Solved; X9D newbie mistake: Output channels were set to 1..8. I set it to 1..16 and all works well! Thanks again for the excellent tutorials!

Great set of videos. Thank you. Note to all - the SxR will work better when it is firmly mounted as close to the C of G as possible. This should ensure the onboard accelerometers / gyros sense the true attitude/acceleration changes, in a consistent way, for all axis & directions.

Thanks Lee. Everything sorted on the bench, ready for maiden tomorrow. Its all responding as it should and despite its complicated nature, I have confidence in the setup thanks to these videos. Patreon subscription well spent!

Spent my time watching these two videos getting to know the Taranis qx7 and s6r with stab'. I'm a lot more confident with the radio and receiver. And! got it working!!. Well done

Thanks for a plain English explanation of this flippin' receiver set-up. I'd been beating my head against a brick wall and getting nowhere, until another flyer recommended your channel. I've been flying r/c for about 50 years, so have a vague idea of what I'm doing! One of my preferences is airborne video, and as you are probably aware, getting a model - no matter how large - to be a stable camera platform is not easy - what looks, from the ground, to be stable, is in reality bouncing and wobbling all over the place! Hence my choice of the S6R, as there is no room in the fuz for an add-on external system. My normal camera platform is an e-powered glider, with a moderately large span, so I need to set up the 'level' flight on the glide, and now I know about channel 12 - I might make some progress!

Great 2 part series, Thanks for sharing this. The extra tips helped me out. I have now set up both S6R and S8R. They work brilliant. I have not had to use the panic switch YET! Touch wood...

This video helped me get my S6R all setup, I was about to give up. If I can only stop crashing I'll eventually learn to fly!!!!!

Thank you for this excellent support. Without your channel I would never manage.

Thanks Lee, another brilliant video for someone waiting for both the S6R and his first model to arrive in the post.

Thanks for the video. Been trying since last week to set this up and struggling as I'm using a 9xr pro and and ersky 9x firmware. A lot of this video relates to the radio/firmware I'm using and even now has the lua script available for the S6R. The only difference is the lack of a second 3 position switch for self check but is easily bypassed by using the failsafe button as you mention. It's now inside a Skywalker Falcon and working. Thanks again.

Ty for the help. I loved your epilogue. Frsky is equipment is impressive. I feel completely neglected as a customer and ripped off paying these prices for items that need such extent of deep education, soldering. Are you freaking serious. I had to make a connector too Feels like college....a bunch of BS on be. Thank you for your rant and getting us through it. I'm in awe how is goes on and on.

I have finally managed to get one S6R receiver to work properly, thanks to your two videos. What a huge effort you have made! I must say that this was actually the third receiver I was attempting to set up. The first one responded to the full stick movement of the ailerons, but only in one elevator direction and not at all with rudder. The second went crazy when putting the channel 10 switch in auto level mode, so the solution was to use offset so as to avoid the switch getting to that mode. I am now buying additional receivers; I pray they work properly... By the way, has anybody else have had to deal with dud S6R receivers?

Thank you very much! I had some problems setting up, but by following your two movies everything is working now... tnx a lot!

Thank you so much Painless360. I had this rx lying around and never got around to using it cause it was so complicated. Just got it up and running today. Test flight this weekend hopefully

Wonderful instructive series of videos. I totally agree the FrSky are starting to lose the point. I recently purchased 2 SR8 Pro Rx's and the hassles in setting them up is not worth it, almost to the point I want to sell all my frigging FrSky equipment now. Next time I will just purchase a standard gyro as I do not trust that these receivers will act as required

