For Beta Release Notes please scroll down
V1.57 2016-10-17 ( including versions from V1.53 to V1.57 )
Most important changes:
- added: Support for completely legal use for countries following FCC, C-Tick and ETSI
- added: Region selection ( open, FCC, C-Tick and CE/ETSI ). Selecting any beside open will
lock the system according to selected rules. Only allowed setting will be available
by OLED menu once the system is locked.
- added: Konami code to unlock the system once locked
( up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, enter, enter )
- added: Channel based spectrum analyzer for noise floor, LQ and SNR
- added: CRSF V2 support including telemetry and even lower latency between Open-TX and Crossfire
( requires Open-TX 2.2.x beta and lua script on SD card )
- added Selectable SBUS rate ( use 50Hz max for DJI FCs )
- added: Factory reset
- improved Better concept for dynamic power to avoid power ramping up fast if not required
- Known issue: System reverts frequency to 868Mhz when binding or OTA updading receiver.
More details below:
V1.57 2016-10-17
- fixed: False RC failsafe message using APM FC with Android Tower App.
- fixed: Unstable uplink using CRSF between RC and TBS CROSSFIRE for certain units
V1.55 2016-10-08
- added: Factory reset
- improved: Timing for Bluetooth and CRSF communication
- improved: Noise floor measurement
- fixed: 12 channel mode working with telemetry off
- fixed: Dynamic power setting doesn't get lost during power cycle
- fixed: 12 channel PPM doesn't send servo min position until link established the first time
V1.53 2016-09-20
- added: Support for completely legal use for countries following FCC, C-Tick and ETSI
- added: Region selection ( open, FCC, C-Tick and CE/ETSI ). Selecting any beside open will
lock the system according to selected rules. Only allowed setting will be available
by OLED menu once the system is locked.
- added: Konami code to unlock the system once locked
( up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, enter, enter )
- added: Channel based specturm analyzer for noise floor, LQ and SNR
- added: CRSF V2 support including telemetry and even lower latency between Open-TX and Crossfire
( requires Open-TX 2.2.x beta and lua script on SD card )
- added: Selectable SBUS rate ( use 50Hz max for DJI FCs )
- improved: Better concept for dynamic power to avoid power ramping up fast if not required
V1.44 2016.08.26
- improved: More accurate power levels for 10mW, 25mW, 100mW and 500mW
- Warning: DJI FCs don't support 150Hz SBUS update rate. Please use PPM, disable telemetry
or update to V1.57 or higher.
V1.40 2016.07.26 ( including versions from V1.20 to V1.39 )
Most important changes:
- added: New high bandwidth and ultra low latency RF profile
- added: Up to 150Hz update rate for RC signals
- added: Serial bridge and full MAVLink support
- added: MAVLink parser added, feeding forward relevant data to the
TBS CORE PRO ( requires TBS CORE PRO firmware V1.38 or newer )
- added: MAVLink dynamic bandwidth control for incoming messages. This gives high update rate for forwarded
messages to BST and make the frames fit the downlink avoiding buffer overflow and high latency
- added: RC over MAVLink support added ( RC_CHANNELS_OVERRIDE ). Can be enabled on RX settings.
- added: Forward RC frame to core pro for menu navigation by sticks ( only if no mixer active on remote )
- added: Bluetooth mode selectable by menu
- added: Crossfire 8ch Diversity receiver can now update TBS BLACKBOX and XF micro receiver over USB and BST
- added: Menu option do disable telemetry downlink( under RX settings )
- modified: Intelligent RF profile selection ( new and current RF profile ) optimizing
for maximum bandwidth or long range
- added: Assume 100% LQ at 50Hz. Maximum refresh rate is 150Hz, so 300%. For better
understanding of link quality relative to signal throughput.
- improved: CRC protection improved to make the system even more resistant against picking up invalid frames
- improved: Receiver reacts on button in press event if in find mode
- improved: New failsafe shortcut ( joystick short down to long up ) to avoid setting failsafe when
remote is laying on the ground.
- fixed: Glitches or losing control of channel 5-8
More details below:
V1.39 2016.07.21
- added: Configure PX MAVLink stream for Crossfire ( no more extras file on SD for PX4 )
- added: Crossfire calculate used capacity for OSD as APM doesn't provide this information
- fixed: RC Failsafe message for tower app
- improved: Don't show downlink RSSI, SNR and LQ if telemetry is disabled
- improved: Receiver will wake up instantly and turn on green LED when pressing bind button in find mode.
Receiver shutting down by button (press button for 3s) in find mode will be confirmed
by blink code.
- improved: New failsafe shortcut ( joystick short down to long up ) to avoid setting failsafe when
remote is laying on the ground.
V1.36 2016.07.14
- improved: Don't set failsafe and packet loss bits for SBUS if failsafe type is "FS.POS."
V1.34 2016.06.24
- fixed: TX also enter find mode if link is active
- fixed: Full 150Hz update rate for SBUS
- improved: Firmware update stability
- improved: Failsafe cut for SBUS will keep sending an SBUS frame but with all values 0
- added: Failsafe and packet loss bits for SBUS
V1.31 2016.06.06
- fixed: Dynamic switching between RF profiles
- fixed: Headtracker roll source added
- improved: Update rate increades to 50Hz for normal update rate and 150Hz for high bandwidth RF profile
V1.23 2016-03-26
- improved: Dynamic RF profile switching
- fixed: Glitches or losing control of channel 5-8
- fixed: update rate limiter for SBUS and PPM over MAVLink
- Known issue: Sometimes 1s Failsafe. No issue if telemetry is disabled. Racers should be
flown without telemetry.
