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Get the TX16s working with Liftoff Simulator

Getting your Radiomaster TX16s to work with Liftoff Simulator is possible, but you might have to jump through a couple of hoops. Here, we take a look at what is necessary to make it happen.

Hey everybody. Steve here. Welcome to this video on the radio master TX 16 S in this video, we’re going to get this thing configured to work with lift off. And if by chance, this is the first video that you’ve ever caught of mine. This is video number 14 in a series that I’m doing on the radio master, TX 16 S and if you’re interested in checking out any of the other videos, here’s a quick look at the playlist. We started from basically zero, and we worked our way through the vast majority of the menus and features of the radio as it pertains to multi rotors. And now we’re having fun. So if you’re interested in checking on any of those videos, check out the description for the playlist below, and, uh, it’s one link shopping for everything you ever wanted to know about this particular radio open TX and how it works with multi routers, but enough about that, let’s get to the liftoff.

I am going to warn you right now. Uh, getting your radio ready to play with a liftoff is not nearly as intuitive as it should be. But what I have done is I have consolidated all of the trials and tribulations and road bumps and speed bumps that I have found all over the internet. And I have compiled them into one video so that you can get all of the information that you need right here by no means. Am I trying to take credit for all of the solutions, to the problems that I’m about to present to you? You can just consider me a compiler or an aggregator of many different sources on the internet. And really what I’m trying to do is it’s a real pain in the to set the thing up. So I’m just trying to deliver it to you in one video so that you don’t have to spend the three hours that I did going all over the internet, looking for the answers. It’s all going to be here and it’s all coming up next. Hey, you just stick around because things are going to get good. All right, here we are the radio master, TX 16 S let’s dive bomb into the next part. All right. So this is what you’re going to want to, do you want to fire up your radio master tic 16?

So to go on and do is you can want to create a new model. And for that, I reckon I’m going to zoom in. All right. So if you don’t know how to create a new model, do me a favor, check the description below for a detailed playlist on a lot of the basics, uh, that you will need for this radio. But here’s the thing we’re just going to go ahead, press and hold like cell, and we’re going to model select, and then you can press and hold again, and you can create model, but I’m not going to do that for the purposes of saving time here. Uh, you’re going to want to create a model, uh, but what I’m going to do is get back out of this, and I’m going to basically just go to my liftoff Warning. All right. So I am already in the model.

Basically. You just want to create a new model and give it a name. And what we’re going to do is we’re going to long press on model, and we’re going to go to inputs and I’ve already input the stuff which is going to actually save us some time in the video, but I’m going to walk you through it for your aileron long press. Go to edit. You want your aileron to have a weight of 50%. You want your aileron to have an offset of 50%. You’re going to go to curve and you’re going to change your expo to 25%. And then you’re going to return and return again. And you’re going to go to elevator long, press edit elevator, wait, 50% offset, 50% expo, 25%, and then cut out Throttle, edit throttle, weight, 50% offset, 50% expo, 0%. Watch out for the rudder Rudder, wait, 50% offset, 50% set your expo to 15%.

All right, you should now be good to go. So let’s give it a try with your radio on, and with liftoff selected as the model, go ahead and get ready to plug in your USB to both your computer and your radio. And this time, when you look at your radio, you’re going to have the opportunity to select either USB storage or USB joystick. And we’re going to select joystick just like that. And it’s going to go, boop, boop. And, and you would probably think that that was enough work, right? But it’s not all right. We are going to assume that you are starting from the absolute beginning of the begin. So I just go to Google and type in purchase liftoff. And the first thing that comes up is, um, store dot steam, power.com. And you’re gonna click on that. If you are part of the uninitiated as I was, and, you know, you want liftoff, but you have no idea how to go back, getting it.

You’ve got to go to this steam website. And essentially what you got to do is you’ve got to go and you’ve got to install steam. So click on install steam right here, and then we’re going to come down over here and we’re going to install steam. And now it’s already set up on my computer. So it’s probably going to confuse it, but let me go ahead and hit save. Now it’s dropping it into my downloads. So I’m going to click on the downloads steam up and yes, and Yext and English is good. Sure. Why not?

