.I'm really worried about how to set up and bind this rc in the first time.I hope you can make more video like this for beginner like me
Hey Captain Drone, I need help I've binded my RadioMaster pocket with my drone that has a ExpressLRS 2.4G RX Nano 2400RX. But I can't seem to get any throttle? or any input that I can see on betaflight.
If none of the slider bars move in Betaflight Configurator then you are either NOT bound to the receiver, or you didn’t set yup your radio correctly or you did no supply your drone with power and finally, you made the newbie mistake and did not plug your usb cable into the flight controller (there are two plugs… you have a 50/50 of getting it correct)
@@CAPTAINDRONE798 Hey Captain Drone, thanks for replying so quickly. The receiver and transmitter seem to be connected, because when I take the battery out of my drone, it says "telemetry lost," and when I plug it back in, it says it’s connected again. It also shows on the Radiomaster that signal symbol, that it is connected.
@@TheRagingGiantsthen the problem is as I mentioned… radio setup wrong or no power provided or you plugged into the wrong port on your drone. When you plug into Betaflight configurator, and then lift and move the drone… does the drone on screen also move?
@@CAPTAINDRONE798 I've fixed it, I wired as you said the Receiver wrong. Now I need to tune it because for some reason the throttle is stuck? when I give power the motors keep spinning faster and faster and faster and faster, and when I try to fly it it turns really fast 1 second then turns off.
@@TheRagingGiants No tuning required. The motors spinning up quickly is normal because EVERY FPV DRONE on the planet is designed to fly, so when you ARM it on the ground, then increase throttle, it then doesn't understand why it is not flying, so the motors spin up to compensate.
Greetings, thank you for your video, it has helped me a lot, I am connecting the master pocket elrs radio, with the mobula 8 uart elrs, I followed all the steps and apparently it connects and telemetry appears but when it comes to moving the propellers the drone does nothing, when I connect to the betafligt the remote does not appear, no I know if you can give me any suggestions or help, both devices have elrs 3.0 but I can't get the drone to move.
If the drone does not show up in Betaflight, then you need the correct usb port drivers for your computer. Also your USB cable could be a power cable & not a data cable. Also, plug a battery into your quad.
@@CAPTAINDRONE798 The drone does appear in betaflight, and the sensors can be calibrated normally, the controller and the drone also connect to Wi-Fi and they are the same versions of ELRS, I just changed the cable and it is the same only the controller and the drone do not They connect, the connection signal appears on the controller and warns that there is telemetry, but the controls for the motors to move do nothing. When you connect the drone to the Betaflight, the station does not appear, that is, it is as if the connection between the controller and the drone did not happen, I don't know if I should change the UART version that the drone comes with for another to see what happens, I don't know what you can recommend.
thank you for your video, it has been very helpful for me as a beginner in FPV drone. I tried following the steps you provided, and it worked. I have another question. Do you have any advanced videos on connecting the drone to goggles?
There rarely are videos regarding connecting FPV goggles to the video output of a drone because it is super simple. If your goggles are ANALOG, you simply scan for the band & channel. If your goggles are digital, you simply press the bind button on drone & goggles.
When you press the Model button, what is the difference between "Pocket" & "FPV drone". Also, do the Delta & Heli have any different settings pre-configured for something or could we just delete those?
@@CAPTAINDRONE798 Thank you for your reply. Another question, so if want my SJRC F22s to have a new controller that can go a longer distance what can I do?
Thank you so much! This video is very concise and really helped me to setup my new Pocket. I got it all setup and paired with my new Heewing Hunter RC airplane.
Hi, I set the timer as you showed. The voice is also saying armed but the timer does not start unless I raise the throttle so is it correct or have I done something wrong??
This video was super helpful, thank you. So, I’m still having a blast rocking the Aquila 16 though still can’t get use to wearing the goggles. Still flying FPV using a separate VRx and the flat screen in my garage. What I’ve been wanting to do, is to start upgrading components on the Aquila 16 or just do a “ from scratch “ build of a tiny whoop. Ive actually printed a couple frames that are similar to a Pavo. What I’m wondering is if you’ve a video on drone builds, component selection, initial configuration, etc. I need serious tutoring in Flight Controller, VTx/Camera, other drone electronics with focus on controllers and protocols. I’m old school and use to the clunky Rx bricks you’d plug whatever number of servos into, match Tx/Rx crystal freq’s and that’s it. I’m not even sure receivers with huge numbers of channels are a thing anymore. And the protocols…..??? I’ve watched what videos of yours I can find and they answered a lot of my questions. If you already have a video that covers this, please point me in the right direction. If not, I’m going to cross my fingers that you release one in the near future. I know there’s a lot of content out there on the subject, I just prefer the way you do it. Thanks for the great videos!!
I have watched it and it was very helpful until one moment. I pressed ExpressLRS (after sys) and it stuck loading forever. I rebooted the controller several times, but it was like that all the same. Could you give me an idea on how can I fix it, please?
Keep trying. I think the POCKET uses a micro SD card for ELRS data so it could just be a glitch (as long as the Micro SD card was not erased or damaged). Power off, wait a few seconds, power on, and try again.
I'm fairly new to the drone world. I've been flying the Cetus Lite and the DeeRC D20 for about a year now, and I thought I was doing well. Until last week when I bought the Happymodel Moblite 7 and a new Radiomaster Pocket. I followed along in this video trying to setup the new drone. OMG, I'm finding this thing totally uncontrollable. The drone has a mind of it's own. Far too sensitive for my skill level. So my question is how do I tame this thing down? Does the radio have expo? Coming from the Futaba and Sprekrum world, the EdgeTX is totally new and foreign to me. I can't wrap my head around it quite yet. Any help would be most welcome. Rick
Flying in full acro mode takes skill and it is exactly as you described. As your skills increase, life gets better. The drones you flew previously did not have true acro mode so your skills (hand/eye) are rather out of sync
Thank you for the step-by-step guide. This was so helpful because I was going bananas. The only other thing that I would add is to upgrade the Sim card that’s in there. You only need a super small one like a 16 GB because my SD card failed with the one that came in the box, so I had a little bit more of a learning curve.
hi Steve, thanks for all the great videos. I wanted to create my own beginners FPV drone kit. I want to use the Radiomaster Pocket controller, with the Walksnail Avatar HD googles. I have not picked out a beginner FPV drone yet. My question is this. Using this selection of hardware can I fly a drone in a grandma skill level 1 mode with altitude hold. Is this possible with the hardware selected? and what drone would you recommend?
Just ordered the Pocket and ERLS rx quad. Beginner. Just playing around with a micro FPV indoor 1s quad with non-Betaflight FC. Thanks for the video tutorial. Question regarding the mode switch. Can it be set up in reverse than what you demonstrated? That is, SB-up as Angle mode, no change for Horizon mode, and SB-down for Acro. Betaflight Configurator supposedly gives you the option to set up "Rate Profile Settings". Would like to set up an "indoors" rate profile. Throttle limit, expo and control(Roll, Pitch, Yaw) expo, max rates. Possible to set the custom rate profile to another switch. Basically a Angle and either custom active or off. If possible might use the remaining 3 way and add couple custom rate profiles to link with Angle Mode active on SB.
