Hey Joshua, Great videos on arming issues. I ran into another arming issue that you didn't cover in your series. "Throttle CLI armswitch" which I finally figured out that my throttle minimum was lower than my throttle setting on my Taranis for one of my quads, which until I raised minimum above actual throttle minimum it wouldn't arm. Thanks again for all the info and keep up the great work.
Awesome! I've got a micro that gives me a calib flag often and won't arm. This usually happens after the quad spins to it's death on the roll axis whenever I try to do any kind of flip or roll.
Thanks Josh,what a good idea for a new series! Modern reason for not arming: The Speedybee app! Using it for rates setting in the field, it kept changing the min_throttle value to 1000... in the background! Happy flying! XD
Here's a Betaflight change that tripped me up recently (thanks to kind RCGroups users for this answer): Since 3.3.0, to use Stick Commands to trim the accelerometer, the craft needs to be disarmed *and* in angle or horizon mode, when 3.2.5 and previous didn't care what flight mode you were in. The fix was easy, just adjust the slider for angle mode to include disarmed.
Awesome video brother, thanks for the uploads. I’m cramming with knowledge until I finally get a freestyle quad, jamming the Mavic Pro is all I have so far. This winter I’ll be ‘IN’ lol. Olympia WA
Are these videos still valid for the latest version of Betaflight? The quad I just finished won't arm and I plan to go through these videos tomorrow. If I hadn't already joined your Patreon, I think these series would have convinced me (again). Thanks JB.
Hello Joshua I´m about to get my Dingo 5 soon what would i do without your videos. Always good to know where to get all the answers i have in one place, now and the ones I will have during my start. Thank you for the awesome videos.
Hi Josh great video as always. I messed up a little here I think... half accidentally I pressed the “return to factory settings” button and as you can imagine I’ve lost everything. Of course now I cannot configure the tiny 6 again because I’m a beginner! Any ideas will be greatly appreciated. And keep it up. What you are doing are. Great help to all of us.
One lesson here is, when you get a new quad, go to the CLI and type "diff all" then save the output. It will help you restore config in the future. For now rebuilding the config from scratch is the only option.
I’ve had these vids non-stop playing. I got the dji flywoo nano and it would not arm. It turned out to be a controller setting in the goggles. Difficult to find BC quad overheats real fast and kept trying betaflight
Mmmm That's cool. INav needs that arming disabled warning. Right now it just has system messages on the OSD but the Status command works in the CLI same as you showed with BetaFlight.
Thanks Joshua for the prompt reply. How do I go about rebuilding it from scratch? This is my big problem. I realised that I messed up but I don’t know how to rebuild it. Any tutorials?
Josh i have an Eachine 3 and when i plug in my pack i only get 3 beeps instead of 5 and the quad does not arm, however if i connect the quad to Betaflight my receiver lights up the sticks respond and the motors spin up thru BF. O could sure use your expertise on this problem of which I've never had?
Hi Joshua, I bought your FC,esc 4 in 1, and Phoenix camera on raceday quawds. Love it! My problem is it won't arm now after a light crash. The beeper not the esc's tones out a quick continuous beep beep beep....... please help.
Hey josh quick question. I just finished building my quad and I took it out and tested it. It worked great except for a small yaw twitch that I fixed. What kind of maneuvers do you do to "shake down" a quad? or am I good.
Joshua, great vids!! thanks for putting these together. I have 4 arming disabled flags: throttle, CLI, MSP, and RPMfilter. I there a chance one will fix them all, or do all 4 need addressed individually? Thanks!!
Don't know if this will be covered , but updated pikoblx to 3.0 as new target , FFpikoblx, and lost serial comm. Had to enter in cli.. Set serialrx_inverted=off.
In my case, i have a Taranis and the channel order in the controller was different then Betaflight. Watch JB's video on setting up a Taranis for first time users.
Great video. I have a question and would love to hear your opinion. Is there any efficiency and/or thrust benefits for raised rear motors? I get that they should have cleaner air in forward flight but theory is always fun and great. Are there any real world differences?
