New EdgeTX Widgets: Flight Counter, Realtime Gauges, Battery Meters, and Histogram
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- Опубліковано 15 сер 2022
- In this video I'll show you some new widgets for EdgeTX developed by Offer Shmuely. These widgets are Opensource based and free to use. You can download them here:
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Wow Edge is really an intuitive platform! Amazing time to be in our hobby!! Thanks for explaining and showing us these new widgets John!
You're very welcome. We are very lucky indeed. Awesome tech available these days.
Thank you for reviewing this set of widgets! Although I likely will not use this particular one, it helps me to understand what is possible with this radio. It truly seems that there are limitless possibilities for personalization and data capture, and videos like these help me to start thinking of other options to dream up. Appreciate you, man! 🤜🏻🤛🏻
Wow! This stuff coming out to use in EdgeTX is pretty amazing. Keeps this old man thinking about how to put it to use. Keep up the good work John. Nice work Offer.
I know, it's hard to keep it all straight sometimes.
Well I’m a new flyer couple of months some computer experience so when I went for a radio I just jumped in at the deep end tx16s so glad I did , I think it’s helped learning duel rates , expo
I think because your actually inputting stuff in kinda sits in the mind better
& it’s shown in my flying too , to have never flown before and having success every flight is down to videos like this and open tx , I’d just like to offer a massive thanks to the channel and all that chime in been so so helpful 🙏
Welcome to the hobby and glad to hear you're having strong success. Keep up the good work.
Hi John
thanks for helping our community and help spreading the knowledge to all
some more clarification:
GaugeRotary
if you like to see the min/max after the flight, just move the widget to full screen (app mode)
Histogram
as you could see, there is still work to add to it,
I need to find a good way to limit the number of columns, since if there are many columns, I do not have a place to write the text
I will work on it next month.
Flights count:
allow the user to select the color is a "must have"
however, currently this version of edgeTx is still limited to 5 options only, and I need them for the functionality
so I need to wait for future improvements of edgeTx,
I can, however, move all the colors to the top of the code, so it will be easier to replace them.
Thanks for sharing your work and for the extra tips for RCVR viewers. Keep up the good work!
Hi sir. thanks for your hard work on this great app. It will be nice if there is a call out on the battery percentage on the flight count.
Thanks for your hard work on the widgets. Wondering if I could ask a few questions about the flight counter. Why does it appear that the switch function is reversed. When I use my throttle cut switch, off is on and on is off. I figured maybe I just use a different direction than some people, so I tried a logical switch. When the LS lights up, the debug screen shows that the switch is off. I tried using the throttle. When the throttle is down, the switch is on and as soon as I raise the throttle, the switch is off even though the actually throttle parameter shows that it's on.
Second question. What exactly is it looking for in regards to telemetry data. Right now I am setting it up on a small helicopter that does not have fancy telemetry date, but that radio does recognize the connection and will announce "telemetry lost" if I unplug the battery to the model. However, the flight widget will not activate the telemetry parameter. I disabled the telemetry line in the Lua, but then it never triggers for the flight to end. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
@@TheBudgetSportsman I have the same problem with throttle cut switch....
@@johndd8186 I ended up figuring out how to edit the code in the lua script and change the parameters for the throttle cut from true to false. In other words the script looks for the switch to be “off” instead of on, since the widget sees it in reverse. So when my throttle cut is on, the widget sees off, so I just changed the parameters for it to activate the log when the switch is “off rather than “on”.
Don’t know if that made any sense.
Very cool!
I’ve been using a flight counter for a while now using very similar logic but it’s nice to have it in widget form! Excellent!
I agree--good concept here.
GaugeRotary: per John request, I added min/max also on the main view (not just on "Full screen mode")
Ah! Here is the video on the Widgets, thanks!
Glad you found it.
I like the flight counter. I have a manual version of it using the trim switch held for more than 3 seconds to change a global variable and display it as a widget. I really like the automatic version because I have thought later - "did I log that flight?" The other ones are very useful also. Time for some programming/LUA script fun.