I attempted to bind my controller to the drone doing everything you did but when trying to arm it doesn’t do anything and then I connected to beta flight where I wasn’t getting any response from the controller when moving the sticks around. When I disconnect the battery from the drone though it says telemetry lost making me think that it must be connected to the drone somehow. Do you know how to help me fix this issue?
There could be a hundred reasons why it did not work, such as you made a mistake in the setup of your radio so your joysticks are not doing another, or you have a bad USB Cable, or you plugged the USB cable into the wrong port on the drone, or your drone needs to be powered with a battery before connnecting to BETAFLIGHT, or in BETAFLIGHT you have the wrong configuration for the RECEIVER, etc
@@CAPTAINDRONE798 I got it to bind and connect and now I am trying to follow the part where you setup the modes in beta flight. I try to set the arm by changing the arm in beta flight to auto and then clicking down the arm switch but it doesn’t pick anything up? By my controller is connected and the things in beta flight move when I move the joysticks around so now I’m even more confused lol
@@michaelchristaldi If it does not pick up the movement of your switch then either your switch is not set up correctly on your radio (keep in mind that all those switches on your radio do absolutely nothing until your assign them to a channel in your radio). In betaflight configuration, can you see any switches moving when you flick them? Also, just incase you are a totally newbie, I have to say the obvious... switches like the arm switch can't work if your throttle is not a ZERO.
I don't understand about how to setting acro mode? So When you press button to acro mode it will be acro mode or you have to make setup in beta flight to turn on acro mode?
You first setup a model in the radio and assign whichever switches you wish (as shown in the video). Then in BETAFLIGHT CONFIGURATOR you program the drone so that it understands when you flick a switch a certain thing happens. Every FPV Drone that is a true FPV Drone has ACRO MODE as default, so this means the drone is ready to fly in ACRO MODE when no other mode is selected. This is why you only have to setup Horizon and Angle modes and not setup Acro mode.
Hi. what are the difference of binding your drone using the quick battery thing, compared on using betaflight to bind it (besides faster). will it harm my drone?
Hello hello! Just received the Radiomaster Pocket today, I let it charge for close to 3 hours and it still doesn't power on. I just went through the steps mentioned in this video... What am I missing? Do I need to remove anything? The light is blinking red as if it's charging. How long does it take for the initial charge? Thanks in advance!
@@CAPTAINDRONE798 OMG LOL! And there's the issue... The package said that the batteries are included and I figured they'd be in the RC because I didn't see them packed seperately anywhere. There are no batteries SO, I guess it'll be Tuesday when I get to play around with it.😕
Is this binding procedure universal for every flight controller? I mean the 3 times battery connection sequence. I have a speedybee F405 FC but does that binding procedure work on f405?
@@CAPTAINDRONE798 I followed every step in the binding process and i think my F405 found the controller but if i move the joysticks i dont see any movement in the 'receiver' tab Betaflight? UPDATE: i changed UART 2 to serial RX. Then it worked
Control an rc car with two joysticks? Rc cars are usually controlled with RC car remotes. Slow moving vehicles like tanks, big trucks, construction equipment are controlled with joysticks. Anyways the setup is similar and bind is the same and there is no need for Betaflight configurator.
Can you make a different profile and save binds for different drones? I have a mobula 6 and just picked up a mobula 7 was hoping to use the same controller
This is great. Everything works great except my quad wont arm! I can see the controls (and 3D) movement in Betafilght, when I hit the mode buttons, the audio works and BF shows the right indicator. The only thing that aint working is the arm! When I press the arm button, i can hear it say Armed, I can see the count down, can see that its armed in Betaflight but the motors wont spin. I did take the props off. Any ideas?
If you see the joysticks move in Betaflight (those bars on the screen), then your drone won’t are because: - your left joystick is not 100% DOWN - you bought an FPV drone with a GPS and the GPS needs to be outdoors and get 8 satellites before it will allow the motors to arm.
@@CAPTAINDRONE798I took the drone outside and it still won't arm. :( I don't understand something "you bought an FPV drone with a GPS and the GPS needs to be outdoors and get 8 satellites before it will allow the motors to arm." - does this mean that if a drone has GPS, you can't test the motors using the sliders in Betaflight?
@@f2f.photographySo that means you have done something incorrect with your setup or you are simply doing something wrong in your arming. When you connect tthe drone to Betaflight Configurator and move the joysticks you’ll see the bars move onscreen regardless if you have a gps or not. Also if you set a switch on your radio to be the ARM switch (and you do it correctly) then your radio will send a signal to the receiver in your drone when the switch or button is pressed. It is up to you to assign that switch/button in Betaflight Configurator to the ARM mode within the MODES section as shown in my video. Trust me when I say you have either done something wrong or are doing it wrong. This means you will eventually figure it out and get it working.
@@CAPTAINDRONE798 Yes I agree I am doing something wrong, its prob something simple too. I re-watched and re-did the setup again and everything "appears" to be working. When I press the arm button, the left side of the Pocket lights up green and in BF, I see it armed with a red box in the Mode screen. The yellow bar and yellow tricky thing align on the right side. All controls move the 3D model in the Receiver tab. I have checked each button (that we setup in this video) and all seem to work in BF in the Receiver tab and the Modes tab. I must be missing something simple. Just can't figure out what it could be.
Do you know what type of receiver is in the BetaFPV AIR 65? I would have thought it would be an ELRS receiver which is 100% not compatible with the CC2500
I bought the cc2500 version of this controller so I could use with my frsky drones and this video definitely helped with the only difference really being the binding process which you simply do within page 2 after turning the internal rf on and to frsky d 8 for my case there is a bind/bnd option there on page 2 that after the drone is in bind mode you simply click bnd on page 2 that’s it well of course after binding go through bf like cap shows here. This video definitely helped and saved me some time so very much appreciated cap as always a great video and very informative.
I am from Colombia and for a long time I have wanted to fly a drone, but since I have no experience in it, I want to know if there is a drone flight simulator for this model that you recommend, and when I have a few hours of flaying I would proceed to purchase the e drone. Help me to select a descent drone flignt simulator for the Radiomaster Pocket. Best regards,
Any flight simulator works as long as the flight simulator accepts a USB joystick device (which most do). Go on the STEAM network and you’ll find lots of flight simulators.
Thank you for the excellent video. I have a Mobula 8 that I can't bind. When I insert the power cable into it, as you instructed, it doesn't beep multiple times and can't bind... Any thoughts? Thanks again.
Power cable? Power cable as in a battery cable? If you are talking about the part where you plug the battery in 3 times on a drone that has an ELRS RECEIVER, then the drone MUST make a series of tones when a battery is plugged in. If not, then it means your battery is dead or your drone is broken.
Without looking at it in person, I have no idea, but obviously 99% of the population will tell you that you are NOT BOUND, or your radio is NOT SETUP CORRECTLY, and many more items.
@@CAPTAINDRONE798 my betaflight was origninally configured for sbus I had to reflash the flight controller with radio protocol of crsf now I see the inputs from my radio on the receiver tab.