All right. So I am getting the login screen because I have already done this, but essentially what you’re going to want to do is you are probably going to get a create account, a dialog box here. So what you’re going to want to do is you’re going to want to come up to log in and click on it. And you’ve got an option to either sign in or create an account. And what you’re going to want to do is you’re going to want to click on join steam, and you’re going to have to go through all of this stuff, go ahead and fill out this form, click. I’m not a robot. And then hit, continue down at the bottom. Don’t forget to agree to the terms. And it’s probably going to walk you through another couple of screens. And at some point you will be a member. Maybe you’ll have to answer an email or whatever, but at some point you’re going to be able to get to this screen right here, where you can sign in. So I’m going to go ahead and sign in. All right. So once you’ve logged in successfully, you can go to store

And go ahead and type in lift off.

And there. It is. It’s 20 bucks. And I’m going to tell you it’s worth every darn penny, every darn penny, would it unbelievable game? This is I can’t, I, I honestly can’t believe this game. Isn’t two or three times that much. Go ahead and click, add to cart to buy, lift off. And then there are some other things that you can opt in for as well. All right. So the game will put a shortcut on your desktop and you just double click the, uh, steam icon. And it’s going to ask you to log in. All right. So what’s going to happen is once you log in, you can go over to your library and click on it. And there is my liftoff and I can go ahead and click on it. And here we go. Oh yeah, but it’s totally not this simple. All right. Okay.

So, One-third of the way through it, because when we got options, now we go to controls.  We’re not going to get squat, absolute squat, right?  So let’s take care of this problem. All right. Stick with me. I know this is a pain in the butt, but I’m going to tell you the game is worth. It. It really, really is. Uh, what we want to do is go down into this little area right here. All right. And what you’re going to want to do is start typing a control, and we’re going to go to the control panel. All right. And we’re going to go to hardware and sound and let’s go ahead and look at devices and printers. All right. So you can see here that it is at least listed as a USB device, but if we right click and we look at properties, it is being listed as a lib USB when 32 and a better underscore USB H S. So we’re just going to kind of make a mental note of that.

And we’re going to say, okay, and we’re going to pop back up one level and we’re going to go to the device manager. All right. So we’ve got to find them in the list. And if we find them in the list, he is right here. And if we dropped down, it’s a better USB, H S uh, we that’s the wrong driver. All right. So we most definitely don’t want that. So let’s go back to this page right here, where we go to devices and printers, and let’s get back to him here. He is right here, and we’re going to right. Click on him, and we’re going to go to properties. And we’ve got this hardware thing right here, and let’s click on the hardware tab and let’s actually click on this to highlight it. And then we’re going to go down the properties.

And now I want to go to change settings, and I get a new window. So let me just move them next to each other. Like, so, and now I’m going to go to driver and I want to go to update driver, and I’m going to browse my computer for the drivers. Let me pick from a list of available drivers. The correct driver is this USB input device, click him and say next. And it says, updated our driver. And then we’ll say close. And then we say close. And then we say close. And, um, what I’m going to do is I’m going to, um, I’m going to unplug him and then plug him back in.

All right. And the one that was there before is no longer there, which is a good sign, go back, going back to control panel and, uh, hardware and sound devices and printers and check it out. He has graduated. He is no longer in the unspecified column. He is up here listed as a joystick and a fire, right? Click on him, who we even get game controller settings. And it says fr sky Travis, but don’t worry about that. It’ll still work. And then I can click properties. And if I moved my joysticks, uh, it is a very, very good sign. Doesn’t matter which way they move. As long as your sticks do something, and my sticks do do something, and we’re going to say, okay, and this is a very encouraging sign. And then we’re going to say, okay. And then we are going to get out of here. And then, all right. So now with that behind us, let’s try going back into steam. And now when you’re back, go to steam and go to settings and go to controller and go to general controller settings, make sure that this is not checked right here. Close out of this, close out of this, go to play.

Then we’re going to go to options. And we’re going to go to controls and controller. Hey, Hey, look, it says fr sky. Tyrannis check this out. All right. Let’s throttle up. Okay. So, Whoa. That’s completely wrong. Threats. Month throttling up. And right now I’m yawning. Yawning works. All right. So what we’re going to want to do? We have to click calibrate. If our drone does not react as expected, so calibrate, and I’m going to go ahead and hit start calibration, rotate, all sticks. All right. Assign the throttle, access throttling, center all sticks, Access pitch. Oh, pitch. Sorry. Yeah, pitch there’s pitch, Roll. And y’all y’all and it says the finish.

