Inav Presets

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LikeBetaflight, iNav is flight controller firmware, primarily focused on GPS navigation and autonomous flight features. For a more comprehensive overview, check out our FC firmware guide: -firmware/#iNav

Also, take screenshots of essential Betaflight pages, such as the Ports, Configuration, Tuning (including PID, rates, and filter settings), Receiver configuration, OSD layout, Modes, and ESC protocol. These will come in handy when setting up iNav.

I personally set a lower Motor Idle Power % for 5-inch quads to match my Betaflight settings, e.g., 5%. The default in iNav is a bit too high, which is more suited for smaller drones with lower power.

To adjust the feel, increase the auto smoothing factor value for smoother control (ideal for cruising and cinematic flying), or decrease it for a more direct feeling (ideal for racing). A factor of 30 strikes a good balance between smoothness and responsiveness.

Detailed PID and filter tuning will be addressed in a separate tutorial as I want to keep this tutorial as simple as possible just focusing on the transition from Betaflight to iNav. For now, we can leave PID settings at their default.

Max roll/pitch angles are limits used in GPS Navigation mode and Angle/Horizon modes; they determine how fast the drone can move. The default setting should be fine, but you can increase it to 45 degrees for flying faster (to counter wind) in these modes. If unsure, leave them at default; you can always adjust later.

Converting a Betaflight FPV drone to iNav is straightforward but requires thorough preparation and an understanding of your configuration and drone setup. The default value in iNav offer a solid foundation, needing only a few personal adjustments before you can take the drone for its first flight. I am working on a few more tutorials on iNav, including its GPS features and PID/Filter tuning, stay tuned.

Just setting up inav for the first time.. first self buid too thanks to your guide. The motor order is correct but the direction is wrong in all cases. Is there a way to change motor direction without physical change connections?

Thanks

...Not brilliantly. Yet. You can see the maiden here and the second flight here . I have actually followed the fixed wing setup guide on the iNav wiki now (after those first two flights), but have been waiting for good weather before I go flying again. I am very confident in the position of the CoG, but not much else. Any advice welcome!

Third flight was magnificent. iNav Launch Mode is a thing of beauty. For those of you that don't know, you configure launch mode, arm the plane, set the desired throttle for launch on your tx (but the prop doesn't start spinning) then throw the plane into the air. When the FC detects the acceleration, it waits for a set time (0.5s) then kicks in the throttle. Will level the wings and climb at a preset angle (20 degrees ish). It will give you control back as soon as you touch the pitch/roll stick. I still need to further calibrate the board orientation in iNav to get level flight, and possibly add a touch more reflex. I also noticed a nose-bobbing behaviour at about 30% throttle - some PID (PIFF?) tuning required there.

quick question what firmware are you using on your flight controller? are you on 2.0? I was wondering if maybe I can get some help from you. or a dump of your configuration from the CLI? now to go watch your videos and subscribe to your Channel ?

no worries man. Ask away! Alternatively I can give you an email address if that is easier. YouTube channel is pretty sparse at the moment, dont waste your time with it. Planning on getting some more content together in the future though. Ill have to check up on the iNav firmware - been a few months since I last played with configuration

yes an email address would make it a lot easier. my email address is bay.ar...@gmail.com I would love to know what configurator your on and firmware. that way I can load it on my plane and try your CLI dump and see if I have better success than I am now I haven't been able to fly other than manual mode and even then it's not flying that well. I'm so new to inav I come from raceflight and flightone inav seems more like betaflight so I'm completely lost. it's such an awesome bird I just want to get it trimmed out and flying with inav being able to use my return to home and auto-launch. but yeah if you can help me with anything like that and I would be awesome and thanks for your prompt reply. look forward you putting more videos on your Channel. you can check out mine it's farmer fpv I have quite a bit of freestyle stuff on there. thanks again

Build looks awesome, as far as landing is concerned i wouldnt fuck around with inav doing it, just do it manually. Simply come in towards where you want to land whislt flying into the wind, when you are at about 100 yards depending on how well the plane glides cut the throttle or lower it to almost zero, then just push the nose down so that you hit the ground at the right time. When you are a few feet off the ground simply pull the nose up to slow down even more and land with the belly first. If you come out short simply add some throttle and if you overshoot make a loop, get another nice approach and try again.

If you don't want to read that. Yes, iNav allows for completely autonomous flight for waypoint missions, can land itself, not sure about takeoff. It behaves slighlty differently for quads vs fixed wings.

AirbladeUAV has done it again and this time they've brought long range to the 5" class! Based on the popular Transformer Mini, the new Transformer 5" Ultralight adopts a lot of the same design philosophies with larger props and more payload capacity. It can fly upwards of 20 minutes on a 4 cell Li-Ion battery pack and in ideal conditions it's got a range of over 4 to 5 miles. In this guide I'll walk..

With the release of the DJI FPV Drone cinematic FPV has become a lot more accessible, but you certainly don't want to crash a $750 drone! The QAV-CINE Freybott is a compact, lightweight cinematic FPV drone that can take a hit and keep going. It's a lot safer to fly indoors and around people. With a naked GoPro or the SMO 4k you can capture some great stabilized footage. In this guide I'll show you..

Setting up HD OSD in Betaflight is super simple thanks to the presets function. Its simply a case of searching for 'Avatar' within the presets, selecting the UART the VTX is connected to from the drop-down menu and hitting save. Thats it! Now you can head to the OSD tab and tweak to your hearts content.

Setting up HD OSD in Inav is fairly straight forward. Head to the Ports tab and the Peripherals column. Find the drop-down for the UART the VTX is connected to and select MSP Displayport. Hit save and reboot. Now head to the OSD tab and select Avatar from the video format drop-down at the top right.

Setting up HD OSD layout on Ardupilot using Mission Planner is quite a pain in the @$$, especially that Ardupilot does not have a proper configurator for the HD OSD. Most likely if you are unaware of the HD OSD Tool, you are setting up the OSD by trial and error method in Mission Planner. And yes, it is really frustrating to get it done since you cannot see the entire grid! Instead you can use the HD OSD tool (link in video description) as it is much easier than doing hit and miss with the element coordinates. Note that the process still involves some manual tweaking of things, don't worry, this is much BETTER than having NOTHING. Hopefully in the future Ardupilot users will have a proper configurator that is HD OSD ready as well.

After you finished setting it up, you can easily copy all your OSD elements to another setup by just comparing the parameter files, no need to redo the entire process. Basically this is just a one time setup to do. Thus, not really a pain to do in the future.

In the Kiss GUI navigate to the Advanced tab. Here on the left you will see Serial Configuration. Click the check box to allow the configuration of the serial UARTS. From the drop-down menus select MSP OSD for the UART to which the VTX is connected. You can now head to the OSD tab to configure it to your liking.

-Copy the user font folder from the downloaded .zip file and all of the contents to the SD card.

-Copy the desired custom fonts to that folder as well.

-Open/Edit the original .ini file on the SD card

-Update the config section at the top to include the name of the new font as number 4, and increase the "count" by 1. e.g.

-config-

1=ARDU_New

2=BFx4_New

3=INAV_New

4=NewFontNameGoesHere

count=4

-Open/Edit the .ini file that comes with the custom font and copy everything after the config section, then paste this at the end of the .ini file on the SD card.

-Save and close the .ini file, eject SD card, put in to goggles and power them on.

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