and use SBUS if possible, but you can substitute PPM if you really need to.
SBUS has the advantage of signalling a failsafe in the serial data instead of relying (only) on throttle below failsafe (and channels going to values set when the “PPM failsafe” button was clicked)
SBUS is a serial protocol with RSSI info and other things contained within, where PPM is more like old fashioned PWM.