📶ExpressLRS📶 Telemetry CALLOUTS Setup | EdgeTX or OpenTX

00:00 - Start
00:20 - ExpressLRS Signal Signal Health Wiki
00:59 - Transmitter Power Change Callout (TPWR Callout)
06:16 - Link Quality Callout (RQLY callout)
10:36 - OPTIONAL: RSSI and SNR Callout

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[CapnBry]

This is a great explanation on how to set up these call outs and what values to use. EdgeTX / OpenTX use RQly for the "Signal low" call-out on the telemetry page, but I love your idea of having the value read. Someone should add a checkbox for that feature!
The reason the RSSI doesn't go all the way down is usually due to the receiver's amplifier adding 12-15dBm, so -112 will drop off at -100 roughly.

[billmcdonald]

Some feedback:

My setup is a TX12 with EdgeTX, a Happymodel 1-watt ELRS module with V3.3, and a HM Mob8 analog with an ELRS SPI receiver with V3.0.

I'm running the ELRS dynamic power limit at 500mW.

I set the TPWR callout interval to 50 mW; when set to 1mW, it gave me constant callouts. Most of my flying uses less than 100mW output, so I wanted Betty [my TX12] to pipe down and only tell me when I'm over that.

EDIT: I added a logical switch that is set to ON when my throttle timer is more than 15 seconds. ANDing this logical switch to my TPWR and link quality logical switches makes it so I get an accurate countdown for landing without a callout stepping in.

[TechnicallyTom]

I seem to remember hearing about the 0 for 50mW issue awhile ago. Not sure but think it may have something to do with the CRSF protocol and that the TBS protocols don’t have 50mW so the CRSF protocol doesn’t support that value.

[josephvanbemmel]

Thanks for all your help! I don't fly a lot of long range but still like setting this up. Appreciate your time and all you do for the community.

[potepieniee]

@uav Tech from elrs site: OpenTX has no value for 50mW in the CRSF Telemetry protocol and instead will be read as 0mW. EdgeTX versions 2.5.0 and newer have the proper 50mW readout.
Thanks for this video!

[tubamanandy]

Super useful video & really easy to setup - thank-you

[Itsmedazza]

i have a taranis Plus and i dont appear to have the option TPWR i have a combination of TPW2 + - etc though. is this the same

[comrat]

OpenTX has no value for 50mW in the CRSF Telemetry protocol and instead will be read as 0mW. EdgeTX versions 2.5.0 and newer have the proper 50mW readout.

[MCsCreations]

Really excellent tutorial, Mark! Thanks a bunch! 😃
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

[rayang]

Awesome video! Quick question, when i try creating the logical switch, in the v1 row, TPWR, and all the Rqly and rx and tx related items are not there, do i have to enable something somewhere?

[Mupshot]

I run 250 always not sure why I would run any less. I suppose if I could go higher. It would always run higher. Buy an alarm on low db is something I should set up

[Seii-FPV]

Hi Mark, another amazing tutorial. Thank you so much! So, basically your screen at 2:17, for say 5" quad, light HD freestyle mostly, do we need all those L05, L06, L07, L08 and L10 except maybe that L06 as you mentioned you'll probably get rid of it? I've set my L07 as 70% instead of 50%. Everything else should be as in that screen that shows up at 2:17 sec mark into your video? I use 250Hz (-108dB), so I've set my L05 as a<x 1RSS -98.

[DanoFPV]

Jumper T20 does not have any of these functions you are showing :), neither does my zorro.

[ones_flow]

Really cool inside stuff! Thank you very much for sharing! I'm still trying to figure out at which number to set up the warnings for my 250mW/250hz controller.

[skybug]

Very useful detailed explanations! Now have my long range 3S powered quadcopter telling me every 10 seconds what the battery voltage is once it drops below 12v. Much more comforting than just playing a track telling me I have "Low Battery". Interesting to hear the voltage recover when I ease off on the throttle. Thank you!

[billmcdonald]

Nice. Compared to my first 'real' TX unit, a 2-channel Cox-Sanwa from the late '70s, today's boxes do everything but make you a sammich. I got my AG01 Mini-equipped RM TX12 made into a proper Bitchin' Betty - and now I got 2 more callouts! Giddy-up. . .

[LicketySplitFPV]

I may have missed something. Do I need to have a quad plugged in? When I go to special functions after doing the logical switch, the TPWR option isn’t there. Sorry, new to ELRS, coming from CRSF where dynamic power was a no no.

[samavella]

Great video. Excellent explanation. Thank you😊

Would be interested in a video for TBS.

[xn]

Hello UAV Tech,
thanks for your video. I already have done a similar setup on my Radiomaster Boxer with 1RSS<-90 and RQly<40% and a delay of 0, 5s.
But everytime the Output-Power switches up, one of the Logical Switches is triggerd and callout a warning, even on 25 to 50mW. The OSD also shows a suitable RQly.
I have no idea, why the Logical Switches are triggert.

[Chillin-fpv]

Awesome video. I understand so much more now. Thank you.