The radio control settings must be the same as those you set, even if it is either a drone returned by you or an EMAX Tinyhawk 3 plus Freestyle, even the minutes one because you didn't set it
Newbie here, I bought this pocket controller and I am having trouble getting it to work. Great video by the way, I followed this video step by step and I was able to connect to the receiver but nothing works. I’ll try again by connecting to express LRS software to see what happens
Thanks for this video explained really well. I am new to this radio system or protocol. I have a question to ask you. Why when you enter the expresslrs location you notice the name of Radiomaster Zorro and not Radiomaster Pocket like mine? I bought this radio a few days ago, do I have to update the firmware? Unfortunately I haven't been able to bind anything yet. This is the second radio with integrated expresslrs that I've bought, the first time I sold it out of desperation. One of these days I hope to bind a tinnywhoop.
Hi bro. Amazing review Can you guide how i can bind flysky and frysky receivers with boxer? Ive TX16S and its pretty straightforward..is it same in boxer too where we select receiver type and bind?in video u did for elrs. Ive ordered 4 in 1 type so i will enable internal RF
Thank you for making this tutorial but I want to add that the timer is best to use mode: ON (started when activated and stop when deactivated) or Ths (started after throttle is raised and switch activated) but to simplify ON is better. Using Th% really not recommended and will ruin your time. At my early flight I am using Th% following your guide and I depend on my TX and not paying attention to OSD for when I should land and the battery dropped till below 3 V and VTX die. Th% could count double your true flight time. And honestly I dont understand why did you recommend to use Th%. ON is easiest for everyone.
I've mapped the aux 1 arm ch 5, and aux 2 angle horizon . Was still seeing no motor start on arming even though it shows on BF: just discovered arming disable flags: rxfailsafe, noprearm, msp and rpmfilter... x( Like I said before this drone was previously configured for a tbs rx... should I reflash? Need another tip. Thanks so much.
Can you advice me. Im starting with the timer countdown and done everything instructed. But when the arm is clicked, the timer wont countfown. It stays 5 minutes.
I just got an newbeedrone acrobee65 and im trying to get it to pair to my radiomaster pocket controller. First issue i ran into was on the setup screen the internal RF only had off and multi. I read on some reddit threads that in the hardware menu for the system i can change the internal rf to crsf. So I did that, and now trying to load the expressLRS its just stuck on the loading screen. Any ideas?
Please be aware that ELRS Radios can connect to an ELRS Receiver as long as both are on the same firmware number and both are at the same frequency. This means you really need to know what receiver is in your Tinyhawk 3 Plus Freestyle.
pff... so I swapped the tbs rx for an elrs nano txco on an ol hglarc sector 132. I'm bound to it now with a brand new pocket but my aux switches are not showing up in betaflight. I sorta hit a wall now... and need a tip. thanks
Is anything showing up in Betaflight configurator when you move joysticks, switches? If the answer is no then maybe you have the incorrect receiver selected in Betaflight configurator.
@@johngraboskiAETR is only for the joysticks so that your throttle, yaw, pitch, roll are correct. So, when you move the joysticks, you see the associated bars move in Betaflight configurator?
@@johngraboskiThen the issue must be your radio. The switches that you assigned are not sending any output. You can easily double check this on your radio switch/dial monitor screen.
Hello, good day, excellent video, I bought the RadioMaster Pocket to bind all my drones, I managed to bind my Pavo20, but when trying to bind the CetusX I followed the steps and I have not been able to do it, I want to know if this is compatible and perhaps explain what the CetusX bind process with RadioMaster Pocket, thank you very much for your help
I have the same drone and radio of course but my timer doesn’t start on TH% until the throttle is used and then I’m stops when the throttle is down. Also does your Flywoo beep? I trted to setup a beeper on mine and doesn’t work.
Hi Captain 🫡! I was able to connect one drone 😀. I flew my Meteor75 pro hdzero this afternoon for the first time! So, if I want to add other drones, like my tinyhawk III, it’s the same procedure that I just have to repeat? Thank you so much for this video!
Excellent! You on your way to FPV stardom. To add another drone you simply go to the main menu that lists the models from top to bottom, then select your existing drone, select duplicate, and once duplicated, select the new version and change the name and then bind it.
After doing all this and my controller and drone are bind, would it also auto bind in the next time i use it?. Also does this controller work for HS440 and HS210?
Only works for drones with a dedicated ELRS receiver that you can see with your eyeballs. My guess is yours doesn’t work for two possible reasons: 1. You’re doing the process wrong 2. You’re drone is ELRS SPI which means it won’t work the standard way and you need to bind it via Betaflight configurator
Yes, Betaflight configurator works on a Mac. And yes, this radio transmitter acts as an external JOYSTICK USB for any flight sim that uses an external USB joystick.
@@CAPTAINDRONE798 Thanks, Im having literally so many problems and I finally found out why, the micro usb cable I was using was charging only so now I have to spend more moneyyyyyyy yayyyyyyyy
Followed all the isntructions, but when I arm and push my throttle. The motors don't spin. But the binding has worked and the receiver works in betafligth.
It could be you have the LEFT JOYSTICK slightly up and not fully lowered to the bottom. You may have the drone on an Angle. Or you have a GPS in the drone and it won’t let you arm until you get sufficient seats, Or… you setup your radio WRONG or you setup your ARM SWITCH WRONG in betaflight configurator and/or you have another switch assigned to the same ARM Switch (scroll down on the MODES screen to make certain nothing else is showing for the switch you picked).
@@nicokneubuhler2974Ony work with each other if the Transmitter and Receiver are on the same Firmware number (so if the transmitter is on version 3.x then the receiver has to also be on version 3.x)
Hello, after setup up and binding, all ok, but when I would like to connect to PC, don't work. In Betafligh can detect, but in simulator programs don't detected. Could you help me?? thanks!
Power on the Pocket. Plug a USB into your computer and other end into the Pocket. Select JOYSTICK on the pocket display. That’s it, all will work. If it does not work then the reason is simple. Either your computer is out of date or you have not figured out how to use an external USB remote in a simulator program. You’ll figure it out.
Thanks for the quick response. I figured out that the issue was with the Steam configuration, and it wasn't set up correctly. Once I disabled the generic controller support, everything started working.@@CAPTAINDRONE798
Wie bekomme ich das Display von 3:22 wieder her, ich habe es irgendwie verstellt. Ich sehe die Sticks und Schalter als Balken. Hätte es gerne so wie bei 3:22. >Boxer< How do I get the display back from 3:22, I have it misaligned somehow. I see the sticks and switches as bars. I would like to have it like in 3:22. >Boxer
Will this same setup guide work for the Boxer as well? Please reply, it worked on my pocket and then it bricked. So I got the Boxer and can't find any videos like this for it.. Thanks CAPT!
Hello Captain Drone. Can the Meteor85 be connected to the RadioMaster Pocket? I mean, do both ELRS protocols have the same version? If not, is it possible to update the quad receiver software?
