FPV Tutorial: BetaFlight Basics Intro - What is it & what's all this about ?
165This is the start of a new playlist that runs hand-in-hand with the "Tips for new quad flyers" videos - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7WaECFssECJITJMCyVrwp4WezSHTWbmN
The next part of this series (part 1) deals with how to flash your flight controller, and is here -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ESltDfuFAs
Part 2 deals with what the port tab is for and how to use UARTS
https://youtu.be/CQDRDiLuQxo
Part 3 covers the configuration tab
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpjdrNv1Nuc
Part 4 talks about the Fail safe tab
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mnALufTLLg
Part 5 deals with the PID Tuning tab
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPPcQgjpRjI
Part 6 looks at the receiver tab
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwWQ_i7N0_8
I will be coming back to make more of the "Tips for new quad flyers" videos, but I need to digress quickly in order to make sure that people are comfortable with the basics of BetaFlight. Don't worry, this is not in-depth stuff talking about every little tuning parameter, the idea of this is to cover what you need to know to do the vast majority of what you'll need.
We're starting off this time with the basics of what Betaflight it, where to get it, run it and how to find out what version of Betaflight your quad is running, and more importantly which specific flight controller the firmware is designed for.
I ran through the downloads/links pretty quickly, so here they are again -
The Chrome browser is available from here -
https://www.google.co.uk/chrome/browser/desktop/
The Chrome app store is here -
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/extensions
Here's a link to the app store search if you can't be bothered to type "betaflight" -
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/betaflight
Finally, you find your apps in Chrome by entering this in the URL window (there are actually lots of ways of getting to your apps, but here's one of them) -
chrome://apps/
In the next part, we'll delve into flashing the firmware, which seems to fill people with dread, but really, it's nothing to worry about.
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