Hi Darren, I have a query I know you will be able to help me with!! During set up , if I go to say aileron1 below the Centre/subtrim there is PPM Centre ------ 1500us. I have found if I click on this I could set servo centre . Is this good or bad rather than setting Centre/Subtrim because I don't know !!!!! Ali. PS,I really like your instruction using ETHOS !!
Hi Ali. The two functions are similar, but work in different ways. If you use the centre/subtrim. This will move the central point. But it will keep the servo movement within the set range (-988us to 2012us by default). The trim buttons move the centre/subtrim. On the other hand, adjusting the servo centre shifts the entire pulse width of the servo. For example, if we set the servo centre to 1550us. This also moves the minimum and maximum pulses up by 50. So 1038us to 2062us respectively. In most cases, you're better off just using the cerntre/subtrim.
watched this and I can use the throttle cut when a physical switch is used as active condition. I’ve now made a logical switch that sticks on when a momentary switch and ele down are pulled. When I substitute this (LS 5) for the physical switch, and LS5 is off, the throttle still responds to the stick. Confused I am.
Love your videos, my and my son who is 12 are starting this hobby. I love the idea of a demo plane, would you be kimd enough to tell we where to get the files so i can either laser cut or 3D print it.
Hi Darren, really like your channel and how you make it easy to use the x20, would it be possible to do an episode on how to set up head traking on the x20, I have some eachine ev 300o goggles and struggling g to get the inbuilt ht to work. I would be really grateful. Cheers
Thank you. I’ve recently set this up on my FW-190 with pan, tilt, and lean. Unfortunately I’ve not flown with it yet as the VTx is complete garbage. But, I can go through the setup that I’ve used. Sorry, I thought I replied to this comment the other day.
Thanks. That will be coming. The S8R will be soon, as I’m setting that up for my SBach. But I do plan on getting an SR10 Pro in the future; so can show that then.
Congratulations for your tutorials, very clear and precise in explaining all the functions of this fantastic radio. I come from the world of OpenTx and Edge, with this new ETHOS system a new world has opened up to me thanks to you. I recently subscribed to your channel and I'm at a good level thanks to your published tutorials. I have a FrSky Tandem X18 and it is more or less similar to the X20. I would like to better understand how best to set in case of Failsafe, in the sense that if I do long range I would like to be warned of the radio signal that is about to lose the signal level by warning me with my voice. Did you happen to make a tutorial for this as well? Thank you in advance.😃
Thank you. It’s something I had in mind for a long time, but took a while to get right. But I’m pleased it works. It should make demonstrations much easier, where it all fits on screen.
@@kitchenstrand I use it all the time on my FPV models. They are a lot more complex setups than my LOS planes. So it's much easier to clone them and update what I need to.
I’ve done it the other way around. But switching the master and slave would cause no problem. It could even be easier with the ETHOS transmitter as the master.
Thank you Darren. I'm relatively new to these digital programming formats and your simple to follow tutorials make it actually enjoyable to follow/work out and learn from. Love your spit setup plane...I would would buy one off you straight away if you sold them (Marketing/sales potential. Could even have a simple ply stand for it/Spit banking in flight kinda thing ;) ) . Thank a bunch for sharing your knowledge and skills. Cheers Marc
Thanks Marc. I'm glad the videos are helping you get everything set up. I get quite a few compliments on the demo Spitfire. It really helps me in the videos. But it was a bit of a pain to get the control surfaces setup. Hope you have a great weekend.
Hello Darren, I have been using OpenTX for years, and thought that the Ethos is actually not really helping me in setting up my planes. Anyway, having gone through the series of the very intuitive videos your presented us with, and relearned my rhinkinf, I am beginning to appreciate the Ethos programming dynamics. Thank you sincerely for enlightening the community with all your efforts, much appreciated. Alex Ontario, Canada
You're welcome Alex. I'm glad I could help. Yes, some parts of ETHOS are pretty similar to OpenTX. Hardly surprising when they same guy wrote both. But other aspects are very different. It's like Bertrand is doing what he would do if he could write OpenTX from scratch, with all the lessons he learnt along the way. I can only see ETHOS going from strength to strength.
No Gregg, it is for FrSky receivers only. Potentially you could using a multi protocol module. But, it would need to connect via ppm and be able to be setup on the module its self. I don’t know of any that can do that.
Hi Darren. I had a bit of a tricky situation but I’m trying to back myself out of it. Still setting up the f14. It was going really well, shifted they gyro channels away from 9 and 10. But I think I accidentally entered the blue light mode. Right now I have really limited movement in surfaces possibly caused by this. How do I re enter this mode as I’ve read it’s a way to get full range of surfaces. I’ve tried setting Channel 12 to a 3ps and toggling multiple times but still no luck. Thanks for all your help.
Hi Ant, First, you don’t move the gain and modes away from channels 9 and 10. You reassign the pins on the receiver to be other channels, such as 13 and 14. Channels 9 to 12 should be left for the stabilisation functions. The limited movement is likely from a self check with no stick movements, or while in low rates. For the self check not working, have you looked at that section in the video. The switch delay was what solved it for me.
@@MrD thanks a lot for all the info. Your vid fixed my calibration issue and now all surfaces are working well. I also realised that having two aileron channels, means that Channel 5 is aileron 2. I think the missing board causes some issues on the F14 as the tail is pretty much a aileron and elevator. The wing aileron are two separate channels so I have 3. I’ll work around it though and I appreciate it’s one of the more complex set ups. Setting up these receivers on other jets are a breeze thanks to your help so again, thank you.
