I am building a 5" quad running arducopter 4.1.0 dev, and the goal here is to use FrSky FPort, supported on version 4.1.0 dev and later.
Getting this to work was getting frustrating for me and was very hard to setup until then suddenly, the right pieces of information clicked and it was easy. For anyone’s benefit that can find this information useful, here it is.
Flight Controller: Matek F405SE, Arducopter 4.1.0 dev
Receiver: R9MM receiver and R9M 2019 Module
For additional reference:
https://ardupilot.org/copter/docs/common-FPort-receivers.html
https://ardupilot.org/copter/docs/common-connecting-sport-fport.html
High level steps:
- Flash 2009 R9M Flex Firmware on Transmitter Module (R9M_FLEX.frk)
- Flash 2009 R9MM Flex Fport firmware on receiver (R9_MM_FLEX_Fport.frk)
- Connect receiver to G, 5V, Tx5 or Tx3 on Flight Controller, per wiring diagram. (Would not work on Tx2)
- Set Serial5 Baud 115
- Set Serial5 Protocol 23
- Set Serial5 Options 7
- Set RSSI_TYPE = 3
- Run Yaapu Telemetry script on radio (TX16S)
- Discover sensors with Yaapu running, this is needed to discover sensors with passthrough telemetry from FC
Something that caused me trouble is that I expected this to work on TX2 and I tried many things until I decided to use TX3 and TX5 to test. Would work on the later 2 but would never work on the former.
