Again! The most informative fpv videos on youtube! You explain things in such a great way, even when you don't give an explanation and say "just do it"! Your vids make me more confident in getting into fpv. I've got a badger sitting on the bench yearning for a burning!
Thanks to this video, I was able to flash my Mamba F405 MK2 for the first time (before even installing it on a frame). Your video probably saved me several hours of frustration and failure. Went from 3.5.7 to 4.2.10, but since I've never used Betaflight before, the difference between those version is not that big of a deal. My last FC was a HobbyKing KK2.0, so even Betaflight 3.5.7 would have been a HUGE upgrade.
I had written out a big 'help' comment about Dshot beeper not working on my toothpick build, then I updated ESCs from 16.6 to 16.7 and it works! Good job I went through a whole checklist of making sure everything was up to date before asking a stupid question :)
I swear to god this man has an answer for it all at first I didn’t like you josh i dont know don’t ask why I’m like that. But now I love you and don’t know what I’d do without you.
Just finished a new toothpick/twig build at the weekend and added BF4.1 to it. Other than changing Dynamic notch filter to high (1103 motors, small micro) and FF transition to 0.15 all PIDs and filters were left default. Fly's great, now I have the task of updating the rest of my quad's from 3.3 to 4.1. Thanks for these video's JB if it wasn't for them I'd still be on 3.3 👴
Even though I have a few of my kwads flashed to 4.1 with rpm filters enabled I still learned something today. The osd fonts, thanks for that bit. Certainly helped me out. 👍💖🤓
LOL so funny how this is the furtherest you can advance in BETAFLIGHT if using a MACH2 as there are no more patches . Sadly I bought more than one as they were Such a fanTAStic product. Thanks Bardwell !
"I want to obsessively cover all the bases" Literally whats going to make me subscribe. I didn't experience this, but I swear any other video wouldn't mention something like this, and then im on google for hours trying to word it right to find the answer I need.
Your so much help! i'm 15 and an absolute noob to this hobby. I'm used to soldering so i'm in the process building my first quad. having lots of problems
i am just getting into this hobby and if it wasnt for you i would be absolutely lost i just purchased a hx100se and flashed it from 3.5.1 to 4.1 because i would barely tap the wall and then it would just fly into the ceiling the second i armed it and would have to change the prop even though it looked fine to my amazement my flight times went from 2.5 to 3.5 minutes just with re flashing it amazing
Thanks Jb i Appreciate it i was finally able to update all my firmware!! I went to 4.2 but wouldn't any of my quads arms with no flags so dropped back to 4.1.7 and all is well!! 👍👍👍👍👊👊
YES! You did mention "Make sure your props are off". Anytime you're working on the bench, take them off!!!! Props are off, Receiver working, I need to verify motors are correct, modes tab needs re-programmed with the switches on my radio. Yes, go fly your quad!
I bears mentioning that I recently discovered that as long as I had my R-XSR Rx connected to my CL Racing F4 board, it would not go into DFU mode. Even the Immersion RC Driver Fixer was no help because I was going down the wrong troubleshooting path. This was bit inconvenient because flashing after a quad is assembled should be something we should be able to do. I don't think entering 'bl' in CLI worked either. I don't remember trying it. However, I had to rip apart my frame to get to the Rx to disconnect the plug (I don't have tiny fingers either) and after that, flashing went off with no problems. I learned about this on a 2-year old RC Groups thread. Something about the Rx stil getting power passed through when connected to USB. I don't think anyone on YT mentions it.
I was troubleshooting trying to get into dfu mode for hours! I finally came across this post. Disconnected my R-XSR and was instantly able to get into dfu mode and flash firmware!
Noobie: Afraid of messing up the BF config Avg Pilot: flashes without full chip erase and finishes config. Master: flashes quad with full chip erase, sets everything up in less than 5 mins, puts props on the right way, and manages to get a pack before dinner.
Brilliant video esp as I loaded the wrong fw, but at 7:46 you clicked connect- do we click on “exit DFU mode”? Yep we do! This video saved me a new flight controller (saw your other vid on “no gyro”) thank you thank you thank you
Thanks u made mine day , i could not get this flight controller in the dfu mode to update because the button got broken but i have managed to get it because off this video thannnnnks
it was my cable that didnt work with my latest fc, i tried every usb i had but one, one short one and boom it works....try diff cables if it doesnt go into dfu as well
Had issue getting into BL mode on Mac. Inputting BL in CLi would act like it was going into bootloader, and trying to flash from the firmware flasher with the reboot into bootloader. Neither option would work for me. I got "unable to open serial port" or some nonsense. But the holding the button on the FC while plugging in did the trick. Was able to flash BF after that. Just thought I would share.
how do you transfer firmware from one board to another one? Both being the same board and same manufacturer? Having issues with the upgrade in firmware in one of my boards and want to restore it. It was done before I watched this video. Live in learn. Thank you Mr. Bardwell..... You rock!
i want to update tinyhawk to 4.2 .. i am nervous glad u got a video thanks... been tweek my tinyhawk to fly easier while i learn in the house.. being computer guy.. I save it everytime i change something to becareful haha
I ran into it. I have a DYS F4 Pro V2, and in the profile log that I saved it says DYS4, in betaflight the only options are DYST and Legacy. I went with DYST. Hope it works :)
My firmware update (using a smartphone) failed for an unknown reason and now Betaflight isn't seeing my JHEF7DUAL board. I'm stuck on "Searching for flight controller" 3:59 :/
Thought for a new vid... How to get our personal VTX tables into the Taranis to use with Lua Scripts? I have powers (mw) showing in Lua screen that aren't available with my VTX, so how do I know I'm truly getting the power I set via LUA? Thanks for all you do Joshua!
