Please Help - can't get BetaFPV and TinyHawk2 working

scotiwis

scotiwis

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Hi, hopefully someone can help as I am losing hair rapidly.

I purchased locally here in New Zealand:
BetaFPV LiteRadio 2 FrSky
TinyHawk 2 BNF

I am totally new to drones/quads so I read first that I need to bind them by changing the radio to D8, which I did, and then hit Bind on the radio and the TH.
They definitely appear to be communicating as after I bound them the lights on the TH change when I power the radio on and off, also when I flick the SC switch to the upper position all the lights on the TH come on and it beeps continuously.

Moving the throttle up on the radio has no effect on the TH though.
So I next read that I need to assign one of the switches on the radio to ARM - is that correct?
To do that I installed BetaFlight Configurator on my pc (Windows 10) and installed the STM USB and CP210x drivers (installed both coz no clue which I need).

I then powered on the radio and attached it to my pc via USB.
In Device Manager the radio showed as "BETTER_USB_HS" under libsub-win32 devices
Betaflight couldn't detect it (just shows COM1 and can't connect) so I followed instructions for Zadig and ImpulseRC Driver Fixer
In Zadig I chose "BetaFPV Taranis Joystick" and changed the driver from libusb to WinUSB (v6.1.7600.16385).
This resulted in Device Manager showing "BetaFPV Taranis Joystick" under USB Devices
Still no change in BetaFlight (choices are COM1 or Manual but both say 'no configuration received' when I hit Connect)
I then tried ImpulseRC Driver Fixer but it just sits at "searching for flight controller" forever
I also tried installing the demo of FPVFreeRider but it couldn't detect the radio either

I attempted all of the above on a different pc and a laptop, exact same results.
I also tried multiple USB cables, even bought a new one that specifically states data transfer + charge, but same results.

So I have no clue where to go from here.
I'm assuming I'm correct in thinking that I need to set a switch on the radio to 'arm' to make the throttle work?
And that I specifically need Betaflight to do this?

Any advice greatly welcomed!

Thanks
 
Dugdog47

Dugdog47

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No you got it all wrong lol (sorry I'm laughing WITH you) you have to hook up your kwad (drone) to betaflight and set up an arm switch on the kwad, not your radio. There are videos on youtube, just type in "tinyhawk frysky setup" should pop right up.
 
wafflejock

wafflejock

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Hah yah got about half way through before realized what our new bud here was saying :D

It is confusing so don't fault you for the confusion but yah you need to hook up the USB on the quad (it is basically right behind/below the camera on the tiny hawk 2). Once you have the quad flight controller (which is in the quad) hooked up to the computer then can configure the 'receiver' and 'modes' (within betaflight changing settings saved to the quad) to make sure the transmitter or controller you hold in your hands is being interpreted appropriately by the flight controller in the quad.
 
Dugdog47

Dugdog47

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I hope I didn't scare the guy off, I must of read this entire post 5 times before I realized he was doing it wrong. No shame in that we were all newbies once lol we aren't all geniuses like @wafflejock and I are! :cool: :cool: :D:D
 
scotiwis

scotiwis

New Member
Hey guys, yip you were of course spot on, hooked the TH2 up to the pc and reconfigured, now good to go :)
The joys of being a newbie ha
 
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den5000

New Member
Low quality and terrible customer service don't buy it..

I sincerely regret that I bought this from them. First of all I bought drone and two batteries for it. One battery arrived dead. Drone stopped working during first attempt to fly it. But when I contact them to change it (I understand that it complicated electronics and things happened). They propose me to fix it by myself even if it under 30 days warranty. Do not buy from them. There is plenty other drone makers around.
https://imgur.com/I6ayDNGl
 
wafflejock

wafflejock

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You didn't actually mention who you bought through so not sure who it is you're getting bad support from. Racedayquads has been good with customer service in my experience they replaced one of my buddies TH2 cause control link stopped working and we tried debugging with them. Really not worth the time effort and cost to ship things around if issues can be diagnosed and repaired by end user so was fine with doing some troubleshooting steps they offered and when it didn't work they replaced. Also another incident where a esc was bad and cooked a new motor and they just replaced that one no questions asked really. Ultimately depends on who you buy through and what support they offer don't expect to get a lot of support from China or mfgs direct, it's nice if they can do it but not expected at this point :)
 
wafflejock

wafflejock

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Gotcha thanks for heads up I have a tiny whoop from betafpv as well but bought off Amazon a long time ago and has generally been good but not sure how they are on average with quality control or customer support... Sorry to hear it's been bad.
 
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