Cleanflight / Betaflight Flight Modes | HOW TO SET UP

[@Michaelfromfremont]

What is the world would we do without you Joshua! This hobby certainly owes you a great deal, for your knowledge, and for your helpfulness towards the community at large. I can’t tell you just how many times you’ve come to the rescue with these videos and kept me from throwing my darn radio at the wall! Haha One of the nicest and most humble guys in the hobby IMO too!

[@elrush9]

Hi Joshua, finally, after I looked again your excellent video and tried out all steps directly in BetaFlight: Now I catched the train "and hit the SAFE button" - whow that was the solution to get the 3-pos switch with all myy Flight - modes working!!! Thanks a lot for your professional and perfect teaching work Meinolph

[@bradsilwood5845]

Fantastic video ! You have a super delivery, and you have a very simple and straightforward explanation that worked for me. Thank you - I finally understand mapping aux channels and how to set my flight modes correctly using a 3 position switch and on and on..... I'm now subscribed.

[@JoshuaBardwell]

+Brad Silwood Welcome!

[@alanvictorreno]

I've been spending more time with Joshua than my wife!!!

[@ramim.5856]

you made me think of this :D

[@justinmedina2050]

And nowadays he is the best friend you can have during the quarantine!

[@sunsetpark_fpv]

LOL awesome! I've been spending more time with your wife while you're with Joshua!! :P

[@michaelperry1242]

your wife has been spending time with Joshua?

[@alanvictorreno]

@@michaelperry1242 other way around

[@billscott190]

Josh, Great how to video for a newbie like me ! Thanks ! Also, your manual for the Kopis 1 is a superb reference piece and I wish something like it was included in my Hawk 5. Well done ! Without your support, newbies would be out of this game. Thanks !

[@kozzieh6183]

Hey Josh, I was wondering whether it made sense to have air mode active in horizon or angle mode as you state in the video. I tried this once just on the bench and the motors kept on spinning up something crazy even when the craft was level, which kind of freaked me out.

[@leewilliamson3265]

Excellent as usual Joshua 👌👍

[@Clif_Brown]

Hi Joshua, have you done a video on how to set up mix channels on Spektrum radio, in my case DX6i, so I can get more of the Betaflight modes? I'm a bit confused by that.

[@JoshuaBardwell]

I don't have a Spektrum radio, sorry. And the one time I tried to set up Aux modes on a friend's radio, I couldn't get it working. At least not while at the field. Probably if I had had the Internet I could have.

[@Clif_Brown]

No problem. I'm beginning to dislike the older Spektrum stuff I have and will just use the DX6i for the Horizon/Blade devices that work with it. Seems like for the Betaflight systems I've tried it with, the Spectrum has been flakey. I have Flysky and Spektrum now but seems like FrSky is the most reliable protocol out there. Been trying to hold off on a new radio but guess I'll have to pony up for a FrSky radio. I have a pre-order from Horus for the new Taranis Q X7 radio, whenever that shows up. All the best in the New Year!

[@jasong3522]

Thanks for this video. I will be upgrading to the Taranis in the spring and will need to learn this system.

[@marcusl.3304]

great video. 9:00 you showed how to use a mode the whole time. so when I use the whole range for example with airmode, I would Not fly in Acrobatic mode, right? so airmode would overlap acrobatic Mode?

[@JoshuaBardwell]

Air Mode is not a mutually exclusive mode. It stacks. Enabling or disabling air mode doesn't change whether you are in acro mode or not.

[@TheRCAddict]

Hey Josh, I know this doesn't really relate to this video, but seeing your Taranis reminded me to ask. Since the Taranis comes with endpoints going from 975-2015, should you adjust the bottom and top ends to hit 1000-2000? Are you losing resolution by leaving it stock? I think I am as I had to go a few clicks up (haven't removed the ratchet yet) on throttle before it revs up past idle.