Yes, just updated Lua scripts to 1.4.1 and Taranis X7 to 2.3.1. When I run Lua I get the default settings for Tramp which is 5 power levels whereas I only have 3 (0, 25, 600) and is configured that way in BF 4.1.0. I can adjust power, band and channel via the Lua scripts however, power levels aren't accurate as set in BF.
First thanks for the great video's, second I have a tinyhawk freestyle and recently upgrade to betaflight 4.1 and now my quad doesn't fly at all.. it literally just flips over as soon as i apply throttle... not sure what I did wrong and I have yet to really search online for some answers. Have you ever had this happen?
hey Josh your video was very helpful i have 2 x220 im a newbie i try not to listen too to many diff sources so i choose your wisdom as such. im trying to get my 2nd qud in air so been catchin up I was wondering if you had any advice trying to fly with goggles i learned line of sight its hard trying to change but its time i think thanks
Great tutorial videos Joshua👍😎...I just got the blade scimitar lrx,I bound it to my spektrum dx6i radio but it wont arm,I don’t know how to go on betaflight/cleanflight,it has an f3 bourd,which of your videos should i go to?🙂
Thanks Josh for all of the great videos, I am just wondering why GPS feature is not working on Betafilight 10.6.0 version, did it stop support for F3 flight controller? Thanks again
Thanks for the video, followed every single step. Update kinda successful, everything works apart from Dron not arming any more, also 'welcome' beep only happens 3 times no follow up. Could someone please advise what to do :) ? thanks
thank you Sir for all the worthy information you and that make-up wearing fast talking freak post much needed info for all us new-Beez. liking your vids the most because i can understand you and thnx for not talking to fast. you explain things in a way we understand. after a few days downloading programs. I was getting ready to pull-out all my brain hairs trying to figure out y my Quad was not working after updating my firmware to Frsky in betaflight. well that's the kinda transmitter that came with this Spedix. I didn't realize that the Flight Controller is a LUX V2. as soon as figured out that is was the FC that needed to be flashed and not the transmitter. I'm thinking now finally It's good to go. well at least the GYROS are on now and the motors in that feature is now turning yellow. just waiting for my radio batteries to finish charging. i got the Jumper T16 Pro. after watching yours and a few others reviews on it. I waited till they put OpenTX on it. I can't thank you all enough. learning from the Quad Princesse about 3D set-up yesterday was awesome.. OMG that Gal Blows my mind every time.
Hi Josh fantastic video however i have just flashed a Matek F405 with betaflight 4.1 using target MatekF405 as on the leaflet enclosed with it and version info such as in CLI on video however roll left is now pitch forwards and the animation on beta flight now seem 90 degrees out. Obviously i can change this in configuration but is this a common issue? Why does it happen (Is it me? something i did wrong?) Thanks.
I had a similar problem, when I set my fc to bootloader mode, betaflight was not able to find it anymore. However it was shown as DFU in my Devicemanager. My problem was, that I used the browser Version of Betaflight. When I used the downloadable version, betaflight found the fc in bootloader mode and I was able to flash.
I tried to Flash my Inductrix Pro BLH8616. Thankfully i used the cli command diff all; i found that my target was NAZE which i could not find. and as a Mac user, i was unable to get my board into dfu using the bl command. reason, because naze last support is 3.2 looks like im not going to update or fly it. it'll stay on the wall. appreciate this video.
Hey Joshua, first of all thanks for all the time and effort you put into your videos, very helpful! I just purchased a Blade LRX, and have a DX6i, but I'm not able to arm the quad. Could you tell me what I'm doing wrong, please? Would betaflight help me out? Do you know if this quad runs on Betaflight?
The Blade Scimitar line does run on Betaflight. Since you bought a Horizon bind-n-fly, I would suggest calling Horizon Hobby support. I will be glad to help you out, but you paid a premium for Horizon product, and part of that is the ability to call an 800 number and get on the phone with someone who can quickly and efficiently troubleshoot the issue with you. So you may as well take advantage of it. For example, they will know exactly which switches to configure to get the quad armed. Whereas I would have to fumble around a bit to figure it out.
