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0:00 - BLHeli_S ESC's finally getting BLHeli32 features
1:15 - Why I'm not recommending JESC or JazzMaverick today
2:19 - You can flash BlueJay using a browser-based utility
esc-configurator.com/
3:59 - Flash BlueJay firmware to get extra options
4:29 - What PWM frequency should you select?
5:50 - The number one benefit: bidirectional dshot
7:15 - The actual thing you care most about: startup music!
8:41 - What is Min and Max Startup Power?
10:17 - How to select motor timing
11:03 - Demag Compensation (probably leave it alone)
11:30 - Beep strength and Beacon strength
11:52 - RPM power protection
12:20 - Dithering (leave it on unless you're using 24k PWM)
12:31 - Conclusion: I'm putting BlueJay on all my BLHeli_S ESC's

[@hugochiang1072]

FYI: the online esc configurator support multiple languages and I'm the author of Chinese translation!

[@stylesuxx]

The most responsive translator ever!

[@hugochiang1072]

@@stylesuxx ohhhhh you are here!!!

[@fpvlive]

Well in that case you serve 1/3 of the world population :-)

[@hugochiang1072]

@@fpvlive yeah but this is really a thankless and ungrateful job

[@jgd65]

@@hugochiang1072 Thank You!!!!!

[@massimorossi4956]

What would be the FPV world without you...en empty space... Thanks JB, really appreciate your dedication ☺️

[@BowOneFire]

Thank you joshua, I flashed blue jay onto my 5 inch and got rpm filtering set up because of your tutorials, and the difference is amazing. The horizon is perfectly locked, and there is baeraly any propwash

[@agebloue7727]

I can't tell you enough how much you helped me to get into this Hobby! You're amazing!

[@jayheine8108]

Thank you this helped me so much for my stepson and my TP3 builds. Your are an amazing source of info and so much help! I would not have been able to do this without your videos! So I’m joining your Patreon! Your knowledge is invaluable!!!! Thank you thank you thank you!

[@matthewrichmond5179]

Literally Just flashed to a Emax Tinyhawk S and WOW. It has never flown this nicely. I have always had issues with blheli-s on starting the motors, (Yes I am using the plugs, Yes I know that the plugs are crap for the motor connections). It is really nice to have the startup sounds as well. Thanks for the great vid and keep up the excellent work.

[@montexanfpv2624]

I actually just flashed my nephew's tinyhawk (1s version) to Blue Jay and he says that it flies SO much better and has more power than it ever had before. He's been flying the same quad for 2 years. On the same tune and firmware. So the change was welcomed. He also said now it more enjoyable to rip around and he can see himself progressing faster now that he has more control and POWA!!!!!!

[@missedme0063]

Thank you, loving my new start-up sounds :D

[@wilmesz1992]

Love Bluejay and the PWA flasher app. Haven't had an issue yet and the bootup tones are amazing! I have had problems with flashing JazzMaverick before.

[@yannick.k9052]

Thank you very much for all you do for the FPV community

[@willpowerfpv3246]

Lol..great timing! I just flashed my new toothpick build with this last night and put the same Mario power-up theme on LOL Thanks for the content, quadfather!! 🙌

[@toonnn11]

This is why I follow the channel, awesome!

[@0nec00ler]

Great thanks for this video! This is the first time I hear about this ESC FW.

[@mcdjacedad7359]

Hi Joshua, I am currently using bluejay firmware on my 5” freestyle drone, and also remembered you to a couple of fpv pilots in the group.

[@NikNak3841]

Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! I have been using your Betaflight series for my first quad build. And it led me here. Oh! BTW, if I slow down your videos to 75%, your voice is hilarious! 🙂

[@cpfpv6410]

coming back to this in 2023 and remembering that BLheli passthrough didn't use to be a thing and we all just take that for granted now. lol. This hobby has really come a long ways!! Hats off to all the people who were smarter than me and contributed to the code on this stuff.

[@shadowstoner420420]

great video thanks ive installed bluejay on my new basher build and a custom zelda startup, like you the most important feature thanks again. Again thanks for all you do, it has helped me thru some extremely hard times in my life right now thank you very much

[@craigdavidson52]

Awsome! Just flashed 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 The ☀ is shining tomorrow ✈

[@Phillyfpv]

Gotta say Josh you have definitely earned it! You are the man!!

[@FPVHans]

That is Great. I will Start to Flash all of my mamba stack esc‘s Right now.

[@trajanfpv]

Good stuff, been using Bluejay for a while and really like it.

[@-drgatling2534]

Don't forget check numbers of magnet on motors bell! When you use bidirectional DShot.

[@alkks6178]

Hello Joshua. Greetings from Russia. I often watch your videos and am grateful for them.