I have watched a ridiculous number of videos trying to learn about this stuff and so far you are the best I have found. Better than JB who I do like.
Thanks! I try to keep every Short, Sweet & Simple in all my vids.
This is why we all subscribed to this channel. Simplicity at its best 👌.
This tutorial saved me hours of trouble shooting. Thanks for the good video.
Excellent!
Just a heads up, I just got my Pocket and the timer didn't automatically start after that initial configuration (before setting it to the arm trigger). It would only count down if the throttle stick was actually engaged (not at the bottom). I looked it up and TH% means the timer counts down in coordination with your throttle. So at fully throttle it counts down normally, at half throttle it counts down more slowly, at no throttle (stick at pulled all the way down) it doesn't count down at all.
I'm assuming this is because the version of EdgeTX that shipped with my radio is a newer version.
I have the same issue, does it work following the same steps or I need to do something else ?
@@dand.1941 yes, following the same steps all work. Just a few minor differences on what the radio does.
I guess I don't understand the need for a timer at all. Is it important? It's number one in this video. Please excuse my ignorance. I'm not trying to be a smart alec.
@@Sonic_Ox I think it's a useful reminder so you don't have to monitor the battery voltage constantly.
Thank you ggochalleng. That does seem helpful if you know about how long your typical flight time is. Say you have a quad that typically flies about 10 minutes with a certain battery, a certain flight style, under certain conditions like wind... you could set your timer for eight or nine minutes knowing you should be looking to land when your timer beeps. I guess I'm just accustomed to monitoring my voltage and never thought to set a timer. Thanks for the reply amigo.
Thank you! You're the only one on RUclips who took the time to do this. Much appreciated from a newbie like myself.
Glad I could help!
Wow I just spent 24 hours solid trying to get my Pocket to work with a NANO ERLS module and couldn't as it appears it was in some kind of training mode.
This video gave me enough info on what I should be seeing to actually end this madness. lol
For this I am greatful... you made the world a better place!
Excellent!
could you help me out? I've been stuck aswell it hasn't worked for me.
When i cant connect. Always fall back to this channel thank u.
My 'Pocket' will be here in a matter of hours and you just saved me some time. Thank you, sir.
I'm absolutely clueless on Betaflight but this video does break down many of the myths regarding set up. I have the old Jumper T8SG radio on deviation but the Radiomaster with Open TX looks a great option. Thank you for this video Steve.
Glad it helped
@@CAPTAINDRONE798 I need some help! I accidentally fiddles with the drone when you were resetting the timer, and now it won’t start whatever I do!
Thank you for this video, very helpful.
One question. At 3:10 when i go back to the main dashboard i see a blinking value -6.36 instead of 4.39 as in your case. Also there is no reset flight menu when i press the scroll wheel. What might be the problem in my settings?
Thanks! Worked first video😎
Glad you found it helpful! And thank you for the support.
I hate ExpressLRS so much right now
I've been trying to connect my Mobula8 to my Pocket for 8 hours now, spread over a week.
Nothing works. No flashing (both drone and remote) no passphrase, no "classic" binding...
Something jiggles on the channels in Betaflight configurator when I press bind like described here, but the connection seems to be lost immediately.
How TF can I get this to work!?!?
Binding ELRS is super simple, as shown in my video. If yours doesn’t work then it is due to two possibilities.
1. You’re doing it wrong, and/or;
2. Your receiver and transmitter are on different firmware versions. If one is on firmware 2.x and the other on 3.x they will never bind. You need to then either upgrade the firmware on one or downgrade the firmware on the other.
@@CAPTAINDRONE798 Thank you very much for your answer, but I sure checked the obvious stuff in these 8 hours ;-)
After 9 hours I found the problem: The SPI receivers in the Mob6 and Mob8 don't work with D(D250, D500), F(F500, F1000) and Full Res(100Hz Full Res, 333Hz Full Res) Modes. That was not very obvious
@@FPVRacingDroneahhhhh. SPI ELRS is very different from normal ELRS and you bind it via BETAFLIGHT CONFIGURATOR vice every other normal method.
Best video I’ve seen to set up Radio master pocket
Excellent job, my friend
Thank you! Much appreciated!
Thank you very much dear Captain for the best tutorial video 🙏
Glad you liked it!
Just bought this radio for use with a Mobula 6 ELRS. I'm as excited to get the radio as i am to get the drone. It seems like a banger of a radio for the price.
Thank so much man for the very easy to follow and detailed guide
bro im subscribing because iv look for day to try and bind my controller to my drone and it instantly work when i watched you thank you
You are welcome, glad you found it useful.
Hi drone Cap😊 I have a mobula 8 analog ELRS and radio master pocket ELRS VERSION. Will this bind method work for my drone? If not what do I watch to learn? Or could you just tell me? I'm familiar with beta flight so instructions will be easy for me please
I don’t own an ELRS Mobula 8 so I don’t know. It will probably work the same as long as it is not an SPI ELRS
@@CAPTAINDRONE798 ok and if it's spi do I have to go to the CLI tabs and enter rx_bind?
@@user-hi5quadxplorerNo. you go to the Receiver tab and select bind
Got the remote and followed your video and everything worked 100%! Can't wait to get outside and fly! Thanks!!
Glad it helped!
As Always - great video! You make this FPV hobby much easier to undertstand!
Glad to help!
Thank you for a such detailed (but easy to follow) tutorial!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you so much.I'm really worried about how to set up and bind this rc in the first time.I hope you can make more video like this for beginner like me
Hey Captain Drone, I need help I've binded my RadioMaster pocket with my drone that has a ExpressLRS 2.4G RX Nano 2400RX. But I can't seem to get any throttle? or any input that I can see on betaflight.
If none of the slider bars move in Betaflight Configurator then you are either NOT bound to the receiver, or you didn’t set yup your radio correctly or you did no supply your drone with power and finally, you made the newbie mistake and did not plug your usb cable into the flight controller (there are two plugs… you have a 50/50 of getting it correct)
@@CAPTAINDRONE798 Hey Captain Drone, thanks for replying so quickly. The receiver and transmitter seem to be connected, because when I take the battery out of my drone, it says "telemetry lost," and when I plug it back in, it says it’s connected again.
It also shows on the Radiomaster that signal symbol, that it is connected.
@@TheRagingGiantsthen the problem is as I mentioned… radio setup wrong or no power provided or you plugged into the wrong port on your drone. When you plug into Betaflight configurator, and then lift and move the drone… does the drone on screen also move?
@@CAPTAINDRONE798 I've fixed it, I wired as you said the Receiver wrong. Now I need to tune it because for some reason the throttle is stuck? when I give power the motors keep spinning faster and faster and faster and faster, and when I try to fly it it turns really fast 1 second then turns off.
@@TheRagingGiants No tuning required. The motors spinning up quickly is normal because EVERY FPV DRONE on the planet is designed to fly, so when you ARM it on the ground, then increase throttle, it then doesn't understand why it is not flying, so the motors spin up to compensate.
Nice! It's a pro tip bro 💪
The tutorials you do are very helpful. Thanks 👍
Glad you like them!
