See how John Adams does it in this picture? Connect the programming cable to the bind port of the receiver as shown. Do not follow the initial setup instruction from the Spektrum video. Instead, just connect the programming cable to your phone. This is the key to your success. You must let the app download current factory settings from the receiver to your phone. The app apparently tracks the model of the receiver it connects to, and it will not allow you to synchronize model changes you make in the app to the receiver, if it did not create this model from the receiver in the first place.
Flight mode 1 and 2 are identical. You should take this time to name the auto-created model. And from the Settings pane, you can email this model to yourself. Save it as a backup, so you can go back to factory settings later, if you wish.
This is not a receiver type you can normally choose in the app, if you were to create a model file anew, without synching it from the receiver. The app apparently knows that it is dealing with a special, customized AR And you can try it out in real-time, too. After you tweak a value, the app will automatically synchronize it to the receiver. You can move the sticks on your radio to see these changes right away. Just remember two things. Secondly, you have already removed the prop, right?
All I wanted was a cruise mode with less pitch rate gain to avoid the porpoise-like motion. I also did not want the receiver to impose any expo and throw constraints on any axis.
So I edited flight mode 2 to make it so. I also wanted a mode where stabilization is completely turned off. So I made the same changes as above to flight mode 1, and in addition zeroed out all rate gains. Now I have three flight modes: 1.
This is the first time Eflite publicly states that a plane with the ARA receiver can be tuned using the programmer app on a phone. But there is scantly any additional information on this detail. Instead, the gen-2 page and video go to great lengths to explain how pilots can now easily disable the Panic mode at binding time.
I think Eflite is solving a non-issue — no one cares about disabling the panic mode. People want to learn to free their planes from the tyrannical regime of bundled receiver parameters. Instead of releasing a gen-2 Sukhoi with a disabled panic mode, Eflite and Horizon Hobby can better engender enthusiasm by simply providing proper documentation on reprogramming of ARA receivers in existing planes. That said, this gen-2 plane probably comes with a receiver that can be programmed without firmware flash.
I expect this plane to show up in the known plane list in the Spektrum Programmer app soon. These are advertised as easily reprogrammable. Perhaps the Sukhoi Gen 2 comes with this receiver as well.
So there a dead zone between the and percent area. Could this be a misinterpretation? I just simply did not try that. Then set our desired settings on the radio, only. This makes the receiver a passthrough, as far as these inputs are concerned. I recently wrecked my Cirrus and purchased a new body.
I want this back on but not interested in having Safe on or off. How do I fix this, please? Also makes sure that you are clear of the prop when you raise the throttle briefly, to activate AS3X. Just to be sure, your receiver does initialize properly after you place the plane on a flat surface, right?
By initialization, I mean that it wiggles control surfaces some 5 seconds or so after you leave on a flat surface. I have an E-flite Apprentice S I crashed it I want to put the receiver into another plane can I change the program bind it or can I just flush it what do I do to it I have the Spektrum plugs for it to do this.
Download on the computer what is the process it seems to work when I put it in another plane I want to put it in a F Raptor by freewing. I also have an Apprentice S 15e which was my second plane in fact. It still flies.
My Apprentice S 15e came with one-of-a-kind receiver which I actually mentioned in this article. But perhaps they now come with a regular AR? Does your receive look like AR A shown on this article? Hi Thanks for this very helpful post! I have an ara from the old green sukhoi which could not be seen by the program, Then a buddy who flies futaba gave me the ARa from the newer BLUE Sukhoi which the cable usb does find and allows changing settings.
I wanted to disable any and all gyro flight assistance stuff, and do all flight settings rates, expo etc from my transmitter. Will these settings give me effect of an old fashioned plain vanilla non-stabilizing receiver? PS i also have an ARa from 2 meter opterra- and loaded same settings into that receiver- but have not had courage to try either in an aircraft-.
If you have any doubts, you should do bench testing first. Panic mode should still work, if you need it. The Opterra is a flying wing. You should check the article I wrote after this one. But you cannot change wing type from the mobile app. You need the PC cable and the PC app. I have zeroed out all gyro stuff from the receivers from the blue sukhoi and the optera 2m flying wing and am using them both in regular 4 channel airplanes.
Even with the gyro stuff all set to zero the receiver wont initialize if upside down or sideways. But when thats done they work like plain receiver. You do need to install it flat and right side up, if you are only tweaking minor settings as this article shows. I, too, own an ARA which came with the Aeroscout 1. What I tried to do was to create on option in which no gyro stabilization occurs — using the bluetooth cable and the iPhone app, I started programming the RX and I totally messed it up.