So let’s go ahead and fine tune. And here’s my throttle throttle. Okay. So I’m throwing up, throwing down. Now I’m going to roll to the left, roll to the right pitch down, pitch up and throttle up throttle down and y’all Oh, my yard. My yard is backwards. My Oz backwards. So it’s a good thing. I did this a little go ahead and hit invert. Now I’m yelling to the left, yelling to the right up and down. Rolling. Pitching. Everything works the way it’s supposed to work and I’m going to hit save.

Now I can exit.

All right. We’ll see how this thing does. It’s probably going to be pretty laggy because I’ve got my screen capture software on and the game itself. It’s not going to like that. All right. So I don’t want to get carried away and do a full review of this game slash simulator, whatever you want to call it. Uh, suffice it to say, it’s amazing. The graphics are amazing. The physics are amazing. Everything about it is absolutely amazing. And will it make you a better flyer? I certainly think it will. If you’re an FPV flying, this is the SIM to get, if you want to fly line of sight. Well, then I’ve got other ideas for that. So stick around, subscribe the channel and check out my next video, because if your line of sight flyer, uh, I’ve got a totally different SIM that I think that you’ll like, all right.

So my goal here is to stick with the topic and the topic here is all about how TX 16 S integrates with the simulator. So let’s go ahead and I want to show you one more thing. I can’t possibly show you all of the features of the SIM because it’s just so freaking amazing. But what I want to do is I just want to kind of show you one more thing that will really, really help you in working on this game slash SIM, whatever you want to call it. So go to options and go to controls. And instead of controller this time, we want to go to buttons.

Okay. So focusing on assigning, um, buttons on the controller, this is something that you’re most definitely going to want to do, and I don’t know what your favorites are going to be, but for me, an absolute must is the reset button. I hate having to reach for the keyboard. Every time I want to hit a reset, what I’ve done is I’ve assigned my S H toggle button, uh, as the reset. So what you’re gonna want to do is you’re gonna want to go into inputs on your radio and create a few line items for a few switches and assign them. Then you’re gonna want to go into mixes that will further determine exactly what those switches do. And if you’re not following me, then you guessed it. There is a video in my series called inputs and mixes, and you’re most definitely gonna want to check it out.

Okay. So once you have that switch assigned, you’re going to want to go for example, into reset, and I’m going to click on it. And now, because the switch is assigned, I can flick sh and assign S H to the reset button and hit confirmed. So as far as I’m concerned, that that is an absolute must. Uh, the other one that I feel, uh, is an absolute must is camera angle down and camera angle up. And what I did was I assigned a three position switch to that, or I’m going to just show you the, uh, end result of, uh, the data entry for the inputs in the mixes. Uh, I got dogs barking in and things going crazy in the background. And, uh, um, it took several minutes. So, um, I’m just not going to include it, but if you’re interested in me doing a real detailed video on doing a whole bunch of these things, uh, just let me know in the comments and I can go ahead and do that. But here’s the net result. Uh, we just added pretty, pretty simple, a reset switch and a camera switch. And there’s the reset switch with came up the cam off of the cam down. And I’ll go ahead and show you what the results are right now. All right. So what I’m gonna do is I’m gonna take off and test my reset.

Works like a charm. We go ahead and leave my throttle up here so that I can’t take off. I’m gonna check my cam, Oh, there’s my cam up and my cam down. Okay. So we took a little deeper dive here than I had originally anticipated. This video’s a little bit longer than I thought it was going to be, but it was really important to me to accumulate all of the knowledge that I had ascertained all over the internet and compile into one place so that it wouldn’t take you nearly as long to get this game up and running as it took me. And I’m embarrassed to say it, but I’m just going to go ahead and say it anyway, it took over three hours for me to find everything that I needed, um, digging through the information miles deep on, on, on the drivers, the differing opinions and solutions for, and solutions for those drivers.

