RC Quick Tip: Different Binding Options for the FrSky X8R Receiver 

Your videos are the best rc vids on RU-vid. Concise yet complete, detailed close-ups, good sound, and a pleasant presenter. Learning a lot thanks to your videos.

I spend days trying to find info about receivers some general some specific to the x8r and in this one video you answered all my questions. I wish I found it sooner. These receivers are also helpful for a heli where you want the first few chan to go to a flight controller but still want to be able to control other servos.

This was an awesome video, I'm currently sat looking at my X8R wondering how to get it working. Not any more thanks to you, keep up the good work.

I've been using this receiver in an FPV plane with vector system. It works very well. Vector only uses 4 control surface channels plus a mode channel, so my pan/tilt servos are plugged into the 7th and 8th channels of the receiver. My dilemma now Is that I wonder if I could use an XR4 with sbus on one channel plus the pan/tilt on channels 3+4 with some remapping of channels for the throttle/rudder on the frsky to say channels 9-10? Just thinking out loud...

@Painless360 OMG thank you sir. Been trying to work through this with several year old Blue Falcon (god rest his soul) very good videos and suspected something like this was going on, but had no clue, but was quickly catching on. But you nailed it. If you don't mind I will pass this on too a few flustered folks I have run into (I hope you don't get too pestered, I will remind them of that). This is not an easy thing to get into, and FRsky has not only made it more difficult, I'm sure they will chase away many from this sport.

When binding two receivers; for example, the rx8r and x8r, I suppose I should still use the two jumpers (pins1+2 &3+4) for binding on each receiver, but can I also choose to bind one as no telemetry & channels 9-16 and the other as telemetry & channels 1-8? What if binding both to use ch 9-16 as pwm's, then should I use a "Y" connector to connect the receivers to servo?

Well thanks to your video, I am running jumper r8 on mode 4 (similair to mode 4 of frsky x8r) and it works like a charm, don't know why it's not mentioned in official manual......1-8 Channels on sbus and 9-16 channels (ch9 = ch1 on receiver) on pwm. I am operating two basic tower pro SG90 sevos on channels 9 and 10 (pwm). Although it's working fine means having no issues at least for now, do I need to supply external power to servos ?

Great informative video. 👍 I would like to have seen a slide showing how or where you would connected more than 8 items to those channels. Typically most lights, rc switches and servos etc have the three wires, sig + - so it can be confusing knowing it can be done but how.

I am new to the X8R receiver and can't seem to find any info about antenna orientation is it the same as a spectrum satellite ie. at 90 degrees or should they be oriented parallel?

Very helpfull, thanks. BTW: it works with XR4R too, although not documented !

perfect, thank you!

Quite amazing. I should really give more thought into getting one of these, one of these days. Thx, for the vid! ÷*)

Is this possible to do with the Jumper R8?

This works on a X6R also. Channel 1 PWM port is actually PWM channel 9. Just like a X8R.

I have been looking for this tip to combine my x8r+naza mv1 +storm32gimbal+quanum head tracker but ı still have problem on connecting quanum head tracker to my system becouse it works with ppm

Try doing that with a Spektrash! 😉

Every video I watch from you I get surprised and learn new things, thanks a lot!

What FrSky mode to I need to select on my RadiomasterTx16s to bind my original V8FR receiver, not the version ii.? Is it actually possible to bind this receiver as I have 4 new unused ones?

Can you do the same with the R9? that will be great.

Help! My X9D Plus has been bound to me X8R for a few years, but I have recently tried to bind to an S6R as well. I have updated all firmware on receivers and X9D but now the X8R won't bind and just shows solid green and red LED. The S6R shows a solid green when binding... what have I done wrong???

Hi, I have RX8R and when I connect with autopilot, the signal is not picked up in mission planner when I do the radio calibration. Do you know what is wrong? I did binding like how we normally do and I unplugged all other wires from the receiver, later plugged them into the autopilot. Do you know what I should do?

if i need more outputs than 8 i don't bind a second X8R i use the SBUS out and use an SBUS to PWM converter as they are cheaper than a receiver.