Cool widgets. 👍🤓
The perfect LOS tool. I'll be back, thanks John...👍🏻🍻👊🏻
Good stuff in this widget pack.
Wow John this is really cool l like it a lot. Thanks for sharing with us
As always, you are very welcome!
Very cool, I’ve been considering upgrading my radio from the x9D+ and the Tx16s in particular is what I’m leaning toward. Looking more and more into what it can do and also what edge tx can do videos like this defiantly help. Good work thanks
You're welcome.
Great video thank you .😊
Thanks for watching...and you're welcome.
Really good tks
You're welcome.
You have to try one!!! pentel orenz nero in 0.3... you will love this pencil it's designed not to break .3....
Thanks for your videos and tutorials, appreciate them very much.
Tested this widgets on the field today. Using EdgeTx version 2.8.0, none of them worked as expected. Might be an issue with the non official v2.8.0 latest nightly.
I'm not surprised to hear this as 2.8 is undergoing a significant graphics renovation. Thanks for commenting. Glad to help.
I do not have v2.8, and probably will not move to it, due to the direction that GUI is going to.
but let me know what did not work, maybe I fixed it anyway
@@offers100
Flight widget for example, no switches show up in the selector. RSSI, throttle inputs are not recognized on the debug screen, stays always in off position.
The developers have still a long way to go on v2.8.0
@@tropicairrl6121 can you reproduced it on the simulator of 2.8?
I see that the switch and channel is not the correct default, but it is working on the simulator
@@offers100 Hi Offer, I do not have a v2.8.0 Companion version. In the 2.7.1 version I can go to the telemetry pages but once I go in the widget settings I can not activate them. In general, all of the widgets I am using with the 2.8.0 version have one or the other issue, sometimes, depending on widget, only colours can't be set, but this changes from widget to widget.
The developers are bringing out bug fixes every day so I suppose sooner or later these issues will get solved
i wonder if we can do a mirroring screen using USB cable from T16s to any monitor. It will be help when we have a copilot .
You could make a feature request on the EdgeTX Github: github.com/EdgeTX/edgetx/issues/new/choose
wow the flight counter is best widget , my suggestion is to add total time to it
I use total time on most of my models. That would be a great combo.
you have a build-in total time, just select "persistent" on one of the timer (I used timer3 for that) and you can call it air-time, and here you have it
Thank you for doing videos, You got some of the best!
I wish you would do a video on updating Horus x10 to Edge tx.
I’ve tried doing this in vain.
My radio says “wrong mother board” after I did this.
Also, no touch screen action at all.
I went right back to Open tx
Sorry, I don't use any FrSky gear anymore. So I'm afraid I'm not much help on the process for their equipment. Get a TX16s and we can probably get you sorted out :)
Great widgets! Is there a way to make the per cell voltage be read out? I have some great stuff set up for battery monitoring (mostly from this channel!) but I hate the mental maths it can require when flying different cell packs.
Per cell is not a sensor, it's a mathematical estimate. So no way to read the per cell. It's easy enough to learn your whole pack voltage limits though. 3.65 or 3.7 * cells gives you the floor voltage and you can have that read out. Of course if you have a per cell voltage sensor and have per cell telemetry, that's different, but not dependent on the widget.
@@RCVideoReviews Thanks for the reply. I understand what you are explaining but just wondering if it's possible to get read outs of the widget value? At the moment, I have to do a mental calculation before take off so i know what my floor is. I'm lazy and would rather just work with teh calculated cell average!
@@Retset there are two options here:
1. you have flvss sensor, then you need to create an additional telemetry sensor (manually), set it to "calculated" and "cell", and the value will be the lowest value of all the cell, this value can be played as voice, or can be set in logical switch (i.e. L01 x
@@offers100 Many thanks for your hard work on the widgets and this reply. Option 2 looks best for me. I haven't used the ratio scale before but that's something fun to have a play with!
