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4.8 KiB
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117 lines
4.8 KiB
Markdown
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Betaflight is flight controller software (firmware) used to fly multi-rotor craft and fixed wing craft.
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This fork differs from Baseflight and Cleanflight in that it focuses on flight performance, leading-edge feature additions, and wide target support.
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## Features
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Betaflight has the following features:
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* Multi-color RGB LED strip support (each LED can be a different color using variable length WS2811 Addressable RGB strips - use for Orientation Indicators, Low Battery Warning, Flight Mode Status, Initialization Troubleshooting, etc)
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* DShot (150, 300, 600 and 1200), Multishot, and Oneshot (125 and 42) motor protocol support
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* Blackbox flight recorder logging (to onboard flash or external microSD card where equipped)
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* Support for targets that use the STM32 F7, F4, F3 and F1 processors
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* PWM, PPM, and Serial (SBus, SumH, SumD, Spektrum 1024/2048, XBus, etc) RX connection with failsafe detection
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* Multiple telemetry protocols (CSRF, FrSky, HoTT smart-port, MSP, etc)
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* RSSI via ADC - Uses ADC to read PWM RSSI signals, tested with FrSky D4R-II, X8R, X4R-SB, & XSR
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* OSD support & configuration without needing third-party OSD software/firmware/comm devices
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* OLED Displays - Display information on: Battery voltage/current/mAh, profile, rate profile, mode, version, sensors, etc
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* In-flight manual PID tuning and rate adjustment
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* Rate profiles and in-flight selection of them
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* Configurable serial ports for Serial RX, Telemetry, ESC telemetry, MSP, GPS, OSD, Sonar, etc - Use most devices on any port, softserial included
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* VTX support for Unify Pro and IRC Tramp
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* and MUCH, MUCH more.
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## Installation & Documentation
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See: https://github.com/betaflight/betaflight/wiki
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## IRC Support and Developers Channel
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There's a dedicated Slack chat channel here:
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http://www.betaflight.ch/
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Etiquette: Don't ask to ask and please wait around long enough for a reply - sometimes people are out flying, asleep or at work and can't answer immediately.
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## Configuration Tool
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To configure Betaflight you should use the Betaflight-configurator GUI tool (Windows/OSX/Linux) that can be found here:
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https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/betaflight-configurator/kdaghagfopacdngbohiknlhcocjccjao
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The source for it is here:
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https://github.com/betaflight/betaflight-configurator
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## Contributing
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Contributions are welcome and encouraged. You can contribute in many ways:
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* Documentation updates and corrections.
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* How-To guides - received help? Help others!
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* Bug reporting & fixes.
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* New feature ideas & suggestions.
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The best place to start is the IRC channel on gitter (see above), drop in, say hi. Next place is the github issue tracker:
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https://github.com/betaflight/betaflight/issues
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https://github.com/betaflight/betaflight-configurator/issues
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Before creating new issues please check to see if there is an existing one, search first otherwise you waste peoples time when they could be coding instead!
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## Developers
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Please refer to the development section in the `docs/development` folder.
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TravisCI is used to run automatic builds
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https://travis-ci.org/betaflight/betaflight
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[](https://travis-ci.org/betaflight/betaflight)
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## Betaflight Releases
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https://github.com/betaflight/betaflight/releases
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## Open Source / Contributors
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Betaflight is software that is **open source** and is available free of charge without warranty to all users.
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Betaflight is forked from Cleanflight, so thanks goes to all those whom have contributed to Cleanflight and its origins.
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Origins for this fork (Thanks!):
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* **Alexinparis** (for MultiWii),
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* **timecop** (for Baseflight),
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* **Dominic Clifton** (for Cleanflight), and
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* **Sambas** (for the original STM32F4 port).
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The Betaflight Configurator is forked from Cleanflight Configurator and its origins.
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Origins for Betaflight Configurator:
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* **Dominic Clifton** (for Cleanflight configurator), and
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* **ctn** (for the original Configurator).
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Big thanks to current and past contributors:
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* Budden, Martin (martinbudden)
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* Bardwell, Joshua (joshuabardwell)
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* Blackman, Jason (blckmn)
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* ctzsnooze
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* Höglund, Anders (andershoglund)
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* Ledvina, Petr (ledvinap) - **IO code awesomeness!**
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* kc10kevin
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* Keeble, Gary (MadmanK)
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* Keller, Michael (mikeller) - **Configurator brilliance**
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* Kravcov, Albert (skaman82) - **Configurator brilliance**
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* MJ666
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* Nathan (nathantsoi)
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* ravnav
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* sambas - **bringing us the F4**
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* savaga
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* Stålheim, Anton (KiteAnton)
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And many many others who haven't been mentioned....
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