[@bamafpv1982]

Hello Jb i need to know if theres anyway to create a new mode in betaflight for my Gps rescue i have a radiolink radio and the flight controller with be a Geprc Pro 40 aio i have the Matek SAM-M8Q GPS Module and if not possible i will just take advantage of the Arrow and Distance and speed on the Osd and thank you in advance

[@Clif_Brown]

Joshua, a question for you: Beeper/buzzer in Modes and Beteflight in general. Every quad I've hooked up the beeper on from QX70 to X220 and they act the same. They beep *too* much. They beep the little song on battery plug in, beep for everything like stick movements, switch movements etc. and is very annoying. I want to configure the beeper so that it ONLY comes on from the Modes switch for lost model use. I don't see any beeper configuration settings in the Betaflight UI that would achieve what I want. I figure you if anyone, would know. Thanks!

[@davormaplenik2776]

Hi Josh. I got myself a wizzard x220s. I finnaly set it up, so it flys excellent. The thing I don't know is, how to set it to Acro mode? I guess the Air mode would be similar to Acro? I used only a few batteries until now, so I didn't have time to try all modes, I've flew only in STAB mode, as it says on fpv gogles, I gues this is horizon mode? Thanks

[@nyclassic4ever130]

Maaaaaan, all I need to know is how to add the Angle mode. In other words when I look in betaflight it doesn't show three modes as in Angle, horizon, etc. Just shows Horizon with two settings on and off. Ok, so how then do I get Angle mode???

[@cpt_Ruckus]

Great video, I'm wondering tho lets say we have two 3 stage switches... say switch1 is used to arm the quad. Can we setup switch2 to behave/trigger certain actions depending what position switch 1 is in ? For example if switch 1 is in the disarmed position, switch2 can toggle the beeper and/or beeper + LED's. However if switch1 is in the armed position, switch2 is now used to toggle flight modes.. I've come across some small form factor transmitters which don't include many switches, although I love the game controller form factor. The lack of the switches really is the only thing that deters me from purchasing.

[@JoshuaBardwell]

If the transmitter is computerized, it may have the ability to set up conditional mixes like this. I know that OpenTX can do it easily. (Well, easy for OpenTX. Maybe not so easy for you to set up.) I'm not sure whether Betaflight can do it internally.

[@furuleviFPV]

Hi, is it possible to add self leveling to the Headfree mode in Betaflight? In case I don't have video in the goggles anymore due to many obstacles and thus try to get the drone closer to me.

[@JoshuaBardwell]

Sure. You can have angle and headfree on at the same time.

[@furuleviFPV]

And how to do that? ...because now it behaves like in acro mode.

[@JoshuaBardwell]

I would personally just set it up with angle and headfree ranges overlapping in the Modes tab. But I don't fly in headfree so there could be some interaction I'm not aware of.

[@furuleviFPV]

IT WORKS! I expanded the Angle mode's yellow range line onto the Headfree mode and now the headfree mode also self leveling. Thanks!!!

[@dymarke]

Hey Joshua, thank you for taking the time to provide us with so much information. I wonder if I can pick your brain. I just updated my LUX board in CF and not knowing how or that I needed to save my settings first I'm putting everything back but I can't get the arm to work. I'm putting it on a switch and when I save it it works in CF but the quad won't run and when I return to Modes the range has changed. I'm sure I'm missing a detail somewhere and I don't understand why a saved range would change. Thank you.

[@JoshuaBardwell]

I also don't know why a saved range would change. Usually if stuff in the configurator is not saving, it means you're using an older version of betaflight on a newer configurator.

[@Fo0gie]

I've gotten to the point where i'm in the receiver tab and the AETR values all go up and down when i move the sticks but i can't get my aux switches to move any value on my i6s so i can't set up the modes. Any ideas?

[@bugsysiegals]

I setup a 3 way switch with nothing, GPS Rescue, and Failsafe. GPS Rescue worked fine and then when I tried Failsafe the quad tumbled out of the sky to the ground. I should've know but at least nothing was broken and I've since removed it. I then tried again leaving the switch to GPS Rescue alone, and the quad returned near home, came down, went up, came down, went up, and kept getting lower to the ground. That said, if you leave the switch to GPS Rescue, is it supposed to RTH, come down the designated meters, and hold position? I'm wondering if it was going up/down because of motor idle speed and if it can just hover in place since it could be nice to reposition yourself, adjust goggles, etc, if you know it will hold approximate position.