SO COOL. These are some awesome options. John on the Flight counter, how do we edit the LUA script so the switch function is inverted. (arm switch in my case is on for the counter when it is in the off)
Agreed. Very nice of Offer to share his work with everybody.
I will try to find a way to use reversed switch
@@offers100 Hi Offer, I have the Flight counter working. I hope you don't mind but I modify your file ( i'am sure its not a clean as you would have done it) but it now reads my switch in the direction that I use it to arm the craft. Great widget and thank you for creating all the widgets that you have. I use several of them now. Thanks again
I am happy that you liked it.
I did not find a simple way to reverse the switch by settings.
If you like to keep the script without changes, so you can update it more easily, you can define a logic switch with the arm switch that you like, and give the widget settings the logical switch to the widget setting
Thank you for great content. is there a guide to what numbers to use to change timer widget colors. the 3 boxes with numbers.
Not for EdgeTX specifically. They represent Red Green and Blue values. So you can usually look up an RGB color code online and use it.
@RC Video Reviews thank you for the quick response. I will look up the color code.
@@plumplover99 on version 2.8 there is a better color picker, maybe it will easier
Hello from Greece. Can I apply the widget on my Radiomaster Zorro? Or will it cause crashes or unexpected behavior? Thank u
Widgets like this don't run on black and white screen radios, only color screen. However there are telemetry screen lua scripts around for those.
Great Widgets, just flew with the BattAnalog, worked great, but after powercyclying the Transmitter the next day, the Widget was gone, had to put it to my Telemetrie screen again, next powercycle and it is gone again?! Any idea what i´m doing wrong here? Used it on the Main Screen with a 2x1 selection, together with Timer 1. The Timer stayed, only the BattAnalog disappeared.
Anyhow, its a great Widget especially for LOS, thanks to the develloper and thanks for showing us here!
Hi John,
Thanks for bringing Offer's widgets to our attention. I really like the Flight Counter! However, I found the lack of the color option problematic with some themes. It prompted me to try doing the same thing with logical switches and a special function, which I've managed to get working. It was then a simple exercise to use a Value widget to display the GV and set the color to match everything else.
This led me to discover another annoyance. While it is possible to assign a name to a Global Variable, that name doesn't appear alongside its value in the widget display - it still shows as "GVx".
It would be really nice if EdgeTX used names assigned to GVs when displaying them in widgets, just as they currently do when viewing the GV list in the model setup. It would make the meaning of the GV value much clearer. Would you be kind enough to request this of the developers for a future release? I'm sure you pull more weight with them than I would. 😊
Cheers,
Geoff
Good catch and good suggestion. I prefer not to be a funnel point for Edge suggestions and will not make a habit of it, but in this case, I'm on board with the suggestion: github.com/EdgeTX/edgetx/issues/2215
Thanks John. I had to chuckle when I read your suggested alternative. Let's hope Peter doesn't take that option 😊
You should have heard his reaction when I suggested Ethos as an alternative for a different issue....whew....that got his dander up.
I have a powered glider and would like to know that if while flying and I put the throttle down to 0 and bake up again would it count it as an other flight????
No. It uses telemetry too. Rx has to be disconnected and tx throttle off for a period of time before it “resets”
no, it is a smart one ;-)
after counting a successful flight, it will wait for landing first,
landing is detected by "no telemetry" (i.e. battery disconnection) for 8seconds
only then we can try to detect a new flight
greattt!!! but I don't know how to load on radio master...You have some video that show how to load? Thanks
I found it. Thanks!
🙌
Ok, good!
I do welcome more suggestions to enhance the Flight counter.
Value widgets on the top bar are left aligned. Flights is right aligned with the logo on the left. Could they be swapped (count aligned left and icon aligned right) so the flight counter lines up like other telemetry values on the top bar? It would be more consistent with the existing layout.
I now gave out about the icon on the top bar, and the text is centered,
It looks better, and also more similar to the other widgets
John, is there documentation in the zip file?
Nope.
