FrSky XM+ Review / Firmware / RSSI

XM+

Taranis Plus:

Lees Channel:

XJT Firmware:

XM+ firmwares:

[Treborbobuk]

Andy, this video needs more visibility. I spent ages de-soldiering the XM receiver on my Tiny7 and Tiny7x to make up a cable to then flash it with EU FW, never knew it was possible to flash the TX for the FCC FW, so much easier! Thank you!

[gregorydahl]

Im putting 3:28 here for quick access to failsafe. If someone booby traps your model by setting failsafe to full throttle forward you need to know how to reset it to drop

[AeroStuffFPV]

Awesome man..! I have a question:

How are the X4R Receivers? How far do they go, does it have anything like a brownout?

(Because my V8FR-II does brownout.. I’m looking for a brownout-free receiver)

[the_real_foamidable]

Wow! I had problems to bind the XM+ (of which I bought two). Flashing firmware was ok but it wouldn't bind, with both led on the XM+ on. The flashing of the XJT was the hint I needed. Thank you so much for that.

[JBeeFPV]

I've also been using the XM+ for a while now, great range but I had a few issues at the start so just a heads up: didn't bind to my Taranis (EU, LBT) out of the box so I had to flash the receiver with a new version from frsky website (a version that just came out that day) and been getting random spikes on channel one, causing weird twitches. Turned out to be a bug in the firmware, updated it to a newer version a month later and the issue was gone. Also it seems to trigger failsafe when you hold the receiver close to the Taranis, (flooding?) so make sure failsafe is set correctly and motors don't spin up!

[RunesLegacy]

I have a devo 7e and finally got a successful bind last night, range test was great everything working smoothly. It was bound for maybe and hour. I was getting a perfect signal in test mode no matter how hard I tried to make it loose signal around the house. Xm+ here.

I was in betaflight setting some switches up and the receiver just stopped working. I was changing the aux channels on the transmitter for flight modes in betaflight and it just stopped receiving. When I power it lights up dim solid green/red and doesn't do anything, no different if I power it on while holding the bind key. It should be a bright solid green and blinking red in bind mode. Sometimes if I wait a while to plug a battery in and don't hit the bind key it will light up solid red. I tried to bind it again but nothing happens. I'm at a complete loss. I reset the profile and tried to bind again no luck.

[hcsabai]

Superb tutorial. I have followed this and now rssi of XM+ is working with betaflight. My Taranis plus has got opentx 2.1.9 uploaded.

[NodariSP]

AndyRC, thorough as always. Thank you. Could I use this receiver for the Diatone GT200, plug in? Or would I need to solder? I'm terrible at soldering....I am practicing though.

[ChyaBra]

Just put an xm+ in my Pico x I built after you recommended it to me over others. it's the coolest, funnest thing I've ever flown and I can't thank you enough. would've never known about it otherwise.

[N.B-]

Is it possible to get the rssi display on the xm+ to display on your tarainis or only on the osd?

[fergiewoo]

Great video as always, but I have a question.  When I tried this on my QX7, I got an error message saying no bottom pin response. Should I be enabling the external RF in the Taranis menu and if so, what do I set it to? SBUS?  Thanks in advanceGary

[giannissarris]

i have a few drones and one plane by now and i am about to buy a hobby grade transmitter maybe the Qx7 taranis, what i have not understand is why there is an EU and an FCC version in transmitters and recievers.Is it a legal issue? can both operate in europe? could they be changed from one version to another?which you reccomend? thanks again i am a fan of your channel!!!

[donphobos]

I have an old Turnigy 9X radio which I have converted to FrSky with a DIY module from FrSky. Am I right assuming that due to the age of the module (2-3 years old) it won't run with the XM+ receiver?

[Six]

Can I take the antennas off my non working x4r-sb n attach the directly to my xm+?

[matthewdemeter]

I like that you are doing more hardware things

[davidelombardi]

From Italy you are the best! excellent explanation and vary easy to resolve this tipe of problem for me.
i appreciate your help and the time you spent on internet to record video you sould have more like than that

[pukki]

@andyrc do you know if theres any way to calibrate the RSSI to show 0% on betaflight with the RSSI signal off

[Kenny-lqfz]

HI would the xm+ be suitable for a 210 multirotor or would the x4r sb be more suitable?

[rittmaierbyron]

I have that Receiver in my furibee x215 but it won't bind to my flysky fx15 do I need to get a Taranis radio to run it.

[DangerDavefpv]

I need smallfrysky RX sbus for 5" stretch that's very compact but worry about range vs my x4r.sb