Your trim switches are useless. Let's fix that. (OpenTX n-position switch from momentary tutorial)
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If you're a multirotor pilot, your trim switches are probably useless. Let's fix that. I'll show you how to turn a momentary switch or a trim switch into an N-position rotary switch, and more!
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0:00 - Introduction
1:11 - Credit where credit is due
1:33 - Disable trim function and audio alerts
2:44 - Set up Mixer with global variable source
4:08 - Set up Special Function to adjust global variable value
6:10 - Incrementing is now working. But we're not done yet.
6:55 - Set up Logical Switch to cycle the GV back to zero
9:16 - Set up Special Function to cycle the GV back to zero
10:14 - Is it working yet? Not quite.
14:15 - One use for this feature: OSD profiles
17:33 - Conclusion
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• Betaflight 4.1 Rate Pr... - Use in-flight adjustments feature to change rate-profiles using the RadioMaster 6-position switch (or any other switch).
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Thank you so much you litterally have a video for everything nowadays
Who says they want you to figure it out first? Point them out, I've already ripped my shirt off. 😂 Love your content and the way you do it. More JB is always a good thing. Love this and I'll be using it.
Great way to add functionality to those trim switches. I combined this with the CLI VTX configuration to switch video channel with the trim switches. Check out JB's video on VTX control on a switch
Love this type of content. I am a huge fan of opentx content. Thanks!
This is awesome. It's making me think of all the switches and knobs on my transmitter that don't currently have a use... Thanks for the vid!
Yeah, I also like seeing the process of working it out. This helps me to understand it better and cut out some steps when I do it but need different parameters than those in the video.
what a great way of setting vtx bands and channel through smart audio!
nice to see that you take something you don't use and come up with a practical function for it!
Wow, this is awesome as I am wanting to use a momentary switch to control the gimbal on my quad rather than the knob. With using the knob I have to take my fingers off the sticks and so cannot perform certain shots. Now I will be able to do it with the momentary switches, left one for up and right one for down. I just had not sat down to figure out how to achieve it and this video saves me the time of working it out.
I was just wondering about these the other day, great video!
VERY Nice, I made some logical switchs to check for ARMED position(s) first & then being a modifier for true OR false...added some Mix(s), and gained SOO much functionality, gr8 stuff!
-Tango 2 user
OK.....*THIS VIDEO* (out of all the help you have provided) is the one that caused me to sign up and become a Patreon. (you are my very first) Good Job!
Oh lord. U saved me. I wanted something like this. Using the two press buttons on my tango to switch vtx channels. Thank you!
Awesome video! I fly fixed wing too, so trims are certainly useful there. :P
Pretty interesting indeed! That can be really useful! 😃
Thanks a lot, Joshua!!!
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Yeah fantastic great,yeah great..stay safe there....far outtttttt
Can't believe I only just found this. I have a Zorro and I feel like I have just found another 4 switches I can use on it. Nice!
The extra trims are very handy for airplane use if you use a gyro. I use the SxR series from FRsky and I assign the T5 trim as my gyro sensitivity. I don't like knobs for this function because when you switch models you will lose the gyro setting. Since T5 is a digital trim it will remember the setting for each model.
Very useful info. I've used this logic to toggle the TX master volume to off, med and high. On a trim it makes sense to just use both directions, but the idea of a momentary / reset is clever.
I've been using a pot for that but this way seems way better!
thanks man such an epic function to use and due to your tutorial I did it first try!!!
Just two words : THANK YOU !!
Thanks for this using to adjust VTX power output
I haven't used Betaflight for about 3 years now but have transitioned over to iNav. In iNav, there are tuning parameters that can be displayed in the OSD and the values can be changed in flight by using the same trim button technic as JB described in the video to change the values of the individual parameters displayed in the OSD.
Nice thats good to know. I have BF on my Drone's now but im putting together an FPV Wing plane with INAV & ELRS so im going to use some sort of FC board.
Are you flying a drone or a plane with the iNav?
This is really great, was going to try adding hardware switches to my Flysky FS-i6X, but using the trims will be so much more versatile!
I can confirm this also works on the FlySky FS-i6x running Open I6X
Googled for that months ago ! I gave up. Glad I learned something today. :D
This is great stuff! Going to be using the momentary buttons on my tango 2 to be changing the LED colors on my drone : )
watching the whole proces is very helpful to understand different options and features you can use and adjust, thx! ¶ :-)
Your way is much more intuitive and immersive as we yell at our screens telling you what you missed 🤣
Okay, this is jus AWESOME!
Joshua, here's a video idea for you:
(On the Radiomaster TX16S) using T5 to change the vTx band, and T6 to change the channel; and then maybe the six buttons for vTx power...oh, oh, then record new sounds that say "Band A", "Band B", "Band E", "Band F", "RaceBand" as you click T5 up and down, and then have it say "Channel 1", "Channel 2", etc., when I click T6 up and down....and "Pit Mode" (maybe?), "25 milliwatt" etc. as you push the six buttons.
THIS IS JUST TOO COOL!!!