Uh, what I wanted to do is I just wanted to have one place where you could basically get all the information without having do all that research. And I hope I was successful in doing so, if so, if you liked the video, please like comment and subscribe and do me a favor, hit that bell so that you get future notifications, because I got lots more videos coming out. Um, the next one is going to be the next SIM that I like. And, uh, that SIM is going to be the one that I love for line of sight flying. If you just want to learn how to fly line of sight, uh, this one is awesome for FPV racing and, you know, basically for person view, uh, but if you want to fly line of sight, do me a favor that bell subscribe, so you can get notification in the next video.

And then there’s just going to be dozens and dozens and dozens after that, because there’s just so much content. And this is such a hard, hard hobby. All right. I need to wrap this up, but do me a favor. If you really, really liked the video you found value in it pleased. Uh, the biggest favor that you could do for me is tell people, share on social media post to discussion groups, et cetera, et cetera. It’s the number one way you can help me out. I am not sponsored by anybody, so I don’t get any of this stuff for free or anything like that. But I do like to talk about the products that I love. And I’m gonna tell you, liftoff is definitely, definitely one of them and the TX 16 S is most definitely one of them. All right. I’m rambling as usual. Um, Steve cutting out till the next video. See you there.

TX16s Widgets with Telemetry for OpenTX Radios

Telemetry, the ability to have battery info, timers, heading, Altitude, VSpd, and so much more right there on your screen so you know exactly what’s going on with your quadcopter. Oh, yes – and we are going to learn all about it here in this article and corresponding video.

Hey everybody. Steve here. Welcome to this video on the radio master TX16 S which is running open TX. So this video is also relevant to any other modern day radio running OpenTX. In this video, we’re going to talk about widgets, setting them up and getting telemetry in there. So in order to do all this stuff, you’ve got to be well-versed in setting up telemetry. And we took care of that in video 12, if you’re new around here, you’re thinking, what what’d he just say? Did he, did he just say video 12? And the answer my friend is if this is the first video of mine you’ve ever found, this is video number 13 in my TX 16 S series. You heard that right. 13, there are 12 that pre-seed this video, including number 12, being telemetry there’s 11. Before that I’ll throw up a screen here so that she can kind of get a quick rundown on all the things that we’ve covered so far. But what we’ve done essentially is we started at zero and we worked our way through a good portion of this radio. And we had a little bit of fun. I’m doing a bunch of customization, and now we’re back to seriousness, setting up the widgets and then basically taking the telemetry information from the widgets and incorporating that. So this is, uh, where we’re at, Hey, stick around because things are going to get good.

So the reason why my desk is so cluttered is because I’m right in the middle of the [inaudible] build, and this is going to be our, a test subject for this video. Give him a little bit of juice and get some data out of him, but pick them up and move them around. We’ll start to get some numbers changing over there. So essentially what I’m going to do is I’m going to zoom in on the radio itself, but just know that this is kind of what I’m doing. Yeah. She does not like when he’s that close to her.  So if you ever have that problem, they’re right on top of each other, sometimes you’ll get it.  All right.

So just FYI on that one. All right. So here we are. Now this is a bunch of telemetry data. I don’t know whether you’d ever want to put this much telemetry data on there, but I picked some stuff that was of interest to me. This is all live data. That’s being updated by the second. I’m going to give you a quick rundown on what you’re looking at. The battery is the battery of the radio itself V Fass is the combined, uh, voltage of my four cell lipo. This is a timer that I had set for 10 minutes. This is also the battery being expressed as a percentage heading is done by degrees I believe. And if I change my ya’ll position, you can see the heading changes dramatically altitude. If I put the arm trying to reach way up, way up high, uh, so that you can see altitude and down low, and then you can kind of see vehicle speed.

I think it’s a vehicle speed. I don’t know. I’m kind of waving it around as fast as I can, um, to try to get the vehicle speed to move and it’s not. And a four is, I believe that is the average average, uh, of my four cells. Now, uh, up on top, you’ve got ACC, X, Y, and Z. Those are my accesses. All right. So I’ve laid the quad down flat on the table, and it’s a tiny bit off that might have something to do with the table. It might have something to do with the fact that I have a calibrated in awhile. So this is just a handful of telemetry items that you can get from this cocoon F seven. So, uh, anyhow, let’s take a look at how I got all this set up and now we’re going to get into widgets. So how do I make changes to this guy?

