Just got back into the hobby after a 20-year hiatus now that I've got a little one fascinated by airplanes. Trainer worked out just fine, so it was time to move up in the world. I picked up one of the 1450mm FMS P51s, and after looking at the available options figured the Taranis QX7S fit the bill.
I know, I know, the scuttlebutt is that the Frsky units are hard on beginners. But the functionality-per-dollar factor got to me, and I figured, hey -- I've built my own water-cooled computers, these complaints are only from guys who don't know their way around a command line.
Boy, was I wrong. Only half the complexity of working with the Taranis is a result of the openness of an open-source firmware that allows tremendous flexibility to those who can handle it. The other half owes to stupid design decisions and a complete lack of documentation. For example, I'm trying to set SA to be a 2-position switch controlling the gear, so I open up the menu, go to input 5 (which I assume, I think correctly, that this correlates with channel 5) and look around. One of the first menu options is "input," which logically has to refer to a logical input on the RX...right? Except it doesn't. You can write in whatever you want, just as if you were naming the input for your own convenience. WTF. Why doesn't "input" refer to the "inputs" on the RX?
Long story short, I can't get the goddamn thing working, and as someone who has just-this-side-of-zero free time, this is killing my soul. Does someone have an up-to-date user's guide? The only one I've found dates back to the dark days of the X9. Or should I just give the $!^&&* up and get a Spectrum?
-jhm-
I know, I know, the scuttlebutt is that the Frsky units are hard on beginners. But the functionality-per-dollar factor got to me, and I figured, hey -- I've built my own water-cooled computers, these complaints are only from guys who don't know their way around a command line.
Boy, was I wrong. Only half the complexity of working with the Taranis is a result of the openness of an open-source firmware that allows tremendous flexibility to those who can handle it. The other half owes to stupid design decisions and a complete lack of documentation. For example, I'm trying to set SA to be a 2-position switch controlling the gear, so I open up the menu, go to input 5 (which I assume, I think correctly, that this correlates with channel 5) and look around. One of the first menu options is "input," which logically has to refer to a logical input on the RX...right? Except it doesn't. You can write in whatever you want, just as if you were naming the input for your own convenience. WTF. Why doesn't "input" refer to the "inputs" on the RX?
Long story short, I can't get the goddamn thing working, and as someone who has just-this-side-of-zero free time, this is killing my soul. Does someone have an up-to-date user's guide? The only one I've found dates back to the dark days of the X9. Or should I just give the $!^&&* up and get a Spectrum?
-jhm-
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