You are the best CAPTAIN
Very clear and easy-to-understand video keep it up, Uncle
Thank you 😍
Thank you!
Greetings, thank you for your video, it has helped me a lot,
I am connecting the master pocket elrs radio, with the mobula 8 uart elrs, I followed all the steps and apparently it connects and telemetry appears but when it comes to moving the propellers the drone does nothing, when I connect to the betafligt the remote does not appear, no I know if you can give me any suggestions or help, both devices have elrs 3.0 but I can't get the drone to move.
If the drone does not show up in Betaflight, then you need the correct usb port drivers for your computer. Also your USB cable could be a power cable & not a data cable. Also, plug a battery into your quad.
@@CAPTAINDRONE798 The drone does appear in betaflight, and the sensors can be calibrated normally, the controller and the drone also connect to Wi-Fi and they are the same versions of ELRS, I just changed the cable and it is the same only the controller and the drone do not They connect, the connection signal appears on the controller and warns that there is telemetry, but the controls for the motors to move do nothing. When you connect the drone to the Betaflight, the station does not appear, that is, it is as if the connection between the controller and the drone did not happen, I don't know if I should change the UART version that the drone comes with for another to see what happens, I don't know what you can recommend.
@@handrusalexisflorezmontaez4061 The problem is your PC. Or you are plugging the cable into the wrong connection on the drone.
@@handrusalexisflorezmontaez4061 or you have the incorrect receiver type selected in betaflight configurator .
thank you for your video, it has been very helpful for me as a beginner in FPV drone. I tried following the steps you provided, and it worked. I have another question. Do you have any advanced videos on connecting the drone to goggles?
There rarely are videos regarding connecting FPV goggles to the video output of a drone because it is super simple. If your goggles are ANALOG, you simply scan for the band & channel. If your goggles are digital, you simply press the bind button on drone & goggles.
When you press the Model button, what is the difference between "Pocket" & "FPV drone". Also, do the Delta & Heli have any different settings pre-configured for something or could we just delete those?
Those are just MODELS. You can setup hundreds of MODELS. Let’s say you owned 5 FPV Drones, you’d set up 5 MODELS and give each of those models a name.
Hello my pocket shows me no tracks on sd card when I set up for the armed sound . Where can I get the tracks ?
I'm a new player in drones. I have SJRC F22s for 6 months i would like to know if it is possible to bind with ELRS remote controller?
Nope. ELRS only binds to ELRS, and there is no ELRS in the SJRC F22s. ELRS is a LONG RANGE receiver.
@@CAPTAINDRONE798 Thank you for your reply. Another question, so if want my SJRC F22s to have a new controller that can go a longer distance what can I do?
@@samcho882You can’t. Drones with cameras and GPS that come in a box with a remote can’t be modified.
@@CAPTAINDRONE798 Understood thank you for your answers and help!!!
Thank you so much! This video is very concise and really helped me to setup my new Pocket. I got it all setup and paired with my new Heewing Hunter RC airplane.
Glad it helped!
Do we follow same procedure for connecting to PC to use it for flight simulators or different approach is required?
As as your PC has modern USB ports then it has the correct drivers (WINDOWS 11 has all the correct drivers), it works the same.
Hi, I set the timer as you showed. The voice is also saying armed but the timer does not start unless I raise the throttle so is it correct or have I done something wrong??
It is correct
this might seem like a dumb question but: what voltage do you use for charging the batteries through the USB-C port?
The radio will adjust the voltage to a safe level
@@CAPTAINDRONE798 oh, good to know. Thanks for the reply!
This video was super helpful, thank you. So, I’m still having a blast rocking the Aquila 16 though still can’t get use to wearing the goggles. Still flying FPV using a separate VRx and the flat screen in my garage.
What I’ve been wanting to do, is to start upgrading components on the Aquila 16 or just do a “ from scratch “ build of a tiny whoop. Ive actually printed a couple frames that are similar to a Pavo.
What I’m wondering is if you’ve a video on drone builds, component selection, initial configuration, etc. I need serious tutoring in Flight Controller, VTx/Camera, other drone electronics with focus on controllers and protocols. I’m old school and use to the clunky Rx bricks you’d plug whatever number of servos into, match Tx/Rx crystal freq’s and that’s it. I’m not even sure receivers with huge numbers of channels are a thing anymore. And the protocols…..??? I’ve watched what videos of yours I can find and they answered a lot of my questions. If you already have a video that covers this, please point me in the right direction. If not, I’m going to cross my fingers that you release one in the near future. I know there’s a lot of content out there on the subject, I just prefer the way you do it.
Thanks for the great videos!!
Sorry, no build videos. However visit J. Bardwell’s channel as he has done many, from scratch, FPV Drone builds over the years.
I have watched it and it was very helpful until one moment. I pressed ExpressLRS (after sys) and it stuck loading forever. I rebooted the controller several times, but it was like that all the same. Could you give me an idea on how can I fix it, please?
Keep trying. I think the POCKET uses a micro SD card for ELRS data so it could just be a glitch (as long as the Micro SD card was not erased or damaged). Power off, wait a few seconds, power on, and try again.
I'm fairly new to the drone world. I've been flying the Cetus Lite and the DeeRC D20 for about a year now, and I thought I was doing well. Until last week when I bought the Happymodel Moblite 7 and a new Radiomaster Pocket. I followed along in this video trying to setup the new drone. OMG, I'm finding this thing totally uncontrollable. The drone has a mind of it's own. Far too sensitive for my skill level. So my question is how do I tame this thing down? Does the radio have expo? Coming from the Futaba and Sprekrum world, the EdgeTX is totally new and foreign to me. I can't wrap my head around it quite yet.
Any help would be most welcome.
Rick
Flying in full acro mode takes skill and it is exactly as you described. As your skills increase, life gets better. The drones you flew previously did not have true acro mode so your skills (hand/eye) are rather out of sync
Thank you for the step-by-step guide. This was so helpful because I was going bananas. The only other thing that I would add is to upgrade the Sim card that’s in there. You only need a super small one like a 16 GB because my SD card failed with the one that came in the box, so I had a little bit more of a learning curve.
Is there data that needs to be transferred or just swap when new ?
How about changing default switch positions warnings?
hi Steve, thanks for all the great videos. I wanted to create my own beginners FPV drone kit. I want to use the Radiomaster Pocket controller, with the Walksnail Avatar HD googles. I have not picked out a beginner FPV drone yet. My question is this. Using this selection of hardware can I fly a drone in a grandma skill level 1 mode with altitude hold. Is this possible with the hardware selected? and what drone would you recommend?
So you want to use WALKSNAIL VIDEO and ELRS Transmitter. BetaFPV might make a Walksnail Cetus X that is ELRS, but I’m not sure.
Just ordered the Pocket and ERLS rx quad. Beginner. Just playing around with a micro FPV indoor 1s quad with non-Betaflight FC. Thanks for the video tutorial. Question regarding the mode switch. Can it be set up in reverse than what you demonstrated? That is, SB-up as Angle mode, no change for Horizon mode, and SB-down for Acro. Betaflight Configurator supposedly gives you the option to set up "Rate Profile Settings". Would like to set up an "indoors" rate profile. Throttle limit, expo and control(Roll, Pitch, Yaw) expo, max rates. Possible to set the custom rate profile to another switch. Basically a Angle and either custom active or off. If possible might use the remaining 3 way and add couple custom rate profiles to link with Angle Mode active on SB.
