OpenTx Tutorial Flight Modes and Global Variables on Radiomaster TX16s • [Advanced] 

Hello Rc video,, I have a question but first thank you for helping the community with this tutorials 👍🏻👍🏻 excellent,, now my question I’m thinking and getting this radio do you think this will control my WL toys drone and Syma drones???

This is excellent. I feel like this should be the second video you see on OpenTX/EdgeTX - start with the stuff that makes it fun.

Can you please make a flightmode trim video? I like to have a trim mode for when gear is down versus gear up and flight modes would help. I'm coming from spektrum though so I'm confused by this on tx16s and many others are on the forums.

Great video. At the age of 72, wished I had started learning OpenTX sooner. Your videos are a great help in discovering helpful tips to configure my airplanes.

Great video. I just like flying but your videos have really inspired me to understand and use the open tx fully.

Not sure if anyone else has tried this but for I while ive been using speacial functions that use switch postions to overide ch5 (Flight mode ch) by selected values....thats the cool thing with open TX....so many ways to skin a cat...

I need help programming my tx16s for eflight v22 osprey

great video. i am going to try this but using the 3 position switch for my GV rates and expo instead of the 6p

How do I get open tx companion? Your videos are great and help me so much.

Excellent videos on the TX16S. Super helpful, professional, concise, and respectful.

Great videos, very helpful. So far so good! But one of the strongest reasons to use open TX is because it is multi-protocol. Unfortunately, almost nobody addresses this side of the coin. How do you determine whether the protocol you need is supported? How do you determine what protocol your drone is using? How and where do you set up a specific protocol? Perhaps you can put together another video covering this often ignored capability of open TX and the TX16s radio. Thanks for the great work and keep them coming!

Wow, Finally a great video on how to setup flight modes using the 6 position Switch. Works in Edge TX as well. I have been trying to find how to use this switch on my TX16S for a while now. Thank you

Hello Rc video,, I have a question but first thank you for helping the community with this tutorials 👍🏻👍🏻 excellent,, now my question I’m thinking and getting this radio do you think this will control my WL toys drone and Syma drones???

I was following your great tutorial setting up global variables. Have set them exactly like you but on the main page, when pressing 6P button they don't change anything including FM name?

Can anyone tell me what TRSS stands for? When I set it up in widgets it had a value of 51. No idea what it's used for or if I need it. Appreciate any help! Al

How do I set up my TX16S for Futaba FASST recievers..

with the trim function in the flight modes page, could you that with inav? i thought that flight controllers dont like external trim being applied? Thanks

Can I ask how you got the anodised rings around the gambels? Awesome videos by the way

It’s mind blowing! Thanks a lot for all your videos

Great video, I can now see the true power of flight modes!

Pretty dam interesting. I can see why"propeller heads" like this transmitter. Can't see why I would want any other box, when this one is so programmable, and so reasonable in price. Think I will go with OpenTX and not EdgeTx. Edge seems like it's put out by the radio maker to show off some of "it''s" hardware, and not really making the box work better. But then I could be wrong. I think you have moved to Edge, but tell me why in a video.

This is good stuff; I've managed to make a mess of my model templates with all the walkthroughs you're pushing out. This seems like a more simple option as long as I can find the right button in flight.

I love your complete tx16s open tx videos,i have short term memory loss from too many knock outs since i was a kid to yeah too many to list and no i do not fight!but im alwayys returning to you or 2 others ,yoour vids are rthe complete guide in depth and understandable.i really appreceate all the time and effort making these videos,well done ..so here i am again looks like movie night with youn my radio..lol..one day i will learn how to fly better seems like i spend more time setting up my quad n radio!

Wow. Nice video. As a retired computer programmer I am loving my TX16S and have just started digging into it. The Global Variables video was great. I have just started flying and own two Volantex planes. I was wondering how to program flight modes on the TX and this was just the thing. One question though, these planes have stabilization which is turned off in expert mode. I see how to program the flight modes now but can't find anything on turning on and off the stabilization. I'm wondering if it's even a good idea. Thanks. Jerry Chicago.