Do you know whether this specific model of my receiver can be reprogrammed and ultimately reverted to the original setting delivered with this model? It is unlikely for you to completely screw up with the bluetooth cable and the iPhone app.
You probably lost the original model. That is fine. What you need to do is to find the right SRM file for your plane. Will up daate how that went. All the best,. I have a ARA receiver In a different plane. There is a lable on the front of it with EFL on it. I bought the plane used, a Spitfire MK2 by Phoenix. This is the plane the receiver is in. Is this receiver the one that uprights the plane to level if you get into trouble? Or is this the receiver that just assists you with flying in windy conditions.
Please advise. Thank you. Hey Lestil. Someone bolted the AS3X receiver to a plane of similar structure. The best way is to contact the previous owner, if you do not know what to do. If you are unable to find the previous owner, then you can check out my follow-up to this article you commented on. If you get a simple cable, you will be able to find out what the previous owner has done or not done, to this receiver.
She may have simply bolted the receiver on without reprogramming anything, if servo orientations, etc. Fred, thank you for your assistance. I am new to this and really want to understand how to set this up. Thank you again for your guidance. Thank you for this extensive explanation. It is interesting that you have to restore the ARA to the earlier version 1 download in order to reprogram for a different model even though Horizon explicitly states not to do this in the case of the ARA.
One minor reason is that Horizon Hobby does not have an incentive to help people who bought a plane with a BNF ARA basically free with the plane to reuse it on some other plane, when Horizon Hobby can sell you an open stock AR Doing so with some ancient receivers may brick them. All software from Spektrum explicitly states that you must only use their software with open stock AR This is true.
But the majority of people reported success, including myself. Basically, firmware 1. Firmwire 2. Spektrum continues to provide new versions of both 1. You flash down to 1. I flashed my receiver to 1. It worked out very well. I have a small Starfighter that has permenant wing wobble in windy weather and also a small Extra that is quite pitch unstable if not trimmed for selected speed.
I know I have to tread carefully ,however. I am getting planes that my Dad flew as a Marine aviator. So I was glad to find the FJ. Any way around this? Thanks in advance for any thoughts. Not all ARAs can be successfully reprogrammed, especially from older planes. You mentioned SMB. So you are aware of the various rcgroups threads, I think. Someone publishes once in a while the know list of planes from which pulled ARs could be reprogrammed. I think it has been discontinued since about or so.
So I do have all my planes programmed to my liking and wanted to do the same to the Fury. I called Horizon and they said it could not be updated. I was looking for a way around that. To do that flash it with version 1. I can now personally confirm what you reported.
Could it be possible to load these files onto an AS3X Safe receiver in order to transfer the settings of the respective model to the receiver? Several people asked this before. This article is really addressing the smart phone app, not the PC app. None of the files would download. No problem setting up my AR but will not be able to connect it to a Timber to verify for a couple weeks.
If successful I will let you know. This article is for the more amenable variants of ARA as I described in the text. If you have success, please report back. I think I finally answered all questions people asked me here, that I did not know how to respond in the past, including your questions. I followed steps in the upgrade firmware PDF. It had firmware version 1. Now it seems to not be working I installed pask in the plane I am working with I can bind it ok but after that the light on the RX goes out and I get nothing.
I can disconnect and reconnect it I hear the servos make a sound and then nothing. I used the latest version of Spektrum programmer 3. I am new at this and lost as to what I should do. Just for giggles to see what would happen after getting nothing, I did try the flash 1. I reflashed it to the 2. Is there any way to know what plane the ARa came from?
I purchased one from RCG but he was not sure what plane it came from as he had three of them. It probably does not matter, if you get a programming cable and reset its parameters.
These receivers are programmed to suit the particular planes they are plugged into. Take the VisionAire, for instance. If you fly it at high gyro rate gains, the plane will oscillate at high speed. HH probably customized rate gains for each plane.
Again, if you follow this article and reset these parameters to your liking, it does not matter what the original parameters are. Perhaps you can connect the receiver to the mobile app, and look at its existing parameters. If it came from a Night VisionAire, the values should match what I showed in the article I posted factory parameters for the two default flight modes in a screen capture.
You may be able to find default values for other planes, online. This question was asked, however I did not see a reply to it. Will this method present any limitations to programming receivers? So I have never tried to connect the receiver to my PC.
I believe the iPhone app came much later compared to the PC version. People had been flushing firmware and built-in parameters on this receiver long before the mobile app came out. You should be able to do everything on the PC. In the beginning, flushing the firmware on a PC to make this a bare AR receiver appeared to be the only way.
