Deviation Firmware for Devo 7e/10/12E User`s Manual version 4.1-dev
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1. overwrite Walkera models stored on the transmitter While they cannot be accessed by Deviation they will be safely preserved should the Walkera firmware ever need to be reinstalled NOTE As a result of memory limitations with the Devol2 firmware the original models will be lost when switching to Deviation First download and unzip the deviation devoX X x y Z Zip firmware from http www deviationtx com repository Deviation Releases where XX is the number of your Walkera Devo transmitter x y z identifies the deviation version number Normally you should use the latest one Upgrading is done using the Walkera DfuSe USB Upgrade tool for Windows You can download this tool directly from Walkera http www walkera com en upload upgrade DevoDfuSe 20V2 0 zip NOTE Do NOT attempt to use the DfuSe tool from STMicroelectronics Unzip the upgrade tool and install locally It is recommended that you test the DFU tool by first upgrading your TX to a different version of Walkera firmware Available OFU Devices ane OFU Mode STM Device in DFU Mode ain Vendor ID Product ID Version Supports Upload Manifestation Tolerant 043 DF11 0200 Supports Download Accelerated Upload ST Can Detach Leave DFU Mode Firmware Config Library Upgrade File File CAvdevo8 dfu File Information Vendor ID 0483 Targets in File Firmware ST Product ID DFT Version OOO Upload Action Upgrade or Very Actor Upload Verte after Upgrade 2 Veri2. Deviation Firmware for Devo 7e 10 12E User s Manual version 4 1 dev deviation 7 June 10 2015 Contents 1 Overview 1 1 Disclaimer 1 2 Notices 1 3 Legal status and copyright 2 Installation 2 1 New installation 2 2 Upgrade notes 2 3 USB amp File system 3 Reporting Bugs 4 A Note About this Manual 5 Main Page 5 1 Safety System 6 Navigating 6 1 Navigating with the physical buttons FAN A a a A A Aa O obo N e 1 Overview Deviation is a replacement firmware for the Walkera Devention series Devo transmitters The primary goal is to add support for multiple protocols opening the full potential of this platform The core of the deviation firmware is the mixer system which is modeled after the system used in the Er9X firmware for the Turnigy Flysky9x transmitters Deviation also brings USB file system support making it easy to manage the transmitter from any PC without the need for specialized upload download tools Deviation has been designed for ultimate configurability All model and transmitter configuration is controlled through text files which the firmware or user can read and write It is easy to know exactly what is configured as well as to modify the configuration either through the transmitter or with a text editor The main screen is very customizable any mix of inputs switches channel data or timers can be displayed and configured per model Deviation supports mul
3. al may act both as spin boxes for selecting a value and as a button which can have various effects 2 Spin boxes that contain only arrows and no oval do not act as buttons and are only used for value selection Note that a spin box may change between being pressable or not for different values of the spin box Default Button Press ENT to activate Pressable Spin Box Default _ Press ENT to activate gt _ Heli t L R to change selection E lomi gt a Lo Spin Box L R to change selection 6 1 Navigating with the physical buttons e On all menu pages UP and DN are used to navigate to the previous next item e The R and L buttons are used on spin box widgets to increase or decrease the selected value In some cases holding down the button will use larger step values to move more quickly to the desired value e For buttons and rounded spin boxes pressing ENT will press the button e Pressing EXT will remove selection form the current item A long press of EXT will exit one 1 menu level
4. e screen may be slightly different Situations where the Devo7e 10 or 12E behave differently will be noted accordingly 5 Main Page The standard main page layout is as follows position Current Model Battery Voltage cate A Devo 12 only Tx Icon Press to configure Model 100 Model Icon Press to configure 3 0010 Countdown Switch Indicators Stop watch Horizontal Trims Current Model The name of the current model Clicking the label will open up the Model Load page The model is configured from section Model setup Std amp Adv GUI _ Channel values Battery Voltage Numerical representation of current transmitter battery state Transmitter Power This indicates the currently selected transmitter power It is configured from section Model setup Std amp Adv GUTS Current Time This indicates the current time on Devol2 transmitters only The time is set from section Transmitter config _ Model Icon An image representing the current model It is configured from section Model setup Std amp Adv GUI _ Pressing the icon will take you to that page Trims The trim display can be configured to show up to 10 different horizontal and vertical trims Displays These items can be text boxes containing input channel telemetry or timer data bar graphs displaying channel data or icons toggles displaying specific states ex gear flaps Quick Me
