Setting up telemetry and sensor widget screens on ETHOS

[@jonathaneno8041]

Your videos are fantastic. Without them I would have a fancy box with knobs and switches. Thank you for making them, and please, keep them coming.

[@GudieveNing]

Ditto! Great channel. Helped me with moving from my POS Rektum NX8 with impossible to see in daylight screen and faffy UX to the heavenly X20S and Ethos. Cannot believe I didn’t make the jump ages ago!

[@MrD]

Thanks guys. I’m glad the videos are helpful 👍🏻

[@MrKenwillis]

@@MrDDo you hav a video showing how to transfer models from TX 16s to frsky x20s? If so can you tell me please.

[@doughughes5107]

I'm making good progress in the transition from Spektrum to Ethos on my new X20S, but couldn't have done it without the support of your superb videos. Well done! I'm looking forward to using this for real at SMAC as soon as we get some good weather!

[@MrD]

Glad they’re helping Doug 👍🏻

[@559moto9]

Thanks for all the helpful videos Darren hopefully u can make a video on putting flaps on the throttle stick and activate landing mode when u move it down

[@mikekelly6774]

Thanks for mentioning the AIN2 voltage input from receiver to receiver. I blew out all the servos on my plane when I got voltage measurement working great on my R8 Pro then tried the same thing on my SR6. It seems that on the original Archer receivers only the Pro versions can take full Vbatt. I blew out another set of servos thinking that the red wire from the AIN2 cable was what I needed to connect to my battery, only to realize that was SBUS power (5v) and not the AIN2 pin. Thankfully I only destroyed a handful of cheap servos and not the receivers.

[@thomasseverino9351]

Thanks!

[@MrD]

Thank you very much 👍🏻

[@skrswift]

All ways helpful thank you, merry Christmas Darren to you and yours, look forward to seeing what your up to in the new year.

[@ltfadl1]

Thank you and merry Christmas

[@MrD]

Merry Christmas to you too 👍🏻🎄

[@Ziet1]

I am moving from Spektrum to Frsky it is a steep curve but with the help of your videos it's made things a little easier. Now the question if I set a basic model up eg. expo, throttle cut and rates. Can I use this as a template for other models after making some weeks to match the new models. Thanks

[@CertsUAsPilot]

Would you make a video on how Min Max feature in telemetry is utilized? Thanks

[@JamesPlace-o1k]

Could you make a video showing how to adjust the RSSI warning levels for an X20S? I can’t for the life of me find how to do this.

[@MrWagner528]

Excellent.. Looked like you had "model total time".. on your Tx. Could you please tell us how you did that? Roughly located at about the :35 sec mark of the video....Merry Chritmas,

[@tripacer64p]

I’m also interested in how to set it up. Thanks

[@M-H433]

Darren anymore Inav videos coming out,miss them terribly.

[@michaelberger826]

hi I use frsky Ethos and inav 7. which sensors do I have to set to get the following telemetry. 1.how do I get the distance to the vtol? 2. the number of satellites. Thank you if you have any help for me. greetings

[@doughughes5107]

Today, I tackle your tutorial on frsky stabilised RX differences as my Archer SR8PLUS Stabilized, will NOT switch on in any of the sub menues after you HIT SxR !

[@matejbludsky8410]

is there any way of using functional switches to change the telemetry widgets ?

[@bilbag911]

At 2:31, GPS Sats is shown as the upper right value. Can you tell me where you found this value. Thank you...

[@MrD]

It is sent back from the flight controller, using CRSF telemetry.

[@bilbag911]

Do you know if it is somewhere (perhaps hidden) in the telemetry data from the frsky GPS ADV? Thanks again...@@MrD

[@martinmaurer5060]

Thank you for this useful explanation. But there is one thing: is it possible to display stored log data from a terminated flight on the transmitter screen. Sometimes it would be helpful to check e. g. the RSSI immediately after landing, still at the airfield. As far as I figured out, open TX will do this, but what about Ethos?

[@MrD]

In ETHOS 1.5 I believe there is a log file viewer.

[@martinmaurer5060]

​@@MrDYes you are right. Yesterday I flashed my transmitter to 1.5.2 EU and there you can see all log data in a line diagram. Thank you and kind regards from Austria.

[@ElseysEmpireRacing]

Hi Daren. To "reset" the line charts, "Flight Data" is the only option that I can get to work, but for some reason it sets off a multitude of my audio warnings. As an interim solution I set a pause condition as the Disarm switch kill position. Any ideas? Thankyou.

[@jd1uthjd1uth38]

Is it possible to set a max current or max rpm on the screen to view it after the flight i fly heli and i am not able to look down during the flight.

[@MrD]

Yes. When you choose the telemetry sensor you want to view. For example RPM. Long press the enter button. That will give you options for max, min, and maybe a couple of others.

[@richardlong3615]

Hi - I understand there is an imminent new issue of ethos. Do you know if instant trim or trim to subtrim button is included

[@MrD]

Instant trim is in ETHOS 1.5. I'm not sure about trim to subtrim.

[@travelrideandfly8355]

Hi ! Any way to see distance to home & direction to home ? Or is there any telemetry LUAscript for Ethos compatible with iNav ?

[@MrD]

Not at the moment. But there is a LUA script being worked on.

[@travelrideandfly8355]

@@MrD thanks ! Will this be something developed by FrSky or by the user community ?

[@MrD]

@@travelrideandfly8355 the community. 3rd party LUA script like this are not FrSky’s responsibility.

[@gkahn9737]

Whats the difference between tw and td receivers and witch one are better?