Well, first thing I’m gonna do is I’m gonna take this button right here. This is the telemetry button right here. I’m going to press and hold and check it out, set up widgets now. So the cursor is currently on setup, widgets, and then if I roll I’m on the layout cursor, all right. So I am currently selected on the one with eight. And if I roll to the left, you can see that that one is now selected and I clicked on it to select it. And now that I’ve got it selected, I’m going to hit the return button, which is the scary here.

And now I can roll to the next, uh, field, which has set up widgets. And now I’m there. You can see that set up. Widgets is now highlighted, and I’m going to click on it and check it out. I got, I got four, four screens. So what I’m going to do is if I wheel you can’t see it. But right now the upper left hand is selected. Now the upper right-hand is selected someone to go back to the upper left hand one, and I’m going to select it. What’s changed. Let’s see here, we’ve got model model bitmap. That’s a good one. We got outputs. We can see our channel outputs text. We can put a text there when we want to. We can put a timer. If we want to. Now here is where I was getting all that telemetry stuff value. So once you get to value, you click on it and you get taken to this screen and you click on it again. And there exists everything that you have added to your radio, starting with all the buttons and switches and stuff.

Now we are at my telemetry items, so we’ve got our X battery. Go ahead, click that. And now I’m going to hit turn. And I got my five volts. All right. So I got my RX B T five volts right there. And then the next thing I’m going to do is I’m just going to roll once to get into the upper right-hand corner. And then I’m gonna, Let’s see here, that might be a good one, good place from model bitmap right there, but that’s not why we’re here. We’re here to go to value, zoomed through all the stuff till we get to our telemetry. And then I want to get the most important one there is, and that is the voltage of our light bulb. So now if I roll again, I’m in the lower left hand and I can click on it. And I think he kind of get an idea for what you can do with this thing. A little bit map. Here’s my channel mapping. Again, you can just do text timer value, click value, click it again. Now we can set the value. Let’s do a four this time. There’s a four unify.

Come back out. And then here I can go to the fourth one. And basically again, I can put whatever I want. Um, let’s just go with the Mo let’s just go with a model like that. All right. Now I chose four. I’m getting space for four. I could do eight. I could do two, or you do whatever. I darn well, please. Right? But now all four of them in there. I can return out. All right. So I’ve gone completely back out and you can see that I’ve got my information there. And if I want to get back in, I long press here and now I can click on page and you can see where I get to top bar set up and I want to move the cursor. See I’m moving the cursor setup and I click on it. All right. And you’ll be able to see the cursor select right now. ACC X has a solid box around it. Whereas the other ones have a dashed box. I’m going to, I’m going to roll once to the right. So now we could actually feasibly change the middle one, Megan, a counter.

I just made it a counter. All right. Just for the sake of having something move. And I go to the next one, click on it, select it can make it another time. Or if I want to, we don’t have a timer here. So there’s a timer. Sync is how I have a model down at the bottom select widget. Let’s just do throttle there. All right. So you can see it says throttle. It is at zero and throttle at 133. I don’t know why you do that. I mean, I suppose you could do it that way, but anyhow, so nothing we can do is come to telemetry long press.

If you page over a couple of times, you get to this user interface. And right now the cursor is on theme. Now it’s on top bar, but go back to theme. If we click it and we change it to the other one and we click it, we’re now set up for the other one. And it’s changing to the other theme. Well, that’s the background, color is white. The main color is red. And I think we’ve already talked about the top bar setup, but now that I’ve changed the theme, you can see the theme has a custom background image that I added in a previous video. I think it was somewhere around 11 or 10 or something like that. I forget we did a whole bunch of customizing to the radio, uh, changing the welcome screen. Let’s see Here, Let’s go ahead and unplug him. That background image that you saw was something that we changed in a video earlier, uh, regarding a bunch of making a bunch of custom changes. Like for example, we can go to turn the radio on, Correct? That’s the baby. It’s a warning, special warning. So we’ve got a, we had a custom splash screen. We had a custom welcome audio. We’ve got a custom background Angle then proportional.

