How to upgrade to EdgeTX (What's EdgeTX???)
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00:00:00 - Eventually, you'll need to know about EdgeTX
00:01:07 - What is EdgeTX?
00:02:47 - Which is better: EdgeTX or OpenTX
00:04:20 - Download the correct version of Companion for your radio
Download EdgeTX Companion at: github.com/EdgeTX/edgetx/rele...
Download OpenTX Companion at:
www.open-tx.org/
00:07:51 - Back up your radio contents
00:08:33 - Back up SD card contents
Get the Bardwell voice pack at: github.com/TheBlueGreen/Joshu...
Stylesuxx video about backup up EEPROM is: • OpenTX: How to back up...
00:11:50 - Upgrade using EdgeTX Buddy
00:14:54 - Upgrade SD card contents
00:16:39 - Let's see how it worked!
00:17:12 - Did I earn your support today?
00:18:28 - How to restore your backup
00:19:22 - STM32 Bootloader device won't appear (Windows only)
If your Windows machine won't show the DFU driver, try the ImmersionRC Driver Fixer. Download from: impulserc.com/pages/downloads
00:20:19 - EdgeTX Buddy is not the only way!
EdgeTX manual installation guide: github.com/EdgeTX/edgetx.gith...
00:21:10 - What next?
Want to build your own quad? My beginner-build tutorial starts at: • 2022 Freestyle FPV Dro...
You survived the wings, that’s great. Been following for a long time now. Thank you for all the great information and helping me on my journey into fpv.
Joshua YOU ROCK!! You have been massive support to the community and to myself personally and I am very grateful for your help. Thank you!!!
I had a problem for a few days with flashing my new Zorro and you just solved my problem with your Fixer app. So I am going to Patreon right now cause you really deserve it man. TNx for your content.
Thanks Joshua, your videos are absolutely perfect for beginners!! My TX12 just arrived and will upgrade to EdgeTX. Many thanks!
Finally I made the switch to Edge. Many thanks to you JB and edgeTX buddy. I only had one little hikup but all worked out in the end. Great to have the touch screen finally working, for which I paid for.
Joshua, you're my hero! I had issues with the STM32 bootloader; nothing worked, until you directed me to the driver fix. Many thanks and greetings from Belgium!
From having never touched a tx16 to updating, modifying and problem solving all in one go. Thanks man.
Oh Joshua Bardwell you are my Oprah Winfrey! Thank you so much for your work!
Please pin this bardwell it speaks for so many of us 🙏
@@stevenguarino8792 I agree
Oprah Bardwell “Everybody gets a drone, you and you and you!!!
Just got my TX16S today, just updated it to the latest firmware. Thank you and greetings from Ukraine!
I appreciate you doing this video bardwell. Something for everyone is very awesome and thank you
You rock a hat well my friend.... Thank youuu SOO much for bringing us the content you do!!!!!🙏🙏🙏🙏
Talk about learning something today!. This a great vid for Favorites list. 👍
This video helped me a lot - especially telling about the site to fix my drivers for STM32 bootloader.
Thank you SO MUCH for the tip about ImpulseRC driver fixer. Been trying to update my Boxer for an hour or so but there was no STM32 for me. Thank you!
Needed this! Been a struggle when I tried
My transmitter came with EdgeTX and the Joshua Bardwell sound pack. Juicy!
I updated from OpenTx to EdgeTx for expresslrs on my Frsky x9d+ 2019. the latest 2.8 does not load properly unless done by dfu. 2.7 works fine though, so I'm running 2.7, I just wanted to fly at that point. maybe I'll update some other day. great video, wish this was around last week when I was struggling lol.
edit: my struggle? stm driver didn't load properly for windows 10. but now I know about immersion fix to try. thanks!
Holy sh*t! I just updated my radio AND SD card in record time! Thank you JB for this one!! Thank you EDGE TX! PLEASE SEND JB AND EDGE TX ALL YOUR MONEY!
thanks for the tutorial JB 👍
Installing impulse rc driver fixer to my Radiomaster Boxer allowed edgetx buddy to update my radio from edgetx 2.8 to 2.9.1
That was a major hang up, so it should be a small video of its own. Thank you so much..!!
Great video! Thanks.
Thanks JB, I sucessfully upgraded from OpenTX to EdgeTX 2.84 FlyingDutchman by following along. Love the name. LOL Express LRS is up next.
