A while back I reviewed the Flysky i10 radio. It is a great radio for the price, but I needed PPM output from the receiver in order to feed my Pixhawk. PPM is a single wire interface for all channels, in place of the one-cable-per-channel PWM interface, which is about 40 years old.
The manual tells you nothing about how to do this, but the online forums were filled with people saying it could be done. I tried everything, and could not find a way to do it.
Finally, I found a bunch of postings about a very helpful fellow at Diamond Hobby, Jim Ogorek, who might be able to help (email: jim@diamondhobby.com). In spite of the fact that I bought the radio through another retailer, Amazon, he helped me by sending me the update software for the radio. Note that there are two versions, US and China. I needed China because my radio showed up as a "CN" device on windows.
After running the software on my PC and connecting up the radio, I was able to update the transmitter, and it then updated the receiver, and bingo, I had PPM! You go to the receiver menu on the transmitter and there is a simple check box for PPM and it enables PPM output on ch1 of the receiver. Works like a charm.
The manual tells you nothing about how to do this, but the online forums were filled with people saying it could be done. I tried everything, and could not find a way to do it.
Finally, I found a bunch of postings about a very helpful fellow at Diamond Hobby, Jim Ogorek, who might be able to help (email: jim@diamondhobby.com). In spite of the fact that I bought the radio through another retailer, Amazon, he helped me by sending me the update software for the radio. Note that there are two versions, US and China. I needed China because my radio showed up as a "CN" device on windows.
After running the software on my PC and connecting up the radio, I was able to update the transmitter, and it then updated the receiver, and bingo, I had PPM! You go to the receiver menu on the transmitter and there is a simple check box for PPM and it enables PPM output on ch1 of the receiver. Works like a charm.
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