Is your pid master class still upto date with the latest beta flight? New to the hobby your vids have helped me so much ! I can’t begin to explain you’re like my fpv anxiety relief . Want to explore into pid tuning and not just copy peoples tunes or them telling me to do this or do that . I have tuned a couple cars / trucks I think this is going to be a whole new addiction in this hobby
What great idea to make a video for each flag! Sure will make it simple to find the right answer quickly. You are spoiling us by making it almost too easy, you know that right? LOL
I have an issue as my drone didn't arm receiver signal is good in speedybee app but drone didn't arm I am using 2s battery and fsi4x transmitter and fsia6b receiver kindly help
thanks for your reply on the other video. I went down the list, and I thought I solved everything. Under status here is what's left SD card: Not configured Arming disable flags: CLI MSP. Not sure what that means. What is MSP?
You may disregard my last comment. My quad is fully functional. Thanks for the time and effort you have put into all your videos. I'm new to quad flying, and you helped me understand how and why they work.
hey newbie here. when i plug battery and flick the switch to arm i bet a beep and my receiver and vtx turns off. any idea what the issue is. i check all solder joints already tried 2 diferent rx same issue
Salut ! J'ai un petit probleme avec mon drone... je n,ai aucun warning d'aucunes sortes, le status dans le cli est bien.... mes vanover se mettent a tourner 1/10 fois... et la fois ...tout vol a merveille
Hi JB. Awesome channel. I have racked my brain and my pc. My problem is that in betaflight under modes my arm status is disabled. I have tried everything. I'm using a tarnished qx7 and have set up all variables. Betaflight shows status of quad at 'Arming disabled' Any help at all would be massively appreciated! Cheers. SP.
Follow the steps in this video to find your arming prevention status code. That will tell you why arming is disabled. Then find the status code in this playlist to find out how to fix it.
Josh, i had my arming switch working. But in trying to fix something else, I held the button down on my IRCSYNERGY F3 flight controller and now it wont reconnect? I have the Taranis qx7, vortex 180, and fatshark goggles. I had them all working together at one point and now at a loss as the goggles OSD isnt working right either. Also, using betaflight 10.7 and firmware 4.0.6. Any help would be awesome!
ruclips.net/video/Wx24PQ0sceI/видео.html this is the clip i watched thinking i may have held the bind button too long. But on my board you only get a blue light when you hold down the button on the flight controller. That's where i think i screwed up. I am sure there is an easy fix I just have no idea how to solve it.
Nice job the problem I'm having with emax all n one stack is my esc won't connect to betaflight or blheli when I plug in my battery everything comes on but the esc no beeps or nothing
I get “Arming disable flags: 0x1004” Upon further inspection, the xm receiver has solid green led so that means bound successfully. But when I plug into bf, click receiver tab and move the sticks,.... nothin. So the rec is bound but not talking to the fc?
Sorry for the bother but whenever I connect my drone to betaflight and connect my remote to the drone as well, my QX7 constantly says telemetry lost, telemetry found, over and over again. I’m pretty sure it’s not brown because it will happen when the drone is across the room from the remote. This problem only occurs when the drone is hooked up to betaflight though.
Could you please advice. I have problem with matek F405 STD and BF 3.5.5. I cant arm when im in betaflight with disable arming code 17, 20. But....when im not in bf the arming was fine...and i can fly. What happen? Does Bf and f4 do not allow arming in when using usb??? But in my spf3 everything arming was fine whether in bf or not everything were okay. Im so confused regarding this....please help sir...
Betaflight 3.4 added a protection where the quad will refuse to arm when plugged in to USB. You can override this by going to the Motors tab and enabled the "props are off" option.
Thank you! Thank you! If you could skip to flag 12...CONFIG! I would be forever in your debt! Losing flying weather soon! I’ve tried gyro_config= many different levels...still not arming...
When I try to arm it the shows THROTTLE on the OSD. I've already set the bounds so the lower bound its above the throttle minimum. Also on the betaflight main page it shows the info for blocking arm = THROTTLE MSP ARM_SWITCH
If you see THROTTLE then it means the throttle channel is above the Stick Low Threshold. If it seems like you fixed that, go back and double check, because something isn't how you think it is.