Hi Joshua I just recently brought a radiomaster tx16s max awesome radio, thank you for your advice
I was going to give up on Jumper T-Lite Express Lrs I just could not load the Lua Srcipt at all. If it wasn't for Watching Joshua's Video in how to i really was going to break the deam thing out of anger, Thanks Joshua Bardwell mutch appreciated.
Joshua must have made this video before the Boxer came out. I can't wait until mine gets delivered!
My OpenTX Logical Switches for pre-arm with a momentary and a normal switch didn't work with Edge TX. I had to re-rewrite it and it looks fairly different, but it does indeed seem to work.
Great Video, JB Thanks. Nice Shirt, Bruh
Went to Edge for the touchscreen. No issues.
On my Jumper T-Lite, buddy.edgetx did not work with my radio plugged in while off. It would flash, but then I couldn’t power on the radio anymore. It would only turn off over and over. Was quite a headache actually because I had issues with my sdcard at the same time.
I had to turn on the radio into bootloader mode (press the bottom two middle trim buttons before powering on and keep “Write Firmware” selected) and then, flash firmware. I used EdgeTX Flasher instead this time, but I think it would work with buddy. It’s pretty much the same thing as buddy.edgetx except it’s on your laptop.
Nice shirt, gunna join his battles? There was a decent chanting for your participation next go round!
Hi Joshua, I always learnt something from your videos, great job. By the way, I wonder if you could advise me something regarding EdgeTX. As per EdgeTX 2.8, we can control power availability for the external UART port available on TX16S via Hardware tab on SYS menu. Now, is there a way that we could somehow assign that function to a switch, so that we can control power availability for an external device attached to the said UART? say like an on-off switch. I have a Bluetooth module installed inside the case of my TX16S acting as a telemetry mirror to my phone, but i want to activate it only when i need it to, instead of staying on draining battery life. kindly need your advice if it can be done..
Great videos 👍🏻 which version is best in your opinion - open or edge? I have a TX16s mk1
Cheers
As always, good informative content. I've watched a lot of your videos and they've always been useful. What I'd like to know is if there is any real advantage to using the radios you use vs Spektrum with a module? I fly everything from helicopters to airplanes to freestyle quads. I use a Spektrum NX8 with Crossfire module for the quads. I also fpv one of my airplanes, an 84 inch Turbo Bushmaster. For someone like me who doesn't really want to mess with the fuss that comes with Open/Edge TX, am I really missing out on anything or am I, like I suspect, perfectly fine with what I run? Have you or do you plan on doing any vids of Spektrum w/module vs the Edge/Open TX radios?
with just a crossfire module I don't think so, but if you were to start using ghost/ELRS and wanted the higher packet rates I'm not sure it's possible without edgeTX. If your current stuff works fine then it probably isn't a necessary upgrade but at some point it will become outdated just like all tech does. Given the mess that is going on with FrSky/EthOS/ripping off ELRS currently its fairly safe to say edgeTX will be the primary OS for all new radios in the coming years (especially now that its being installed as standard by people like radiomaster)
What more could have you done to help me upgrade my TX16S to EdgeTx ? Maybe doing it yourself ! Thanks a lot Joshua, for this upgrade, and for all the times you helped me 🙂🙂;-)
I was having driver issues on a well updated Windows 11 PC. The ImpulseRC Driver Fixer fixed it up though.
it's good you showed the SD card way. the USB port breaks off easy on the x9 lite. that's what happened to mine so i can't do anything on it via USB
Getting my Jumper T-Pro tomorrow, I guess my first thing to do is to update to EdgeTX 🙂
Thx
So im on 2.6. Companion 2.8 doesn't seem to read for the backup (2.7.1, & 2/6.0 also didnt work to read models). As I followed through the video, I realized I could backup by saving to files from the SD card. The rest went smooth via Chrome/EdgeTX-Buddy. Great video. Will you be doing an update on setting up the radio/models? Are there new settings or does it just look nicer with the graphics layout? (part of me kinda liked the old look better, but maybe im just not used to the graphic layout yet... is there a way to change this look?) Thanks, as always!
Joshua, very thorough as always, although I held my breath waiting for the "more on the Tango 2" info.. What's happening there? any ideas, please share your knowledge.
Think this was my problem, purchased a second hand tbs tango 2. I think the previous owner had edge TX and that's where the sound files I lost possibly came from.
I see this has been listed as a highlight of 2.8......'Telemetry: Extend link quality warnings range - i.e. useful for ELRS now'.
What does this mean or more so what would be the settings for warnings regarding LQ using ELRS?