[@JoshuaBardwell]

It does not hold position. You must switch back to arm and take control.

[@David__]

Another nice 101 video Joshua, will be sharing this with my friends starting off flying. :) By the way... In your AIO roundup video you weren't sure why you needed an F4 processor... reckon if you want to still use these Angle / Horizon modes & still want to run fast looptime & features this is a good reason for why an F4 ;)

[@David__]

That is very good ... Have you also got telemetry, blackbox or LEDs turned on? Joshua was just trying to find a reason why F4 boards were maybe worthwhile... thought this could be one reason. 5% CPU Running BF 3.0.1. on my F4 boards running 8k / 8k plus telemetry, blackbox, LED, etc

[@huntfpv3676]

Hey Josh its me again..I went from trying to re map my motors to somehow locking my ESCs..I'm still not able to get anything out of em..but wen ever I make an adjustment anywhere in clean flight and save and re boot my ESCs chimme up like normal then all four motors spin up..I can't set the min and max for my throttle or pitch or anything..I'm in bad shape right now...I'm afraid I'm making things worse..where do I start?

[@nickr8337]

thank you for this video, this was confusing before, now I understand it!

[@jousiff91]

If I don't have air mode can i add it on somehow? Also how do you connect your radio to the betaflight with connecting the battery to your drone?

[@JoshuaBardwell]

Some FC power the receiver from USB, but some FC require you to plug in the battery to power the RX. So definitely take off your props.

[@jousiff91]

@@JoshuaBardwell really not easy to take them off from beta85 HD. its impossible without damaging the props

[@marinehm]

Hey brother, I'm new to drones. My question is simple, some of the flight modes kind of sound the same or are a bit confusing to me just yet. What is THE BEST mode to fly without developing bad habits. Acro, Air, Rate? I do plan on having Horizon or Headless modes to let the grandkids try for a second or two. Thanks for all the videos. I did learn something today!!! Building my 1st quad. Matek F722STD, Spedix 30A HV BLHeli_S, Tarranis QX7, Betaflight, ZMR250 frame One more question since I'm here. Battery: on top or bottom? Is there really a difference?

[@JoshuaBardwell]

Most FPV pilots fly in Acro mode, which is what is active when you simply Arm and don't have Angle or Horizon mode active. Air Mode is not really a Flight Mode. It's an option that can be on or off in any mode. I always fly with air mode on because it increases authority at low throttle. But it can make landing hard for some people. There is a difference in handling between top and bottom mount battery. For beginners I recommend top mount because you're not landing on your battery.

[@ricardmartingoula5503]

Great videos! I defently learn something when i watch your tutorials! One question, o have set up all modes in my quad (Wizzard 220), when i flight acro the headless mode is Active... Do you know how to deactovate it? Tnx

[@courtenay100]

Excellent video! Thanks 🚁

[@ryanbeall56]

Can you please help me? Every time I arm my quad and give it any little input it like spazes out and you have no control and then shuts off. Then when I go to modes tab and look at my arm the yellow light saying it’s armed doesn’t turn on and I have no idea what to do. Can you please help me?

[@JoshuaBardwell]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/d3SlZGyQrr6Bbq8

[@gray896]

I accidentally deleted flip on crash on my ur65 how do I add new modes

[@jdl8iv6jdl8iv6]

Josh, PLEASE HELP! My FrSky Taranis Q X7S (SE Carbon Fiber) is having an issue with my channel mapping for my aux 3 position switches. When a 3-pos switch is down, its reading 1000us, and at the middle position and the up position it is reading 1500us. When I am on the home screen of the taranis, it does show that the switch reads down, level, up for all of the switches in question, but there seems to be a disconnect. If I hold the menu button and page to page 8/9 "HARDWARE" then it shows that the SA and SB are correctly identified as "3POS". Anything you think I'm missing here?

[@JoshuaBardwell]

In the Mixer screen, I think you have set the Switch parameter equal to the switch you are using. This isn't the right way to do it. Doing it that way makes the mix only active when the swtich is in a given position. What you want is SRC parameter equal to the switch (e.g. SF, SA, SB whatever switch you are using) and the SWITCH parameter to be blank.

