Need advise, what goes with Holybro Kakute F4 and DSMX ?

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uneasy

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I decided I want to build my first drone ( not racing drone ). I am quiet good with electronics, software etc so that won't be problem.

But currently I am trying to choose parts for my build, and I am overwhelmed. Because I want flight controller supported by ArduPilot firmware ( https://ardupilot.org/rover/docs/common-autopilots.html ) , I am going with
Holybro Kakute F4 - seems reasonable price and features

But I am having problem with selecting receiver. I have Transmiter Devo 7E which deviation firmware that supports DSM2 and DSMX. I have my Nano Blade heli working with it.
So I am looking for receiver that supports DSMX transmitter Spectrum satellite plus will support telemetry.
I think I am just reading receiver specs wrong, but I can't seem to find anything that suits my need.

Any advise would be appreciated.
 
wafflejock

wafflejock

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I've used a few spektrum receivers but can't say that any of them gave me any sort of telemetry or RSSI (but I did feel they are very good with regard to low latency and fairly solid connection I only once ever lost control signal for more than a moment and it was because there was a hill between me and the quad).

Anyway looks like they have started to roll out some new telemetry focused changes:

SRXL2 DSMX Remote Serial Telemetry Receiver | Spektrum

The SRXL2 DSMX Remote Serial Telemetry Receiver from Spektrum, the leader in spread spectrum radio control.
www.spektrumrc.com www.spektrumrc.com
github.com

Releases · SpektrumRC/betaflight

Open Source Flight Controller Firmware. Contribute to SpektrumRC/betaflight development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com github.com
 
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uneasy

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Oh thanks, that looks nice, but also looks like project is dead?

I am but confused now, after more reading witch what receivers will work with flight controller I picked and dsmx transmiter.

Looks like no matter what, telemetry is not really an option.
I know flight controller doesn't support PPM and PWM receivers so that closes search slightly.

I can't see SRXL2 being supported either, or I am missing the point?
 
wafflejock

wafflejock

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uneasy said:
Oh thanks, that looks nice, but also looks like project is dead?

I am but confused now, after more reading witch what receivers will work with flight controller I picked and dsmx transmiter.

Looks like no matter what, telemetry is not really an option.
I know flight controller doesn't support PPM and PWM receivers so that closes search slightly.

I can't see SRXL2 being supported either, or I am missing the point?
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Which project is dead, not following, to me looks like spectrum released receiver and made version of betaflight for it based on BF 4.1, BF incorporated the changes and so the fork is no longer needed and you should see this option as a drop-down in BF 4.2 (pretty sure latest)
 
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PanKek

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uneasy said:
Just to confirm, got my SRXL2 receiver SPM4651T and it works perfect with my Devo 7E Transmitter with Deviation firmware. I get all the telemetry from Kakute F4 V2
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Hi. I am trying to bind a SPM4650 (SRXL2) micro receiver with my Devo 7E transmitter running devo7e-v5.0.0 , with no luck. Flight controller is a Betafpv F405. The receiver goes into bind mode, but it wont bind with Devo 7e under DSMX protocol. How you manage to bind your receiver?

Please advise
 
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