You can do pretty much everything you mentioned
I attempted to bind my controller to the drone doing everything you did but when trying to arm it doesn’t do anything and then I connected to beta flight where I wasn’t getting any response from the controller when moving the sticks around. When I disconnect the battery from the drone though it says telemetry lost making me think that it must be connected to the drone somehow. Do you know how to help me fix this issue?
There could be a hundred reasons why it did not work, such as you made a mistake in the setup of your radio so your joysticks are not doing another, or you have a bad USB Cable, or you plugged the USB cable into the wrong port on the drone, or your drone needs to be powered with a battery before connnecting to BETAFLIGHT, or in BETAFLIGHT you have the wrong configuration for the RECEIVER, etc
@@CAPTAINDRONE798 I got it to bind and connect and now I am trying to follow the part where you setup the modes in beta flight. I try to set the arm by changing the arm in beta flight to auto and then clicking down the arm switch but it doesn’t pick anything up? By my controller is connected and the things in beta flight move when I move the joysticks around so now I’m even more confused lol
@@michaelchristaldi If it does not pick up the movement of your switch then either your switch is not set up correctly on your radio (keep in mind that all those switches on your radio do absolutely nothing until your assign them to a channel in your radio). In betaflight configuration, can you see any switches moving when you flick them? Also, just incase you are a totally newbie, I have to say the obvious... switches like the arm switch can't work if your throttle is not a ZERO.
@@CAPTAINDRONE798 Got it working! Once again you save the day captain drone!
I don't understand about how to setting acro mode? So When you press button to acro mode it will be acro mode or you have to make setup in beta flight to turn on acro mode?
You first setup a model in the radio and assign whichever switches you wish (as shown in the video). Then in BETAFLIGHT CONFIGURATOR you program the drone so that it understands when you flick a switch a certain thing happens. Every FPV Drone that is a true FPV Drone has ACRO MODE as default, so this means the drone is ready to fly in ACRO MODE when no other mode is selected. This is why you only have to setup Horizon and Angle modes and not setup Acro mode.
@@CAPTAINDRONE798 ahh i got it, thankyou so much sir🫡🫡
Hi. what are the difference of binding your drone using the quick battery thing, compared on using betaflight to bind it (besides faster). will it harm my drone?
In the RC hobby 99% of people bind ELRS using the quick method. Using the software method simply allows you to add a binding password.
Amazing clear instructions! You deserve more likes and subscribers. Thanks, man.
I appreciate that! Glad it helped.
Thanks!
Thank you!
Hello hello! Just received the Radiomaster Pocket today, I let it charge for close to 3 hours and it still doesn't power on. I just went through the steps mentioned in this video... What am I missing? Do I need to remove anything? The light is blinking red as if it's charging. How long does it take for the initial charge? Thanks in advance!
Did you put batteries in it????
@@CAPTAINDRONE798 OMG LOL! And there's the issue... The package said that the batteries are included and I figured they'd be in the RC because I didn't see them packed seperately anywhere. There are no batteries SO, I guess it'll be Tuesday when I get to play around with it.😕
Is this binding procedure universal for every flight controller? I mean the 3 times battery connection sequence. I have a speedybee F405 FC but does that binding procedure work on f405?
Yes, for ELRS Receivers. If you have ELRS SPI then it doesn’t work and instead you need to bind within Betaflight Configurator.
@@CAPTAINDRONE798 i have a speedybee f405 mini bls 35A stacked, with a SpeedyBee Nano 2.4G ELRS Receiver
I have a F405 mini BLS 35A STACKED in combination with a SpeedyBee Nano 2.4G ELRS Receiver. So i assume this procedure will work for me?
@@CAPTAINDRONE798 I followed every step in the binding process and i think my F405 found the controller but if i move the joysticks i dont see any movement in the 'receiver' tab Betaflight?
UPDATE: i changed UART 2 to serial RX. Then it worked
Using this radio to controll rc car with elrs...would the set up and bind be different...thanku
Control an rc car with two joysticks? Rc cars are usually controlled with RC car remotes. Slow moving vehicles like tanks, big trucks, construction equipment are controlled with joysticks. Anyways the setup is similar and bind is the same and there is no need for Betaflight configurator.
Hello....i have the elrs version and just wondering if i can bind this to a emax tinyhawk 2? Thank u
You can bind it to anything in the RC Hobby that also has an ELRS Receiver.
@CAPTAINDRONE798 thank u...it has a frsky so had to get a radiomaster module 4n1
Can you make a different profile and save binds for different drones? I have a mobula 6 and just picked up a mobula 7 was hoping to use the same controller
You can save hundreds of different drones in the radio
This is great. Everything works great except my quad wont arm! I can see the controls (and 3D) movement in Betafilght, when I hit the mode buttons, the audio works and BF shows the right indicator. The only thing that aint working is the arm! When I press the arm button, i can hear it say Armed, I can see the count down, can see that its armed in Betaflight but the motors wont spin. I did take the props off. Any ideas?
If you see the joysticks move in Betaflight (those bars on the screen), then your drone won’t are because:
- your left joystick is not 100% DOWN
- you bought an FPV drone with a GPS and the GPS needs to be outdoors and get 8 satellites before it will allow the motors to arm.
@@CAPTAINDRONE798 Thank you. I'll try this outside. 🙏
@@CAPTAINDRONE798I took the drone outside and it still won't arm. :( I don't understand something "you bought an FPV drone with a GPS and the GPS needs to be outdoors and get 8 satellites before it will allow the motors to arm." - does this mean that if a drone has GPS, you can't test the motors using the sliders in Betaflight?
@@f2f.photographySo that means you have done something incorrect with your setup or you are simply doing something wrong in your arming. When you connect tthe drone to Betaflight Configurator and move the joysticks you’ll see the bars move onscreen regardless if you have a gps or not. Also if you set a switch on your radio to be the ARM switch (and you do it correctly) then your radio will send a signal to the receiver in your drone when the switch or button is pressed. It is up to you to assign that switch/button in Betaflight Configurator to the ARM mode within the MODES section as shown in my video. Trust me when I say you have either done something wrong or are doing it wrong. This means you will eventually figure it out and get it working.
@@CAPTAINDRONE798 Yes I agree I am doing something wrong, its prob something simple too. I re-watched and re-did the setup again and everything "appears" to be working. When I press the arm button, the left side of the Pocket lights up green and in BF, I see it armed with a red box in the Mode screen. The yellow bar and yellow tricky thing align on the right side. All controls move the 3D model in the Receiver tab. I have checked each button (that we setup in this video) and all seem to work in BF in the Receiver tab and the Modes tab. I must be missing something simple. Just can't figure out what it could be.
It drives me bonkers that this radio got full size 18650 when the zorro got those little baby batteries 😡😡😡
Very true
I'm still surprised no one's introduced an internal battery mod to alleviate that particular problem!