[@jdl8iv6jdl8iv6]

dammit. that fixed my problem. now there is literally no way I can't not become a patreon... sunuva........ Oh yea, also thanks freaking ton! I'm sure you know because I'm sure you hear/read it all the time, but your videos are such a massive help. I didn't buy your starter build because I found another one for cheap before I even knew you had your own... but that series is pretty dam solid, but I think my favorite was actually the "practical PID tuning" series, even though I am too noob to make the observations you have, and I've bought mostly pre-built stuff so far that seems to be pretty solid out of the box (thats my excuse anyways for not being able to tell the difference)... Lots of Love John

[@tractusparkour]

Is there a way to set up a mode to require two ranges to be met before engaging? Sort of an AND rather than an OR criteria. I want my buzzer to come on when my quad is both disarmed and in air mode but not when one range is met without the other.

[@JoshuaBardwell]

No. You must do this in your transmitter.

[@tractusparkour]

Thanks

[@1979zeesh]

hi bro. good work. i need help as ive explored almost half of youtube. im using radiomaster J8SG and arducopter (flight controller) for my drone that has flight mode selection frm channel5 (it takes a certain range of pwm for each flightmode to enable). how can do that using 3 step mode switch so that say A0 selects FM1, A1 selects FM2 so on....(FM1 takes pwm less than 1200, FM2 between 1300 and 1500, FM3 between 1600 and 1800)

[@JoshuaBardwell]

Just set up a channel mapped to a 3 position switch on your radio.

[@drummerian1960]

Hey great video! Whenever I arm angle mode, my drone wobbles. I know I should lower the P level setting yet I can not figure out how to do that. Any ideas? Thanks

[@JoshuaBardwell]

In the PID Tuning tab.

[@drummerian1960]

Joshua Bardwell what do I do once in there Bc there is no location for P Level

[@ThephotoRONIN]

Thank you for saving my sanity!!

[@corycanfield545]

Got a couple questions first I've just picked up a RTF x220 wizard an was not sure what mode it's in any command given an it holds it till I give it another that's one the second is on my 3s lipos what's a safe voltage to set my buzzers at so I don't damage my batteries thanks a bunch great videos they help so much

[@JoshuaBardwell]

+Cory Canfield it's in acro mode and that's the best mode to learn in. Autolevel just teaches bad habits. 11.2 is an okay resting voltage for stopping flight.

[@corycanfield545]

Joshua Bardwell thanks so much I was pretty sure that's what mode I was in cause it wasn't trying to help me at all I've been flying RC planes an helis for ten years but this really is its own animal an I've got alot to learn thanks to your videos just answer pretty much everything so keep up the awesome work an hope you don't mind me picking your brain from time to time

[@RealAmayaKami]

I have a question why does my betaflight not have air mode? Is this bad?

[@JoshuaBardwell]

If you enable air mode in the Configuration tab, it is on permanently and is not shown in the Modes tab.

[@RealAmayaKami]

@@JoshuaBardwell oh okay thanks

[@furuleviFPV]

Do you have a video related to Altitude hold? I have a barometer and an F4 flight controller, how should I install it?

[@JoshuaBardwell]

I don't have anything like that.

[@GBLynden]

You talked about everything except for what I was looking for in this video.

[@JoshuaBardwell]

Well whatever you do don't tell me what it was.

[@emlodnaor]

I don't know what GB was looking for, but I was looking for an explination on what the different modes are, more spesifically I was looking to see if there was a mode I could put on a switch so it would autolevel. (I'm a n00b, trying not too break too many propellers, would for example be nice to have when putting on or talking off the fpv glasses etc)

[@emlodnaor]

Horizon was what I was looking for :P Tested it now, worked, but extremely tempting to use, but also a "lifesaver" when I get scared, but it might take me longer to learn this way :P

[@LIFEOFSTUFFEDANIMALS]

+GBLynden's RC What was the point of your comment apart from being rude?!