V1.20 2016-02-26
- added: New high bandwidth and ultra low latency RF profile
- added: 3 times faster RC update rate with new RF profile ( cuts down latency to 5ms best / 12ms worst )
- added: New selection for Output 8 ( Bridge and MAVLInk )
- added: Serial bridge support added. 1.2kB/s throughput with baudrate 57600. Output 8 ( uart TX ),
Output 7 ( uart RX ) and Output 6 ( uart RTS flow control )
- added: MAVLink support added. Baudrate 57600. Output 8 ( TX ) and Output 7 ( RX ) Can be connected
to any MAVLink telemetry port, gives full MAVLink support in new RF profile and basic support
in current RF profile
- added: MAVLink parser added, feeding forward relevant data to the
TBS CORE PRO ( requires TBS CORE PRO firmware V1.38 or newer )
- added: MAVLink dynamic bandwidth control for incoming messages. This gives high update rate
for forwarded messages to BST and make the frames fit the downlink avoiding buffer
overflow and high latency
- added: RC over MAVLink support added ( RC_CHANNELS_OVERRIDE ). Can be enabled on RX settings.
- modified: Intelligent RF profile selection ( new and current RF profile ) optimizing
for maximum bandwidth or long range
- fixed: Headtracker input support. Two channels ( pan and tilt ) can be mapped individually from any
HT Input channel to and overwrite a channel on the RC input frame
- added: Crossfire is a RC frame source via BST. Navigate through TBS CORE PRO menu with remote sticks,
without ColibriRACE ( TBS CORE PRO firmware V1.38 or newer )
- added: Bluetooth mode selection added ( off, MAVLink emulator, Bridge and MAVLink ). If Bluetooth module
is not disabled it will change mode depending on the receiving frames from the receiver
- added: Crossfire 8ch Diversity receiver can now update TBS BLACKBOX and XF micro receiver
over USB and BST
- added: Menu option do disable telemetry downlink( under RX settings )
- improved: CRC protection improved to make the system even more resistant against picking up
invalid frames
- improved: Dynamic power mode hysterisis tuned. 2s delay added for reducing power level. Increase power
level only on burst frame loss not on single frame lost
- improved: RX automatically binds to the transmitter after successful firmware update over the air if
it wasn't bound before.
V1.09 2015-11-26
- added: Show signal strength bar on find mode page if no GPS is attached
- fixed: Uplink sync loss when downlink is lost ( huge range improvement on high power in very noisy environment )
- improved: More advanced CRC check to avoid wrong telemetry data
- improved: Split up telemetry data to increase throughput if link has low link quality
- improved: Dynamic power triggers changed to make it more stable even flying in a group of people
- improved: Re-sync time in force telemetry mode
- improved: Some small code improvements and fixes
V1.06 2015-10-27
- added: Micro receiver support
- added: TX loads receivers firmware and stores it internally for firmware update over RF
- added: Firmware update over RF ( V1.06 and above )
- added: SBUS and non-inverted SBUS support for all receivers ( channel 8 on diversity receiver )
- added: PPM and SBUS stream mapping
- added: LQ/RSSI can now be mapped into PPM/SBUS streams
- added: Digital low latency input capability added for upcoming OpenTX release
- fixed: Futaba 12Ch. PPM support added
v1.00 2015-09-12
- First release
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V2.09 05-10-2017
- improved: Switching between RF Profiles (better low range link stability)
V2.08 18-09-2017
- added: 868CE and 915 Australia frequency selection added if region is open
- fixed: Minor bug fixes and improvements
V2.07 16-09-2017
- added: Lower CRSF baudrate support for X7 remote
- fixed: Minor bug fixes and improvements
V2.06 05-08-2017
- added: Show active software license on TBS Agent License tap (Agent V1.40 or higher required)
- fixed: Minor bug fixes and improvements
V2.05 28-07-2017
- added: FLARM support
- added: SmartAudio support for Micro RX
- added: Micro TX target support
- improved: RSSI to PWM scaling
V1.67 2017-07-06
- fixes: Revert frequency to 868Mhz when binding or OTA updading receiver bug fixed.
V1.65 2017-05-30
- improved: CRSF support ( KISS FC telemetry and settings )
- fixes: some CRSF telemetry frames
V1.63 2017-02-15
- added: CRSF parameters support
- fixed: Increases CRSF channel range
V1.62 2017-01-06
- added: Crossfire TX non-inverted CRSF support for Graupner remotes (MZ-12 - MZ-24)
- added: CRSF support for all receivers. Crossfire micro V2 and diversity support also CRSF telemetry.
The receiver can be connected to betaflight sending RC and receiving telemetry using
CRSF (betaflight 3.1.0 or higher required). Telemetry can be streamed to any OpenTX Remote.
- improved: MAVLink library updated
- imporved: OLED Menu text for better understanding