@@JoshuaBardwell i found it. The tx (FSi6) was on training mode, and that arming switch would turn all values to 1500 right away. Thats why it wouldnt arm . thank you
I have been flying for so many years and few years I have been away and when I come back again to my old hobby everything is harder. People have more and more problems with different things, so many that one has to write a book for all the troubles people go thro to fly a small quad!!!? there are 2-3 possibilities. The duming down of people has really worked!!! or maybe the programmers and people who do these things JUST DONT GIVE A SHEET!!! and the last reason is oh we got to help these few people who make money of this. which all of these reasons are wrong, unmoral
what if you have rx loss and still have switches register in bf reciever tab?after crash it wont arm and i already swaped a new r sxr thinking i killed it.
thats what i thought. i hit a powerline at speed in my hglrc batman that diconected the battery and snaped an arm. after i installed a new arm it wont arm but all switches work.naturally i assumed static poped the rx. next I'm tempted to replace the fc. i'll be disapointed when i find something got switched, but i made no changes to xlite or bf. thank you for your help.if it werent for your vids i would not have got through the first week of droning, or even get my xlite to bind to rsxr. not enuf room here to list the insparation and tech support you bring to the hobby
If the receiver tab doesn't show any channels, you need to download the latest version of the betaflight configurator, and then also download the latest betaflight firmware (version 3.5.9 as of today) and flash it to your board. Having a super old firmware on the FC, or having a super old configurator can cause this problem.
You have enabled the prearm mode but you are not activating the prearm mode hence you cannot arm (which is the whole point of the prearm mode). Either delete the prearm mode or correctly set up an aux switch to activate the prearm mode before arming.
Are you running a super old version of betaflight? Or maybe on a board with not much flash memory? The old version used a hex code for the status flags. It's a bit harder to decipher.
Nice video for people that don't understand the new arming flags. This will help a lot of people trouble shoot.
Great job Joshua, you are the drone's encyclopedia!
Hey Joshua,
Great videos on arming issues. I ran into another arming issue that you didn't cover in your series. "Throttle CLI armswitch" which I finally figured out that my throttle minimum was lower than my throttle setting on my Taranis for one of my quads, which until I raised minimum above actual throttle minimum it wouldn't arm. Thanks again for all the info and keep up the great work.
I do appear to have overlooked the throttle flag.
Awesome! I've got a micro that gives me a calib flag often and won't arm. This usually happens after the quad spins to it's death on the roll axis whenever I try to do any kind of flip or roll.
This just got me through my first bind n fly quad setup 👌 thanks man!
thx JB ..mine was the easy-peasy 1 ..the arming indicator @4.40 hehee - once again i learned something today 👍😁
Cheers Joshua, first build and setup here and your content is great.
Thank you man I almost gave up on this and then I found this video. Thanks again
Thanks Josh,what a good idea for a new series!
Modern reason for not arming:
The Speedybee app! Using it for rates setting in the field, it kept changing the min_throttle value to 1000... in the background!
Happy flying! XD
This video solved my problem in 2021. Great info!!!
Here's a Betaflight change that tripped me up recently (thanks to kind RCGroups users for this answer):
Since 3.3.0, to use Stick Commands to trim the accelerometer, the craft needs to be disarmed *and* in angle or horizon mode, when 3.2.5 and previous didn't care what flight mode you were in.
The fix was easy, just adjust the slider for angle mode to include disarmed.
Awesome video brother, thanks for the uploads. I’m cramming with knowledge until I finally get a freestyle quad, jamming the Mavic Pro is all I have so far. This winter I’ll be ‘IN’ lol.
Olympia WA
Prepare to spend all your money!!!!!!
Garrett Johnson
I’ll limit myself to my Coke profits only on Quads 🤣🤣🤣
Are these videos still valid for the latest version of Betaflight?
The quad I just finished won't arm and I plan to go through these videos tomorrow.
If I hadn't already joined your Patreon, I think these series would have convinced me (again).
Thanks JB.
Hello Joshua I´m about to get my Dingo 5 soon what would i do without your videos. Always good to know where to get all the answers i have in one place, now and the ones I will have during my start. Thank you for the awesome videos.
hey Joshua, awesesome video (as always) and it got my quad back into the air. Thank you so much for what you do
Thank you so much for making this video. Once again you have saved me a ton of time.
Another video worth gold. Thanks!
Josh iv leared something today because of you pal !
Thank you dear sir .
Excellent information Joshua, many thanks!!!