5. fy Trangfered Data Size Time Duration 146 RB 151 672 Bytes of 148 KB 151872 Bytes 00 00 31 File correctly loaded Abort devention DEVO 8 transmitter Plug the transmitter into the PC via USB and turn on the transmitter while holding EXT to enter programming mode On the Devol2 this is done by holding the trainer switch instead Several users have reported compatibility issues with Windows and or USB ports when running this tool If Dfuse do not recognition your TX try removing all USB devices and restart your PC with only the USB connection to the TX If your transmitter has been connected correctly STM Device in DFU Mode will be displayed under Available DFU Devices Otherwise this field will remain blank 1 Press the button and select the deviation devoXX vx y z dfu file to install 2 Select Upgrade to install the firmware This will be grayed out if your transmitter is not detected Do NOT use Upload as this will destroy the dfu file on your PC 3 Devol2 Only Select the Library tab click select the devol2 lib dfu from the zip file Then select Upgrade again to install the library Turn off the transmitter and turn back on while holding ENT There should be a USB logo on the screen If this is a first time install of Deviation the PC should prompt to format a drive Format using default options Open the folder of the zip and copy all the files and directories inside this folder t
6. nus Quick menus can be reached via a long UP DN press They can be defined from section 8 7 Main page config Std amp Adv GUI 5 1 Safety System Deviation has a safety system to prevent starting up in a BRR dangerous state for instance spinning up the main rotor of a helicopter accidentally The safety system works by verifying that specific conditions are met before starting to transmit to the model By default the output channel associated with the Chl is 0 safe value 100 throttle stick must be minimum The Deviation firmware does not include a mechanism to define new safety conditions however they can be added my directly modifying the model ini file While the safety message is displayed the transmitter will not communicate with the model This message may appear either when initially turning on the transmitter or when switching to a different model The message will disappear automatically once all safety conditions have been met or when OK is pressed In either case Deviation will start communication with the model once the dialog is dismissed 6 Navigating The transmitter menus can be navigated via the physical buttons UP D ow N L eft Raght ENT er EX T All buttons and switches have been marked with the same descriptions as used in this manual The main menu is accessed by pressing ENT on the main menu There are two types of spin boxes available 1 Spin boxes consisting of both arrows and an ov
7. o the root of the transmitter USB drive For details of the file system please see 2 3 USB amp File system The files with the extension zip and dfu need not to be copied di language di layout rmed la _ _ Devo 6 8 only di modelico di models di template E E J i i datalog bin 2 2 Upgrade notes If you are upgrading from a previous Deviation release it is strongly recommended that you back up the models directory from the transmitter as well as the tx ini file to ensure you don t lose any model or transmitter configuration Copy all directories except for the models directory and the tx ini file to the transmitter Optionally copy the models directory to the transmitter except for the currently configured model files This last step will ensure that the defaults for newly created models have the latest options set If the tx ini file is overwritten the stick calibration must be repeated and any settings reset 2 3 USB amp File system Deviation stores all configuration bitmaps and models as regular files on the USB file system USB can be most easily enabled by holding down the ENT button while powering up the transmitter Files can then be easily copied to or from the transmitter The directory structure is as follows tx ini Transmitter configuration Includes trim settings calibration data and the last used model number errors txt If the firmware c
