Qx7 Wont Turn on After Firmware Update

I will explain why EdgeTX is better than OpenTX and how to flash it to your radio, more specifically the Radiomaster TX16S. The steps might be different for other radios, simply you can follow the official guide if in doubt.

What is EdgeTX?

EdgeTX is an open source firmware for RC radio transmitters.

The pop OpenTX project is known to take a slow footstep development, so EdgeTX team took information technology upon themselves and endeavor to bring faster radio firmware development to the RC/FPV customs.

If yous don’t want to wait a long time for new features to be implemented in OpenTX, then you could give EdgeTX a try today. EdgeTX is a fork of OpenTX, which means it’s very like to OpenTX (so there’s not much to re-acquire), and it should work on any OpenTX radios.

Advantages over OpenTX

Apart from the faster development we simply mentioned, here is a list of advantages that EdgeTX has over OpenTX, Correct Now! The list keeps growing.

500Hz Gimbal Polling

RC systems that can run at 500Hz update rates (such as
ImmersionRC Ghost
and
ExpressLRS) will benefit greatly from the 500Hz gimbal polling. It reduces the latency in gimbal commands and maximize performance potential.

Touchscreen Back up

Touchscreen finally works on the
Radiomaster TX16S! Just to give you a few examples how it works:

• By tapping any open up space on the home screen volition bring upward the menu: Select Model, Aqueduct Monitor, Model Settings, Radio Settings etc
• You can slide your finger left and right on Home screen to go to a dissimilar screen without using the buttons
• By double borer a widget, it goes total screen (or long press and select total screen), which open up a whole world of opportunities for future widget/scripted APP development

The touchscreen actually speeds things up once you lot get the hang of it.

Redesigned Graphical User Interface

The new interface looks pretty awesome.

This is the model contour.

No More Inverter Mod on QX7

Some radios that has slow inverter circuit similar the Frsky QX7 require the hardware inverter mod in order to run CRSF protocol (due east.g. Crossfire and ExpressLRS), which involves soldering on the PCB. The good news is, if you run EdgeTX, y’all no longer demand to perform the hardware inverter modern. The issue has been addressed in the software (by enabling OneBit Mode).

Lower Latency in FPV Sims

When playing FPV simulators on a reckoner, the latency of your command is really quite high with OpenTX. EdgeTX managed to reduce the latency significantly in the software. This control latency can directly affect the feel and physics of the simulator, and ultimately the quality of your preparation.

Flysky NV14 Back up

EdgeTX fully supports the Flysky NV14 (Nirvana), which used to crave a custom firmware equally the standard OpenTX firmware doesn’t support information technology (however).

Themes

Customizing themes will be easier in EdgeTX. It comes with a theme editor and some default themes that look really cool. In that location’s even a theme library you can just download and try a ton of themes created by the customs.

Should I Try EdgeTX Now?

Some people are notwithstanding sceptical almost how reliable EdgeTX is compared to OpenTX. If you accept time, just give it a endeavour, if you don’t similar it you can always go dorsum to OpenTX. And if y’all are not certain, perhaps you lot should just stay on OpenTX, it’s stable and information technology also works fine. Only for me personally, the touchscreen alone is worth switching over to, non to mention the other benefits that EdgeTX has to offer.

How to Flash EdgeTX

Before You Do Anything, Beware…

Later flashing EdgeTX, all your model settings will stay the same. All the same… You will lose all the widgets and theme settings. Y’all will have to to ready them up once again (on each model). Currently in that location is no fashion to back up widgets, simply it only takes a few minutes to setup anyway, not that big of a deal, merely make sure you accept some shots of how it’due south setup before flashing.

Official Documentation

You will find nigh all the info you need to flash EdgeTX on the official website:
https://edgetx.org/getedgetx

Just I will testify you how I installed information technology on my TX16S anyway, I will explicate all the steps with images. If y’all are using other radios, please refer to the installation guide on EdgeTX’southward website.