Another great video, very helpfull, thanks John👍

I was wondering the same thing for the rings, more importantly thanks to your tutorials Open Tx is starting to make sense and is helping to piece together the functions and navigate around the system. I never thought I would get my old head around it, getting there with your help, Cheers

Strange thing happen to me. In the INPUT edit window. When I move the joystick the crosshair doesn't follow the curve. It just goes from left to right in straight line. What's wrong ? In other model that odd doesn't happen. Is this something to do with my aileron differential ?

Is it possible to do, with the push of a button, turn the sticks in the transmitter in the other direction? Suppose I fly in normal mode, left stick moves up a full throttle, right stick down the plane lifts nose and so on. After I press the button the stick mode is reversed, a left stick moves up a zero throttle, a right stick down the plane lowers the nose and so on.

I fly helis, but I can see this transfer to helis quite readily. Great stuff!

👌a perfect description, thnx

Just a quick note John. I followed your video and did the whole modification within EdgeTX Companion 2.8.4 with no issues. Since it is 2 years since you posted this video and the fact that you were then using OpenTX, it appears that the previous problems within Companion have been resolved. Thanks for your great videos.

Hi. I am wondering if with the new wave of transmitters in the market someone has set openTX v 2.3.10 for a heli with this features: nitro, CCPM 120 (requires command directly to the servos, not thru gyro), expos and throttle trim on. For now, I was able to adapt CCPM configuration for the Taranis (that is in the OpenTx university) in a MiniTitan, but I think there are still some missing issues to fully exploit the new transmitter, the way a simple Futaba 7C can be configured to fulfill the configuration of a nitro heli as described above.

These are the best tutorials! Thanks

Nice! Just got my TX16 MK II. Been using Open TX and Edge TX on other radios before, but just with copters which are mostly configured in the FC. For fixed wing, I was still using Spektrum. Now I have to learn that part too. I must say, it is a littler more fiddly, but there are much more options.

Hello, I am a fan of your RU-vid channel. Already seen several videos about the rc transmitter Radiomaster TX16s. But now I have a question about the binding of a small drone of which I do not know the 2.4 protocol. How can I find out or how can the bond be established? Kind regards, Casper van Beek

I tried this flight modes with global variables GV1 and GV2, but it conflicts with the RAM (rudder/aileron mix) which you showed us on one of your previous videos where you used GV1 for RAM (mix) and controlled with the RS slider.

OpenTX is quite advanced and powerful. I enjoy watching your videos and i have preordered a TX16S. Now we need you to do a helicopter setup video for flybarless - i use MSH Brain/iKON gyros. I have already made pictures of my fleet and custom splash-screen. Keep up the good work.

Bought TX16s. Without your tutorials, I would not know how to do anything with it. The user manual just is not enough. Using OpenTx after using proprietary radios is akin to switching fro Windows to Linux. Your videos are invaluable Many thanks,

I kinda just skimmed though this video because in the fbl units I use on helicopters fm’s are already in the software and much easier to setup but this is surely valuable information.

Hi there, your videos are extremely useful for setting my radio up, the learning curve was quite steep but now its all getting quite straight forward. One question though, none of my models have control surface weights that are equal in both directions eg aileron differential, I have set them up in the Outputs section to be that way. How can I incorporate those settings into what you have shown in this video? Thanks!

Excellent video!

My god this is too advance.

Thank you for your broad answer! I‘ll try that and will give you an answer.

A apriciate your very professional videos a lot. But I have a question that seems not being answered in another video: I have a switch for deactivation of my Gyro. That switch activates also a flight mode. With that flight mode I change the Expo in the mixer. So far so good. When I added a switch for dual rates (in Inputs) I got the problem that 70% weight in the Input Leads to just 59% in the Output. Because the Expo curve ist just ´cutted´. Do you understand and could you please give my a suggestion? That would be great!

had to watch it twice, but makes perfect sense. thank you so much! can't wait for weather to improve to try these things out ;)