I have a Spektrum receiver that doesn’t provide any telemetry (no discoverable sensors)… Does that mean I cant can’t use the flight counter widget?
😢
How do I make a custom background ? I'm sorry new to edge tx
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Thanks, love the widgets. I have the widgets on my radio SDcard.But when I click on one, it says "script syntax error, unexpected value. Where did I go wrong?
Not sure... I didn't get that error.
@@RCVideoReviews Thanks my friend. Is it because I don't have 2.8 Edge version?
@@jerryzito6840 what os version do you have?
I am working on 2.7.1 and all my widget work on 2.7 & 2.8
if you need help, post me on discord
I'm trying to use the flight counter widget on a fixed wing with no telemetry. I use an arm switch, throttle CH, but I can't get the telemetry to show up as "ON". Any idea on how to make it work?
It relies on telemetry to work. You don't get RSSI or any other sensor? You might contact the author: Offer Schmuely and ask for ideas.
@@RCVideoReviews After going to Offer's Github link in the description, under the "Issues" tab I found a version of the widget, which just needs a little tweak to work without telemetry.
after the request, I added a parameter inside the file (not on the widget option) that you can disable the need for telemetry
line 44 :
local use_telemetry = 1 -- 0=do not use telemetry, 1=use telemetry in state machine
just change it from 1 to zero
@@offers100 I saw this, thank you so much. This is one of my favorite widgets and it's used along with my timer for every flight!
hi sir. For the Flights count how do I reverse the arm switch ( SF) I prefer the switch to be in an up position when armed. Thanks
( what I mean is that the ON-switch (SF) is down by default. I like to change to up position.)
I sent your question to the developer for a comment.
you can create a logical switch: L01=a
@@offers100 thanks for your quick reply. but i dont understand 😕. i am not good with code
@@microhelijon no code, all is regular radio setting, go to the model setting, then to the logical-switch tab
add a logical switch in this form:
L01= a
@@offers100 thank you. i wll give it a shot later in the day. once again thanks for all the hard works great app. 👍
I just tried the gauge rotary widget, thought it would be nice as a tach for a gas powered model. The RPM sensor is discovered and working with other widgets, however this one continuously says "disconnected," EdgeTX 2.7.1. any ideas?
Might drop a note with the author.
@@RCVideoReviews I couldn't find his contact info, (looked on RCG). Hopefully he will see it here.
@@brianbrotherson5529 Hey, lets try to solve it together.
do you have discord or github user?
@@offers100 no I don’t. Do you post on RCGroups?
@@offers100 I appreciate your willingness to help, what is the best way to contact you?
This Flights script is AWESOME!
I found the script that's used along with the Flights LUA? I D/Led and copied it to the scripts/tools folder but I get an error when I run it. I wonder whether I've incorrectly installed it. Are there installation instructions anywhere?
Help!
I think I've found the script: FlightsHistory. How do I install and use it?
You usually just need to drop the widgets folder on the sd card and it should work. If it’s not your best bet is to contact Offer on his GitHub.
come on ..hit the like button !!!!!👍
What Paolo said!
Hello!!!
I ran into the Analog Battery Widget today at the field, once I noticed I was receiving Telemetry from my Radio after changing my ESC to an Avian (Receiver is a Spektrum receiver).
I configured 4 panels on my screen, and had an extra "opening", so I setup t he Analog Battery widget, and it worked perfectly!
I added a function to play the battery voltage every 30s, and voila!
The problem I ran into is that after power cycling the radio, the Battery Telemetry widget disappeared.
I configured it again, and once again, after cycling the radio, the widget disappeared.
I moved widgets around, and the only one that for some reason disappears is the Battery Widget.
I found this video while trying to find if someone has run into a similar issue.
I'm running 2.7.1 on my Radiomaster MK II Max. I replaced my stock SD card for a Verbatim 8GB card the minute I got my radio, given some posts that I read that the stock was faulty.
Have you or anyone noticed this behavior?