@@JoshuaBardwell thank you for your response! I called Horizon, and unfortunately, they could not figure out why my quad would not arm the motors. I'm sending my DX6i along with the Blade LRX to Horizon, so they could try to figure out what is wrong.... if they cant, could i send it to you? If so, how much would you charge me for something like this? Sorry, dont mean to bug, I'm just not sure what else to do... so sad
Hi, thanks for doing this tutorial but I do have a question. I believe I am using the same FC and ESC as your Nazgul5 (Succex-e F4 stack) but when I clicked on the drop down for target, there is no BETAFLIGHTF4, but instead there is BETAFLIGHTF4 (FPVM) & BETAFLIGHTF4 (Legacy). Which one do I use? Thanks JB
I’m sure you’ll never see this but I am terribly confused. After watching your videos, I figured it was important to update beta flight. Followed your instructions and now it seems my 4 hour old tiny hawk is a brick. All my settings have been erased and I can’t figure out how to get them back on there. Any help? Thanks. :)
Hello JB and thanks for the step by step video. I have a cidora and i've done everything you say to update to 4.1. I flashed the firmware and now as i'm connecting it says next to "Update firmware" No dataflash chip found and as i'm checking the 3d model doesn't move at all.
Can I update an Flip 32 F3 Omnibus V2 FC (BF 3.1.7) to the latest Betaflight 4.1._? How does one know when an FC can 'no' longer be updated? Your vids are invaluable , thank you.
Basically, look in the Firmware Flasher tab, set the BF version you want to upgrade, and look in the list for your target. If you don't know your target, go to the CLI and type "version" and it will show your target is e.g. OMNIBUSF4SD or whatever. If that target is not in the list, go back to an earlier version and look there.
@@JoshuaBardwell So I did that but this time looked up Flip32F3 and flashed that. Now the quad won't connect to Betaflight. No com3 port. Connected my Meteor65 no problem. Tried my Flip32 and it won't connect to BF. I tried to flash anyway but it doesn't work since it doesn't 'see' it. Any ideas? I think I should have used Omnibus 32......geez.
Got it connected in DFU mode, flashed with Omnibus and it 'succeeded' but can't get Com Port 3? I rebooted the PC no go. I also don't get the windows sound when connecting. Zadig doesn't show the device and I don't see it in device manager. At my wits end. Do you think I somehow damaged it? Should I replace the FC?
Hi joshua, I would like to know if resource remapping has changed in 4.1. The reason why I am asking is because I tried to change my camera control to a motor pin and it wouldn't let me move my camera control. I have the matek f722 flight controller. In 4.0 I was able to remap it. And 4.1 it won't let me. I was able to free up the motor resource. But I cannot reassign the camera control to that resource. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Keep up the good work
Hi Joshua, thank you for all the info you share! Question: Was trying to flash BF 4.2 to my omnibus (lizard95) board, but 4.0.6 is the highest version I see in the BF configurator dropdown list... I did get the latest BF config version. Any ideas? Thanks in advance
I'm an extreme noob lol so if I haven't messed with rpm filtering or any of that stuff just basically got the qwad to the bare minimum to fly. Can I update the firmware and just dump the whole saved config into the CLI without having to go through and remove those lines in the config you talked about. Also if i update betaflight to 4.1 on the computer will it mess with my quad that is running 4.0 and my older one on 3.5. Thank you for your videos if it wasn't for you I would have never been able to get into this amazing hobby.
hello Joshua, i enjoyed watching this. I have a question. If the retailer provided me with a file, in this case the file is called "betaflight_4.3.1_CRAZYBEEF4SX1280_ICM42688P_ELRS_V3.hex" and also with a cli dump file, in this case called "Mobula8 ELRS 3.0 dump all for42688.txt". Do I then match the target as close to as possible with the first file name and do I then instead of saving and re loading the diff all just upload from the .txt file into the CLI?
I’m stuck I keep getting a “serial port successfully closed” and it never actually progresses to the controls and stuff. On a Mac, tried multiple different USB-c’s please help :_:
Joshua, quick question, I've a couple of the new HolyBro Kakute F7 HDV Flight Controllers. Do you still need to update the OSD font since they're for the DJI system?
hello Joshua, i have a question when testing my motors in motors tab..Its the Stingy build with all new parts, so when i connect battery to quad and spin up motors one motor hsa 16% error and another has 0.20 % error. Would this be a sign of a bad esc? i was having trouble flashing the 4 in 1 but finally got it to flash by swapping signal wires...thank you
Something surely isn't right and you should not fly with error% over 1%. Check the signal wire to the bad ESC first. Swap the signal wire with another ESC and see if the "bad" condition moves.
Hi Joshua, I just upgrate betaflight firmware on my geprc cinequeen 4k (target not legendary) to 4.1.1 with the help of your videos. After binding my quad's frsky r-xsr receiver to jumper t16 pro I realized that the receiver tab on betaflight configurator 10.6.0 is not responding. All the lights on receiver and the telemetry on the jumper t16 indicate binding was perfect. Also, port settings are as described in the receiver"s manual. What do you think about the problem.. Target issue? or the receiver is not compatible with the betaflight 4.1.1 ?
I don't get the part where you put in the cleaned out cli dump of an earlier video of yours. I thought a config is tailored to a specific quad and likings of the pilot. Why does sharing this work? Am I supposed to edit the parameters?