And now we’ve got our custom background there again. And, uh, I’ve unplugged the battery. That’s why the VFS and the, the battery are showing volt no voltage. So there it is. There’s an introduction to widgets on this radio and hopefully a deeper dive into telemetry and how we can display the telemetry so that it’s beneficial to us. I’m going to pretty much wrap it up there so that this video doesn’t go on and on and on. I want to encourage you to like comment and subscribe. Uh, if you liked the video, please hit that little bell so that you get, uh, immediate notifications. Every time a new video comes out. And if you really, really liked the video, do me a favor, tell somebody, share the video on social media and let people know how beneficial you found the video series. If that’s the way you feel.

If so, I’d greatly appreciate it. In the meantime, I do hope you subscribe because we done. This is video 13. I got immediate ideas for at least two war radio related videos that I’m probably going to kick out here this week and beyond that the sky’s the limit. But I do have a list about a mile long on, uh, videos that I want to do on quads and multi rotors and radios and drones and all that kind of stuff, whatever, whatever, whatever, whatever word you choose to use, um, I’m gonna make a video on it. All right. That’s it. I’m rambling. So I’m going to get out of here. Thank you for sticking with me until the very end. I’m Steve. See you in the next video.

Setting up Telemetry on the TX16s by Radiomaster on OpenTX with R-XSR & X8R Receivers

Imagine having Lipo battery voltage, single cell voltage, timers, countdowns, RSSI, and other critical flight information at your fingertips. No more guessing when you should land. That’s what we are going to learn in this article and video.

Hey everybody. Steve here. Welcome to the video. I am smack dab in the middle of a Holybro. [inaudible] build, and this puppy is going to have some Emacs BL heli 32 [inaudible] and all sorts of other goodies. Uh, that’d be going with a cat X camera for the FPV, and we’ll be going with this 600 milli watt, Lumineer, TX 5g pro. And, uh, this thing’s going to be awesome, but anyhow, that’s not, that’s not what I’m here to talk about right now, be on the lookout for that series, uh, subscribe to the channel and that full build is forthcoming, but that’s not what we’re here for today. What we’re here for today is to talk about telemetry and what am I talking about? Well, let’s go ahead and hit this button right here, and then let’s hit this button right here and then let’s go down.

So what you’re looking at right here is live telemetry. This is all data right now as we speak and it’s being fed to us, uh, from our flight controller, because we set up to lemme tree between our receiver and our flight controller. And that is what we’re going to talk about in this video. And the whole purpose of that is because in the next video, we’re going to take it one step further. Instead of looking at this boring screen, we’re going to incorporate telemetry so that we get some good, critical information as opposed to, well, I don’t know the channel monitor and the big picture of the quad, a low it’s pretty, I’d rather have some good telemetry information there. Know what’s going on. Hey, did you know that this was video 12 in my long series on the radio master, TX 16 S and or other modern open TX radios out there.

It’s a, as long as it’s running open, TX, a lot of this stuff is relevant. Um, yeah. So long series on this radio, uh, go ahead and slap up a, uh, a quick playlist here of all the things that we’ve already talked about. Can’t believe we’re on video 12. I’ve already got plans for video 13 and who knows what’s going to happen after that? And I should probably mention that this whole series is based on the Frsky D eight and D 16 protocols. And we are using beta flight as our flight controller software. So I still think those of you who are not using any of that stuff can still benefit from the series because I am primarily focused on open TX, do me a favor, stick around. It’s going to get good, man. It is gonna get good.

Here’s where we’re at with this thing. Um, I’m going to be connecting this F seven flight controller to this Frsky R-SXR, which is a free sky D 16 protocol with 16 channels on it. And it’s got to lemon tree hard to believe this little itty bitty thing right here. Um, that’s just amazing. All right. So anyhow, what we want to do is we want to look at these Pinots right here. All right. What is important to note is the order of which these wires are coming out of the receiver. It’s black, red, yellow, green. All right. So if we take a look at the directions that come with this thing, black is ground red is five volts. Yellow is the eSport and green is the S bus out. And essentially what I’ve done is I just followed the directions that came with this Holybro.

So here’s the directions online at the Holybro website. I got to say that these directions were put together very, very well, and it’s really, they, they couldn’t make it any simpler. Let’s take a look at the first thing that’s relevant. You must use a receiver that supports a serial protocol, such as S bus. Alright, check. We got that one taken care of. All right. So for all receiver types, sod, or the receiver signal wire to the pad and our six, we have identified the green wire or our fourth wire as our S bus because it says, so right here, the fourth one down, and what they’re telling us to do with it is they’re telling us to go to our six. Well, where’s our six, our six is circle number one, number two, number three. So if we go to our quad, we’ve got circle.