Did I miss the part where the advantages of Edge TX were discussed? As far as I can see FPV pilots use almost none of the mixing, telemetry and operational features of Open TX. They rely on the flight controller operating system Betaflight iNav or other system to do all the mixing. The transmitter is used for its gimbals and switches, servo trimming, and RF operation. So exactly which features of Open TX are improved for the FPV pilot? The progression from ER9X to ErSky9x to Open TX always resulted in improvements which were valuable: better menus, better choices for switch operation, better telemetry pages, better voice programming ability, better handling of global functions, better radio setup options and better control of mixing functions like delay timers and slow acting mixers. I understand that Edge TX supports touch screens but that is not a compelling feature for most pilots who don't have a radio with a touch screen. So; what's better on Edge TX?
The simplest way to answer this question is to read the release notes of each version of edgetx. They're available here: github.com/EdgeTX/edgetx/releases
Then you have ETHOS... The X18 is fantastic, priced right and way nicer than the TX16S and TWIN dual band 2.4 looks like its going to be awesome.
Hi Joshua. I have a TX16s which I bought over a year ago and haven't used yet so I've not changed anything and have no models on it, therefore, if I'm correct, nothing to back up or save. Can I simply take out the supplied SD card, insert a new unused card (256mb) and use EdgeTX Buddy as you describe to change from OpenTX to EdgeTX? Thanks!
Nirvana NV-14 and likely other TX's may have other sequences to go into DFU mode... The NV-14 has a DFU button but there is also a software sequence to go into "Firmware Update" mode as well. Do some research if just plugging it in doesn't work to get you into DFU mode.
Good point!
I see my QX7 is only “community supported” vs the officially supported radios. I do plan on upgrading to a different radio this year, maybe I should wait and get one on the official list? 🤔
Any updates on when will EdgeTX be available for TBS Tango 2?
if after Edgetx Buddy copies your files you get a throttle warning on boot you haven't fully copied your SD files, you can do it manually, from your saved files to the TX16S
I would like if jb would show us how to troubleshoot updating elrs on a mac
Thank you Josh for this tutorial, but, how can i install Edgetx on my T-Pro 4in1 by using usb-c port? Keeping the radio off and connecting it to pc, only charging mode this way, and the pc won't see It. So i can't run Edgetx Buddy to install the new firmware....
Many Thanx
Why is there not a Radio Model option for the Radiomaster Boxer in EdgeTX Companion/EdgeTX Buddy for the 2.8.0-factory version installed from the manufacturer?
Joshua Bardwell
do you have removed that gimbal LED inserts ?
Man, how I just love my Tango 2 pro! I run crossfire, and so that makes life easy.
Hello 😀i have a problem with my tx16s this radio is new and i bought it from team BlackSheep blowout sale , i Get a warning bad radiodata and a lot of things is gone ,When i plug my tx16s into my computer, only the firmware folder shows up, not the SD What to do??
Any updates for that 3.2 I just saw on there? This video is only a few weeks old so I’m assuming I should just run 2.8 like everyone else on the commando 8 for my Chimera 7 pro v1?
On tx16s and Mac os usb to usb C cable do not work. I tried at least 5 different ones. Use a regular full sized usb to usb C and you're good to go.
Thanks for the tutorial, Joshua! 😊
I need to do that with my X9D... But I need a PC first. 😬
Soon!
Anyway, stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
JB do you have a new sound pack that say Welcome to EdgeTX as the like to you sound back is for
Opentx- booooo!. Like the one "still over here, turned on not doing anything". --Replace the "hello" in Sounds , System with the EdgeTx sound file
There is also an edgetx track. Just rename the default track and replace it with the edgetx track.
I stick to… if it works don’t change anything xD
I’m scared of updates after my qx7 lol
Apart from crossfire…. Crossfire rocks the balls fer sure
Question sir...I followed your video an got 2.8 on my radio...with this process..would i still need to download the firmware an SD card contents to do this...or does it automatically pull everything from online to do this
i have the ELRS jumper t pro and it now ships factory with a latching switch, but anyway when i put it into 1w mode it bugs out and starts arming and disarming the quad repeatedly, as soon as i put it down to 500mw it stops doing it and behaves normally again, anyone ever had something similar? im thinking updating the firmware might help but im hoping i can avoid that
As always, a very interesting video ❤
Does the edgetx buddy also work to flash from opentx to edgetx for the first time?
Yes it does.
