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Please, give a look at Configuring your new board for basic flight. You'll get step by step instructions on how to upgrade dRonin.
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If your controller is of the early generation (F1, CC3D), bear in mind that the resources are limited. Too many channel inputs are likely to overflow the system. It is advised to use a PPM receiver (one single wire sends all channel data to the controller, controller consequently has one single input to analyse), and in case of a PWM receiver (i.e standard receiver with one servo cable per channel), do not use more than 5 channels. This is all the more true when using autotune. As a last resort, if you have a good failsafe with zero throtle preset, you may switch of the radio of when the controler is connected to the groundstation, at least this will reduce the amount of data the flight controler memory has to cope with.
See User Guide: Connect Receiver
You can use either the receiver port or flexi port. Note that most receivers need to be powered from 3.3V rather than 5V. In older software version only the flexi port supported satellite receiver binding, but recent versions can bind the receiver from either port.
This nice tutorial from infinity hobby explains how to physically connect the satellite to the flexiport.
Once the wiring is sorted out, start GCS with your controller connected. On the board tab, set the appropriate port (e.g. Flexi) to DSM. Save the settings and power cycle your controller. Go to the input tab, and select "DSM" and an appropriate "channel number" for each input.
If you've not previously bound the satellite to your radio it's time to do so (see below)
** ToDo binding from dRonin is not so easy, better to bind the satellite with a regular receiver! The following procedure is outdated, use as a guideline**
Just Autotune the flight controler.
Autotune the flight controler.
Autotune the flight controler
Once again: Autotune the flight controler! It is much more simple and easy than what it used to be in OpenPilot and Taulab.
First check that the propeller are not inverted, second check that the board is mounted in the correct orientation. If it is reversed then the feedback loops switch from negative (stable) to positive (unstable) and your copter flips over.
My copter does not fly straight/level - it wants to pitch or roll continuously. What can cause this?
First ensure that in GCS you ran Attitude > Automatic level detection on a flat surface. Second, ensure that in [Input] > [Flight Mode Switch Settings] that you are flying in a mode with attitude control for roll and pitch, such as "leve" or "horizon". In the absence of input from your TX, the controller will aim to maintain this level orientation. If it fails, check that the trim settings on your TX are zeroed out. Also check the settings in Stablization > Basic. If the integral gains for rate stabilization are zeroed out then it can lead to non-level flight.
A small amount of pitch/roll is normal (less than 1 degree) and can be trimmed out by using the trim switches on your TX followed by selecting Vehicle > Airframe trimming > Set level angle. See the 2nd getting started video for more details. If you need more than 5 degrees of trim and you ensured that your copter was level during automatic level detection then it indicates that there is another problem.
See Level triming
Option1: in GCS, do File>Export UAV settings Option2: make screenshots of each of the relevant configuration screens and the object browser tree (calibration values are stored in SensorSettings and TrimAnglesSettings) Option3: If settings are already lost, an old logfile might still have them. Connect to the logfile and proceed with Option1 or Option2.
Short answer: don't use it. The bias cancellation we have on arm and from integrating the accelerometers does fairly well. The main use of temp cal is for advanced navigation, and even then most of navigation users don't use it.
I've seen this cool flightmode on multiwii / Cleanflight / Betaflight, is there anything similar in dRonin?
The higher the refresh rate, the more stable the aircraft... See OnlineHelp: ESC Refresh Rate
For instructions on using the original Tau Labs Android GCS, please see the Android Users Guide. Please note that its developments is not synced to dRonin releases (compatibility is not guaranteed).