Number one, circle, number two, circle. Number three is the green wire. And that is on our six. All right. Nope, Nope. That the red one is going here and the black one is going here. The black is on ground. You can actually see ground right there. You can’t see what the red one is, but that’s the five volt source. And then the yellow one is our smart port. And that was going to TX four. And that’s exactly where ours is going. And you can see where this is ground. You can see what the second Tod is, five volts. And then two more up is, is the TX four. All right. So basically all that was to say, just follow the diagrams in the directions and you’ll be able to wire this thing correctly. All right. So if you’ve got an older receiver like this, a Frsky R-SXR, you can make your own telemetry wire. So what you’re going to want to do is you’re going to want to take the signal side from a common three wire server. And what you’re gonna want to do is you’re going to want to solder him into the third liar of a four wire JST, I think is what this one is. But that’s what it looks like.

All right. So if you’re using an older X eight R or something like that, uh, you’re probably used to plugging into the S bus down here at the bottom, and then having the other end go into the flight controller. And all you’re going to do with this one is, uh, on the eSport side. All right. So if you notice on this side right here, there’s a smart port connector, which is using a common, a three-wire servo cable, and you’re just going to want the signal side. And then that is going to go into one of the U arts on your flight controller. And it’s that simple. All right. So let’s take a look at the X eight, our first we go ahead and plug him in. All right. If we go into beta flight and we go to ports, alright, so on the ports tab and a you aren’t, one is just on, you are two is going to be set to smart port and you are three is our S bus. Just make sure that that is checked right there for serial RX, and we’re going to save and reboot.

And then moving on to configuration, all right, down here, do you just want to make sure that telemetry is selected and save and reboot, and we’re good to go, go ahead and disconnect out of here and go ahead and give some power to this guy. All right. So what I’m going to do is I’m going to long press on my model, and I’m gonna kind of go through the pages right here until I get to, I forget what it’s called, but I’m going to get there as soon as,

Imagine that’s called telemetry. All right. So the quad is plugged in with the battery. And essentially what I’m going to do is I’m going to roll down here and kind of show you some stuff, notice that I don’t have any sensors, but if I go up

To discover new sensors on, I click on it, Ooh, look at that. And now I can say, stop discovery and check this out. I got 13 sensors now, whole bunch of sensors. Now the whole point of, uh, what we’re gonna be doing in the next video is we’re going to be able to pick and choose these sensors that we want. And we’re going to be able to display them as widgets. So let’s take a look at the other quad.

As you may recall, this guy’s only partially built, but his UART settings are going to be dramatically different. All right, first thing I’m going to do with the F seven is, uh, come in a beta flight and our ports on this one are gonna be vastly different. So on this one, your USB is turned on, and then if you come all the way down to [inaudible], that’s where we put our smart port. So you are at four is going to be the smart port. You aren’t six is where we put our S bus. So there’s our serial RX X right there. So serial RX on six and smart port on four is what you want to do for our good friend, uh, the F seven. So I’m going to go ahead and disconnect. All right. So, uh, next thing we’re going to do with our seven is give him some juice and he is now plugged in. All right. So we’ve got the F seven turned on and it’s got juice for this guy. It’s going to be pretty much the exact same drill. Let’s go here. Let’s go. The telemetry page. I did that by pressing the back, instead of going through all the pages again. So let’s go down to discover new sensors

And Discover, see this time we have 18, 18 that we can play with. All right. So there it is setting up telemetry on an older X8R and on the newer, newer, uh, Frsky R-SXR. They are both free sky D 16 protocol channel receivers with telemetry. So when I had an unplugged the seven, all right. So there it is. We learned how to get telemetry off of two different receivers. And, uh, the whole purpose of this is that we’re going to get into these widgets next video. We are going to learn how to set up the widgets and, you know, basically set up some of that interesting telemetry information so that, uh, um, you know, we’ve got something to look at besides, you know, a picture of our quad and, and, and the channel thing, as much as I love the channel thing, uh, getting telemetry information, probably a little bit more useful.

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