Thanks for sharing, I need to learn much as I can about OpenTX...cheers! 🤠👍

John, I am using three flight modes assigned to switch SE with two GV (1 and 2) for weight and expo, very similar to what you showed us in your video. My plane is capable of using flaperons because it has two servos in the wing, so I also programmed that function using switch SB, so I can choose any combination of flight mode with flaps position. The question is, how can be added another GV to simplify the adjustments of the weight in the flaps for the usual positions: flaps up (no mixing necessary), flaps down (about 15°) and flaps down (about 25°)? Regards

Hi John, Thanks for your support: Flight modes control with the 6 pos. switch proves much better than the logic switch approach you made in the past. Strong point is the minimum and maximum value setting. I build now for each plane a 6pos program. And it becomes nearly imposable to create a situation in which one channel does not operate in a certain mode or switch setting First I used two 3 position switches to control logic switches which control the Fly modes. In a certain switch position elevator did not operate. But I found it in the simulator. Thumbs up for the Open TX / Companion developers. By the way I made my first Github wondering around. After machine languages 8085 processor Abt and mini Abt, MSDOS 3.2 and follow ups I am probably left to long out of the programming business. Last remark it could be helpful for the newbie’s to guide them through your video OpenTX/Compagnion tutorials by giving each video tutorial a number. Some newbie’s ask themselves now: was buying an OpenTX transmitter the right choice for me? Greetings Guus

Great Video. Thanks. I've been using modes on my Spekky radio and am about to program a sail plane into my JumperT16, and I wanted to used to use flight modes. I was confused about what Mode0 meant, but if I understood your video correctly, Mode0 is the default/fall-back mode if no flight mode is defined by the current switch position(s). So, you'd probably setup up Mode0 to be a middle of the road mode (depending on how one was using modes), right? I think that I know the answer to this but I'll ask anyway. In each mode, the trim setting are set and stored, totally independent of the trim settings in the other modes (unless you chose 'add trims to Mode_ trims.'), right?

Hi there, firstly thank you very much for your very informative tutorials, I've found a couple in your playlist which have taught me stuff I needed to know, so my question is this, I have a runcam split in the long range 7 inch quad which uses 3 switches to take advantage of all the functionality of the device (One switch for wifi on/off, one switch to change the modes and one switch to start stop recording, and these all have a use when paging and selecting various things off the OSD Menu) myi'm also using a TBS Micro RX (Only have 12 channels), however, the limitation isn't the Recieved, its that the radiomaster 16S only have a limited amount of 2/3 position switches which I already use all of for the various peripherals and modes like GPS Rescue etc, Lost model buzzer etc .... is there a way I can create 3 custom logical switches to use as the switching for the runcam split??

John, great, great video. At time 18:23 appears briefly the Logical switch screen, do you use it? Regards

Excellent

Bloody H*ll.... Love your easy to understand explanations... Will be doing this from now on. BTW... A question. I set up an Eachine Mini Mustang on the internal Module and it works. The problem is that with only 30% stick throws I get full deflection of the control surfaces. How do I change the radio setup to give me full deflection with 100% stick throws.

Excellent and helpful video.

Hi John, Umm, random question, completely unrelated to this video topic, but I keep meaning to ask. Do you own a Jumper T16? If you do, can you see if the whole rear panel of the T16 pro will fit on the back of the Radiomaster TX16S please. I'm asking as I wonder if it would fit as I'd like to get rid of those big grips that the TX16S has on the back panel. I know it won't be a direct fit because of the SD card socket cut outs and I/O pins on the TX16S that the T16 doesn't have, but I could cut those holes / slots if it will fit otherwise.

Brilliant video series.

I figured out how to adjust your GV in only one flight mode. I set up a logical switch for the flight mode that I want to be able to adjust. Then the special function to adjust the GV works off that logical switch, not ON. This will only work for adjustments to one flight mode, but it means I can tweak my offset for my glider elevator in take off mode, but when I go back to cruise it’s right where I left it. I guess if you used a different physical pot for each adjustment then you could have it work in multiple modes too.

Good video. Can you use stick position to change flight modes. If so could you do a video to show that? Thank you.