Hi Josh great video as always. I messed up a little here I think... half accidentally I pressed the “return to factory settings” button and as you can imagine I’ve lost everything. Of course now I cannot configure the tiny 6 again because I’m a beginner!
Any ideas will be greatly appreciated.
And keep it up. What you are doing are. Great help to all of us.
One lesson here is, when you get a new quad, go to the CLI and type "diff all" then save the output. It will help you restore config in the future. For now rebuilding the config from scratch is the only option.
Genius business. Technically, I can just hang on. You make it possible at all. Thank you!!
This was really helpful. Thanks a lot!
I’ve had these vids non-stop playing. I got the dji flywoo nano and it would not arm. It turned out to be a controller setting in the goggles. Difficult to find BC quad overheats real fast and kept trying betaflight
Mmmm That's cool. INav needs that arming disabled warning. Right now it just has system messages on the OSD but the Status command works in the CLI same as you showed with BetaFlight.
Thanks Joshua for the prompt reply. How do I go about rebuilding it from scratch? This is my big problem. I realised that I messed up but I don’t know how to rebuild it. Any tutorials?
Search my video "Betaflight setup for complete beginner "
Teaching us a new language. That is awesome, Joshua!
Josh i have an Eachine 3 and when i plug in my pack i only get 3 beeps instead of 5 and the quad does not arm, however if i connect the quad to Betaflight my receiver lights up the sticks respond and the motors spin up thru BF. O could sure use your expertise on this problem of which I've never had?
Hi Joshua, I bought your FC,esc 4 in 1, and Phoenix camera on raceday quawds. Love it! My problem is it won't arm now after a light crash. The beeper not the esc's tones out a quick continuous beep beep beep....... please help.
Hey josh quick question. I just finished building my quad and I took it out and tested it. It worked great except for a small yaw twitch that I fixed. What kind of maneuvers do you do to "shake down" a quad? or am I good.
Joshua, great vids!! thanks for putting these together. I have 4 arming disabled flags: throttle, CLI, MSP, and RPMfilter. I there a chance one will fix them all, or do all 4 need addressed individually?
Thanks!!
Great info. I’m setting this up on my osd.
Nice explanation dude.
Im a kiss pilot but sometimes I take a look in BF Fc´s.
Don't know if this will be covered , but updated pikoblx to 3.0 as new target , FFpikoblx, and lost serial comm. Had to enter in cli..
Set serialrx_inverted=off.
What do you do if you cleared all the flags, quad binds but props wont arm? meteor 65s and beta fpv lite 2.o radio
Thanks JB always need troubleshooting help, you know that!
I like your shirt!!!! I'm still learning betaflight my problem is my laptop sucks!!! Cool Post!!!
Super post thank you Sir Bardwell
It's a. Naze 32. AFNA ver.2 running BTFL 3.2.5
In my case, i have a Taranis and the channel order in the controller was different then Betaflight. Watch JB's video on setting up a Taranis for first time users.
Thanks, it help me a lot!
Great info to have, thanks JB
Great video. I have a question and would love to hear your opinion. Is there any efficiency and/or thrust benefits for raised rear motors? I get that they should have cleaner air in forward flight but theory is always fun and great. Are there any real world differences?
I think the difference is probably pretty small, but not zero.
Is your pid master class still upto date with the latest beta flight? New to the hobby your vids have helped me so much ! I can’t begin to explain you’re like my fpv anxiety relief . Want to explore into pid tuning and not just copy peoples tunes or them telling me to do this or do that . I have tuned a couple cars / trucks I think this is going to be a whole new addiction in this hobby
The masterclass is still relevant, yes.
What great idea to make a video for each flag! Sure will make it simple to find the right answer quickly. You are spoiling us by making it almost too easy, you know that right? LOL
Thank you
It's like you read my mind!JB
Back in the day this Gaige me horrors but I learned real quick and fast
Can the URL with all the status flags be added to discription?
github.com/betaflight/betaflight/wiki/Arming-Sequence-&-Safety
I have an issue as my drone didn't arm receiver signal is good in speedybee app but drone didn't arm I am using 2s battery and fsi4x transmitter and fsia6b receiver kindly help
thanks for your reply on the other video. I went down the list, and I thought I solved everything. Under status here is what's left SD card: Not configured
Arming disable flags: CLI MSP. Not sure what that means. What is MSP?