I wanted to keep the panic heading hold feature. This article is premised on not losing that functionality, while being able to change and decouple gyros gains from throw rates. As for me, I am still flying this night VisionAire. It is seemingly indestructible. The foam body is becoming softer in places. But the whole plane still holds up very well. You have done a great job with a pathetic subject. I am Got my first computer in In my case, make that two cables. All seems like a perfect subject for a class action lawsuit.
And I hear you. You need to consider that they sell their planes, as whole packages, at fairly affordable prices.
If anyone could pluck out an unlocked AR from their foam planes, and replace it with a cheap Orange receiver, then the market would be flooded with tons of AR on eBay, I think :. You are correct — I am unhappy about time wasted by such jury-rigging. You could be thinking about the wrong fruit! The app is an insult to our intelligence and value of time, not to mention financial interest.
But, the idea is great. The execution, in this case, is very weak. Can you imagine what this would sound like if I was an opinionated person? Regardless, I am having fun with this hobby. Ahh, I feel better! You wrote in March But Spektrum continued to suck in documentation.
Perhaps my new article can help. Thank you so much for this. I just bought the Timber and Night Visionaire and was having nightmares about not being able to change the pre-programmed parameters.
I just bought an E-flight T bfn 1. Search for throttle or prop in this article. For the stabilization to engage you must first throttle up. Normally one holds the tail of the plane, or stands with the horizontal tail stabilizers wedged against the heels.
If you are not sure please google for videos before you try this. Like I wrote, I dared not do that. It looked like the app would let me do that, but I simply did not touch it. If you removed heading gain, do let me know if you figure out how to program it back. I have no idea. I have anAR bought from a local hobby shop. I have been trying to load any of my models into it so as to enable SAFE.. I have never had an unlocked, normal AR But if you recall my experience with the locked-down ARA, I had to download the model directly from the receiver to the phone app.
And the app associated the stored model to the receiver. Why so complicated! All I want to do is fly the plane not become a software engineer.. If only it were as easy as a red switch! Late reply as usual fr me. Hit it looks like you probably bound the radio normally which would disable SAFE. Excellent article.
Of course by now you probably know you can buy an off-the-shelf AR and send it back to HH and they will program it, for a fee, to one of their stock SAFE setups that you specify.
Thanks for all your hard research. All very useful and well presented. I thought I would share my experience. I purchased an ARa on a well know auction site not knowing it had been extracted from a BNF model. All seemed good as it bound with my new Spektrum DX6 and the flying controls worked after a fashion. So I purchased an Audio Updater which would not connect or give me a serial number so that I could register it. So I then purchased the USB interface cable….
I was able to connect with this cable after applying power via a BEC and download the Serial number which was then not recognised by the Specktrum RC product registration service. I suspect Spektrum deliberately or otherwise use the same product Number on discreetly different kit to provide uncertainty to persuade modelers to chuck the recovered RX or not to buy second hand ones.
All this in the hope we will buy new….. I am sorry to hear that. But your cables will still work with newer planes with modern SAFE receivers. Thanks for the great summary.
I have a gen 1 SU29 mm and am suffering from oscillations in 3D mode and ridculosly small throws in precision mode which cannot be overturned on the sender side. I do not care about SAFE at all. I just want to fly the plane like a grown up guy with decent throws …. Here is the result: — The mobile app would not detected the receiver, — the Windows Updater would detect it and show the serial number — the Windows Programmer would not connect to the receiver Hence I tried to register the receiver to download the firmware updates.
Unfortuantely the Spektrum website would not allow registering the receiever. Any hints? Not with gen 1 Sukhoi. Search this article for Sukhoi. AndyKunz is a HH employee. Please help…. I have an Eflite Sukhoi Gen 2. The app communicate well with my plane, but during an upload the app crashed. Does anyone have the settings saved for this aircraft who could email then to me? I wrote about that here. I also noted my expectations about Gen 2.
So, how did you make the app talk to your plane? You need to call Horizon Hobby or Eflite. I found their customer service very professional and customer-friendly. Sorry about the late reply. I have never flashed my receiver. Part of why I went through the trouble of researching and then writing this article is because I did not want to have to deal with flashing the receiver. Flashing was dealbreaker for me at the time. Sorry but your article does not cover the fact that you cant register an ArA as a Ar at spektrumrc.
When you cant register it, you cant download firmwares for it on web, or thru spektrum programmer. Steve, I imagine that you are referring to the article, not this one from This article is about minor tweaks to ARA without having to flush firmware. For more advanced tweaking, the article is more useful.
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