[@souravdokania1929]

Exactly. Wanted to know how those modes affect the flight of a quad copter. Any lay man can figure out these simple settings on clean flight in 2 minutes.

[@duncancox6095]

Is there a way to disable headfree/headless in Betaflight - within horizon/angle modes? Obvs I know about adding Headfree in the switches but I have a Beebrain V1 and angle/horizon both are headfree. Can't find anything out about removing it! Any clues? Also have the same issue with my Dys Elf on Taranis X7 and stock transmitter. Am I missing something obvious?

[@JoshuaBardwell]

Go on to the Modes tab in the configurator and delete the headfree mode.

[@duncancox6095]

Thanks for the reply! Unfortunately that's my issue, headfree mode is already deleted in the configurator. Can't figure out why Dys Elf and Beebrain are set up headfree in horizon/angle/air. Hmm, weird.

[@duncancox6095]

Sorted it by adding head free to a switch, so can disable on tx. Weird, thanks tho!

[@gavachkin]

Hello, there is one question, is it possible to organize two switching switches to switch 4 flight modes, just on my equipment there are no three-position toggle switches or torsion bars, but only two-position ones. I tried to do this in betaflight, but only the inclusion of two modes at a time is possible.

[@JoshuaBardwell]

+Сергей Богданов Taranis can do that.

[@pierstaylor7780]

The more I learn the less I know. Brilliant video!

[@dymarke]

I also just realized that the esc's no longer chirp when I plug the battery in. I'm actually in Cleanflight. I just tried again and the arm mode range stayed saved as long as the board was plugged in but would revert when unplugged. So do you think I need to reboot the board? I've never done that, just hold boot button while plugging in board?

[@JoshuaBardwell]

Are you pressing "save" at the bottom of the page?

[@dymarke]

yes sir, and the Arm tab changes green/gray as I move the switch. The other mode switch that I set up for flight modes seems fine and does not change.

[@SteveO4478]

Hello, I am having a problem with my old walkera F210 since the whole CF change. It is currently running cleanflight and some how my aux1 and aux 2 are on the same channel. I have aux 1 set to arm and aux 2 is set to angle & acro. In the mapping both channels are moving at the same time. How can this be fixed? Thanks !

[@JoshuaBardwell]

My first guess would be there is something wrong in your transmitter and it is sending the same switch to two channels.

[@SteveO4478]

Joshua Bardwell I looked into the transmitter but I could never get how the devo 7 works that's why I just gave up it. It was one of my first brushless quads that a flew. I have tried to mess with the channel settings in the transmitter but I can not figure out how to get 2 aux channels out of sync with each other.

[@travishutt450]

how do you have your taranis connected to cleanflight?

[@JoshuaBardwell]

I don't understand.... it's just bound to a receiver and flight controller like normal.

[@travishutt450]

ok. got it. im using a spektrum dx9, once i set it as the certain aux switch in the modes tab, do i have to go into my spektrum and like confrim that, or does it save that through the bind?

[@oneofthesixbillion]

Once your transmitter is set up and the response to its controls can be seen in Cleanflight/Betaflight then the things you save in Cleanflight get stored on your flight controller.

[@craig-tw7sp]

I was trying to change my aux switches on bettaflight but it won't give me options on what switch to select. Am new to this hole drone thing and not sure what I have done. Any help would be appiciated.

[@JoshuaBardwell]

What won't give you options?

[@craig-tw7sp]

Joshua Bardwell In bettaflight I don't get any aux options at all. Thanx for replying

[@nbl23]

At 1.52, I see your channel names have changed to actually what they stand for like Arm , Beeper etc. How did you do that? Mine still says CH1, CH2...

[@JoshuaBardwell]

In the outputs screen you can rename them. You can also include a name with the mixer line.

[@julistrauss6106]

Hello, how do you connect your radio to cleanflight?

[@JoshuaBardwell]

Bind the receiver. Install the receiver. Configure the flight controller. Here is one approach: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fH6pdmmlfauhpK8

[@superman04p]

Joshua Bardwell sorry to hijack someone else's comment....but im new to the whole clean/betaflight programs....fpv flying...and rate modes... im coming from 4 wheeled RC "playing".... so just wanted to thank you for the video.... extremely helpful bro!!!! I have a 9XR flashed with OpenTX and ive had hell!