At vaping i even have 21700 LiIon Batteries, so 18650 isnt even fullsize 😉 and i am sure there are even bigger LiIon Batteries 😮
I have some lifepo4 that came from transformers i put in my power wheelchair lol works amazing now!@@Eckus
@@ryswe same lol had to call like 10 different places till i found one where they sold em.
I just got a Betafpv air 65 and a radiomaster pocket CC2500 and it's giving me a hard time connecting, do you have any tips for this specific whoop ?
Do you know what type of receiver is in the BetaFPV AIR 65? I would have thought it would be an ELRS receiver which is 100% not compatible with the CC2500
I bought the cc2500 version of this controller so I could use with my frsky drones and this video definitely helped with the only difference really being the binding process which you simply do within page 2 after turning the internal rf on and to frsky d 8 for my case there is a bind/bnd option there on page 2 that after the drone is in bind mode you simply click bnd on page 2 that’s it well of course after binding go through bf like cap shows here. This video definitely helped and saved me some time so very much appreciated cap as always a great video and very informative.
Glad to read it was helpful
Very good instructional video. Thanks for this video, it will be easy to follow for us newcomers to the sport. 😊
I am from Colombia and for a long time I have wanted to fly a drone, but since I have no experience in it, I want to know if there is a drone flight simulator for this model that you recommend, and when I have a few hours of flaying I would proceed to purchase the e drone.
Help me to select a descent drone flignt simulator for the Radiomaster Pocket.
Best regards,
Any flight simulator works as long as the flight simulator accepts a USB joystick device (which most do). Go on the STEAM network and you’ll find lots of flight simulators.
Thank you for the excellent video. I have a Mobula 8 that I can't bind. When I insert the power cable into it, as you instructed, it doesn't beep multiple times and can't bind... Any thoughts? Thanks again.
Power cable? Power cable as in a battery cable? If you are talking about the part where you plug the battery in 3 times on a drone that has an ELRS RECEIVER, then the drone MUST make a series of tones when a battery is plugged in. If not, then it means your battery is dead or your drone is broken.
@@CAPTAINDRONE798Thank you so much for your time and help!
I just got the Radiomaster pocket and Radiomaster RP3 they seemed bound and I am not seeing any inputs in betaflight what do you think my problem is?
Without looking at it in person, I have no idea, but obviously 99% of the population will tell you that you are NOT BOUND, or your radio is NOT SETUP CORRECTLY, and many more items.
@@CAPTAINDRONE798 my betaflight was origninally configured for sbus I had to reflash the flight controller with radio protocol of crsf now I see the inputs from my radio on the receiver tab.
good morning I got the master pocket lrs radio I wanted to know why I can't do the Bind myself or an emax Tinyhawk 3 plus Freestyle HD drone
ELRS transmitters only binds to ELRS receivers and both must be on the same FIRMWARE
si ma entrambi sono ELRS scusa se o scritto male prima sia il drone che il radiocomando sono ELRS
yes but both are ELRS sorry if I spelled it wrong before both the drone and the remote control are ELRS
The radio control settings must be the same as those you set, even if it is either a drone returned by you or an EMAX Tinyhawk 3 plus Freestyle, even the minutes one because you didn't set it
I would like to ask for SE button, it doesn’t show for setup in any axis?
How could I add this into the channel😊
All buttons and switches should be programmable. You just follow the setup as shown in the video and use whatever buttons or switches you like.
@@CAPTAINDRONE798 finally i find the SE button was missing CH before, now I add it to CH10, all works~
thanks~
@@CAPTAINDRONE798 finally i find it, but SE button no up and down, just a click..
many thanks
Newbie here, I bought this pocket controller and I am having trouble getting it to work. Great video by the way, I followed this video step by step and I was able to connect to the receiver but nothing works. I’ll try again by connecting to express LRS software to see what happens
Thanks for this video explained really well. I am new to this radio system or protocol. I have a question to ask you. Why when you enter the expresslrs location you notice the name of Radiomaster Zorro and not Radiomaster Pocket like mine? I bought this radio a few days ago, do I have to update the firmware? Unfortunately I haven't been able to bind anything yet. This is the second radio with integrated expresslrs that I've bought, the first time I sold it out of desperation. One of these days I hope to bind a tinnywhoop.
My POCKET RADIO shown in this video is a pre-release version sent to people in the RC Hobby to test and evaluate so mine has older firmware in it.
Thank you!
perfect setup video !! cant wait till monday hopefully weather doesnt mess up shipping time
Hi bro. Amazing review
Can you guide how i can bind flysky and frysky receivers with boxer?
Ive TX16S and its pretty straightforward..is it same in boxer too where we select receiver type and bind?in video u did for elrs. Ive ordered 4 in 1 type so i will enable internal RF
Go watch one of my videos on the TX16S showing setup & bind.
@@CAPTAINDRONE798 i was asking abt boxer, mate
@@1979zeeshno, no… what I mean is watch my video on the TX16s and see how I bind and you’ll then begin to figure things out (it is all the same).
Whats reciever module you use in your drone? what model?thanks
ELRS
Thanks for your time Steve it's very helpful . What drone are you using to bind with the radio?
I was using this one: ruclips.net/video/bV4HbVrKV_M/видео.htmlsi=3_L9mudVNPLiM0n0
@CAPTAINDRONE798 Great.!! Thanks Steve.
Thank you for making this tutorial but I want to add that the timer is best to use mode: ON (started when activated and stop when deactivated) or Ths (started after throttle is raised and switch activated) but to simplify ON is better.
Using Th% really not recommended and will ruin your time. At my early flight I am using Th% following your guide and I depend on my TX and not paying attention to OSD for when I should land and the battery dropped till below 3 V and VTX die.
Th% could count double your true flight time. And honestly I dont understand why did you recommend to use Th%. ON is easiest for everyone.
a very useful must to see video for any buyer for this new tx .. thanks as always 👍🏻
I've mapped the aux 1 arm ch 5, and aux 2 angle horizon . Was still seeing no motor start on arming even though it shows on BF: just discovered arming disable flags: rxfailsafe, noprearm, msp and rpmfilter... x( Like I said before this drone was previously configured for a tbs rx... should I reflash? Need another tip. Thanks so much.
Can you advice me. Im starting with the timer countdown and done everything instructed. But when the arm is clicked, the timer wont countfown. It stays 5 minutes.
It means you have something not set correct. Watch video again to make certain you have the switch assigned correctly.
I just got an newbeedrone acrobee65 and im trying to get it to pair to my radiomaster pocket controller. First issue i ran into was on the setup screen the internal RF only had off and multi. I read on some reddit threads that in the hardware menu for the system i can change the internal rf to crsf. So I did that, and now trying to load the expressLRS its just stuck on the loading screen. Any ideas?
Yikes! You bought yourself a MULTI-protocal instead of an ELRS. Do you know what type of receiver is in your acrobee65?
@@CAPTAINDRONE798 Per getfpv, its got Crossfire Nano receiver with MINIMORTAL T Antenna
Dont you need to program the radio and reciever with a binding phrase programmed ?
