I'm flashing BlueJay to all my BLHeli S ESC's and you should too 

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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!

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.

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!!!!!!

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.

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

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

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! 🙂

This is why I follow the channel, awesome!

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

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.

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

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

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!! 🙌

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

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

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

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

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

Amazing, can't wait to try this out.

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

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.

Thanks for the run down on this!

Thanks JB. This was very easy to follow.

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

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)

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

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

Again, really useful information here!

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

thanks for sharing the information

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

Plus Pacman on my startup 😍

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Excellent and timely

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

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

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!

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

Ok you made me LOL with the melody thing :D

Doing this right now. Awesome

Thanks!

Thank you so much again!!

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...

Your T-Shirt closet!!!!!

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!

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

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 👍

This video helped me!

Awesome video josh

Thanks Joshua

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.

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

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

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

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! 😉

👍💪thanks for great info

Danke!

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.

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

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.

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

Bluejay for the win. Good stuff JB #StayPhly

LEARNING LEARNING SO SO MUCH MUCH

You are the best

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.

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

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 🙏🏾

THX :D

I put this on my babytooth months back. Trips me out every time I plug in due to the diff tones lol.

Dont know how to thank you Joshua!

we lower the timing when the motor de-syncs. too low of a timing for a motor, will cause your motor to heat up. only touch if you have de-sync issues.

I licensed JESC for all my BL_HeliS escs because i wanted to support joelucid for this innovation. One someone does it it is easy for others to do the same. But someone has to start. He also brought F3 FCs back to life with betaflight F3 performance edition, which he hand-compiled with love up to BF41 including RPM filtering. The alternative would have been $30-$40 per quad to upgrade to F4 and BL_Heli32 - or to go without RPM filtering on old quads.

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

Not even gonna lie, the start-up tones are the best part of the video.

Hi JB, many thanks for all your vids so helpful, Just thought I would share my experience with flashing Bluejay on the DarwinFPV Baby Ape Pro (Target S-H-50), Ver0.16 bricked ESC No3, Blhelisuite would not help flash failed, Tried re-flashing Bluejay 0.16 Just hangs so still no luck And I don't have Arduino ;O As last resort tried flashing Bluejay Ver0.15 all 4 esc talks to Configurators but No3 still sometimes but not all the time comes up as not recognised or unknown? on V0.15 in betaflight motors tab I can now spin all 4 motors again....not sure if it will fall out of the sky on maiden flight though? JB did you BlueJay your Baby Ape yet?

THANK GOD ! I have no broken quads right now, everything is already flashed to BF 10.3 RC2, flashed to ELRS v2, I needed something else to do to them while its to cold to fly, this is perfect :)

I flashed my 5" to BlueJay a few days ago. I just can't remember now if I checked to see if they spun up in BF or if the quad would arm. I thought I had done all that. Anyway, now the motors won't spin up in BF nor will they arm. They just click when I raise the throttle in BF. I get the standard ESC tones when it plugs in, however. . It bears mentioning that I flew this quad on Sunday 1/9/2022 prior to this change. It took a crash and a couple motors, the USB port and a portion of the FC got pretty caked with mud. But after spending time cleaning it, everything worked fine. I just wish I could remember if I tested everything after flashing it with Bluejay. Bi-directional D-Shot is enabled. They are older 2205/2600KV motors. The ESCs are older DYS XSD 30A external and there is no option for Min and Max startup. Unless that is just for whoop sized quads. The FC has a radio link to the TX because everything works in the Rx and Modes tabs in BF. Is my hardware too old for such a sophisticated change? Should I just go back to BLHeli_S?

Had to go with the Imperial March as my Quad is primarily black. Now should I 3D Print Vader with a Helmet Cam? 🤔

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

That’s my startup sound too… I know how important it is to you JB. . . I know. . .

Bl Heli M working solid for me on S esc

I don't think I'm going to test it out more but I'm pretty sure 96 let's more noise in my video as well.

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?

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

I also found another problem with this firmware, I have flashed it to two quads and have a brand new quad with it on from the manufacturer. One of the quads that I flashed and the new quad both developed low throttle oscillations. I reverted one back to BLHeli S and the problem went away. I am currently trying to tune this our of them!