[@jaybirdfpv9776]

How come I don't have receiver mode in my clean flight. I'm using the full naze32 rev6

[@JoshuaBardwell]

+JayBirdFPV ! What is receiver mode?

[@michalrabek7687]

Hi Joshua I have the same question I am tottaly noob in this. How I can get my receiver to cleanflight ? Receiver Eachine i6 , modul SP racing F3. Thx !

[@JoshuaBardwell]

+Michal Rábek in cleanflight the receiver configuration is in the receiver tab, not the configuration tab.

[@michalrabek7687]

thanks for answer, yes i am there in the receiver tab. I see also receiver mode tab. But I am trying all 4 modes but toolbars doesnt move. I suppose battery must be unplugged. Sorry for stupid questions I am realy new in programming quads but I am trying to teach myself step by step :)

[@jaybirdfpv9776]

lol, I found it eventually. Thanks!

[@djwilson48625]

I just select auto, flip the switch, done. Love the vids. Saved my ass alot...

[@pitufolaiguana]

Joshua, I follow you from long time ago, your videos are such an excellent source of knowledge and you put so much passion on them that its clear to see you love doing this. Keep up with it mate. I have a question about cleanflight and I cant seem to find the solution. How could I set it up in order to have different PIDs configuration and switch them from the controller? I used to have librepilot and that was a piece of cake but in cleanflight I cant find the way to do this. Do you know how?

[@JoshuaBardwell]

+Eduardo Agustin Vendrell del Río use stick commands to change pid profiles.

[@pitufolaiguana]

Joshua Bardwell thank you man

[@ralts2001]

Hi Joshua, is it just a personal preference to use either betaflight or cleanflight? As a newbie which would you recommend? Thanks

[@Wad3c]

Andrew Ralte im a newbie to, had my first flight today(if u could call it that lol) and i use betaflight, plenty of videos showing what to do

[@Michaelfromfremont]

Certainly a great question that I’ve pondered often as well. There seems to be many more videos in regards to BF, but I think a lot is preference? I’m new too and have been using BF as it seems to be the standard, but they look quite similar in GUI from what I’ve seen... Best to you and your new hobby.

[@martinarial3691]

Wow!!! Really informative. Thank you very much.

[@BigT32740]

Great video i get what you show. Thanks you made my day

[@protofpv]

hey Joshua, I just learned(from you) that I can remap motor outputs and salvage the 2 spracing f3 boards I have with missing solder pads. can you by chance tell me how to remap motor outputs in betaflight3.1 ?

[@JoshuaBardwell]

Betaflight 3.1 will have the ability to remap outputs properly. In everything previous, you are not really remapping the outputs, you are just rearranging where the FC believes the motor is located. But I don't know the details of how to do it, sorry. The good news is that the usual method of using the mixer should still work.

[@protofpv]

Very cool man , I see you already made a video on that . I'm going to watch it right now and bring to otherwise perfectly good flight controllers back from the dead. BTW,thank you for all the great videos. I just got into fpv and rc in general back in June and without you and Bruce Simpson I would have been lost.

[@JoshuaBardwell]

Bruce is fantastic. I first got into RC with Flite Test, and they are great, but for the more technical stuff, Bruce is a gem.

[@protofpv]

P.s. do you have plans to do an in-depth D shot video? I am debating setting my 5 inch quad up with d shot but information is still a bit spotty and so I'm a little tentative. I guess there is something I need to desolder from my racerstar V2 30 amp BL heli s esc. I'm pretty new to soldering so I would love to see someone else do it before I take a chance at messing up an ESC.

[@JoshuaBardwell]

I will test out dshot when it releases, but in general I avoid testing pre-release or alpha features because they can have bugs and they often change quickly, in which case my results would not really be useful or valid. I'm too busy making videos to spend time making one that turns out to be useless a week later.