This a freaking awesome.
There are many uses for the trim switches in drones . I use the 6 up trim to reset my timer.
When I saw the title I thought some might have been suffering a bug or something, my trims are not useless, I use them on all my 11+ fixed wing craft and on my giant scale rc truck!
New Opentx tutorial? My thumbs-up are first. Then, to the class.
Thanks!
I've had that osd change option setup on my side scroll wheel on my T12 Pro. And yes the osd profile doesn't change in real-time in the configurator.
The trim switch can also be pushed straight in as a switch
DUDE. I never knew this this is amazing
Interesting way to change the function of the trim switches. I just disabled mine for miniquads because I got annoyed with accidentally bumping them.
Thanks Txema Vicente
Thanks Joshua Bardwell
Dude I literally did this yesterday lmao
Can anyone else see the rotor riot title "we used trim switches to fly a quad"
They have a similar video but it was before they became the QVC of FPV.
They did the one with the nes controller, but I want to see a switches only control scheme
You the man!!!
Joshua, if you know of a way to use a USB flight controller (like the T-16000M joystick and throttle) to control different radios like crossfire or whatever, I'd love to see a video about it. Perhaps even making a portable base station that plugs into the DJI analog goggle input and can be put in a pickup or on a trailer for some "immersive" piloting.
Большое спасибо за видео! Действительно очень полезно!
Anyone else always click JB notifications as soon as they come through
Yes!
Same 😁
Me too.. get into trouble at times at work.. but usually worth it lmao..
@@rorycadorette8420 completely understandable!
This is soooooooo cool! Thank you, you know what I’m sick of accidentally hitting my arm switch I’m going to attempt this with arm for safety
Please don't do that. Arm should always be on a switch whose position clearly indicates whether you are disarmed or not.
@@JoshuaBardwell understood thankyou
@@JoshuaBardwell why or what are some of your other channels and in-between mixes added in for on your TX mixes menu list?
I’ve noticed you used Disarm on channel 5 at 100% MAX and your ARM is on some other type channel symbol + circled with -20% MAX on power symbol SF arrow up. That’s not looking normal to me but is your arming and disarming on different mixes? And what’s that at the top of your mixes menu, the 25% S1 SC- ?? What’s that do? I was learning about the symbols some time ago and forgot what they mean. Thank you Joshua
hahha
"The problem is... hmm. I just don't make videos like that."
hahahahhah Genius
you clould not be more honest about that hahah
Grate video! :)
I'm new to RC-racing and EdgeTX and drones
Seeing this video thought me so much of EdgeTX, with all the globals, functions, mixers etc
I finaly start tu understand what this magical black box realy does.
Thanks for sharing ;)
How do you do that, I always find something new interesting on your channel :)
Thanks, that's useful! Can you change OSD profiles in flight?
Yep. Via in-flight adjustments.
Volume control for the Tango2 YESSSSSSS.
Stepping is in plus minus 100 %... Smallest step 1%
So 201 positions possible in maximum
If you increase by 100 and reset to minus 100 you have 3 position switch like a normal flip switch.. Yeah thats cool... Or could be 50 % and a 5 position switch... Cook idea.. And i even got more ideas from that video
Many moons ago you showed how to tune the drift in hover. So with this logic the trim switch could actually be a trim switch(s) on a quad! See There😜 I did learn something...maybe
i use trim switch as prearm button
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Joshua, a trim question. Is it possible to add beeping sounds to TX16 trim slides? I fly wings and cannot tell if i'm adjusting tabs or not while flying FPV
Hi Joshua I have the TX16S and my throttle does not hold calibration that long I don't know if I should take it apart or could it be the firmware?
There is always a tradeoff between power and difficulty, you can do anything, but nothing is simple. Give me power, and I can figure it out (with help).
Joshua Bumwell
🤔🤔🤔 I’m wondering if momentary switch can simulate stick input…ie full roll for the amount of time, that based on rates, needs to have a full 360 degrees roll,
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Hi all, is this possible on frsky qx7? I can't seem to find the global variable page.
Sorry if my question is totally out of the context but in the past you gave me a good advice about flight modes .... Do you prefer airmode or acromode ?? When you fly outside
Air mode always
@@JoshuaBardwell Thanks a lot !!
I was able to do it with my radio master tx but with the radiomaster zorro, when you set up the gv value back to 0 it just stays there. hard to explain but doesn't work on the zorro. this would have made the useless SD button they have, more functional.
i REALLY want that purple radiomaster but theres NONE... I need to buy the max PLUS the purple cnc kit to get that ;(
Well hey ELRS 2.0 now have "Wide" switch function that replaces the 1 bit switch thingy with 7 bit so now you can have 128 positions now. I was wondering why in the hell this doesn't work prior to elrs 2.0 because I was thinking of using my trims as my led cycle switch.
I am already using this for rates on an x-lite. 200 divided by one less than the number of positions for the switch is the best value to use. I also added a second global that gets incremented by 1 so I can have it display so I know which rate I switched to. You made a 3 position switch for example which would be 200 / 2 and that is what you set.