8. rashes or reboots debug information will be stored in this file datalog bin File for telemetry data media config ini The color scheme and fonts for the transmitter media sound ini Contains notes to play for various alarms media bmp Images used for the current transmitter theme media fon Font files models default ini The default model loaded whenever a model is cleared models model ini Configuration files for each model Due to a limitation in the firmware deviation cannot create new files It is therefore necessary to have a modelxx ini for each model regardless of whether it is currently in use modelico bmp All available model icons 96x96 pixels is recommended but not required Model icons must be saved as 16 bit BMP files in either RGB565 non transparent or ARGB1555 transparent format templates 1n1 Configuration files used when loading predefined templates These are nearly identical to the model configuration files however they do not necessarily define all parameters language lang Language translation files These are UTF 8 text files containing the English string and the respective translated string Note Deviation only supports 8 3 style file names That means file names should be no larger than XXXXXXXX pyy 3 Reporting Bugs Nobody is perfect This firmware has been developed carefully and has been successfully tested by many users around the
9. s Deviation is an independent work The Deviation project is not affiliated supported or acknowledged by Walkera The authors have never been in contact with Walkera nor do they know of Walkera s stance on this project The Deviation team provides no guarantee that the Deviation firmware will not harm your transmitter although this should not be possible There is also no guarantee that Walkera will not make changes to future versions of the hardware firmware of Dfuse tool which would make it incompatible with Deviation 1 3 Legal status and copyright This project is free software you can redistribute it and or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation either version 3 of the License or at your option any later version Deviation is distributed in the hope that it will be useful but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE See the GNU General Public License for more details You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Deviation If not see www gnu org licenses The Deviation Project is hosted at www deviationtx com and the Source are available at http bitbucket org deviationtx deviation 2 Installation 2 1 New installation Installation of Deviation is done in exactly the same manner as upgrading the Walkera Devention firmware Note that Deviation will NOT
10. tiple protocols without any modifications to the transmitter e Walkera Devo 6 7 8 10 12 e Walkera WK2401 WK2601 WK2801 e DSM2 DSMx e Nine Eagles J6 Pro requires telemetry module Deviation can support other protocols with very easy transmitter modifications appropriate transceiver module needed e Flysky also for WLToys V911 V9x9 and Xieda 9938 e Hubsan X4 e Skyartec e V202 e SLT e HiSky Deviation supports flight simulators connected via DSC cable PPM or USB cable USBHID Deviation also allows Buddy Box and FPV setups Deviation can store up to 255 different models and uses a portable syntax that allows sharing models between any transmitter supported by Deviation Deviation has been internationalized and comes with translations for English Afrikaans Traditional Chinese Dutch Spanish French German Hungarian Italian Romanian Russian and Chinese New languages can be added by installing the proper translation file 1 1 Disclaimer Deviation is experimental software There are no guarantees made or implied about the quality or reliability of this software RC models can cause serious injury or even death if flown improperly By deciding to use the Deviation software you are taking sole responsibility for the control of your models The authors of Deviation will not be held responsible for any injury or damage whatsoever caused by the use of the Deviation firmware Be careful and cautious 1 2 Notice
11. world Nevertheless under some circumstances it could happen that the transmitter does not work as you expect Sometimes this behavior will be a handling problem and sometimes a real bug Do not hesitate to ask the community at http www deviationtx com forum Please bear in mind that the firmware can only improved with your help If you find a bug in Deviation please report it here http www deviationtx com mantisbt You will need to register for an account on the Deviation forums to submit a bug That account will also allow you to communicate with the Deviation community and will enable you to get email updates when the bug is updated fixed Please provide as much information as possible in your ticket Include Build version you can find this on the USB page of the transmitter Did you compile yourself or download the dfu Type of transmitter Devo8 Devo7e Devo8 emulator Have you tried reproducing this on the emulator Is this easily reproducible If so please provide step by step instructions What protocol are you using If your transmitter rebooted please provide the errors txt on the root file system of the transmitter along with the debug devo zip file that came with the dfu The more detail you can provide the faster fixing the issue will be 4 A Note About this Manual The images in this manual will generally show the Devo7e 10 12E interface In some cases the Devo7e may not support a given feature or th
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