You may disregard my last comment. My quad is fully functional. Thanks for the time and effort you have put into all your videos. I'm new to quad flying, and you helped me understand how and why they work.
hey newbie here. when i plug battery and flick the switch to arm i bet a beep and my receiver and vtx turns off. any idea what the issue is. i check all solder joints already tried 2 diferent rx same issue
Salut ! J'ai un petit probleme avec mon drone... je n,ai aucun warning d'aucunes sortes, le status dans le cli est bien.... mes vanover se mettent a tourner 1/10 fois... et la fois ...tout vol a merveille
Thanks!
Hi JB.
Awesome channel.
I have racked my brain and my pc. My problem is that in betaflight under modes my arm status is disabled. I have tried everything. I'm using a tarnished qx7 and have set up all variables. Betaflight shows status of quad at 'Arming disabled'
Any help at all would be massively appreciated! Cheers. SP.
Follow the steps in this video to find your arming prevention status code. That will tell you why arming is disabled. Then find the status code in this playlist to find out how to fix it.
Fantastic, JB! Thanks a lot! 😊
It doesnt seem to show any Disarmed Warnings in DJI OSD :(
Josh, i had my arming switch working. But in trying to fix something else, I held the button down on my IRCSYNERGY F3 flight controller and now it wont reconnect? I have the Taranis qx7, vortex 180, and fatshark goggles. I had them all working together at one point and now at a loss as the goggles OSD isnt working right either. Also, using betaflight 10.7 and firmware 4.0.6. Any help would be awesome!
ruclips.net/video/Wx24PQ0sceI/видео.html this is the clip i watched thinking i may have held the bind button too long. But on my board you only get a blue light when you hold down the button on the flight controller. That's where i think i screwed up. I am sure there is an easy fix I just have no idea how to solve it.
ideal
thank you SIR
Very interesting. Thanks.
Nice job the problem I'm having with emax all n one stack is my esc won't connect to betaflight or blheli when I plug in my battery everything comes on but the esc no beeps or nothing
Is it a f4 magnum or the emax mini magnum because on some micro stacks , they don't require battery power just USB power when connecting to blheli
Hi thank you so much for your content but I’m getting a NOPREARM flag what can I do
You have enabled the prearm mode in the Modes tab but you haven't activated the prearm mode by flipping the associated switch.
helooo i have same arming been comming up but not arming what do i have to do
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You're just the best!
My hero!
Great informative video can't wait for more
Tired of explaining this yet?!? :) your vids helped me a lot back when I started with builds. Great videos brother.
Iam in the arm mode but the motors aren't spinning
do u have motor stop on? or will they just never spin
Who's have guessed Samuel Morse would have found his way into quadcopters 😁
I get “Arming disable flags: 0x1004”
Upon further inspection, the xm receiver has solid green led so that means bound successfully. But when I plug into bf, click receiver tab and move the sticks,.... nothin.
So the rec is bound but not talking to the fc?
Correct. The FC is not configured correctly or the receiver is not wired correctly to the FC.
I have RXLOSS, BADRX, CLI, MSP, and ARMSWITCH. This is supposed to be a bind and fly drone! 😫
Fix rxloss and the others will clear up. Your receiver is not set up right.
Thanks, I’ll try and get it to work 👌
Sorry for the bother but whenever I connect my drone to betaflight and connect my remote to the drone as well, my QX7 constantly says telemetry lost, telemetry found, over and over again. I’m pretty sure it’s not brown because it will happen when the drone is across the room from the remote. This problem only occurs when the drone is hooked up to betaflight though.
Could you please advice. I have problem with matek F405 STD and BF 3.5.5.
I cant arm when im in betaflight with disable arming code 17, 20.
But....when im not in bf the arming was fine...and i can fly.
What happen? Does Bf and f4 do not allow arming in when using usb??? But in my spf3 everything arming was fine whether in bf or not everything were okay. Im so confused regarding this....please help sir...
Betaflight 3.4 added a protection where the quad will refuse to arm when plugged in to USB. You can override this by going to the Motors tab and enabled the "props are off" option.