Dorsum Upwardly Radio

Before flashing, you lot should kickoff fill-in your radio. If you don’t like EdgeTX, or if anything goes wrong you lot tin can roll back to your original OpenTX arrangement.

Re-create everything on the SD bill of fare to a folder on your computer. If you lot take an SD card reader, it’s faster to merely take the SD card out of the radio and do that. If non just use a USB cablevision.

Check out
my guide on how to fill-in your OpenTX radio.

Update SD Card Content

The EdgeTX SD card contents tin be found here:
https://github.com/EdgeTX/edgetx-sdcard/releases

The list below shows which .cypher file to use for unlike radio types:

• horus.zip
  (480×272 Horizontal Color Screen) –
  TX16s, T16, Horus x10s,Horus x12s, Nigh color screen radios…
• nv14.nix – FlySky Nirvana NV14
• taranis-x7.zip (128×64 BW Screens) -T-Calorie-free, QX7, X9 Lite, X-Lite, Ten-Lite Pro
• taranis-x9.cipher (212×64 BW Screens) – X9D, X9D Plus, X9D Plus 2019

To admission the SD carte du jour within the radio, plug in USB cable, you volition be prompted what you desire to do, select “USB Storage”.

A new bulldoze will appear on your computer, which is the SD card inside the radio. You can delete everything on the SD carte (or correct click on this drive and select Format, make sure it is set to fat32), and so copy the new SD carte du jour content to this drive.

To import your models from OpenTX, only re-create the
MODELS
and
RADIO
folders from the backed up SD card content to your new EdgeTX SD Menu. Now is also the time to copy over any custom sounds, model images, widgets or Lua scripts to their respective folders.

Note that the SD carte content doesn’t include whatever sound files, you need to download the sound pack separately here:
https://github.com/EdgeTX/edgetx-sdcard-sounds/releases

Available languages are: Chinese, Cecz, German, English language, Spanish, French, Italian, Russian, Portuguese.

Download EdgeTX Firmware

Now download EdgeTX firmware hither:
https://github.com/EdgeTX/edgetx/releases/latest
(the file is called “edgetx-firmware-vX.10.X.zip“)

Scroll all the mode down on that page, you will observe the link for “edgetx-firmware-vXXXX.zip“. Unzip the downloaded file and y’all volition find a list of firmware files for all the radios EdgeTX supports.

Copy the firmware .bin file for your radio to the FIRMWARE binder on the SD menu.

You may at present unplug the USB cablevision, but earlier you lot practice, brand sure to select “Eject Storage” on your computer. If you don’t do this, your SD card could be corrupted.

Now when you reboot the radio, you will go an SD menu alert, which is normal and to be expected. Just printing any key to skip that.

Flash EdgeTX Bootloader

Power on your radio, long press the carte button volition have yous to the system menu, press the side by side folio central and go to the SD card page.

Go into the FIRMWARE folder, and you will observe the EdgeTX firmware bin file we put there earlier.

Press the ENT button and select “Flash bootloader“. When it’due south washed, but power downwards the radio.

Flash EdgeTX Firmware

Now enter Bootloader fashion.

The screen will look different – it should say “EdgeTX Bootloader” on the meridian, considering we flashed it in the previous step.

Now select “Write Firmware”, and notice the EdgeTX firmware bin file.

Long press the roller push to flash firmware. When information technology’southward done, yous tin go dorsum to the principal bill of fare and select “EXIT“.

Upon rebooting, you will get a storage warning, SD card conversion required. But press the ENT button and the radio volition do the rest for you.

Setup Radio After Flashing EdgeTX

If y’all oasis’t done it already, the showtime thing is to copy all the custom images and scripts you had on previous OpenTX (just re-create the IMAGE and SCRIPT folders to the SD carte du jour).