Hi Joshua, first of all thanks for your lessons, they are so helpful. Im having issue with correct rssi value on my iflight cidora sl5 through osd. I have r-xsr reciever and Im stuck with constant rssi value of 43 in betaflight config, where on taranis i have rssi near 100 (goes up and down depending on how far i have gone, its ok). I thought the problem was in old firmware 4.0, current 4.1.3, but issue is still there. I just want to to be value to be the same both on taranis and in osd. I used telemetry aux for sending value to osd. In reciever tab rssi value is set to chosen RSSI channel, but normally rssi is visible when it is set to analog mode in Configurator tab. In CLI rssi scale is set to 100. Could you please advise on what to try? Many thanks from Russia!
Hello from another Joshua over here in California. I have a 2018 Model 5 inch quad from ldarc that is running a super old version of betaflight and I'm wondering if I can still update it to 4.1. The person I got it from said that he would be afraid to upgrade it because it might brick the fight controller. do you think I still have a shot or should I just stick with the old version of betaflight it still flies pretty good despite being on an old version. Thanks! I hope you have a great Thanksgiving
@@JoshuaBardwell alright, well looks like we are good with it being an f4 fc. May have to give it a shot! I really appreciate your channel and what you do. The stack is the kk super fly tower 40a by the way.
Is bootloader mode on com1 port? Because my flight controllers can only connect on com3.. I have tried holding the boot button but it will not connect??
While in betaflight I messed up my settings maybe port settings, I forget what I did. Now my drone wont connect anymore. It says connected successfully immediately followed by successfully disconnected. My other drone connect fine. Now my drone only make 1 beep when I turn it on and all solid lights
I am Working on a Bumblebee v2 and i cant get this thing to get of the ground i am using the fpv system from dji do you have any experience on this can you make a video? Thanks
No. Because the config file that you paste in must be "sanitized" to only carry forward "safe" settings like your aux modes, ports tab, rates, OSD settings, and so forth. The video linked in the description shows how to do this.
Is it worth upgrading to 4.1 if you have BLHeliS and the other vendor that has written code for your ESC does not work, so basically your stuck with BLHeliS. Is there enough in there without RPM Filtering? The tuning bars look nice.
I'm a newbie and just wanted to say thank you for putting this content out for the new people. Your extremely clear and easy to follow. Thanks again!
Again! The most informative fpv videos on youtube! You explain things in such a great way, even when you don't give an explanation and say "just do it"! Your vids make me more confident in getting into fpv. I've got a badger sitting on the bench yearning for a burning!
Thanks to this video, I was able to flash my Mamba F405 MK2 for the first time (before even installing it on a frame). Your video probably saved me several hours of frustration and failure.
Went from 3.5.7 to 4.2.10, but since I've never used Betaflight before, the difference between those version is not that big of a deal. My last FC was a HobbyKing KK2.0, so even Betaflight 3.5.7 would have been a HUGE upgrade.
I had written out a big 'help' comment about Dshot beeper not working on my toothpick build, then I updated ESCs from 16.6 to 16.7 and it works!
Good job I went through a whole checklist of making sure everything was up to date before asking a stupid question :)
I swear to god this man has an answer for it all at first I didn’t like you josh i dont know don’t ask why I’m like that. But now I love you and don’t know what I’d do without you.
Just finished a new toothpick/twig build at the weekend and added BF4.1 to it. Other than changing Dynamic notch filter to high (1103 motors, small micro) and FF transition to 0.15 all PIDs and filters were left default. Fly's great, now I have the task of updating the rest of my quad's from 3.3 to 4.1. Thanks for these video's JB if it wasn't for them I'd still be on 3.3 👴
Thanks for your clear explanations Sir. It was so helpful for me to configure the FC through betalight. All the best for 2023.
Even though I have a few of my kwads flashed to 4.1 with rpm filters enabled I still learned something today. The osd fonts, thanks for that bit. Certainly helped me out. 👍💖🤓
You are a gentleman and a scholar. I appreciate you taking the time to teach us wtf the problem is!!
Dude i can watch you stuff all day long! BIG THANKS Joshua for your efforts!
LOL so funny how this is the furtherest you can advance in BETAFLIGHT if using a MACH2 as there are no more patches . Sadly I bought more than one as they were Such a fanTAStic product. Thanks Bardwell !
U the man JB. Getting me back in the air for years.
"I'm Joshua Bardwell & your learning curve is going to be off the chart today!"
updated my firmware to the latest Betaflight F3 FC using this technique so thankyou JB I owe you one.
Never flashed a stack in my life but I full chip erased without saving and this helped me fix everything
Newbie here. Thank you so much for this!!! The ImpulseRC driver ended up being the issue all along
Betaflight 4.1 was great for my quad, very stable and precise, but I noticed a slightly larger battery consumption ... Many thanks Joshua!!!
WHAT WOULD I DO WITHOUT YOU YOU ARE SOOOOOOOO HELPFUL THANK YOU YOU MAKE MY LIFE SO MUCH EASYER !!!!!