[@benupde1979]

Thank you for bringing this to my attention 😃 I think I’ve only got 1 QC left running bl heli s.

[@sidd8310]

I just did this last week to my moblite7. Works great.10min+ flights

[@xWood4000]

Wait what were you getting before? That sounds crazy

[@Anzyclos]

Using Bluejay on mine already - mostly for the music programming. 😅👍

[@glytch5]

flashed mine and bi directional D shot still won't turn on. Any ideas why that would be?

[@azzeon]

I had no idea this existed and I'm so glad I just found it. Custom start up tunes are amazing lol

[@CarbonGlassMan]

Thanks JB. This was very easy to follow.

[@fuzefpv5766]

Nice shirt like always 🔥 that's awesome I'm do it for my toothpick thanks 🤘

[@1baggy0dodo4u]

Amazing, can't wait to try this out.

[@Quick-Flash]

been saying this for over a year :) good to see you join the bandwaggon :)

[@Ferdigrapher]

thanks for showing this! Just saved my a lot of time!

[@FerralVideo]

As I save up for the quad I want, it runs BLHeli_S, and so I will probably be upgrading it to Bluejay. That is just so cool. I actually didn't know that S didn't support bidirectional Dshot until today.

[@luci3D]

Duude just watching you enjoy the new ESC ringtone hahaha gold! Pretty excited for flashing this to the firefly 2s tonight after work, I think I bricked my ESC last night trying to flash with the web browser BHELI configurator, man I've been troubleshooting this build for 30 hours now , ALL CAUSE I WANNA FLY 3D .... and I'm a noob

[@ismiregalichkochdasjetztso3232]

Again, really useful information here!

[@ojoaudiovisualchile]

Para lo que van a hacer esta modificación de firmware a las ESC: La dirección de giro de los motores se debe configurar nuevamente Friendly reminder: After firmware change/update remember that the motor direction is settled to custom defaults. Re configure the motor direction again

[@crazylolsbg]

thank you

[@Sugalime3D_FPV]

Thanks for the video. Helped me a lot. I flashed Blujay on my BLHeli_S ESC and now i not have any issue anymore... (spinning up motors in a disarmed mode)

[@DanishStallion]

been using bluejay on all my 45amp succex esc's paired with hglrc f722s, havent blown one yet, and i rip pretty hard in bandos. i do coat my esc and i truly believe that it helps as a layer of protection not just from water. thanks for all you do jb! i do use it on my micros too.

[@overryd8573]

i run the same esc on my beater added conformal coating this season :) might try the blue jay

[@damianomotta1809]

You choose 24 for the pmw frequency?

[@DanishStallion]

@@damianomotta1809 48 pretty aggressive tune flies amazing 835grams auw gpro9

[@DanishStallion]

my intergalactic bando island video is with that quad, my apex still has jesc for a reallly long time, succex 45amp esc refuses to die i am thankful, but when it goes, it lived a damn epic life lol

[@damianomotta1809]

@@DanishStallion Thanks, flashed mine with 48, hover test passed

[@MeGuess_Adventures]

Thanks for the run down on this!

[@gmivisualsjason3729]

Excellent and timely

[@manski209]

I'ved done this to all my quads, so awesome.

[@pksteffen]

ESC-configurator is easy to use and works! Love it. I already switched to BlueJay. I supported JESC for a long time but AIOs burning out, quads getting lost, eventually I came to that same conclusion. Why am I paying per ESC? Subscription perhaps but per ESC doesn’t make sense. Happy to support developers but give us options for supporting your work.

[@orshaked8013]

thanks for sharing the information

[@leadslinger5130]

What timing 😂😂 I started tuning my whoop for the next race and flashed this yesterday esc 1 and 4 did not go right and said incompatible. It still flew so I kept at it figured I would force it and I got working all 4 esc's flashed and working. And I gained almost 1:10 flight time!

[@DerKrawallkeks]

could you do a comparison of 48khz to 96khz? There are not many good comparisons:) I'd be super interested

[@KM-xp1pn]

Once I can finally get back home to my fleet I will be doing the bluejay and BF4.3 and give it a go can't wait to get back in the air.

[@jlarson42]

Very cool. Always wanted "I am Iron Man" on my 65mm whoop. 😎

[@ap3xspike]

This video helped me!

[@startazz]

Got to love JB even if it's just for content like this. 👍🏾😉

[@IIID4rkBull3tIII]

Doing this right now. Awesome

[@FarnsleyFPV]

Been running BlueJay on all my BLHeli S ESC's for a while now with no issues.

