ER6G and ER6GV take long time to connect | ExpressLRS Community | Page 1

drifting needle Jun 21, 2025, 11:07 AM

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Hi,

i have ER4, ER6G, ER6GV and ER8 receivers and use them with ELRS 3.5.3. I failsaved them all to make them save their init rate, so they would connect faster. For some reason this only worked with the ER4 and the ER8. The ER6G and ER6GV still took a very long time to connect. Sometimes even longer than 60s, so they would go in wifi mode and i had to power cycle them to try again.

Now with the change of saving the init rate on connect instead of disconnect in ELRS 3.5.6 I hoped that would solve the problem, so i flashed 3.5.6 to my ER6GV but it still takes a long time to connect.

I use the same setting with all of them (100Hz full, 1:32, 8ch mode, dynamic power, LBT).

Is there something different with the G(V) line of receivers?

wise quest Jun 21, 2025, 6:55 PM

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How close are receiver and radio when connecting?

late patrol Jun 21, 2025, 10:14 PM

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That is not how you set the init rate

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https://www.expresslrs.org/info/init-rate/

Init Rate - ExpressLRS

ExpressLRS Init Rate or the Packet Rate that the receiver will start checking for the Sync Packet.

drifting needle Jun 22, 2025, 1:06 PM

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wise quest How close are receiver and radio when connecting?

0.5m - 1m. I also tried to move it away, but it doesn't change anything.

drifting needle Jun 22, 2025, 1:07 PM

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late patrol https://www.expresslrs.org/info/init-rate/

By "failsaving" I meant method 2. To turn the tx off. I also tried method one but both methods do not fix this behaviour.

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I seems very different each time. Yesterday I had three attempts, where it took over 60s and receiver went into wifi mode. Today it connected within 10-30s each time.

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But 10s is still longer than it takes with my ER4 and ER8.

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They connect almost instantly.

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And I have like 8 ER4s. And they all connect fast. That's why I think there must be something wrong with the ER6G(V)

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So far I have always updated them via wifi. Maybe I should try it via the configurator. I think it has an option to erase the config/EEPROM?! That way I could also use my radiomaster adapter that I bought and never used so far. 😅

wise quest Jun 23, 2025, 2:38 PM

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late patrol That is not how you set the init rate

@drifting needle It was the right way for fw 3.5.5 (and older) but 3.5.6 changed all this. The section in the doc is no longer valid for 3.5.6 and following.

I can't see why the ER6G/GV should behave different to the ER8. All three run the same identical firmware, just the hardware configs are slightly different (LEDs, number of power values, number of PWM pins, EXT-V scaling).

drifting needle Jun 23, 2025, 8:27 PM

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OK, I tried flashing via the configurator now. Using standard options it still took it a long time to connect. But then i checked "Lock after first connection" and "Erase before flash" and flashed it again and now it connects almost instantly.

Does "Erase before flash" just erase the flash memory or also the EEPROM where the settings are?

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