Dang, I would love to have my normal freestyle rates plus a super slow super exo mellow rate that I can do on a switch,
But I don't understand how you did yours?
@@definingslawek4731 it’s similar to how the OSD is switched but you set to change rates instead of OSD. There’s a command line setting for 6 pos switch so you can use all 6 rate profiles. On my larger transmitter I just use the 6 position switch but the smaller transmitter does not have one. The step amount for 6 pos switch should be 40. Use that instead of 100 and you will have a 6 pos switch. You can loop back when you get to the end of the range or have the other direction on the trim switch subtract 40. You can combine looping with the other switch as well if you want both.
i just throught of using this to adjust the power,band and channels of the vtx. Does that sound like it could work?
czcams.com/video/a1_U2v0kAjg/video.html
The values in the radio are +/-100 %. These map to 1000-2000 in Betaflight, so -100 maps to 1000, 0 to 1500, 100 to 2000.
Correct
Can I use this to shoot in velocidrone combat mode!? Might be much easier to hit while flying
I use it to start timer in race mode so yeah, shooting is totally doable. Don't forget to configure the aux channel so it actually vets picked up.
is there a way to print the global variables on the OSD?
I can't think of any way to do this.
@Joshua Bardwell Go back to his instructions, if you increment by 50, and you reset to -50, then your values would be (-50) - 0 - 50
Ohhhhh now I finally get it.
Can this also apply to DJI goggles? Lots of displayed data, battery info etc, followed by all data removed on the screen? I'm still assembling and configuring my kit, yet to fly.
DJI doesn't support OSD profiles.
@@JoshuaBardwell Thanks Joshua, I would not have started this fpv / hobby / journey if it were not for you!
What rf module is that in your tx16s?? I have seen it has two antennas?? Diversity??
It's Ghost
@@JoshuaBardwell thank you.. I thought there is an elrs with two antennas.. Nice video..
Offers a lot of new possible functions... Another 5 or six position switch?? Yepp thats easy
Rates or mixer in a few different steps?? Also possible... Well done josh.. Thumbs up and happy flying.. (how the hell do you fly around your house not crashing toooo often?!?) i love to use that map in lift off.. Grin
idk if its an air unit thing but i cant seem to change the osd profiles at all. even manually. it always displays profile 1 osd even if 3 is active
DJI doesn't support OSD profiles.
@@JoshuaBardwell gotcha. didnt see that anywhere. hopefully that changes. thank you for your reply
It's nice to know I can do this if I ever find the need.
OMG so many ways...
Changing vtx chanal Work too?
czcams.com/video/a1_U2v0kAjg/video.html&ab_channel=JoshuaBardwell
Yeah but I think that's better on a three position switch. If you crash somewhere and video signal is completely gone (but RC signal isn't), you can just throw your switch to 25mW to keep the VTX from burning out without having to check your radio what value it actually is at. Or you could do a non-cycling value with a left and right trim switch so a few pushes to the left puts it at 25mW. But then again, it's easier to flip a switch while flying acro if you notice video range is insufficient.
Me: why do I want this and why did I watch so long 🤔
JB: So you can add OSD switch without using a switch
Me: 🤤 *goes and grabs transmitter*
Can this work on the tango 2?
Yes absolutely.
@@JoshuaBardwell ty...i got it to work!
Couldnt you use this method to reset your rssi feed to be on the trim and reclaim one of your normal 2 or 3 position switches back to normal function??..
Hello Joshua, again a very good video. But I would still have a very special application area that I would also like to see in a tutorial.
Wouldn't it be fantastic to be able to tune the PID on the fly with it? I imagine that you assign P, I and D to the three positions of the SD switch on Tx16S and use the trims to set the respective channel roll, pitch and yaw.
If this could work, it would be an absolute relief for PID tuning.
czcams.com/video/JpnCMLmxme0/video.html
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Anybody else have the global variables screen missing in a Jumper T-Lite?
Edit: Flashed without checking nogvars box, still no screen
Flying tinywoop in angle mode, inside my house i use trim switches.
You can use stick commands for that. JB made a video about it 😆
No I still have a jumper that I still.cant get going.
My Humper T16pro works fine now after I replaced ribbon cables with high quality ones. Even the ones Humper gave us to replace the crap ones was cheap. Just search around you'll find some online. I got mine from a family member that works at a certain place I can't mention where he sourced me Mil grade ribbon cables
@@ChristopherF_1971 Lolz that's how I'm calling the Jumper models from now on: Humper. Or maybe with a Spanish J: 'Ghumper'
@@hofa lol. Yeah they are certainly a troubled radio but will work fine once you get some good quality ribbon cables in her. Unfortunately they are hard to come by these days just keep you eyes out. Good luck
It didn't work.. You should have said for what firmware of radio is that functionality available..
Wait no amber sound packs 🤯🤦♂️
assign min, mid and max audio!!
if you fly planes or heli's you still use trims... 😎
There are six trims on the TX16s I only use 4 for fixed wing how many do you use ?
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