Taranis Q X7 Quick Tips: Setting up and using/showing telemetry (RSSI etc.)

[@skrswift]

5 years later and we are still watching these...thank you, much appreciated.

[@cbezanis]

This channel is an absolute treasure trove of useful information. I wanted to let you know how appreciative I am of all the work you put into this content. Thank you sir !

[@techFPV5964]

Yes sir your correct because I checked the firmware level of my old QX7 with the new QX7S and they are obviously different so I'll have to rely on the telemetry page for rssi data. Thank you Painless!

[@ronenshor7926]

Wow thank you man you helped me so much!!!!!! Thank you keep doing what you love bro❤

[@RimmyTimfpv]

Wow. I bought this radio 2 years ago, but never knew how to do this. Now that my Long Range quad has GPS, i wanted to get coordinates printed out on my screen. This made it super easy to figure out how to do that. Thanks!

[@Painless360]

Check out thd Qx7 and Opentx series for more neat tricks.. Happy flying!

[@budandbean1]

I love the "Painless Pill" on the radio! It looks great there!

[@Painless360]

+Buddy Martin I just had some new stickers made with just the pill logo so about to swap that out! :)

[@pinkunwizard]

Thanks for this one,saved me a shed load of messing.

[@dkerlee]

this was great, just what I needed in here. thanks!

[@ginovanvroonhoven1275]

Great video. Just one question, how do you decide when it's low? My RxBt shows me 3.1V, but my LiPo checker shows me 3.58V in each cell. It's a 2C 7.4V 1300Mah battery. Whats going wrong here? Is RxBt the value of 1 cell? Could someone help me out? I just want to let it to play an alarm at 3.4V/cell or 6.8V total.

[@chrisbewrx]

Thanks mate, very useful 😁 adding this so I can keep an eye on my fishing drone!! When I'm flying it out to sea 👍

[@Stubbsyfpv]

Thx again Painless. Yet again another great instructional vid. 👍👍👍

[@rscottwilson1]

Excellent info. Super helpful!

[@sams9716]

Great video! Is there anyway to have the RSSI spoken every few seconds?

[@iflyfpv5927]

#Painless360 thank you so much for this video, I’m a new pilot and this info is priceless to me... 😎👍

[@stephenwalker3127]

Just what I was looking for and explained very clearly as always. Can you tell me how do I now get an audible warning of low values while flying. Many Thanks.

[@Painless360]

See the video on telemetry in the later part of the Taranis series. You need to discover the sensors and then setup a logical switch to come on once the voltage drops below a certain level. Once you've got that then you can make that logical switch play a soundfile.. Best of luck!

[@rhuber40]

Your video solved some of my problems. Because I am an electric powered flyer, I want to monitor the flight battery and not just the speed control or ESC output voltage. I am also using the frsky X8R reciever. Is this possible and how do I hook up this receiver? Thankyou for reading this

[@Painless360]

Yep, see kzbin.info/www/bejne/ooC1i3qgedWNe8k. It's all in here so google or channel search will normlly find it..

[@lambo79]

Hi, thx for the vid! What is rxbatt monitoring? Is it same as vfas?

[@some19872003]

Thank you so much. That helps out a ton. My only problem problem is I was thinking I could do rssi for the xm+ since it has a port but I think it's only for maybe osd rssi reading?

[@Painless360]

+some19872003 no two way telemetry on the XM+..

[@some19872003]

Painless360 damn ok so it only works with osd. I'll just have to get a xsr to toss in my torrent to get rssi. Thank you again so much.

[@Painless360]

+some19872003 if you're using an OSD then you can use the the channel 16 trick for RSSI. We will be covering that in the Quad Build: Series 4 videos..

[@MrSabram07]

Beautiful thank you very much

[@techFPV5964]

Hey Painless I bought a used Taranis QX7S and when I press bind on any model I do not get the ask for channels 1-9 and 9-16 telemetry. I use this to see the receiver graph on the model as to how strong the telemetry is or if I am bound?

[@Painless360]

It sounds like it's using a very old version of OpenTX, I'd check if it needs updating... best of luck

[@ariefzulchannel]

sir, I want to ask. beside the battery indicator on the monitor screen there is a signal bar indicator for telemetry. and the signal bar is only 1 bar and it can't be full and there is always a warning voice from the system. how to disable the signal bar? Thanks for your help.

[@Painless360]

I'm not sure what you're referring to, a picrurmture would be helpful. Any time. There is a warning it usually pays to fix the problem not disable the alert. Why is the bar never getting high enough?