[@Fukaka2343]

hi, i am using sp racing f3 with a devo 7, i have managed to setup modes and the tabs highlight corresponding to the switch position, BUT for some reason i cannot get the ARM to work, the min throttle value of the devo7 is between 1100 -1900 , i have tried numerous times but can seem to get it work,,

[@JoshuaBardwell]

Go to the CLI and type "status" and look at the Arming Flags to see what is preventing arming. Quite likely, you will see "MSP" which means you cannot arm while connected to the configurator.

[@Sean-tn5nv]

Hi, First quad real rc here. Using naze32, latest betaflight and latest blheli s .All my mid points are 1500 exactly, but even moving the end points in my flysky-6 I cant get a perfect 1000 or 2000 at either end. They are close like 1002 - 1998 for example, does this matter? 1500 Is perfect using the subtrim, just the end points move about 2 or 3 when going from say 100% to 101% in the end point setting. Hope this makes sense haha the quad is ready to go, just waiting for day light to try it out. Thanks, your videos are great btw!

[@JoshuaBardwell]

That's close enough. Don't sweat a few microseconds. If you hit 1002 consistently, then set min_check=1010 in the CLI to eliminate deadband at the bottom of the throttle.

[@Sean-tn5nv]

Thanks for that, is that just to allow for some 'breathing room' as apposed to setting it to say 1005? I assume I can also do set max_check=1999? Thanks Joshua

[@JoshuaBardwell]

+thesean 5 exactly. A tiny bit of breathing room to make sure you can arm.

[@lazircamacho3004]

Ahhhhh its again, much more explanation on taranis radio than the main topic angle mode ayyyyyyyy whats that

[@pacgrafica4]

Hello, i need your help if possible. I use until now the CC3D controller but i whant to next level. What is a nice flight controller to Betaflight. Thnaks

[@JoshuaBardwell]

Omnibus F4 Pro if you want an AIO. Betaflight F3 if you want an AIO with integrated PDB. Rotorgeeks SSD if you want an FC without OSD or PDB.

[@pacgrafica4]

Many thanks

[@bartsshorts]

noob beta user here, my setup seems all good, but i want to fly in auto level mode, which is all setup, but the little drone simulator screen is bbahving like its in acro mode, does betaflight even show the drone as being auto leveled?

[@JoshuaBardwell]

No it doesn't do that.

[@bartsshorts]

well thats pretty silly isn't it, for hours now ive been trying to get the drone preview simulator thing to show me its auto leveling, and your telling me it will auto level in flight but not in the preview window? seems betaflight need to get their patching skills out.

[@JoshuaBardwell]

That little preview is just intended to verify that your channels are moving the quad the right direction. They don't interact with autolevel or acro trainer at all. I think the BF devs don't think about autolevel very much.

[@JoshuaBardwell]

If you want to make a feature request, creating a new Issue on the Betaflight github repo is the correct way to do it.

[@GibsonLesPaul2273]

Thanks for this, im 6 weeks into this racing quad thing and its so complex, only had a few minutes of flight so far, and doing the tests is like putting £100+ in the microwave to see what happens. So far I fried my ESC and replaced them, wasnt my fault the previous owner put EMax Nano firmware onto Emax lighning ESC's and when I tried to put the right firmware on they smoked, so yea avoid the Emax lightning esc's, the problem is the esc came out before cleanflight etc and ive found a lot of the lightning firmware isnt even recognised so its a minefield of problems, keep away.

[@amosolson]

Woah! Can you provide links to the parts used in making your micro quad?

[@JoshuaBardwell]

www.banggood.com/Cheerson-TINY-117-Mini-FPV-Raing-Quadcopter-5_8G-700-TVL-HD-Camera-Based-On-F3_EVO-Flight-Controller-p-1096794.html

[@erwingobee3890]

I would like my 'Armed' program so that I have to use two switches. (in a AND function) So you need to activate both switches The idea is you can almost not armed the quad by mistake. Is this possible. Ohhh My transmitter (RADIO) is a Futaba T8FG SBUS receiver and a FC X-racer V3.1

[@JoshuaBardwell]