No idea if you can help, but I've followed your 2 part series and am having problems getting my S8R receiver to work. I have a Taranis X9D+ radio that I bought 3 or 4 years ago. It has always worked flawlessly but it still had the original firmware, version 2.0 something. I realized that I needed to upgrade, so I looked at the choices and decided to go middle of the road with a tried and true firmware and installed version 2.2v0021. That got me a nag screen about the "expected version" and I got that fixed by a change to the SD card contents. So far so good. I next went to the FRSKY site and downloaded the newest firmware for the S8R receiver (FCC version for US use) and followed your tutorial on running a servo cable (male to swapped red/black lead male) from the external module pins to the smart port on the S8R receiver. The firmware upgrade went just fine (to a point). It finished properly. When I attempted to continue with the S8R LUA file, I realized that the firmware upgrade had deleted the BIND that I had done with the receiver and it needed to be rebound to the transmitter. PROBLEM: It would NOT bind. Others have apparently hit this same wall. I found this message on a forum: "HI, just found the problem. The S8R-ACCST-V2.0.1 DOES NOT BIND!!!! I downloaded the previous version, S8R_FCC_20190531.frk and binding is successful." I had downloaded and installed the newer SBR_ACCST_V2.1.0 rather than the slightly older S8R-ACCST-V2.0.1 but I had the same problem with it NOT binding. I was able to successfully install the "OLD" firmware version (S8R_FCC_20190531.frk) and then the receiver would BIND once again. I have scratch built an 80" fixed wing video platform; hence the desire to get the S8R working correctly (I have 2 shiny new S8R receivers and both are behaving the same way) After binding with the OLD firmware, I was able to run the calibration LUA successfully (on both S8R receivers). I am using separate aileron servos on channel 1 and channel 5. I had all of the flight controls configured and working properly before beginning this little nightmare. I went through part ONE of this TWO part series and set up channels 9, 10, and 12 exactly as you showed. I ran the S8R Lua file and configured the settings to match the plane. The flight controls just got weird. Ailerons worked 1/2 way --- I got level to full right turn but no left turn. Elevator went up but not down. I lost rudder throw to one side. I thought maybe I needed to delete the MIX setting for channel 5 (as per you PART one screen on the mix --- I wasn't certain at the point where I watched that screen so I left my channel 5 mix in place). Deleting my channel 5 mix did nothing good. At this point I am left with a bunch of flight controls that only half work. I have been at this total process for about 8 hours and I am FRAZZLED. Suggestions will be gladly accepted. MY FIRST THOUGHT ---- Do I need to go to a radio firmware in the 2.3 series rather than the 2.2????? and then reinstall the latest version of the S8R firmware????? Will the receiver bind with that combination of firmwares? At this point I have swapped in a V8FRII receiver to make the plane flyable again and I am considering installing an older HK 3 channel stabilization box that I have. I would much prefer to get the S8R to work as it should. HELP!!!!!!!

Thanks for the help! I have set up both an S6R and S8R. But I found I still needed the STK Tool to flash updated firmware to both. Out of the package I wasn't able to toggle convenient mode on/off or switch Ch 5/6 to AUX modes. After that, however, it was step by step like you describe. Thanks Again!

I am slowly working my way to flying for the first time my latest & 'Greatest' plane design. Using S8R it is fine except don't yet have more than one mode SA up working with other two positions not stabilized...so that is OK...some tip on how this should look on the qx7 to get other two might be good. Also, everything working in flying wing setup except only way to get correct stabilization is with pins to front. Thanks for all your great help.

Fantastic video, your didactic is incredible, the best in KZfaq. I do like auto stabilization options and they have saved my planes from crashes with a flick of a switch. The intent of S6R with all in one is good and may save space but setting it up is overly complicated and time consuming. I'll stick with plug-and-play Arkbird Tiny and the CC3D Atom and spend hobby time in the field.

Hi Lee - I've been struggling with the S6R for weeks now, trying to get the altimeter and vario to work with it, and failing - The altimeter won't reset either, it is seemingly stuck at minus 200 feet, even after a repeated telemetry reset… The exact same vario/altimeter module worked perfectly with the X8R rx - With the vario selected on, I get random single bleeps at mid tone, and higher pitched pip-pip while the vario is stationary on the bench. Lift the vario over my head, and I get the pip-pip - once! and the bleep when I put it down again - not the continual tonal variations as the height changes. I sometimes get the pip-pip AND the bleep at the same time! Here's my set-up - Transmitter is Frsky Taranis plus - version 2.2.4 rx is S6R gyro vario set-up - p11 (of 14) Special Functions - SF9 - SB (arrow down) Vario - p13 Telemetry - sensor 6 Vspd * 0.0f/s 1 sensor 8 vari * 0.0ft (blank) - can't access it to change In the sensor settings, I've got - Sensor - Vspd - type Custom - id 0110-1 - unit f/s - precision 0.0 - ratio offset 0.0 - auto offset etc boxes all unticked Have I missed something silly? I've tried altering all settings - one at a time! - with no joy.

Brilliant double video set. I have just ordered my first fixed wing - Bixler - and thinking about this as the receiver. Fancy making something to aid baginners, so difficult to set up! Still, with patience and your tuition I think I will give it a go......... watch this space.

Thanks for the help mate, wouldn't have got it setup without you

With gains set reasonable low on auto-level is is possible to perform a loop while in that mode. It get very exciting at top of loop when the S6R can't decide the difference between up and down.