[@Rip1Outdoors]

Thanks Joshua

[@goobisoft4873]

Awesome video josh

[@xvidmax]

Man I got to say I just got into the hobby and your vids are just the best... you are inspiring man... I got to say so far everything has been smooth sailing with my Mobula7... but this BLHeli_S on my Tyro79 is killing me... I flashed the firmware and now only 2 of my ESCs show on BLHeliS... this is my new quad (it came pre-assembled) and I had it all set up and running... until I upgraded to get the extra goodies of BLUEJAY. I have been looking online for a fix as to where I may have gone wrong... the only thing I found is some dude online said that the ESC type should be S-H-50 for my FC on the Tyro79... I am lost here...

[@suryakrishnakumar7725]

I ran into a similar issues when I tried to flash JESC on my Blheli_S (J-H-50) I lost all the ESCs and it turned out that I just didn't have enough juice left in my lipo while flashing it. Make sure that you're supplying 12 volts to your setup while flashing the firmware or doing just about anything on your ESC configurator!

[@29jvskate]

Thank you so much again!!

[@steveeb00]

Ok you made me LOL with the melody thing :D

[@shadofpv]

Been using bluejay for a while on my tinyhawk 2, like you say... theres no reason not to! :)

[@billmcdonald4335]

I just switched to Bluejay 16.0 running at PWM 96K from JMaverick running at 48K. Made my 4 year-old, 100mm, 2S whoop fly like a totally new machine - and I get a full _50 seconds_ more flight time! Definitely a must-have.

[@billmcdonald4335]

I chose the Batman Theme, coz I'm a Boomer of a certain age.

[@irwan_rc2416]

Plus Pacman on my startup 😍

[@brent2327]

This just helped me fix Rocksteady 🙌🏾🙌🏾 Couldn’t get it to work because I lacked the ability to change PWM frequencies with BlHeliS. So happy I found this video. Thank you 🙏🏾

[@nischalnischal1]

The "Post-Credits" Scene!!! :) nice

[@ClubbyGT]

👍💪thanks for great info

[@hakimdurand8427]

the day has come! I hope my mamba stack can do this

[@fotofuglen1110]

Great news, I'm replacing a AIO FC that I've already flashed with JESC and although I'd like to support innovation, I really don't want to buy a new set of licenses for the same quad. BlueJay it is!

[@jr63]

Thanks easy peasy, 1whoop is playing "Rick Astley never gonna give you up" the other "Mario startup" awesome 😁. Flight have to wait for better weather unfortunately 👍

[@jebrc]

I tried this on my rs160 and my esc stopped working after about 6 plug ins i was able to get it back to blheli any idea what i may have done wrong?

[@WinstonSmith1984]

Thanks! I want to see how well that Smart 35 rips after you enable RPM filtering and tune it a little.

[@pgabrieli]

yeah, me too

[@hooligan.1318]

A cool program + that you can use on your phone 👍

[@inthetreefpvsemeglas7380]

Just a heads up ' You might have to re-assign motor directions in the Bluejay configurator if any motors were reversed before flashing . The configurator set all my rigs motors to normal direction by default when I switched over.

[@normcleod360]

Had the identical experience and I had them right before flashing

[@PmJ727272]

Nice point! Also happened to me but want to give a heads up If in betaflight you have the motors reversed, then you should leave the settings on the ESC as normal, because from what I saw on my quad, if you put reversed on the ESC configurator and reversed on Betaflight, the go back to normal, my guess is betaflight reverses it and then the ESC reverses it back to normal, so in most cases having it on normal after flashing should be ok if you configured the motors with betaflight Still always test on the bench with props off and see the direction to where they spin

[@richardbarwick8111]

Thanks I had that problem easy fix.

[@nikolaykostishen6402]

Thanks!

[@DualDesertEagle]

Can I also use this software to reprogram a BL Heli ESC to work as a car ESC? Coz I have a really tiny RC car which I'm tryin' to do a brushless swap on and the only ESC I found that was small enough to pair with the motor I have was a Graupner ESC Ultra 7A BL Heli S (the 2 - 3S version). I just couldn't fand any car ESCs that small so I was hoping I could just reprogram that ESC with regular forward / backward throttle and be done with it.

[@FL_Engineer]

Be aware when using ESC configurator it runs on a chome app which can run into problems opening and closing serial ports and may run into issues flashing. Just be diligent and it should eventually flash them all.

[@Spideystrat]

I used Microsoft Edge which seemed to flash fine, but now motor 3 is stuttering on pwr up although it's fine in Beta motors tab. Could this be the issue you mentioned ?

[@Nico-bk2uu]

Hi Sir J.B., I' ve flashed today bluejay to my betafpv pavo 260 quas with esc on blheliM but i read on the Google bluejay app that tjis firmware isn' supported. Anyway the five motors have been flash ed from blheli M to last blujay 48 khz. Did i' ve done something wrong? Thanks for all you' ve learned to me every day! 😉

[@dormiens]

Danke!

