FlyingLawyer
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Hello All,
Somewhat new to the hobby - on my second build now and just wanting to get the GD thing up in the air! I wired up a DALRC F405 FC and "Engine" stack and went to program the FC with Betaflight 10.4.0. I was able to flash the latest firmware for the FC in DFU/Bootloader mode, but my CPU won't recognize the FC outside of DFU mode.
I followed the Project Blue Falcon "Making Flight Controller Connect Through USB" video to the letter.
That's an excellent video for anyone needing assistance with issues like this, btw. The only thing that I think I wasn't able to do exactly as he described was at the very end where he suggests you update the driver software of the FC under the "Universal Serial Bus controllers" connection in the Device Manager - when I look for the FC's driver, I can't find anything that matches up exactly, so I select the "STMicroelectronics Virtual Com Port (COM3)" driver in order to get it to appear in the Ports (COM & LPT) devices.
After all of that, I try connecting the FC to COM3 and Betaflight opens the port, says "No configuration received within 10 seconds, communication failed" and then closes the port again.
I know it's not a hardware malfunction because the FC fires right up when I connect it to either the USB or a LiPo, but I obviously can't get it to do anything b/c it's not configured yet.
Incredibly frustrated and in desperate need of some assistance. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Somewhat new to the hobby - on my second build now and just wanting to get the GD thing up in the air! I wired up a DALRC F405 FC and "Engine" stack and went to program the FC with Betaflight 10.4.0. I was able to flash the latest firmware for the FC in DFU/Bootloader mode, but my CPU won't recognize the FC outside of DFU mode.
I followed the Project Blue Falcon "Making Flight Controller Connect Through USB" video to the letter.
That's an excellent video for anyone needing assistance with issues like this, btw. The only thing that I think I wasn't able to do exactly as he described was at the very end where he suggests you update the driver software of the FC under the "Universal Serial Bus controllers" connection in the Device Manager - when I look for the FC's driver, I can't find anything that matches up exactly, so I select the "STMicroelectronics Virtual Com Port (COM3)" driver in order to get it to appear in the Ports (COM & LPT) devices.
After all of that, I try connecting the FC to COM3 and Betaflight opens the port, says "No configuration received within 10 seconds, communication failed" and then closes the port again.
I know it's not a hardware malfunction because the FC fires right up when I connect it to either the USB or a LiPo, but I obviously can't get it to do anything b/c it's not configured yet.
Incredibly frustrated and in desperate need of some assistance. Does anyone have any suggestions?