Make sure y’all selected the correct Internal Module in the system. To practise this, hold downwardly the SYS cardinal, and go to the “Hardware” folio. Scroll down to “Internal Module”, and choose the right module. For example, for 4in1 multi-protocol module, select “MULTI”. For ELRS, select “CRSF”. If you failed to exercise this, you are non going to go the correct option in the “Internal RF” in Model Setup.

Y’all demand to re-calibrate the sticks and sliders. You also need to re-calibrate battery reading (against your multimeter would be a good thought, or plug the battery into a charger should besides give you a relatively accurate reading).

Then choose a theme you like. Y’all can find more themes hither if you don’t wanna customize your own:
https://giters.com/EdgeTX/themes#list-of-themes-bachelor

Next is to setup the widgets.

Usually you want to display telemetry data like battery voltage, RSSI and Link quality etc, so offset thing to practice is to ability up your quad, and discover telemetry sensors to get a list of available telemetry information. If yous already have them, you can effort deleting them and discover again, this ensure yous get the most up to appointment list of data.

Customizing top bar widgets.

Selecting a telemetry data to identify on top bar.

This is how I setup my widgets.

Setup the two knobs (rotary switches) to adjust backlight level and volume which is very handy. You can do this in Global Functions (radio settings).

You can besides disable the touch screen if you don’t like it, or disable/enable it using a switch. Go to Global function, create a new function, assign a switch, select function “No bear upon”. It’due south popular to use the arm switch to disable the touch screen, because nosotros don’t commonly utilize the touch screen when flying.

EdgeTX Companion

If you ever used OpenTX earlier, you lot should know OpenTX Companion. It’s a handy tool/software for

• reading the settings on the radio and allow you modify information technology more than easily using your mouse and keyboard
• compiling and flashing firmware to your radio
• backup/restore radio settings and model profiles

EdgeTX also has its ain Companion software. Currently it looks identical to the OpenTX one. The only difference is that you lot tin can’t compile firmware with information technology (nonetheless), but it’s nonetheless useful for backing upwardly models and settings, and the rest of the functions. You can download it here:
https://github.com/EdgeTX/edgetx/releases/

Roll all the way down on that page, and detect the link for “edgetx-cpn-XXXX-vXXXX.nothing“.

Update Internal Multi-Protocol Module

After flashing EdgeTX, yous might get a “Module Update Recommended” message in the Internal RF Module Condition, if your radio has an internal Multi-protocol module.

You should update it and information technology’due south easy to do.

Download the firmware here:
https://downloads.multi-module.org/?rmtx16s

There are two files you need to download:

• There are 3 “.bin” files, pick the one that matches your channel map order in your radio (you lot tin notice out in the Mixer page in your radio model setup). For example, AETR means Channel ane = “Aileron” (curlicue), Ch2 = “Elevon” (pitch), Ch3 = “Throttle”, and Ch4 = “Rudder” (yaw).
• MultiLuaScripts.zip

Connect USB cablevision to the radio while it’s powered on, you will be prompted with 3 options, select “USB Storage (SD)”. Two external drive should appear on your computer, find the ane with lots of folders, including a folder called “FIRMWARE”.

Copy the “.bin” file you simply downloaded in the “FIRMWARE” folder.

The “MultiLuaScripts.aught” file contains LUA scripts you lot need to supersede the old ones with on the Radio’south SD carte du jour. Simply unzip this file, and copy the “SCRIPT” folder, when prompted just select “overwrite everything”.

You tin can now disconnect the USB cable, and restart the radio.

Long press “SYS” key on your radio, scroll to the second page “SD-HC Card”. You should see the “FIRMWARE” folder in that location, click on that.

Look for the “.bin” file you just placed there. Click on information technology, and select the option “Flash internal multi”, and the update will start. It should simply take a minute or so.

Once the update is complete, y’all tin go to Model Setup, Internal RF, and check Module Status and see if the firmware version is the same as the one yous just flashed, and the “Module Update Recommended” warning should be gone.