Hoverfly Unable to setup 4.3.802. Setup Client 1.5.0.60 not available

I have that setup, I can try and send it to you. Good to know though.

 

Pete, it is on the Hoverfly site. http://www.hoverflyupdate.com/setupClient/publish.htm

 

Can you uninstall the existing 4.6 setup client version then try to install the older setup client?

 

I think I saw George mention the latest version is a manual install. You have to uninstall the old version and install the new version for it to work properly.

David

 

Agreed, 802 is superior to anything I have ever flown on any fc on any craft. Hopefully they dont go Apple on us and make us update. Or better yet, make the new firmware as solid as the old one. It's odd to me that the manufacturer always has such great results but only half the users make it work. Same with any of these fc's. Look at Photo higher's skyline. They keep having great results but for some reason the second they get in the user's hands everything fails and acts erratically. I certainly don't think they are hiding anything or being malicious, it just seems to be the way of electronics and software changes.

 

My Hexa misbehaved for the first time in 6 months of flying. I had done over 8 hours in the air according to my battery records. I have spent the last week just hovering around in the back yard testing gimbals and settings etc so havent been really pushing anything. I had no real problems and was just finding out the best props etc for this machine. I had found that my gains had needed to be halved from the previous firmware and that the range of flying gains was more narrow than before.
I went for a short hover last night to check the current draw between different props and all was going well. We have had a lot of wind lately and this was calm for the first time in ages so I decided to try the AH for the first time on the new firmware. I had seen others had problems so had put it off for a while but when I tried it the Hexa held altitude perfectly, only a little variation in altitude, probably the best I have had. I switched out of AH and then just hovered around at about 10 feet off the ground. I tried a few aggressive wiggles as I was wanting to see how it reacted before I pushed the gains up a few more clicks on the radio. I then went back to simply hovering and checking the current draw which was all fine and then I suddenly lost yaw control and the Hexa started to spin. Fortunately I was able to control it a bit and pushed the Hexa into some large bushes in the backyard and dumped it in a bush. No apparent damage that I could see. I should have off loaded the flight log but tried to see if i could get it airborne again and so lost that flight log. I had no luck getting it in the air, it just wants to tip over.

I took it inside and checked everything on the setup software. One thing I did notice was that my setup software throttle sliders were out of whack which is strange as i had set them previously when doing the upgrade. I have recalibrated those but wont test it again till I visit Pete tomorrow.

My first inclination is that its probably something other than firmware related as I have had a few weeks of no problems.

With respect to Petes comment about major changes it could be helpful if the HF team do make a note if they find on their own test machines that there are significant changes to gain settings with a firmware upgrade so that we can be prepared. I know I was really surprised that my gains had to be halved from about 60 on the previous firmware to 30's on the latest and that it appears to be a narrower set of gain values to get good flight.

Now the rain has cleared and i have a job on thats needing outdoor work. Will see what happens tomorrow.