Beta flight not showing input on controller | Drone Community | Page 1

harsh rover Sep 21, 2023, 3:27 AM

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Hey, new fpv pilot here. I tried wiring my receiver onto my fpv drone but on beta flight there is no input being shown
My controller is bound to the receiver
Fs-i6 transmitter and a FS-ia6 receiver

peak bridge Sep 21, 2023, 3:42 AM

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harsh rover Hey, new fpv pilot here. I tried wiring my receiver onto my fpv drone but on bet...

What BF version?

harsh rover Sep 21, 2023, 3:43 AM

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peak bridge What BF version?

It's the latest version

peak bridge Sep 21, 2023, 3:43 AM

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Wait, ia6?

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You mean ia6b?

harsh rover Sep 21, 2023, 3:43 AM

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10.9.0

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Not the b variant

peak bridge Sep 21, 2023, 3:43 AM

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harsh rover 10.9.0

That's Betaflight Configurator, not Betaflight.

harsh rover Sep 21, 2023, 3:44 AM

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Oh, sorry not the knowledgeable on this stuff

peak bridge Sep 21, 2023, 3:44 AM

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harsh rover Not the b variant

How would that work? That receiver outputs only PWM.

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How did you wire it up and to what FC?

harsh rover Sep 21, 2023, 3:44 AM

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Wait so would that not work with the controller or flight controller?

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F411evo

peak bridge Sep 21, 2023, 3:44 AM

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FC

harsh rover Sep 21, 2023, 3:45 AM

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F411evo

peak bridge Sep 21, 2023, 3:45 AM

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I was answering your q

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Anyway, the ia6 doesn't output anything useful for a modern FC

harsh rover Sep 21, 2023, 3:45 AM

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I bought a FS-A8S

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Is that of any use?

peak bridge Sep 21, 2023, 3:46 AM

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It's only got per channel PWM, like for driving servos and shit.

peak bridge Sep 21, 2023, 3:46 AM

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harsh rover I bought a FS-A8S

Oof...

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Technically yes

harsh rover Sep 21, 2023, 3:46 AM

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I mean I can cancel it

peak bridge Sep 21, 2023, 3:46 AM

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But that thing is exceptionally unreliable

harsh rover Sep 21, 2023, 3:46 AM

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Literally bought it 10 min ago

peak bridge Sep 21, 2023, 3:46 AM

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Why did you end up with flysky stuff anyway?

harsh rover Sep 21, 2023, 3:46 AM

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I was going to get a f14+ but it's shipping was 3 weeks

harsh rover Sep 21, 2023, 3:47 AM

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peak bridge Why did you end up with flysky stuff anyway?

Bought the drone used

peak bridge Sep 21, 2023, 3:47 AM

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I see.

harsh rover Sep 21, 2023, 3:48 AM

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Is the a8s good for a bit until I upgrade to F14+?

peak bridge Sep 21, 2023, 3:48 AM

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Maybe, I don't like the 14 either xD

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Flysky receiver are either huge or crap

harsh rover Sep 21, 2023, 3:49 AM

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Bruh lol what should I go with then

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Receiver

peak bridge Sep 21, 2023, 3:49 AM

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What size drone?

harsh rover Sep 21, 2023, 3:49 AM

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4"

peak bridge Sep 21, 2023, 3:49 AM

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Well, that kinda limits you to the crap ones

harsh rover Sep 21, 2023, 3:50 AM

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Crappy is better than nothing

peak bridge Sep 21, 2023, 3:50 AM

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Generally, X6B is good, but it's half the size of a 30x30 fc

harsh rover Sep 21, 2023, 3:51 AM

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Hmm okay, 3 week shipping fun.

peak bridge Sep 21, 2023, 3:51 AM

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just switch to elrs already

harsh rover Sep 21, 2023, 3:51 AM

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Are you sure there's no way the FS-ia6 will work? Just wanna make sure that my wiring isn't the problem

harsh rover Sep 21, 2023, 3:53 AM

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peak bridge *just switch to elrs already*

What's elrs?

