Can I Update My Taranis Firmware With Just A Sd Card And Opentx 2.2?

The Taranis Q X7 is an crawly new radio from FrSky that is budget priced, just over $100 and stocked full of premium features like a backlight screen, audio output, an SDCard for tons and tons of models and not to mention, ever switch is 3-position.

This is a huge upgrade from my FlySky 9x and probably the best value radio on the market place today. Not only is the FrSky protocol the best amidst many manufacturers, simply the radio quality and features are outstanding.

That said, I pre-ordered every bit early on as possible, so I assume I take 1 of the earliest versions. The hardware doesn't change, but the firmware mine shipped with was slightly broken. I couldn't change the channel society, only updating to version 2.0.0N366 fixed this issues. It'south all the same early on days in terms of firmware for this radio. I don't think there is a stable release nonetheless. The nightly is working fine for me.

Unboxing

Cool box. I call back it's fantastic when manufacturers relieve a few dollars on the box, while yet making information technology wait skillful, and laissez passer those savings onto the states!

Woah, what'due south that green thing?!

Module bay and battery pack cover.

Take off the battery pack cover and there's a AA tray.

But if you remove this, by pulling upwards gently, there is room for a lipo or the NiMh battery pack.

Oooooh, a battery!? I've heard these aren't usually included with the radio... not certain why I got 1, but information technology'south great!

Grit encompass on the ports, on the bottom of the radio.

From left to right, smart port, micro sdcard slot, and usb port.

Teardown

Let'southward take it autonomously!

The main MCU is a STM32f205.

Setup

Out of the box, both of my gimbal sticks are centered. If this is the case for you, you'll demand to open upwards your radio and adjust one of the gimbals. You'll desire to loosen the screw that is belongings spring taught, so it has every bit little friction as possible, then tighten the screw that holds the bar on the outside down, out of the fashion. Finally, tighten the spiral on the clamp, either the smooth or clicky clamp, your choice.

Update Firmware

Download and install the latest OpenTX companion. I'll be using the Release Candidate (RC) 9 from here, equally it'south the latest version available every bit I'm writing this: http://www.open-tx.org/2017/01/25/opentx-ii.ii.0RC9. Scroll to the bottom of the mail service to find the software.

Open the OpenTX Companion, click the settings icon (gear) in the toolbar and pick the x7 option from the radio type driblet downwards item. I'll too enable lua scripts and the sqt5font.

Under the application settings tab, enable OpenTX nightly builds.

Shut the application settings and open up the download dialog. Click Download FW and striking OK.

Star the radio in bootloader mode by pushing both trim buttons towards the eye then pressing the power button. Don't hold downwards the power button, simply press and let become.

Plug in your radio via the USB cable. Click the flash firmware icon on the left and click "Write to TX"

I did brand a backup of my manufacturing plant installed firmware. You tin get a copy hither, should you demand it for some reason: https://www.dropbox.com/due south/c47tn2xbg28cddo/original-firmware.bin?dl=1

SDCard

To enable the vocalism characteristic, download the latest SDCard contents here, it volition be named something like sdcard-taranis-x7-two.2V0008.goose egg, unzip the file and copy the contents to an SDCard.

Audio

Overview: https://github.com/opentx/opentx-taranis-transmission/hulk/main/advanced-features.medico#audio

Be sure to set the sample rate to 32kHz

Record wav files with Brazenness

One time y'all've recorded the file, pick Tracks -> Stero Track to Mono otherwise the sound playback will be really slow and distorted.

I named all the files with a leading 0, so the file names are different than the default sounds. The whole proper noun can't be more than 8 characters, not including .wav. Copy these files onto the SDCard into the sounds/en/ (or whatever linguistic communication yous're using) binder.

To play the file, open the model configuration (short press the hamburger button) and go to the special functions folio. Add together a row and flip the switch you desire to use, putting it into the position it will be in for a given way, and then choose the Play Track pick and pick your wav file.

Configuration

Configuration is a huge topic and could be a guide in itself. I'll just go over the highlights here.

Offset by property the hamburger carte du jour button, scroll to the bottom of the commencement page and set the default channel lodge. I apply the BetaFlight channel lodge which his TAER. If yous take a model you created afterward this setting was changed or you want to switch a specific model to use a different channel lodge. You tin can always change this by going into the model's settings (short printing of the hamburger button, instead of a long printing) and setting information technology on the inputs page.

You'll besides want to change the subtrims so that you go an exact m-2000 range when looking at the BetaFlight configurator. Be certain to do this for all channels that y'all use, including AUX channels.