Thanks for your help sir, now...I can arm and enable "i undestand the risk",,,,in the motor tab,,well its good. for safety.
Thank you! Thank you! If you could skip to flag 12...CONFIG! I would be forever in your debt! Losing flying weather soon! I’ve tried gyro_config= many different levels...still not arming...
Thank you took me qll damn day to find this video lol
Great info keep it coming
Nice shirt
Great.
A little behind the scenes @ 4:00
I am wondering about the beep codes: can they be output through dshot commands like the beeper switch?
No, that doesn't work. But you can count the LED flashes.
What happens when that is still the code and it still doesn’t work?
what happens when betaflight does not register the quadcopter being armed, when the indication is within the arming range
Start here: ruclips.net/video/N8oMMG2kmns/видео.html
save my week
When I try to arm it the shows THROTTLE on the OSD. I've already set the bounds so the lower bound its above the throttle minimum. Also on the betaflight main page it shows the info for blocking arm = THROTTLE MSP ARM_SWITCH
If you see THROTTLE then it means the throttle channel is above the Stick Low Threshold. If it seems like you fixed that, go back and double check, because something isn't how you think it is.
@@JoshuaBardwell i found it. The tx (FSi6) was on training mode, and that arming switch would turn all values to 1500 right away. Thats why it wouldnt arm . thank you
Check your ESC
I have been flying for so many years and few years I have been away and when I come back again to my old hobby everything is harder. People have more and more problems with different things, so many that one has to write a book for all the troubles people go thro to fly a small quad!!!? there are 2-3 possibilities. The duming down of people has really worked!!! or maybe the programmers and people who do these things JUST DONT GIVE A SHEET!!! and the last reason is oh we got to help these few people who make money of this. which all of these reasons are wrong, unmoral
Joshua Bardwell can read a manual to you, and its interesting.
Can someone help me ? My molula 6 hd will arm but won't work
I've had to set the "moron_threshold" higher on some older builds were the gyro had been knocked around to much. Is that normal?
In short, yes.
Why in my Hawk 5, betaflight 3.2.2, this beep of angle flags is different? It repeat long and short sound
I'm not sure I can answer your question without hearing the beep. If you want to email me to discuss it, please do.
@@JoshuaBardwell if you want, i send you a video. I have not your email andress. Thank you
My email is joshuabardwell@gmail.com
I'm running bf 3.5
what if you have rx loss and still have switches register in bf reciever tab?after crash it wont arm and i already swaped a new r sxr thinking i killed it.
I'm not sure I understand. If it says RXLOSS then your switches shouldn't function.
thats what i thought. i hit a powerline at speed in my hglrc batman that diconected the battery and snaped an arm. after i installed a new arm it wont arm but all switches work.naturally i assumed static poped the rx. next I'm tempted to replace the fc. i'll be disapointed when i find something got switched, but i made no changes to xlite or bf. thank you for your help.if it werent for your vids i would not have got through the first week of droning, or even get my xlite to bind to rsxr. not enuf room here to list the insparation and tech support you bring to the hobby
I was able to bind - but the throttle controls don't show
If the receiver tab doesn't show any channels, you need to download the latest version of the betaflight configurator, and then also download the latest betaflight firmware (version 3.5.9 as of today) and flash it to your board. Having a super old firmware on the FC, or having a super old configurator can cause this problem.
I give up
Need help with noprearm code can’t figure it out
You have enabled the prearm mode but you are not activating the prearm mode hence you cannot arm (which is the whole point of the prearm mode). Either delete the prearm mode or correctly set up an aux switch to activate the prearm mode before arming.
Tryed and still no luck
Nice shirt! Haha
0x804. ???arming disabled code😳
Are you running a super old version of betaflight? Or maybe on a board with not much flash memory? The old version used a hex code for the status flags. It's a bit harder to decipher.
I'm running a Naze 32 ANFA version 2 with BTFL 3.2.5 spooled up and got hot on rear right motor (no props on) thanks for that tidbit of info.
JB, guess what I just found.
since i switched to kiss i´m more flying than having troubles ;-)
Slash7 I don’t see the safety features as a problem
So drones are more about fucking with computers than actual flying of drones then
Yeah, that's not wrong.
was going to say id want to killl myself listening to those beeps- but if you're desperate any port in a storm for sure