[@FifaInspected]

Lee. When I discover a new sensor via my Qx7, one of the sensors is A2. Is that my primary battery level? If so, the telemetry is showing 11.9-12.0. If I check the battery with a battery checker it's showing fully charged at 12.5. There's a bit of a discrepancy there. Just curious if I'm understanding this correctly. Thanks!

[@Painless360]

It depends on what you are using on where you need to look. A2 was the pack voltage on D series recievers. X series only had A1 (Rx voltage). If you are seeing A2 using X series them I'd guess you're using telemetry from a flight controller and I'd check the setup for voltage measurement that end. Best of luck

[@FifaInspected]

@@Painless360 Good morning, Lee and thanks for your reply. We are using the RX4R with no flight controller.

[@madmike583]

I sometimes get telemetry lost randomly and in a second its back. Cant figure out why have just updated all rx tx firmware and still a bit sketchy. Wondered if you had any weird things like this also what range are you getting with this set up (approx):-)

[@aleks3a00]

You are the best!! Thanks!!!!

[@philthayer4087]

Can I get it to call out % instead of db?

[@brutallindigo]

Thanks for the vid.. A little off topic I did a search for this on your channel but thought I would ask.. Do you know how to delete a mixer?

[@Painless360]

Yep, in the Mixer menu? Delete a line that's there?

[@maguilakindafunky81]

When I click, Discover new sensors nothing shows up even when I have the RSSI channel 12 mapped to my taranis, I move my remote and the % changes. I have an FrSky XM+ with a taranis qx7. I also noticed that in the telemetry window inside the Taranis for Source : Default and I cant change the value. Thanks for your videos !

[@Painless360]

The XM+ doesn't have telemetry. Check the listings and manual for details .. Its why it's so cheap.. Happy flying

[@maguilakindafunky81]

@@Painless360 Thanks for the reply. I bought a cinewhoop and came with it.. I guess because of the size

[@mikebarkasi6467]

I very much Enjoy your videos I have now built 4 multi-rotors and each one I go back to your series :-), perhaps I missed it but I am using cube with RFD900 telemetry / mission planner and a Taranis on all my copters.. the rc radios are d4r2 on the first 2, X8R, and RX8R .. could you point me to a video that would pass telemetry (battery, flight modes and height) to the Taranis? I know there are scrips with additional hardware for the x8r rx8r but was hoping an easy way to simply pass the telemetry to the Taranis - Thanks!

[@Painless360]

Check out the videos in the build series that look at LUA scripts and telemetry. Things like the Flight Deck and Yaapu scripts... Happy flying

[@pedropicado954]

Hey there Painless! Thank you so much for this tutorial I've done everything you told in here, but my RxBt is always frozen at 4.8. Either with a fresh battery or a used one. Can't seem to solve this. Could it be a bad Rx?

[@Painless360]

Possibly, I'd let the vendor know.. Best of luck!

[@rum028]

Hi! Could you please tell if you have to do something special to make Taranis (i own X7) show "Type" on Telemetry page? I do not have one. Also tried to discover sensor - no luck. I own the KingKong ET115 drone.

[@Painless360]

Not sure what you mean by ‘type’..

[@zachswindler7612]

hey my qx7 is being stupid it won't let me select a switch it has worked fine before now but when I go to inputs and try to put a switch to a chanel I flick the switch nothing and doesn't show them in the list

[@Drewklein7]

Súper helpfull

[@edjackson5910]

Do you have a video on how to set up RSSI or RQLI on a Taranis Q X7, and a 4-in-1 module from a Turnigy TGY-IA6B receiver (AFHDS 2A)? I'm using OpenTX 2.2. Module firmware is version 1.2.1.18, or newer. Thank you.

[@Painless360]

Unless you're using a multi protocol module an Frsky radio won't talk to that reciever at all. How are you doing that bit?

[@edjackson5910]

I have a 4-in-1 IRangeX multi protocol module in a Taranis Q X7. The receiver binds and works fine. I'm interested in learning how to correctly set up RSSI and/or RLQI th show up on the Q. The 4-in-1 module should have version 1.2.1.18 or later firmware flashed on it to get RLQI. Thank you for your time. Ed

[@Painless360]

I've not tried to setup RSSI using the module - if you figure it out, please let me know..

[@fabvelloso]

For this procedure you need to update the receiver? I have XM Plus. Can activate a voice alarm for RSSI when 45 db? Tx

[@Painless360]

That reciever doesn't have telemetry.. that may be the problem. Best of luck!

[@fabvelloso]

@@Painless360Telemetry only on OSD?

[@Painless360]

Yep, see my build series..

[@ladraode9dedos409]

Thank you so much.