"I want to obsessively cover all the bases" Literally whats going to make me subscribe. I didn't experience this, but I swear any other video wouldn't mention something like this, and then im on google for hours trying to word it right to find the answer I need.
Thanks for the sub.
For that kind of videos we love you the most!
Thank you!
Your so much help! i'm 15 and an absolute noob to this hobby. I'm used to soldering so i'm in the process building my first quad. having lots of problems
Thank you jb yes 2 years later of this video and I learned something today, Thank you
i am just getting into this hobby and if it wasnt for you i would be absolutely lost i just purchased a hx100se and flashed it from 3.5.1 to 4.1 because i would barely tap the wall and then it would just fly into the ceiling the second i armed it and would have to change the prop even though it looked fine to my amazement my flight times went from 2.5 to 3.5 minutes just with re flashing it amazing
Thanks Jb i Appreciate it i was finally able to update all my firmware!! I went to 4.2 but wouldn't any of my quads arms with no flags so dropped back to 4.1.7 and all is well!! 👍👍👍👍👊👊
It's me from the future again. You're a genius. Thank you.
Check your cable newbs! Seriously listen to this man he has done this a few million times, and at least 5 videos for different versions
YES! You did mention "Make sure your props are off". Anytime you're working on the bench, take them off!!!! Props are off, Receiver working, I need to verify motors are correct, modes tab needs re-programmed with the switches on my radio. Yes, go fly your quad!
I bears mentioning that I recently discovered that as long as I had my R-XSR Rx connected to my CL Racing F4 board, it would not go into DFU mode. Even the Immersion RC Driver Fixer was no help because I was going down the wrong troubleshooting path. This was bit inconvenient because flashing after a quad is assembled should be something we should be able to do. I don't think entering 'bl' in CLI worked either. I don't remember trying it. However, I had to rip apart my frame to get to the Rx to disconnect the plug (I don't have tiny fingers either) and after that, flashing went off with no problems. I learned about this on a 2-year old RC Groups thread. Something about the Rx stil getting power passed through when connected to USB. I don't think anyone on YT mentions it.
I was troubleshooting trying to get into dfu mode for hours! I finally came across this post. Disconnected my R-XSR and was instantly able to get into dfu mode and flash firmware!
Noobie: Afraid of messing up the BF config
Avg Pilot: flashes without full chip erase and finishes config.
Master: flashes quad with full chip erase, sets everything up in less than 5 mins, puts props on the right way, and manages to get a pack before dinner.
Brilliant video esp as I loaded the wrong fw, but at 7:46 you clicked connect- do we click on “exit DFU mode”?
Yep we do! This video saved me a new flight controller (saw your other vid on “no gyro”) thank you thank you thank you
So glad this video exist. Cause I had a bit of trouble from your last video trying to explain it.
Worried about losing my config. Lel
Thanks u made mine day , i could not get this flight controller in the dfu mode to update because the button got broken but i have managed to get it because off this video thannnnnks
Great job, very concise video, told me exactly what i need to know on my first build.
it was my cable that didnt work with my latest fc, i tried every usb i had but one, one short one and boom it works....try diff cables if it doesnt go into dfu as well
Chyna Mane yup! First time I was trying to connect, I had to go through 5 cables until I found one that worked!!
2yr after buying my quad 6 usb`s later i realised it was a power only usb
Thanks for your help, a friend from Mexico
You a dam Video making machine 💪🏼
Thanks for helping all of us, it's truly appreciated!
🍻cheers🥃
i appreciat your videos
thanks men !!!
i flashed my nazgul 5 like u :D
helpped me a lot again......
Thank you so much you saved my quad!
Had issue getting into BL mode on Mac. Inputting BL in CLi would act like it was going into bootloader, and trying to flash from the firmware flasher with the reboot into bootloader. Neither option would work for me. I got "unable to open serial port" or some nonsense. But the holding the button on the FC while plugging in did the trick. Was able to flash BF after that. Just thought I would share.
When i did this i lost all my stick inputs. i have the green bind light but quad isnt responding to anything. Please help if anyone have a solution .
Thanks JB, great as usual. 😎
how do you transfer firmware from one board to another one? Both being the same board and same manufacturer? Having issues with the upgrade in firmware in one of my boards and want to restore it. It was done before I watched this video. Live in learn. Thank you Mr. Bardwell..... You rock!
i want to update tinyhawk to 4.2 .. i am nervous glad u got a video thanks... been tweek my tinyhawk to fly easier while i learn in the house.. being computer guy.. I save it everytime i change something to becareful haha
I love your videos! Thanks for everything!
Oke you saved my ass!! i thought i bricked my drone, it's working all fine again because of this video
Thank you Joshua! As always...it helped a lot. :)
I ran into it. I have a DYS F4 Pro V2, and in the profile log that I saved it says DYS4, in betaflight the only options are DYST and Legacy. I went with DYST. Hope it works :)
broooooooooooooo thank you bro your an actual genius!!!!!!!!
