I'm on linux (ubuntu-based mint), and I can get betaflight to recognize there is a drone plugged in, I get the attached error message. I''m confused though because it's brand new, and supposedly it should have the firmware ready to fly?
#Can't get betaflight to recognize drone.
boreal meadow
just for reference, I can get the drone to work, and it does connect to my controller, however it doesn't want to connect to betaflight to change it's settings
stark crane
What drone is it? Take a backup as directed - you’ll be able to see what version of Betaflight it has at the top of the dump
trail canopy
I'm on linux (ubuntu-based mint), and I can get betaflight to recognize there is...
As written into BF GUI message, your firmware is away from what your current Betaflight Configurator can support.
However, you can still go to CLI here, type "version" to get Betaflight firmware version.
As you said, knowing that it is working and you seems pretty new to this hobby (no offense), I would suggest to use a older version of BF Configurator, which supports your current BF firmware here, to make your changes.
That would avoid you to waste your time to flash it and reconfigure it if you are starting this hobby yet (you will have time for this, trust me lol).
However, if you really want to upgrade it, from CLI, type "diff all" (never use DUMP), and save its content to a txt file and go for upgrade. There are tone of tutorial explaining this.
boreal meadow
What drone is it? Take a backup as directed - you’ll be able to see what version...
BetaFPV Air75 Brushless Whoop Quadcopter ELRS 2.4
boreal meadow
As written into BF GUI message, your firmware is away from what your current Bet...
oh let me do that real quick, one second
I typed version, pressed enter, and the screen was completely empty fsr.
trail canopy
did you use BF Configurator Web app (Chromium based) or another BF configurator?
boreal meadow
Interestingly enough, I tried a few hour ago to use my brother's (windows) computer. This did work and I was able to configure it. However I might want to reconfigure it in the future, so I want to be able to do it from my computer
boreal meadow
did you use BF Configurator Web app (Chromium based) or another BF configurator?
I used app.betaflight.com. Connected via usb, selected the drone and clicked connect. I did this on google chrome as required
trail canopy
I'm also on Mint, it should work anyway on yours.
boreal meadow
was there any setup you had to do to let it recognize usb inputs? I'm wondering if it's a permission thing
trail canopy
https://github.com/betaflight/betaflight-configurator/releases/tag/10.10.0 Select the .deb and install it
boreal meadow
gotcha, downloading it now
trail canopy
was there any setup you had to do to let it recognize usb inputs? I'm wondering ...
what I'm basically doing on Debian based:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/platformio/platformio-core/master/platformio/assets/system/99-platformio-udev.rules | sudo tee /etc/udev/rules.d/99-platformio-udev.rules
sudo service udev restart
sudo usermod -a -G dialout $USER
sudo usermod -a -G plugdev $USER
Restart machine then.
This will add all permissions you need to connect any FC on your system, and add DFU permission also.
boreal meadow
When I try to install that package, I have a dependency error. It wants libgconf-2-4, and says it's not satisfiable? Do you know if it's downloadable in apt?
trail canopy
Which Mint do you have? 22.2?
Edit: I'm getting this lib missing also.