No, I have the smartieparts board so mine was plug and play, but like I mentioned, I prefer the backlight always on. Makes the old addled brain notice when I leave the radio on!
One of the prime reasons I went right to the Frsky. Failsafe programming on all channels and it's so easy to set.
I will most certainly check that out. When I was doing my mods, eePe was the only thing I saw and to be honest, it's been working well, so I never looked further. Too busy building/modifying my multi's...there's just never enough time, is there?
Heh yeah, I hear that. I'm also notorious for walking off and leaving my Tx on so I see your point. I had originally planned to just leave mine on as well but that was before I started flying at night. That blue screen is just the right brightness during the day but man, it's almost too distracting at night.
That FrSky system is nice, I don't have too many flights on it yet but I'm already spoiled to it. That runaway quad incident I had on the stock system was a huge setback me. I didn't have the cash at the time for the FrSky system so my quad just had to sit in the corner. By this time though, multiwii 2.2 was released and one of the improvements it made was the failsafe system. In previous versions, the failsafe would only monitor the throttle signal, and since the stock setup only retains the last signal received in the event of signal loss, it would never trigger. The new code fixed this (i belive by monitoring all of the channels) so now the failsafe would trigger and I could go back to tinkering with my quad.
Like yourself, I had always used eePe up until about a week ago when I was trying out the OpenTx FW :cough:give it a try:cough:
but yeah, you're right, there's never enough time. Ateast in Texas, you've got year round flying weather.
I've been meaning to ask you, what FrSky receiver are you using with telemetry? If it's the d8r-ii+, have you been able to get the megapirate firmware to send back other parameters (altitude, speed, ect) to your 9x via the receivers RX input? I've been stuck on this now for over a week. In the APM_config, there's an option to set s1 to FrSky OSD, and then connect TX1 to the RX pin on the FrSky receiver via a TTL inverter. I just can't get it to work.