[@Spideystrat]

Well I flashed it and followed Bardwells instructions closely, only to power on and have motor 3 not spin up. Fantastic...

[@craigsosebee6335]

Did you get it working again?

[@Spideystrat]

@@craigsosebee6335 Yeah, flashed bk to BL Heli and made do w the 2min flights thus far... Using the UAV whoop tune and would like 3-4 min flights like the 85 builds I've done in the past. This is a BETA BNF

[@AnthraXaXis]

awesome vid, thanks! do we need to change any settings in the betaflight motors tab after we switch to bluejay? cheers!

[@sammoan7017]

anyone have any issues with not being able to turn on bidirectional dshot after flashing? Betaflight says there are 0 motors mapped after turning the option on and i cant see the motors in the motors tab. its like the resource mapping is wrong

[@ronaldopassanhadesousaguer7581]

Estou usando e recomendo.. Hi!! from Brazil

[@Cre8ionz.]

Would be funny, if there's an Easter egg in the fridge (or coupons to a few stores written on the right can)

[@MrDeathFPV]

yup i jumped on the bluejay bandwagon months ago :) ive never had a problem

[@marcosmatos8213]

I going to toss this for discussion since im under the assumption its true. 48khz is more resilient to amperage spikes due to the higher frequency giving it a faster response rate against spikes. I have yet to burn an ESC running 48khz and having great success on my 3s 2.5 and 3 inchers on 1105s and 1204 and it does add more efficient on those motors. I haven't played with any 14mm stator motors to give my opinion on those. I went through quite an a few 16x16 ESCs before the upgrade when jazz maverick fist came out and haven't burned one yet. Infact I have the same stacks for almost a year with countless crashes. I haven't seen anyone discussing durability but that is my hypothesis and would love to see other people's opinions

[@GrimSpeedFPV]

Would this still be a better option to put on a blheli s esc 5in that's using emu flight? Or is it for bidirectional only?

[@mjodr]

Flashed to BlueJay a couple weeks ago. Couldn't ask for a nicer upgrade.

[@ThatGuyPhly]

Bluejay for the win. Good stuff JB #StayPhly

[@KCQuadTronX]

LEARNING LEARNING SO SO MUCH MUCH

[@trebor1477]

Hi. IF someone have problem with enabling bidirectional Dshot after Bluejay update . Try manualy add line set dshot_bidir = ON and set motor_poles = 12 (count your magnet in motor) after dont forget to taype SAVE command. BF lower than 4.3 beta got a bug so it wont save changes for bidirectional Dshot. Slider under bidirectional Dshot wil not show status activated but when you check that line it is enabled. Allso motors show zero errors Happy flying.

[@chrisnoren777]

thankyou so much i was having a hell of a time

[@airgunningcolorado78]

Would not turning on bi directional on be why quad shakes? I have tuned it so motors are not near smoked on 3 sec hover and reduced shake but I still won't fly it until I get this resolved.

[@AlabamaSoundsGood]

You are the best

[@opossumfpv]

Does demag compensation add to heat in the motors? On a video I saw about dropping motor temp, someone suggested turning demag compensation off

[@orangutanfpv271]

Would you do this with any specific settings for x class? Got the Beerotor 80a esc’s which Blheli s

[@freiox804]

Hi, great video again! my problem is I don't see the option to turn on bi directional DShot in betaflight 10.8.0... normal or am I doing something wrong??

[@DOHCtorMiguel]

Great video I literally flashed one of my quads in like 5 min. super easy. Does anyone know how to change start up tone on BL Heli 32?

[@theBuZzEr1811]

Is there a way to get the slow spin up of motors like in fattec esc, heli style?

[@ruffriki3264]

Your T-Shirt closet!!!!!

[@flipfpv]

Anyone else noticing when you try to flash Bluejay the options for ESC type and version are just not there? Like the drop-down menu is just a black bar. I flashed one quad to this FW a while ago but now it's not working at all.

[@tenuris]

Dont know how to thank you Joshua!

[@stillnotflyin]

Thanks

[@stillnotflyin]

No where near enough but I will send some more over the coming weeks, you are still one of the best go to"s on youtube, thanks.

[@dtran11]

Thanks for the video. Are there any esc firmware that will do closed loop rpm control instead of open throttle control? I need rpm control for my application (not quadcopter). Thanks

[@rolliseventeen]

Why not? Blocked bootloader message the last time with the paid version. Will try again with this one. Thanx for video

[@LuizOrlandi]

After done the procedure the Bidirectional DoubleShot don't shows up in Betaflight 1.8, what can I'm doing wrong ?? I'm trying in my mobula 7 V2 FLSky version.