[@robertperkat9508]

Hay Painless360, great video. I tryed to get RSSI and receiver voltage from my L9R receiver, but when I go to discover new sensors, it doesn't find them. Whay is that? L9R has RSSI.

[@matthiasweber6341]

Same problem here, did you figure it out?

[@h3lldiv3r]

Do you know a frsky mini receiver that will fit on a 250 size quad and do this too?

[@Painless360]

+h3lldiv3r you need one that supports telemetry. I think the smallest is www.frsky-rc.com/product/r-xsr/

[@DeanChapmanFPV]

Really struggling with getting the right value 99 in my osd mine reads at 9 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@jaykay2349]

nice video, thanks for that

[@RosscoStixFpV]

I have a qx7 and for some reason it's only going to page 9 how can I get to the telemetry?

[@Painless360]

Pressing the page button should get you to cycle through the available tabs. What version of Opentx do you have?

[@RosscoStixFpV]

@@Painless360 2.2.2 it's my first time trying to update firmware on any of my gear and I'm having no luck

[@Painless360]

So, did it used to work then?

[@RosscoStixFpV]

@@Painless360 I've never really messed with the radio before other than upgrading my gimbals, it's all working now I found the page also needed to rebind my quads with telemetry on, had to watch parts of your vid again just to make sure. Cheers 👍

[@RosscoStixFpV]

@@Painless360 I have one more question, what do I have to do to get audio alerts for rssi?

[@dronepilot1333]

My Taranis X7 could not discover new sensors from L9R. Please help

[@Painless360]

I don't have those recievers here, sorry..

[@micks24h]

hello everyone, on my Teranis q7S I cant set up low/high rates in mixer. any help please

[@Painless360]

Please see my OpenTX video school playlist.. best of luck

[@micks24h]

@@Painless360 Hi I did. And seems to me nothing works, unless I setup low and high rate in inputs as well. Which shouldn't be a case. Setting up this in mixer only doesn't work for me. Ant advice on this please. I'm on also on latest Fw version and bootloader

[@Painless360]

What version of OpenTX is giving us problems?

[@theBugfisch123]

how do i set an alarm? or is it configurated by default?

[@Painless360]

Nope, see the 'OpenTX Mix School' and 'Introduction to Taranis' for lots of extra tips and tricks with telemetry..

[@theBugfisch123]

Painless360 allright, thank you

[@mattmatt5088]

Why i haven't got RSSI? 4:00

[@Painless360]

Not all receivers have RSSI, the cheaper ones don't...

[@mattmatt5088]

@@Painless360 I 've got Frysky , soo what i have to do?

[@Painless360]

No idea, I don't use a lot of FlySky.. Best of luck!

[@haythamfpv]

mine doesn't find any sensors

[@benjien2007]

can this bind to dsmx/dsm2

[@Painless360]

If you have a DSM comparable module in the bay at the back - yes. See the videos in the main Taranis series for more details. Best of luck!

[@h3lldiv3r]

I tried to do this with my xsr, but nothing is discovered. Anyone else have a simillar issue?

[@tomwronski1897]

My telemetry screen looks different. I am having problems with A2 readings.

[@Painless360]

+Tom Wronski chiquito offer any advice without a lot more detail. Best of luck

[@tomwronski1897]

Got it working after lots of youtube. Working perfect now!

[@Painless360]

Glad it's fixed! Happy flying!

[@kouvasilias123]

My source is null and I can't not see any sensors

[@Painless360]

If that is actually a request for some help then please watch kzbin.info/www/bejne/pZ2sooefiK97f7s and come back to me with more detail of what you've tried..

[@johnnywall2247]

Hey painless long time watcher first time caller. 😂 I'm having a problem with my KISS FC. If you don't mind could you help me out. Please and Thank you. Check out my video I posted on my channel. It's the only video I have.

[@Painless360]

Hello to Jason Issacs! If you're testing on the bench then I have a video on that. Google something like 'painless360 motor change' and you should find it. Best of luck!

[@johnnywall2247]

Painless360 yes I watch that video but my problem is different. When I put my props back on my quad yaws to the moon. And it's cause when I look at it on the bench my motor 4 goes up and my motor 2 goes down.

[@Painless360]

+Johnny Wall sounds like you have a motor turning in the wrong direction if the model stays still in the GUI (showing the yaw gyro is ok)..

[@johnnywall2247]

Painless360 no my motors are going in the right direction I checked them. Yesterday I deconstructed the quad and put it all back together. I put props on it today to see if it was just showing the issue just in the GUI like you said but it's not. Again after giving the quad a little throttle the quad shoot up and started to yaw at the same time. Please help me out.