Fantastic, Joshua! Thanks a lot! 😊
My firmware update (using a smartphone) failed for an unknown reason and now Betaflight isn't seeing my JHEF7DUAL board. I'm stuck on "Searching for flight controller" 3:59 :/
Basically, you probably need to fix it by re-flashing it in DFU mode on a PC. If there is a way to restore it via the flasher app, I don't know.
Hey! Thanks Joshua!!! Always clear. Chris (from France ;-))
Thought for a new vid... How to get our personal VTX tables into the Taranis to use with Lua Scripts? I have powers (mw) showing in Lua screen that aren't available with my VTX, so how do I know I'm truly getting the power I set via LUA? Thanks for all you do Joshua!
I think that the latest Betaflight lua script should read the power levels from vtxtable. Are you using lua script version 1.4 or newer?
Yes, just updated Lua scripts to 1.4.1 and Taranis X7 to 2.3.1. When I run Lua I get the default settings for Tramp which is 5 power levels whereas I only have 3 (0, 25, 600) and is configured that way in BF 4.1.0. I can adjust power, band and channel via the Lua scripts however, power levels aren't accurate as set in BF.
First thanks for the great video's, second I have a tinyhawk freestyle and recently upgrade to betaflight 4.1 and now my quad doesn't fly at all.. it literally just flips over as soon as i apply throttle... not sure what I did wrong and I have yet to really search online for some answers. Have you ever had this happen?
From the future thank you to, I watched 20 time and I got it finally yes
Thanks! This video makes my life a whole lot more easy ;) cheers
hey Josh your video was very helpful i have 2 x220 im a newbie i try not to listen too to many diff sources so i choose your wisdom as such. im trying to get my 2nd qud in air so been catchin up I was wondering if you had any advice trying to fly with goggles i learned line of sight its hard trying to change but its time i think thanks
Excellent video for a newb like me.
Great tutorial videos Joshua👍😎...I just got the blade scimitar lrx,I bound it to my spektrum dx6i radio but it wont arm,I don’t know how to go on betaflight/cleanflight,it has an f3 bourd,which of your videos should i go to?🙂
This video shows how to get BF installed and connected to your FC.
ruclips.net/video/bAqgPEW48Tc/видео.html
Great info! Is that the Nazgul5 you're holding up?
Thanks Josh for all of the great videos, I am just wondering why GPS feature is not working on Betafilight 10.6.0 version, did it stop support for F3 flight controller?
Thanks again
Thanks for the video, followed every single step. Update kinda successful, everything works apart from Dron not arming any more, also 'welcome' beep only happens 3 times no follow up. Could someone please advise what to do :) ? thanks
thank you Sir for all the worthy information you and that make-up wearing fast talking freak post much needed info for all us new-Beez. liking your vids the most because i can understand you and thnx for not talking to fast. you explain things in a way we understand. after a few days downloading programs. I was getting ready to pull-out all my brain hairs trying to figure out y my Quad was not working after updating my firmware to Frsky in betaflight. well that's the kinda transmitter that came with this Spedix. I didn't realize that the Flight Controller is a LUX V2. as soon as figured out that is was the FC that needed to be flashed and not the transmitter. I'm thinking now finally It's good to go. well at least the GYROS are on now and the motors in that feature is now turning yellow. just waiting for my radio batteries to finish charging. i got the Jumper T16 Pro. after watching yours and a few others reviews on it. I waited till they put OpenTX on it.
I can't thank you all enough. learning from the Quad Princesse about 3D set-up yesterday was awesome.. OMG that Gal Blows my mind every time.
Hi Josh fantastic video however i have just flashed a Matek F405 with betaflight 4.1 using target MatekF405 as on the leaflet enclosed with it and version info such as in CLI on video however roll left is now pitch forwards and the animation on beta flight now seem 90 degrees out. Obviously i can change this in configuration but is this a common issue? Why does it happen (Is it me? something i did wrong?) Thanks.
I had a similar problem, when I set my fc to bootloader mode, betaflight was not able to find it anymore. However it was shown as DFU in my Devicemanager. My problem was, that I used the browser Version of Betaflight. When I used the downloadable version, betaflight found the fc in bootloader mode and I was able to flash.
thanks for this brother
I tried to Flash my Inductrix Pro BLH8616. Thankfully i used the cli command diff all; i found that my target was NAZE which i could not find. and as a Mac user, i was unable to get my board into dfu using the bl command. reason, because naze last support is 3.2 looks like im not going to update or fly it. it'll stay on the wall. appreciate this video.
Hey Joshua, first of all thanks for all the time and effort you put into your videos, very helpful! I just purchased a Blade LRX, and have a DX6i, but I'm not able to arm the quad. Could you tell me what I'm doing wrong, please? Would betaflight help me out? Do you know if this quad runs on Betaflight?
The Blade Scimitar line does run on Betaflight.
Since you bought a Horizon bind-n-fly, I would suggest calling Horizon Hobby support. I will be glad to help you out, but you paid a premium for Horizon product, and part of that is the ability to call an 800 number and get on the phone with someone who can quickly and efficiently troubleshoot the issue with you. So you may as well take advantage of it. For example, they will know exactly which switches to configure to get the quad armed. Whereas I would have to fumble around a bit to figure it out.