Thanks.

YESSS! I was looking for a way to get more ppm channels out of my *flight controller*. But it just controls flight! No need! This is BRILLIANT!! Now I've got gps / stable flight on a fixed wing AND head tracking gimbals on fpv! EXACTLY what I needed and wasn't even looking. Thanx so much! So glad I follow and watch every tip!

If you bind 2 x8r and your using sbus would you not be able to get 32 channels? And how would that work?

Hi Painless, I'm having trouble binding V8FR to my QX7. in the setup page From what I can make out I need to switch the internal RF mode to D8. I have D16 LR12 and off but no D8. Have I missed some thing ?

Sir , what is the device you Were using to check the x8r . Is it a product of frsky. Could you please share a link ?

Hi Lee, Hope you can help here. Just got a new Taranis X9D and an X8R receiver (didnt like the size of the hourus) anyway, ive been trying to connect my Tarot 280 via the Sbus port without success. Ive tried eu and non-eu firmware, no luck. I have whecked that it is working as I had a spare servo in my aduino kit. Any suggestions? or can you tell me where I can get a dsmx mudule from asap as im keen to take this new quad out for a spin.just for info, Ive tried the sbus on an Omnibus F3 AIO and an Omnibus F4 V3

Hello 360 , what would the pinouts be? By the by great video as always.

Anyone know if if you can do sbus and pwm on the l9r and if its the same process

brother would it be same process for binding r9 receiver i want to use 16 channels. i have bind my receiver by conecting pins 1, 2 and 3,4 and i connected sbus port of r9 receiver to px 4 but im unable to get signals to px 4 only 8 cannels are working on receiver but im unable to get all the signals on px 4 please help me

what is the chanel control device please

Bro can we use l9r with taranis qx7??

Sir can you please advise me on my problem... my S8R receiver is showing solid green light but not showing its connected to the transmitter. I've tried all three of mine and they all do the same.. what's my problem?

hi just bought a frsky X9D-Plus,but not sure on wat rx it will bind to,plz HELP.thx mark.

X8R passible binding to taranis QX7 ??

Do you know if this still works with the new firmware?

Can this be performed on the X6R ?

Hi I'm trying to get a fat shark head tracker to work with a vector system, but run out of channels for the headtracker to work using PWM any chance you could do a video in your vector series showing how to set it up. Cheers Jeff

Hi, i have a problem with this receiver, i use a Taranis qx7 and i bought one of these receivers, but i cant get it bind, i tried everythink but it does not work, i spend hours and hours with it. I even updatet the Taranis with the latest Firmware, i also updatet the R8X no Chance. Then i bought a second receiver, same issue! I am really fed up. Please help. Regards Sam

I do have a question for anybody: has anyone tried to get the firmware file from FRsky lately? There is one but no EU or NonEU differentiation -just one. -I don't see any legacy files either. I think I have a RX with EU ware on it and need to change it.

i buy receiver x8r but range is very low 100meter why? is EU/LBT do I try to change with fcc?

Just in case some one with ACCST V2 come here looking at how to do this. With V2 I was not able to get the bind options to set with jumpers. There is a way to get the jumper bind options to set and use V2 however. Now that multimodule supports both v1 and v2 accst im not sure there is a reason not to be on V2. Here is how you do it. You will need to dl both the old and new firmware from the frsky site. #1 First you have to flash your receiver back to v1 using ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Jwp2Pd_x6I0.html Painless 360 vid how how to flash the receiver. Then bind your receiver with the jumpers and using the frsky protocol on the multi module in your radio. #2 Flash it back to v2 firmware and then change your protocol to frskyx2 with out rebinding. Thats it, you should now have the receiver set for what ever outputs and telemetry options you wanted and be on the ACCST v2.

Who is Jason Isaacs ??