[@MrD]

TD blends 900MHz LoRa and 2.4GHz FSK. TW blends 2.4GHz LoRa and 2.4GHz FSK. Better, depends on your use case.

[@gkahn9737]

@@MrD what lora and fsk means?

[@pixiecat6109]

Is it possible to keep the total amount of time (hr:mins) that my TX20s has been turned on for..even when it is turn off/on again.. This info is available in OpenTx via Statistics? thanks

[@MrD]

No, timers are related to models. There isn’t a general timer just for the transmitter.

[@pixiecat6109]

ok thanks

[@jjames5928]

can you do one on the new X20Pro AW on how to adjust the gimbals to 45 . i cant seem to find anywhere saying how to do it

[@MrD]

I don’t get what you mean about setting the gimbals to 45? The pro radios are basically the same. The only difference is a couple of switch and slider types, an extra haptic motor, and a different function for one of the external antennas. Other than that, they’re identical.

[@jjames5928]

@MrD their not identical according to the website. X20ProAW and X20Rs use MC20R gimblas wich are adjusted front the front but Nobody has put out information on how to do it . The Standard X20pro uses the MC20 gimbals They are not the same gimbals according to Frsky They can aperantly be set from 45° to 60° without the use of a stick Limiter kit

[@MrD]

@@jjames5928 ah yes, I see the little holes. Sorry, I don’t have that radio or those gimbals. So I can’t offer any advice. Personally I’m not a fan of front adjustment of gimbals. I’d rather take the back off once. Than have the holes on the front all the time, inviting dust and debris inside the radio.

[@jjames5928]

@MrD makes sense. We'll hopefully some info comes into light. I prefer to have my gimbals go to 45° or somewhere in between I think once I have them set I'll use a very small amount of Goop and plug the holes to prevent debris from entering the internals

[@bilbag911]

I am trying to get telemetry data from a chain of SBus sensors (GPS, flight battery current sensor, etc.) through my TD SR6 to my X20 HD. My question is: where do I plug in the head of the chain connector and where in Ethos do I configure the string as SBus. I notice that if I touch the RX1 TDSR6 in the RF System page, I get some tantalizing options, but I can't figure out the details. Any help would be appreciated...

[@MrD]

These sensors are usually SmartPort (or FBUS). So they should daisy chain together. Then plug in to the SmartPort (S.Port) connection on your receiver. Then on the transmitter you’d just need to discover new sensors on the telemetry menu.

[@bilbag911]

That's the problem: neither my SR6 nor my SR18 have an S.Port connector, just connectors marked 1 through 6 (or 1 through 18)...

[@MrD]

You should be able to assign one of those ports to SPort. It will be in the receiver options. With the SR6 it’s on the white connector on the top. From the left, you have - + S. S is the SPort connection.

[@bilbag911]

@@MrD You are the oracle for most of us! Thank you for staying with my silly problem. With your guidance, it is resolved - thanks again...

[@mannyman535]

I have a question. I’m getting a sensor loss message, at the same time my voltage reading is blinking. (Cutting out I think). Any ideas on that.

[@MrD]

I’m assuming voltage from the aircraft? How close is the transmitter to the aircraft? If it’s close, it could be getting swamped? What link are you using?

[@mannyman535]

@@MrD yes from the aircraft. I am very close to I. I’m using x20s. with a TD18. Rx. I took away the telemetry voltage. I’ll try to set it up on the widgets again.

[@spjv01]

Request to lua script developers: It would be great to have a widget to display number of satellites. This would enable a quick & easy way to know when you get enough satellites to enable inav to arm. . I cant see this as a telemetry value so this must be some internal data format not available to the telemetry values list. There are many parameters available on say the yaapu full screen lua script that do not appear on the telemetry list so many of these would be great to have as individual lua widgets such as distance to home or glide ange to home etc. If these appear in the telemetry values list you could also get Ethos to play these out as audio when you have the goggles on. Maybe there is a way to already do this. Anyone know how to?

[@MrD]

What telemetry are you using? If this is INAV over SmartPort. The number of sats are in the Tmp2 sensor. The last 2 digits are the satellite count.

[@spjv01]

@@MrD I'm using INAV over SmartPort but Tmp2 sensor does not appear, neither does the Tmp1. I'm getting temp1 & temp2 sensors but these are set to temperature but the readings are nonsense. I googled the INAV sensor list at inav/docs/telemetry_md and I found that also missing was 420, 430, 440, 450 & 460. I'd particularly like to get 420 as this is distance to home but I've since discovered that this can be got using a calculated sensor using the formula 'distance'.

[@MrD]

Tmp 1 and 2 are flight modes and GPS respectively. It sounds like the sensors may be being renamed somewhere. Tmp2 should be a 4 digit number. The first is a bitmask for the GPS status, the second is the quality, and the last 2 digits are the number of satellites. I’ll investigate and see what I can find.

[@ThreePilotsFPV]

Great video I learned a lot, but I have slightly different scenario. My balance connector is currently being used for Fpv equipment, and three out of my four telemetry wires are being used for telemetry currently, so I do not have a black wire which is already being used, I assume the A2 wire will go to the main battery positive. Is that correct? thank you for your time. This particular subject is not well covered. Kiwi4. kzbin.info/www/bejne/eYjbkp6cidhqZ9ksi=eKcdqMTrNJgygnGj

[@MrD]

Yes, AIN2 wire to main battery positive, the - to the main battery negative. That’s all I’m doing with the balance cable adapter. Just make sure the AIN2 on that particular receiver can handle the full battery voltage.