@@JoshuaBardwell What should I do if when I plug the USB into the radio and it doesn't give me the option to pick "USB STORAGE", it just shows "USB". Companion doesn't detect my radio.
@@JoshuaBardwell What should I do if when I plug the USB into the radio and it doesn't give me the option to pick "USB STORAGE", it just shows "USB". Companion doesn't detect my radio.
Thanks for another amazing video
So I've been out of the air for a couple years
Now my young boys are getting into FPV
Surprise FRsky is no longer the way to go
I need a second controller and I am thinking about ordering a radio master
But I would love to set up a buddy box
Is it possible to link my qX7 to a radio master?
Does anybody have answer to this? I googled it and am having no luck
Botgrinder shirt 🔥
Hi. I updated my old Teranis X9D to Edgetx and also the internal XJT module. I use the latest firmware from Frsky for the XJT module, version EU LBT, but I can't bind to new receiver G-RX8. Any idea? Wery greatful for help.
Regards Lalle
I think that receiver has ACCESS firmware. If so, it cannot bind to the X9D. It can only bind to newer radios that support ACCESS protocol.
No issues here with STM32 Bootloader in EdgeTX Buddy on Arch Linux, the driver must be built-in.
Don’t seem to work on qx7 access.
👍🏻👍🏻
Upgraded my radiomaste tx16s from edge 2.6 to 2.91 using the buddy. Radio won't recognize the SD card from the computer and won't turn on anymore. Yay! Should have left things alone. Tried the 3 methods, tried a Mac, tried a windows machine, tried an apex driver fixer, tried the companion, tried rolling it back to 2.6. Tried a previous version of the companion, tried. Got real desperate and tried reformatting the SD card to fat32. Tried taking out the little coin battery and replacing it. 4 hours later, nothing. Very frustrated at the moment.
Yep, it's bricked. Reloaded the bootloader. I have scoured the internet all day and have tried everything. Still won't boot up. Gimbal lights turn on and it sits there clicking, screen off. Ordering a new tx16s now. This was a fun follow along adventure! This will be the last attempt at updating radios.
I have a "old" 9XR Turnigy and it's running Edge. Apparently not compatible with Express lrs which is sad. Apparently it doesn't have powerful enough hardware
Hey Joshua, is it possible to put your voice from my SD card on my i-phone?
The update process failed bacause of the STM32 driver,I couldn't find a way to install it in Windows 10
any word on edgetx for boxer coming? I guess thats one more reason to wait on the boxer.
I cant seem to bind to anything with edgetx 2.9 why
What a coincidence and a day late! Lol
Just updated my Zorro to 2.8
I find doing this via SD card is much quicker
Awesome 👌 job . If you want to learn this is the channel. If you want to hear someone say I'm telling the truth in the whole video 📹 tons channels out there.
Did I miss where Joshua talked more about the Tango 2 and Mamba?
Already there..
I can confirm that any vaguely-recent Linux kernel has the STM32 driver built-in.
can the EDGETX be flashed on the X-LITE PRO
Yes.
Just be careful. I had a fully working Zorro and decided to follow his step by step. Now I have a Zorro that won't recognize internal ELRS, audio greeting/voice warnings gone, and it won't allow ExpressELRS LUA to do anything (just sits there and "thinks" until I back out).
Does this fix it: ua-cam.com/video/T38LCi8EGMc/v-deo.html&ab_channel=JoshuaBardwell
@@JoshuaBardwell YES!! Sorry work has me slammed and so it took me a day or two to try it. I spent easy 5-6 hours and refreshed my firmware 2-3 times trying to get it to work and your video had it fixed in 20 seconds. Now, I debate: Do I leave it alone since the last flash I put on it was an older version of the Zorro's firmware.... IDK. I am so burnt out on this controller, before you replied I was already starting to just get a new controller (prob TX-16 JB edition). May still get it anyway.
hi..i would like asking if is possible to set the reverse thrust with a switch on the tx16s? i couldn't manage so far.....and i was wondering if with new edge update it is possible. thanx!
Yes it's possible. Look up a tutorial for how to wet up 3d mode.
@@JoshuaBardwell yes i did it! Thanks a lot for the info🙏😉
tfw Tango 2 daily, it's just so damn comfortable to hold ;_;
God, I hope you are ok. I felt really bad for putting 20 on that yesterday after watching you suffer. Sorry about that. Hope you have a great new year.
How to use R9 Access on edgeTX ?
I can only find standard R9.
Only FrSky radios can do ACCESS. FrSky locked it down.
