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Support/FAQ for Pro templates

This page contains bug reports, tips and alerts relating to the Pro templates.

Can I migrate my Pro setups to Ethos 1.5?

Version 1 of the Pro templates were designed to run under Ethos 1.4, however they run fine under Ethos 1.5.7 or above without modification or the need to reconfigure settings.

If you have problems with sound, see later in this document.

Important note: when running under Ethos 1.4 the Pro templates were configured via Vars mixes. However Vars mixes are no longer present in 1.5, as they are replaced by VARs elements (accessed from the second page of the Model setup screen). Each VAR has the same name as the old Vars mix. Remember to take this into account when following the Setup guide for your template.

What's new in the v2 templates?

Version 2.x of the Pro templates are optimised for Ethos 1.5.
Changes in v2.0:

VARs injected directly into mixers
~25 free mixes removed
Updated documentation

Templates v2.1 and later include extra functionality by taking advantage of Ethos 1.5's new features.

Solving sound issues in Ethos 1.5

Audio has changed in Ethos 1.5. It's now based on 'voices'.

Three system-wide voices are available. Each voice is associated with a subfolder where the sound files must be located.

The Pro templates use voice1, so the sounds must be copied to the voice1 subfolder. To determine the voice1 subfolder:

Open the System>General menu.
Scroll to the Audio section
Make a note of voice1. Valid examples include 'default', 'gb', 'us'. (If the entry is blank, then change it to a valid subfolder.)
Establish a USB connection with your PC
Look in the \audio folder, and find the subfolder with voice 1 in the name. For example if voice1 = 'gb' then there will be a folder \audio\en\gb (british english)'. Likewise if voice1= 'us' then look for a folder \audio\en\us' (american english).

The folder identified in step 5 is where you should copy the sound files. Note: do not use the 'system' subfolder, these are for system files.

If you want to use voice2 or voice3 for your audio, then you'll need to open the Special Functions menu and edit each of the 'Play Audio' entries.

"Lua widget key not found"

Ethos may display a warning with a red triangle if a Lua script is missing or in error. Once triggered, the message may persist even after you select a different model.

To clear the message, make sure the active model is the one which first displayed the message. Then:

Go to the Screens menu
Click on 'Screen1', and choose a full screen layout.
Assign a widget (any widget).
Reboot the transmitter

The message should no longer appear. You can now reconfigure the screen to your taste.

What do 'left' and 'right' mean in the setup guides?

'Left' and 'right' are from an observer behind the tail, looking forwards.

Cross trims

Some pilots like to have 'cross' trims (trims on the opposite side to the stick). The Cross trim option is at the bottom of the Trims menu. No other changes are needed.

Will the Pro templates work on my X18, X14, XE etc?

The Pro templates are built for the X20 however they should work fine on other hardware. There may be one or two changes needed if the target transmitter lacks certain controls. The setup guide explains how to reassign those controls. If you still have issues, please contact me.

How do I change the channel order?

There are three ways of changing the order of the channels/outputs:

Method 1 - Swap channels

Ethos 1.5 offers a smart way to re-order the outputs, using the Swap channels command in the Outputs menu.

Go to the Outputs screen
Long press on any output and open the editor
Scroll down to 'Swap channels'
Swap between any two channels.
Repeat steps 3 and 4 to achieve the desired channel order.

All options including channel name, direction, min/max/subtrim and curves are swapped. In addition, references to swapped channels are updated automatically.

Method 2 - remapping the rx pins

If you have an Archer receiver, or an RX- or G-RX-series receiver with the latest ACCESS firmware, then you can remap the receiver pins. This can be done OTA (over the air) from your Ethos transmitter.

First, register and bind the receiver. Then in the RF menu of your transmitter, open the RX Settings menu. There you'll see the pin mapping, which you can alter to suit.

Channel to rx-pin mapping (ACCESS only).

Method 3 - reorder manually

As a last resort, you can change the channel order manually within your Ethos setup. But beware, Ethos does not make it easy - you have to follow a procedure for each mixer belonging to the channel you want to reassign.

Let's say you want to reassign CH5 to CH8, where CH5 has one or more mixers and CH8 is unused. Here's the procedure:

Open the Mixers menu, go to the first mixer line belonging to CH5 and open the mixer editor.
Change the mixer's output from CH5 to CH8. When prompted to swap channel settings, choose 'Yes'. This (a) reassigns the mixer output to CH8, and (b) swaps the Min, Max, Subtrim, curve, etc. between CH5 and CH8.
Identify the rest of the mixes belonging to CH5. For each of these repeat step 2 except choose 'No' when prompted to swap. This reassigns the mixer outputs to CH8 without swapping the channel settings (which have already been swapped in (2) above).

This procedure is well suited for reassigning to an empty channel (with no mixes) as in the above example. Things become more difficult when swapping between channels both of which have mixes.

Plan carefully and always clone a backup beforehand!

I can't see the template in the Model Select menu

Make sure you have at least the minimum Ethos version required for the template. The minimum is shown on the template page.

If the model file is still not visible, it may be that there are special characters in file name (this was the case with early versions of the templates). Rename the .bin file, changing upper case characters to lower case, and stripping out any non-alphanumeric characters. Then restart the transmitter.

How should I organise my models?

Use the 'custom folders' feature to organise your models (introduced in Ethos 1.1). For example, templates might go into a 'Templates' folder, unflown models would go in a 'Testing' folder, and so on.

Ethos also associates a model type with each setup, this being 'airplane', 'glider', 'heli', 'multi' or 'other'. The model type should not be changed, as it determines the mixers available for programming.

How do I install Ethos updates?

To download and flash the latest version of Ethos, install the Ethos Suite application, available from GitHub. Ethos Suite handles everything, from determining the firmware on your tx, to downloading and flashing the latest firmware and sound files. A USB cable will be required to connect the tx to your computer.

Contact

If you have a query, I can be contacted here. Please include as much detail as possible including: template name and version, Ethos version, transmitter, and the steps to reproduce the issue.