@@JoshuaBardwell thank you for your response! I called Horizon, and unfortunately, they could not figure out why my quad would not arm the motors. I'm sending my DX6i along with the Blade LRX to Horizon, so they could try to figure out what is wrong.... if they cant, could i send it to you? If so, how much would you charge me for something like this? Sorry, dont mean to bug, I'm just not sure what else to do... so sad
Hi, thanks for doing this tutorial but I do have a question.
I believe I am using the same FC and ESC as your Nazgul5 (Succex-e F4 stack) but when I clicked on the drop down for target, there is no BETAFLIGHTF4, but instead there is BETAFLIGHTF4 (FPVM) & BETAFLIGHTF4 (Legacy).
Which one do I use? Thanks JB
Joshua said, first the non legacy version
I’m sure you’ll never see this but I am terribly confused. After watching your videos, I figured it was important to update beta flight. Followed your instructions and now it seems my 4 hour old tiny hawk is a brick. All my settings have been erased and I can’t figure out how to get them back on there. Any help? Thanks. :)
hey Joshua I have a tinybeef3 brushed flight controller and can't find it in the board list
Hello JB and thanks for the step by step video. I have a cidora and i've done everything you say to update to 4.1. I flashed the firmware and now as i'm connecting it says next to "Update firmware" No dataflash chip found and as i'm checking the 3d model doesn't move at all.
No dataflash chip can be ignored. Many FC don't have one. It has nothing to do with flashing. It has to do with blackbox logging.
I thought because of that my gyro doesn’t work, and I can’t see my ports, except USB VCP.
Whats with the sanitized version? How do we know what is safe and what is not from build to build. For sure need to explain this better!!!
Can I update an Flip 32 F3 Omnibus V2 FC (BF 3.1.7) to the latest Betaflight 4.1._? How does one know when an FC can 'no' longer be updated? Your vids are invaluable , thank you.
Basically, look in the Firmware Flasher tab, set the BF version you want to upgrade, and look in the list for your target. If you don't know your target, go to the CLI and type "version" and it will show your target is e.g. OMNIBUSF4SD or whatever. If that target is not in the list, go back to an earlier version and look there.
@@JoshuaBardwell Thanks very much Joshua and have a super day!
@@JoshuaBardwell So I did that but this time looked up Flip32F3 and flashed that. Now the quad won't connect to Betaflight. No com3 port. Connected my Meteor65 no problem. Tried my Flip32 and it won't connect to BF. I tried to flash anyway but it doesn't work since it doesn't 'see' it. Any ideas? I think I should have used Omnibus 32......geez.
Got it connected in DFU mode, flashed with Omnibus and it 'succeeded' but can't get Com Port 3? I rebooted the PC no go. I also don't get the windows sound when connecting. Zadig doesn't show the device and I don't see it in device manager. At my wits end. Do you think I somehow damaged it? Should I replace the FC?
I've since tried other FC and they ALL connect to BF. I'm pretty sure the FC failed. I might give those new JB F4 FCs a try.
It works!
Hi joshua, I would like to know if resource remapping has changed in 4.1. The reason why I am asking is because I tried to change my camera control to a motor pin and it wouldn't let me move my camera control. I have the matek f722 flight controller. In 4.0 I was able to remap it. And 4.1 it won't let me. I was able to free up the motor resource. But I cannot reassign the camera control to that resource. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Keep up the good work
BTW, about the "happy flying" part... I wish. It's being raining here for weeks! 😔
Time to whoop it up then.
@@frankbarajas Yeah, but I still don't know any good place around for that. 😕
MC's Creations , here too , where u from ?
MC's Creations - Well that’s no good. Good luck in finding a place.
Rain, rain and more rain ...
Hi Joshua, thank you for all the info you share! Question: Was trying to flash BF 4.2 to my omnibus (lizard95) board, but 4.0.6 is the highest version I see in the BF configurator dropdown list... I did get the latest BF config version. Any ideas? Thanks in advance
I'm an extreme noob lol so if I haven't messed with rpm filtering or any of that stuff just basically got the qwad to the bare minimum to fly. Can I update the firmware and just dump the whole saved config into the CLI without having to go through and remove those lines in the config you talked about. Also if i update betaflight to 4.1 on the computer will it mess with my quad that is running 4.0 and my older one on 3.5. Thank you for your videos if it wasn't for you I would have never been able to get into this amazing hobby.
Thanks for the vid.
hello Joshua, i enjoyed watching this. I have a question. If the retailer provided me with a file, in this case the file is called "betaflight_4.3.1_CRAZYBEEF4SX1280_ICM42688P_ELRS_V3.hex" and also with a cli dump file, in this case called "Mobula8 ELRS 3.0 dump all for42688.txt". Do I then match the target as close to as possible with the first file name and do I then instead of saving and re loading the diff all just upload from the .txt file into the CLI?