I don't know if your transmitter can do this. If your transmitter can sum channels together, set both channels to 50% weight and then arm when the channel goes to 100%--something like that. You will need to play with the weight and offset, but basically you want each channel to go from -100 to 0. Just setting to 50% weight will make it go from -50% to +50% so I'm not sure that alone will produce what you want. Play with it. A workaround that I like is to raise the throttle AFTER disarming. This will prevent arming if you accidentally flip the switch since the copter will not arm if the throttle is above min_check. However if you do this, be aware that the copter WILL arm the moment you lower the throttle, if the arm switch is flipped. There is no way I can think of in CleanFlight to make an AND logic for a mode. You can do OR logic of course by overlapping ranges.

[@ludoogle8420]

You may use a DualRate or MIX switch on your transmitter to program the 50%-100% Joshua is talking about. This is what I do on my Spektrum DX6i : Gear switch gives 0/50 when Mix switch is low, and 0/100 when Mix switch is high => So both Gear and Mix need to be high to give 100 (= Armed in my Cleanflight).

[@pabz06]

Thanks for the video Joshua, difficulties with this flood the Facebook page

[@JoshuaBardwell]

Feel free to link!

[@davidsagal]

Hi Teacher. I've just finished my rooster build. Finally I've used your 2.0 FC. But The 5v- beeper doesn't Work. At The moment, The FC was connected by USB, I've been created The Mixer in my Taranis "Switch D"(Ch7), and Aux3 in Betaflight Beeper Mode, but when I change this switch...a green light blinks on FC but nothing happens. Could The issue be caused by not enough power supply? I was wondering if I need to plug a Lipo... What do you suggest Teacher? Evans

[@mr.j-rcs822]

But my angle mode is missing

[@JoshuaBardwell]

That means accelerometer is disabled in the configuration tab.

[@mr.j-rcs822]

@@JoshuaBardwell I actually figured it out on my own and yes Sir you were right again! How does it feel to be Quad Boss? Lol take care✌️

[@roran-san]

None of my AUX were responsive in betaflight; been sleepless about this. In the end a firmware downgrade to the previous version solved all my problems.

[@JoshuaBardwell]

+Laurent there's no reason you have to resort to that. If it works on an older version them your transmitter is set up correctly. Check the value of max_aux_channels.

[@kolorfactory]

Thanks Joshua!!!

[@jaycsfable]

If I can't arm my quad after this I need shooting.

[@Myselium]

How do i use my phone to play quadcopter simulators on pc ;-; Because I love flying my quad irl :)

[@JoshuaBardwell]

+Myselium I have no idea sorry. Get a game pad.

[@matfpv2455]

Well i guess i'm the only one in 2021:)

[@the-dilemma-diaries]

Not the only one ;)

[@marinehm]

After several hours of dicking around with the switches, flight modes.... I get it! Or should I say "I got it!" Is there any way I can control the sensitivity of the sticks? You might want to turn on a dime! If I were to push on a stick, I want to go "Easy does it" till I get the hang of it and then bump the settings up as the comfort level raises. A million and 1 videos, some are poor and inaccurate. I'm sticking with yours , Painless360 and I think the other is called Flight Test

[@JoshuaBardwell]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/gJrWYpdvfKmNjrc

[@marinehm]

Perfect. Thanks

[@chrisnoren777]

I'm here in 2022. 😎

[@atlanticwoodsman8347]

Thank-you!!

[@owenwilkins6563]

you forgot to take the props off before you connected to cleaflight. saftey first. ;)

[@JoshuaBardwell]

+red five fpv I'm pretty sure I didn't have the flight battery attached. USB can't spin motors.

[@SeanDuffyProductions]

Are there actually people who remove props every time they connect to the configurator? I just take them off when I'm calibrating ESCs.

[@ZeroFPV]

Some Flightcontrollers won't provide 5V for the receiver when they are only powered via USB. So you might have to connect the flight battery to see something move in the RX tab.

[@JoshuaBardwell]

+ZeroFPV in that case, props should be off.

[@SeanDuffyProductions]

ZeroFPV Yeah my rule is I take the props off if the flight battery is plugged in, which I've only ever done to calibrate new ESCs.