Yeah, the F14 is a strange setup. On the real thing, they hardly ever use the wing ailerons, only at slow speeds. Most of the time it uses the tailerons. Unfortunately basic stabilisers don’t have the ability to do complex mixing. But good luck and I hope you get it flying great.
Hi Darren, I've been using your videos as my main "learning ETHOS tool" and they've been a huge help to me so far. One question with regards to throttle cut...Is it possible to set things up so that it takes two switches to be flipped before throttle will become armed? Sort of a "pre-arm" switch and a "final arm" switch. With FPV quads I always utilize a pre-arm and arm switch in Betaflight and would like to do the same in ETHOS to prevent any accidental "bump" of the transmitter causing an unsafe spin-up of the prop. Thank you!
Sure. You would just need to use a logical switch. Make an AND switch, which is active when both your arm switches are in in the armed position. Then use the inverted logical switch to activate the throttle cut. Long press on the throttle cut switch to set it to inverted. You could use on of the momentary switches too. So that you would need to hold the momentary switch in, while moving the main arm switch. To do that, set up the momentary and arm switch in the AND logical switch. Then add a second, STICKY, logical switch. This should be activated by the AND logical switch, and deactivated by putting the main arm switch in the disarm position. Use the STICKY for the throttle cut, again inverted.
@@MrD Excellent, thanks so much Darren. Do you have a video on logical switches or is it easy enough to dive into the manual to figure out? (Sorry but I'm a total newbie with ETHOS and have never used Open TX either.) Thanks!
Hello Mr Darren..thanks for your help. it is my first time I got such a TX (X20S) and I am very pleased to have it. (I had a futaba FF9 but after 18 years of good working it dies.) I follow your very simple and formative video (I made a little demo plane as yours)and every thing works O.K. with one exception the electrical motor does not work. I tried hard but does not work at all. Please I would be thankful if you will give me a solution. I am not young and very used to such a "computerise "TX but I really want to mess with the new tech. I use the ARCHER SR6 RX . Thanks in advance for helping me yours FANIS .
Hi Fanis, thank you for you comments. Unfortunately it is difficult to work out what is wrong without seeing things such as the mixer. All I can suggest is to look at the mixer for the throttle. Go to the bottom of that screen. At the bottom you have bar for the channel output. Does this move if you move the throttle? If it does, the radio side is fine, and it could be the ESC side. If the bar does not move, look to the right and you see the curve display. If you move the throttle, does the red line stay diagonal from bottom left to top right, or does it move flat along the bottom? If it's flat along the bottom, you have a throttle cut set. You can change these settings higher up on the throttle mixer page. If the line is bottom left to top right, you may not have an output channel set up. Look at Output 1. If it is set to ---, you need to set it to the throttle channel. That would be Channel 3 if you are using AETR ordering. I hope this helps Fanis.
@@MrD Thank you so much for your quick replay and help. I think the problem is indeed in the ESC, because i checked all that you told me about in the Tx and it works. Maybe the ESC isn't compatible with the Tx or the receiver i don't know, i emailed FrSky for it. I hope they replay soon. Fanis
@@MrD Hello Mr. D, at last I found the problem it was a damn faulty switch. Now everything is fine. Thank you so much for your replay and for your willingness to help. Your videos are really good and easy to understand. Keep on the good work!
Hi Darren. Bound the SR8 PRO previously for my model according you illustrative video and al worked fine. Somehow, after a problem with the X20 transmitter (I shut down transmitter, while receiver was still on (override)). Thereafter, upon restart the transmitter and switch on battery for receiver, the receiver was not binded anymore. Followed your binding instruction again and again, but no success. The receiver led stays red and no binding. Thus did I blew it all up, or something else ? Hope you recognize this problem. Greets, Ron
Maybe an error on the standard SD card which came with the transmitter. I' ve read that better quality SD cards are recommended. After the override and booting up the transmitter I got the error message Invalid model data. I had only one model in my transmitter. HoweverI think I will create a new model for my plane and see what happens then.
It may be worthwhile opening an issue on the ETHOS GitHub. It sounds like something has possibly corrupted on the model file. The developers can take a look at the file and learn from it. Yes, it would probably be worth replacing the standard MicroSD card. I’ve put a Samsung Evo Pro Endurance in mine, and it’s been great. It even seems faster connecting to windows than the old MicroSD card.
@@MrD Thanks Darren, I will order new SD. Today tried it all over again. Deleted my models, setup a new one, registered/bind the SR8 Pro again. Calibrated, set all stabilisation mixers, connected the servos and it worked.... for a while. All of a sudden I had no servo outputs, only a small out put on the rudder servo. The others were dead. No error messages now. Frustrated did it all over again, no result. It looks like my transmitter is failing. I am loosing my trust on the X20 now. Will file a support ticket indeed to see if it it the software (hope it's not the hardware)
Don’t loose faith. Unfortunately sometimes equipment is bad, especially when it is mass produces. Even Ferraris can have problems. Try the new SD card. Also, make sure that the RF firmware is the latest on the transmitter and receive. If there is a hardware problem, I’m sure it can be resolved through your vendor and support that way. Do you have any other receivers. That way it could at least be narrowed down to a transmitter or receiver issue.
So they are elevons. If you check out my latest video. I show how to set up elevons on the SR6. This is only the mixer and stabilisation part. The modes, gain, and self check are in another video with the links in the description. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gQuf0xMdEuk.html