DJI FPV IS THE KING
I’m stuck I keep getting a “serial port successfully closed” and it never actually progresses to the controls and stuff. On a Mac, tried multiple different USB-c’s please help :_:
I'm having same issue
sickfast Moody are you sure you are plugging into the flight controller and not the air unit?
thank you so much!
Hello Master Joshua! Thanks for dedication. I am getting error code 99 during the driver fix with impulse rc sw. Any thoughts? Tks a lot
Unfortunately I don't know a reliable fix for that issue.
Joshua, quick question, I've a couple of the new HolyBro Kakute F7 HDV Flight Controllers. Do you still need to update the OSD font since they're for the DJI system?
No. The OSD is not used in that FC.
@@JoshuaBardwell Thank you. Luv ya vid's, worth their weight in gold. Cheers
After the driver fixer I go and click on the bootloader but mine says "Failed to close serial port" and no DFU.
hello Joshua, i have a question when testing my motors in motors tab..Its the Stingy build with all new parts, so when i connect battery to quad and spin up motors one motor hsa 16% error and another has 0.20 % error. Would this be a sign of a bad esc? i was having trouble flashing the 4 in 1 but finally got it to flash by swapping signal wires...thank you
Something surely isn't right and you should not fly with error% over 1%. Check the signal wire to the bad ESC first. Swap the signal wire with another ESC and see if the "bad" condition moves.
Joshua Bardwell the error stayed on same motor. Bad motor huh?
I’m sorry I tested again and error moved to different motor after swapping signal. Bad esc correct?
Hi Joshua, I just upgrate betaflight firmware on my geprc cinequeen 4k (target not legendary) to 4.1.1 with the help of your videos. After binding my quad's frsky r-xsr receiver to jumper t16 pro I realized that the receiver tab on betaflight configurator 10.6.0 is not responding. All the lights on receiver and the telemetry on the jumper t16 indicate binding was perfect. Also, port settings are as described in the receiver"s manual. What do you think about the problem.. Target issue? or the receiver is not compatible with the betaflight 4.1.1 ?
you r my helper joshua
Thanks!!
I don't get the part where you put in the cleaned out cli dump of an earlier video of yours. I thought a config is tailored to a specific quad and likings of the pilot. Why does sharing this work? Am I supposed to edit the parameters?
There are a few parameters that you must edit, which I have noted in comments in the config dump.
Hi Joshua, first of all thanks for your lessons, they are so helpful. Im having issue with correct rssi value on my iflight cidora sl5 through osd. I have r-xsr reciever and Im stuck with constant rssi value of 43 in betaflight config, where on taranis i have rssi near 100 (goes up and down depending on how far i have gone, its ok). I thought the problem was in old firmware 4.0, current 4.1.3, but issue is still there. I just want to to be value to be the same both on taranis and in osd. I used telemetry aux for sending value to osd. In reciever tab rssi value is set to chosen RSSI channel, but normally rssi is visible when it is set to analog mode in Configurator tab. In CLI rssi scale is set to 100. Could you please advise on what to try? Many thanks from Russia!
Hello from another Joshua over here in California. I have a 2018 Model 5 inch quad from ldarc that is running a super old version of betaflight and I'm wondering if I can still update it to 4.1. The person I got it from said that he would be afraid to upgrade it because it might brick the fight controller. do you think I still have a shot or should I just stick with the old version of betaflight it still flies pretty good despite being on an old version. Thanks! I hope you have a great Thanksgiving
Betaflight 4.1 requires at least an F4 processor. If the quad has an F3 or an F1, then Betaflight 4.1 isn't for you.
@@JoshuaBardwell alright, well looks like we are good with it being an f4 fc. May have to give it a shot! I really appreciate your channel and what you do. The stack is the kk super fly tower 40a by the way.
Is bootloader mode on com1 port? Because my flight controllers can only connect on com3..
I have tried holding the boot button but it will not connect??
While in betaflight I messed up my settings maybe port settings, I forget what I did. Now my drone wont connect anymore. It says connected successfully immediately followed by successfully disconnected. My other drone connect fine. Now my drone only make 1 beep when I turn it on and all solid lights
oh I just wondering why my OSD got so much glitchy, thanks for the answer.
I am Working on a Bumblebee v2 and i cant get this thing to get of the ground i am using the fpv system from dji do you have any experience on this can you make a video? Thanks
By putting your old config on there aren't you basically using the same settings and filtering and essentially not gaining a better flying experience?
No. Because the config file that you paste in must be "sanitized" to only carry forward "safe" settings like your aux modes, ports tab, rates, OSD settings, and so forth. The video linked in the description shows how to do this.
@@JoshuaBardwell thought it would also apply filter setting.
@@JoshuaBardwell Watching the other video now :D
Is it worth upgrading to 4.1 if you have BLHeliS and the other vendor that has written code for your ESC does not work, so basically your stuck with BLHeliS. Is there enough in there without RPM Filtering? The tuning bars look nice.
There are lots of good things about 4.1 other than RPM filtering. I would do it.
Joshua Bardwell bless you. Thanks 🙏 JB 👻