That is the long way of going about things. Totally unnecessary.
I see. Makes sense
Is it possible to conect the Elrs Radiomaster Pocket with the Tinyhawk 3 Plus freestyle(analog and not HD Zero)?
Please be aware that ELRS Radios can connect to an ELRS Receiver as long as both are on the same firmware number and both are at the same frequency. This means you really need to know what receiver is in your Tinyhawk 3 Plus Freestyle.
Thank you for the step-by-step guide. Thank you for this video Steve.
Glad it was helpful!
pff... so I swapped the tbs rx for an elrs nano txco on an ol hglarc sector 132. I'm bound to it now with a brand new pocket but my aux switches are not showing up in betaflight. I sorta hit a wall now... and need a tip. thanks
Is anything showing up in Betaflight configurator when you move joysticks, switches? If the answer is no then maybe you have the incorrect receiver selected in Betaflight configurator.
@CAPTAINDRONE798 hi Captain. Wish I said that: yes, AETR are on... just no aux... I even tried auto but no dice
@@johngraboskiAETR is only for the joysticks so that your throttle, yaw, pitch, roll are correct. So, when you move the joysticks, you see the associated bars move in Betaflight configurator?
@CAPTAINDRONE798 yes. Sticks move in BF.
@@johngraboskiThen the issue must be your radio. The switches that you assigned are not sending any output. You can easily double check this on your radio switch/dial monitor screen.
Awesome video. This will save me a lot of time and stress 👍
Glad it helped!
Hello, good day, excellent video, I bought the RadioMaster Pocket to bind all my drones, I managed to bind my Pavo20, but when trying to bind the CetusX I followed the steps and I have not been able to do it, I want to know if this is compatible and perhaps explain what the CetusX bind process with RadioMaster Pocket, thank you very much for your help
I have the same drone and radio of course but my timer doesn’t start on TH% until the throttle is used and then I’m stops when the throttle is down. Also does your Flywoo beep? I trted to setup a beeper on mine and doesn’t work.
Hi Captain 🫡! I was able to connect one drone 😀. I flew my Meteor75 pro hdzero this afternoon for the first time! So, if I want to add other drones, like my tinyhawk III, it’s the same procedure that I just have to repeat? Thank you so much for this video!
Excellent! You on your way to FPV stardom. To add another drone you simply go to the main menu that lists the models from top to bottom, then select your existing drone, select duplicate, and once duplicated, select the new version and change the name and then bind it.
Is there a certain receiver for it? or does it work with any
If you get an ELRS POCKET then it works with ELRS Receivers
@@CAPTAINDRONE798 Thanks!
@@CAPTAINDRONE798 What receiver do you recommend?
@@CAPTAINDRONE798 What receiver do you recommend?
Is this RC Controller binds with dji o3 unit?
Nope. Only DJI FPV Remotes bind with DJI O3
@@CAPTAINDRONE798 Thanks 😊
thank you, your information is clear and simple, keep it up, I hope you are well. God bless you
What happens when the Timer runs out?
It tells you TIMER EXPIRED, then you land & reset the timer
After doing all this and my controller and drone are bind, would it also auto bind in the next time i use it?. Also does this controller work for HS440 and HS210?
The plugging in and out 3 times to activate bind mode, does that work for all drone? dosent seem to work with my pavo pico
Only works for drones with a dedicated ELRS receiver that you can see with your eyeballs. My guess is yours doesn’t work for two possible reasons:
1. You’re doing the process wrong
2. You’re drone is ELRS SPI which means it won’t work the standard way and you need to bind it via Betaflight configurator
Can you use this controller to control velocidrone on a Mac? Does Beta Flight work with Mac?
Yes, Betaflight configurator works on a Mac. And yes, this radio transmitter acts as an external JOYSTICK USB for any flight sim that uses an external USB joystick.
Do I need to set up betaflight even if im only going to be flying in acro mode?
Yes
@@CAPTAINDRONE798 Thanks, Im having literally so many problems and I finally found out why, the micro usb cable I was using was charging only so now I have to spend more moneyyyyyyy yayyyyyyyy
Followed all the isntructions, but when I arm and push my throttle. The motors don't spin. But the binding has worked and the receiver works in betafligth.
It could be you have the LEFT JOYSTICK slightly up and not fully lowered to the bottom. You may have the drone on an Angle. Or you have a GPS in the drone and it won’t let you arm until you get sufficient seats, Or… you setup your radio WRONG or you setup your ARM SWITCH WRONG in betaflight configurator and/or you have another switch assigned to the same ARM Switch (scroll down on the MODES screen to make certain nothing else is showing for the switch you picked).
Can you do the same video for the boxer radio if you already have could you post a link to the video
im dont speak english as well as i want, but your videos are simple to understand even if you dont know english language well!
Thank you!
does this support BLE Joystick too? 🎉
Strange🤔 I have a brand new out the box pocket
Started going through the steps you provide and my timer is not working
Hey, can you do the seam Vid. with the iFlight Commando 8?
The interface on the Commando 8 is the same. The difference is in those tiny 5 way buttons on the Commando 8 for menu selection
@@CAPTAINDRONE798 One last Question is ELRS 2.4GHz RX the same or work with each other, with ELRS V2 2.4G RF 500mW
@@nicokneubuhler2974Ony work with each other if the Transmitter and Receiver are on the same Firmware number (so if the transmitter is on version 3.x then the receiver has to also be on version 3.x)
Hello, after setup up and binding, all ok, but when I would like to connect to PC, don't work. In Betafligh can detect, but in simulator programs don't detected. Could you help me?? thanks!
Power on the Pocket. Plug a USB into your computer and other end into the Pocket. Select JOYSTICK on the pocket display. That’s it, all will work. If it does not work then the reason is simple. Either your computer is out of date or you have not figured out how to use an external USB remote in a simulator program. You’ll figure it out.
Thanks for the quick response. I figured out that the issue was with the Steam configuration, and it wasn't set up correctly. Once I disabled the generic controller support, everything started working.@@CAPTAINDRONE798
captain drone explains better than my math teacher
Thanks!
Wie bekomme ich das Display von 3:22 wieder her, ich habe es irgendwie verstellt. Ich sehe die Sticks und Schalter als Balken. Hätte es gerne so wie bei 3:22. >Boxer<
How do I get the display back from 3:22, I have it misaligned somehow. I see the sticks and switches as bars. I would like to have it like in 3:22. >Boxer
You have simply scrolled the screen. If you can’t figure it out, just power off and back on.
@@CAPTAINDRONE798 Turning it off and on doesn't do anything, but the page key works.
Will this same setup guide work for the Boxer as well? Please reply, it worked on my pocket and then it bricked. So I got the Boxer and can't find any videos like this for it.. Thanks CAPT!
Yes, same on all EDGE TX radios that are ELRS
Thank you! @@CAPTAINDRONE798
Hello Captain Drone. Can the Meteor85 be connected to the RadioMaster Pocket? I mean, do both ELRS protocols have the same version? If not, is it possible to update the quad receiver software?