I just tried adding the Analog Battery widget on its own page (Full Screen) and I'm observing the same behavior. The widget disappears upon power cycling the radio.
I checked, and the .yml file has the data regarding the widget, but the radio isn't displaying it.
Interestingly, this behavior is also reflected on the radio simulator (although within the simulator, the widget is never displayed).
The .yml file section is as follows:
1:
widgetName: "BattCheck (A"
widgetData:
options:
0:
type: Source
value:
source: tele(9)
1:
type: Color
value:
color: 0xF8FC00
2:
type: Bool
value:
boolValue: 1
I figured out the issue. Apparently, the way I set it up, I was referencing and old widget that had a naming issue. Re-downloaded SD Card contents, deleted the old widget, and now the same is working as expected.
@@OraTab yes, it an old widget,
if the name of the widget is too long, then the system is not keeping it
this is why I changed the name to BattAnalog
let me know if you have more issues
I'm using version 2.8.0. I don't seem to have a WIDGETS folder anymore. But I do have widgets. Any suggestions? Thank you
Built-in widgets don't rely on the widgets folder. External (sd card) widgets do. The widgets in this video depend on a \widgets folder.
@@RCVideoReviews So I made a Widgets folder and dropped the files in there. Thanks!
Per John request
I updated the Flights counter
move color configuration to top of the file (it is still in code)
if the count is more than 2 digit (on a tight place), do not display the icon
Awesome! I'll download the updates and give them a look.
"Flights" have been updated with text-color, and additional, more descriptive sound file
if you like to disable the sound, set in code
local enable_sounds = 0
or
delete the files: flight_logged.wav, flight_ended.wav
Would these widgets work for the TX12 mk2?
No. Widgets aren't supported on B&W screens.
@@RCVideoReviews Thanks. Could you please do a video on tips and tricks for the TX12 ELRS? Thank you for all the info on your channel.
When I use Value 2, the screen numbers are much smaller than in the video. Anyone else see this? Thanks
what version of the script do you use?, can you show? (note: discord is better for that)
Don't know if you will see this but great videos man I've learned a ton from you. I'm trying to set up the flight counter but in debug instead of rxbat for telemetry it says RSSI. I'm getting RSSI telemetry because I set up the Guage to show it in the top bar like yours and it's showing when I plug in a pack but on the flights debug it never triggers it. Everything else is turning on in debug except for that so I can't ever get it to start the timer to count flights. I've looked around the net and haven't had any luck so thought I'd ask on here. Thx in advance to you or anyone else who may have some input.
Maybe the author will chime in ;)
Hi, can you check in the telemtry tab, if the RSSI have a blinking dot? What protocol do you use? Does it really have rssi?
It's showing an RSSI change in the Guage I have so I'm assuming it does. I'm using ELRS but it is an spi reciever from happymodel. It's a quad. Moblite7 4 in 1 FC. Are you referring to telemetry tab in Edge? Thanks a million for both of you replying so quickly.
@@james23a elrs does not have RSSI, you probably have invalid sensors, please go to the telemetry tab, press “delete all sensors”, then press “discover new” then check again
@Offer Shmuely Ok will do. Thank you sir!!!
Hello, why didn't put a wizard for Helicopters in EdgeTX ?
I don't know.
@@RCVideoReviews ok thanks.
@@CheChe1061 it's on the way:
github.com/EdgeTX/edgetx-sdcard/pull/92
Looks like the Value 2 widget is broken, it does not work with EdgeTX 2.8
I am updating it to be a smart one 🙂
it will show on the same widget also the mix & mx value, and will automatically detect the battery disconnection, so the current value size will be shrink, and the min/max values will be larger
please wait a week or two...
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Fast Freddie strikes again!
17:17 is there a way to tell if global variables and logical switches or special functions are used? I wouldn’t want the widget to override a global variable, or other item that I’m already using.
Widgets don't write logical switches/special functions. I have seen them use global variables. You'd have to add the widget and inspect the GVs to see if any are used. I usually set things like this up on a test model first to avoid issues with actual models.