Yeah Yeah...... Edgetx :D
Help! Joshua only has 5 models on his radio. How do you get a OpenTx model to bind with multiple quads? is at as easy as binding each new quad under the same model? I swear he made a video for this in the past, but I haven't been able to find it!
Yes just bind each new quad under the same model.
@@JoshuaBardwell Thank you!!!
So bro I’ve gotten the sound pack onto my radio but when I turn my radio on instead of it saying welcome to edge tx it says welcome to open tx. Is there anyway to fix this to make it say edge tx or anyway to make it say anything you want??
Yes. There is an edgetx version of the hello/welcome file. Remove the OpenTX version and rename the edgetx one to be what the OpenTX one was named.
Thank you sir!!
will this work on the og tx16? i still have the original tx16 and want to try this.
Yes it will.
Hello,
hope someone can help me. What to flash on the RadioMaster TX16S Mark II?
EdgeTX Buddy just shows RadioMaster TX16s.
- Dominic
That is what you should flash.
Thank you very much@@JoshuaBardwell
a man with a beard and cap always catches my eye....
As a baseball cap wearing dad i approve of the hat i think it makes you look good! (in a plutonic ty for hiding the bald spot kind of way) Please stay away from the mesh back hats on camera...
PSA: I have a jumper t pro, and no matter what I do when I convert from open TX to edge TX I lose all my models and I don't get the conversion screen to convert the bin to y a m l. If anybody has a solution that's not reconfiguring all my models I'm all ears. I'm going to try the eprom trick
Save otx file in OpenTX companion. Open in Edgetx companion. See if that works.
@@JoshuaBardwell dude I tried like nine times my way. If your way works you have my word I'll be a patreon. Thank you so much for the quick reply
I'm not 100% it'll work but that's what I'd try.
where do I check if it has ELRS by default ?
I don't know why it didn't work for you, but it definitely DOES work in Chrome. Like ... If there was one browser on earth it would work on, it would be Chrome. I use Chrome. It works for me. A shit load of people use Chrome.
@@JoshuaBardwell I had issues with driver (!) the fixer thing worked though, also it wasn’t clear you had to select device from the pop up window.
That's not a Jumper. Seems to be a Commando 8 😉
Why Devs fork OpenTX into a new project Edge TX instead of making OpenTx better ? It makes live complicated. Now i have some old flying gear with perfect setups in OpenTx on my old Taranis X9D and i am thinking of upgrading my new gear to Edge TX but i am afraid then i mess up this old perfect settings and i dont have the time and the brain to redo all these settings and i really dont want to change my System and mess that up, too. Or are those settings identical and can i migrate all that from open Tx to Edge Tx ?
That's the point of the Open tx companion and copying your SD card content to your computer. If it doesn't work right you can go back to your original setup. Everything will be backed up.
@@PoTtZy. Right, but once i am using EdgeTx those backups are useless until i reflash my gear back to OpenTx, right ? My question is, can i use the settings from old OpenTx with Edge TX ?
@@usurpinesusanti3149 I think it would migrate all settings(from the SD card files ), but if not and it's too much hassle to fix then you could always flash back to Open tx with all your original settings so there's not much risk of losing anything from your original setup.
The reason for the fork is that the people in control of the OpenTX project were too slow and conservative about accepting changes from the edgetx devs. The edgetx fork means the edgetx devs can be in control of the project and can move when they want, in whatever direction they want. Opentx is free to merge any changes from edgetx that they want to include.
@@JoshuaBardwell yes, thanks. Thats why i want upgrade to Edge, too. Just i am worried about loosing my settings from my old gear. Eg. i have a very old helicopter (huge one with >>6m diameter) which is so complicated and dangerous if you make something wrong. Its really not a toy like a nazgul drone where you can just switch some blades or replace an arm when you smash it into a tree or loose it by not watching at it a few milliseconds.
On the other hand i dont want to buy yet another Radio, the better ones are quiet expensive, just because i want all options edge can offer and open TX not. But waiting foreever is a pain, like you said. I really thougth they will come soon or later but there is no soon. Its more a later or never.
Mine says "open tx" but shows the words edge tx not all radios are the same
It just means you've still got the opentx SD card contents. Someone updated the radio to EdgeTX, but not the SD card.
It looks like the Edge TX Buddy also works with Microsoft Edge. It's getting edgy 😀
don't they all run through a 5 dollar LoRa chip? like your power meter
Do you need a license to fly FPV?
No