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I've never tinkered with drones before so I'm new to this.

peak bridge Sep 21, 2023, 4:00 AM

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harsh rover Are you sure there's no way the FS-ia6 will work? Just wanna make sure that my w...

Well, the ia6 can be hacked to output a pseudo IBUS signal

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But I can't give any guarantees about thaz

harsh rover Sep 21, 2023, 4:01 AM

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How would I do that

peak bridge Sep 21, 2023, 4:01 AM

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How did you wire it up anyway? There shouldn't be any wiring that makes sense.

harsh rover Sep 21, 2023, 4:01 AM

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Positive, negative, rx

peak bridge Sep 21, 2023, 4:02 AM

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But the ia6 has a bunch of outputs?

harsh rover Sep 21, 2023, 4:02 AM

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Uhhhh idk I literally put it in ch1-6 and the b/vcc

peak bridge Sep 21, 2023, 4:02 AM

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Send pic

harsh rover Sep 21, 2023, 4:03 AM

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That probably looks wack

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I plugged the "thing" into the "thingy"

peak bridge Sep 21, 2023, 4:05 AM

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Unfortunately there are many thingies and none of them output a serial or combined signal

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Soo, the hack... sec

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That pin on that chip outputs an almost IBUS signal that a FC should be able to deal with

harsh rover Sep 21, 2023, 4:08 AM

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peak bridge That pin on that chip outputs an almost IBUS signal that a FC should be able to ...

So I wire that into RX?

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And positive, negative will be fine on the channel thing?

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So that it can have power

peak bridge Sep 21, 2023, 4:09 AM

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Yup

harsh rover Sep 21, 2023, 4:10 AM

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Alright, gonna do that rn then.

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@peak bridge this looks terrible

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peak bridge Sep 21, 2023, 4:25 AM

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that is terrible

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and you've shorted it to the nearby pins

harsh rover Sep 21, 2023, 4:26 AM

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W

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I'm going to try and fix it

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Looks better I guess, isn't touching the other pins.

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peak bridge Sep 21, 2023, 4:31 AM

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If you have a multimeter, check for shorts

harsh rover Sep 21, 2023, 4:31 AM

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It ain't showing input

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OMG

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@peak bridge it works

peak bridge Sep 21, 2023, 4:34 AM

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Cool

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Do you know how to check failsafe?

harsh rover Sep 21, 2023, 4:34 AM

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Nope

peak bridge Sep 21, 2023, 4:34 AM

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Oook

harsh rover Sep 21, 2023, 4:35 AM

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peak bridge Oook

How do I check that the controller will turn on motors

peak bridge Sep 21, 2023, 4:35 AM

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That comes later.

harsh rover Sep 21, 2023, 4:35 AM

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Sounds good

peak bridge Sep 21, 2023, 4:36 AM

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First you need to make sure that it can tell the FC when it loses signal

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#1151629129863663756 message

harsh rover Sep 21, 2023, 4:36 AM

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Is that through the controller or configurator

peak bridge Sep 21, 2023, 4:36 AM

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I wrote it up here

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Both

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It's a IBUS specific issue

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Imma have to go now

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You want to set up an arming switch

harsh rover Sep 21, 2023, 4:37 AM

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Okay thanks, I'll look throught that, also should I still get a receiver?

peak bridge Sep 21, 2023, 4:37 AM

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To arm the drone

harsh rover Sep 21, 2023, 4:37 AM

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Or is this diy receiver fine.

peak bridge Sep 21, 2023, 4:37 AM

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It will only arm after disconnecting usb and power cycling it btw

harsh rover Sep 21, 2023, 4:38 AM

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Alright sounds good, thanks for the help! See ya

peak bridge Sep 21, 2023, 5:34 AM

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@harsh rover I'm online again, anything you're stuck at?

harsh rover Sep 21, 2023, 5:35 AM

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peak bridge <@792179600947413002> I'm online again, anything you're stuck at?

Got failsafe set up, battery died but prior to that when I tried arming it. Just kept beeping

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The motor was also twitching but not spinning

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