Great video. I just ordered a QX7S and spent i the wee bit extra on the S6R (over the X6R). Hoping the setup goes smoothly.

great video as always Lee

Hello, I am a happy subscriber of your channel and can't tell you how much I have learned from your videos about my Taranis DX9+ SE radio! I switched to this radio about a year or so ago from a JR-11x and never looked back. it was a steep learning curve for me, but your videos were an incredible help! I would like to get your advice on an issue I'm having with both the S6R and S8R receivers that I have in different planes. I only use the Quick Mode and fly a lot with self leveling since I'm older and want nice easy, relaxing flights. I issue I'm having is that in Self Leveling Mode the plane flies very level from side to side, but varies in pitch. Sometimes the planes fly straight & level and other times they go into a shallow dive. Many times during that shallow dive they will level themselves out and fly straight again. This seems to occur at all different air speeds. I have re-checked the plan's CG to make sure they were correct and re-leveled the planes many times with a slight nose up attitude and re-calibrated everything, but it seems to make no difference. I had the Auto Level on both the ailerons & elevator gain set to 80 when this was occurring. Yesterday I changed the Auto Level elevator gain to 60 in two of the planes. It seemed to correct the problem in one of them, (at least for that one flight), but not in the other. I was hoping that you might have some advice. I have sent two separate inquiries to FrSky about this, but have not received any responses. Thank you, Tom

"The plane can fly itself right out of your life"... too funny! I watched a jet fly out of someones life last summer.

Thank you for the directions! After updating the rx everything went smoothly

Awesome Lee, looking forward to advanced modes ;)

Setting this up on a Bixler with X-lite now, thank god for your videos mate!! Once you do it once it all makes sense and seems pretty straight forward but first time out without this video would be bit of a nightmare. Depending on how well this works, I might add it to my Efxtra. I only bought it to get rid of that bobble foam planes have when in the air, so keen to see if it does smooth it out, I mostly fly FPV so if its not entirely smooth its very obvious

brilliant series thank you

Instead of moving the channel 12 to a 2 -position switch then just override the channel 12 switch's middle position with -100 in Special functions. then you have panic button without the hazard of set it in calibration mode.

You are a remarkable educator. Thank you!

That's really amazing. Great video!

Great video as always. I had first set up the receiver with the STK, then later figured out how to use the Lua Script with your help. The one thing that is still a mystery after looking at your and other's videos is the relationship between setting gains for individual surfaces via the STK (and probably the Lua) and the single gain setting with the potentiometer. Does the pot override the gains set with the STK. Does the pot change all gain settings equally, i.e. pitch, roll and yaw? If so how can you maintain different gain settings for the different axes? It might also be helpful to explain all the S6R Lua configuration options.

Thanks o lot for great information - it helped me a lot to configure my S6R. HOWEVER, a question - towards the end you mention that after the first initial flight you should finish with a rebind? What do you exactly mean - should I bind the receiver again? This would mean me to take out teh receiver from the plane ... which would the calibrations done would be lost. Or am i wrong here? Once again, thanks a lot for a great channel with lots of information! BR Lars

Excellent work getting all this together in one place and putting complex such procedures in a user friendly fashion! For info I've used the s8r with pins front, just need to swap over correction in the lua script, and or can re configure from beginning but this time place Rx body pins down when it prompts pins up and so on. Even got carried away for fun and mounted across the plane ie pins left or right and again can be configured to work in all modes. Have you considered a tutorial on updating the firmware for an IRX4 multi module.? Thanks again, great job 😊➰🙃

I just completed the setup of my S6R using your instructions. Very clear instructions, so during install no problems. When I tried setting the "'self check"" using CH12 I was not able to get blue led on TX, so I used S/F switch on TX. But now I noticed that also CH9 and CH10 (mode and gain) do not work. The plane stays in level mode. I am using S6R EU LBT firmware 171204.

oh damn i get dizzy allready have it here and soon my second plane ever will arive. first pnp. i will tell you how long it took me. Happy i have your videos as company mate

Having faffed about with this RX for some time now I cannot understand the thinking behind Frsky releasing it in either it initial or revised form. The first version of the software was simply horrendous, how many users became familiar with the correct sequencing of two, three position switches I wonder. The revised firmware has taken a step toward simplifying things but I haven't seen any explanation of how the 'Panic Mode' on channel 12 differs from the 'Self Level' on channel 11, plus if it is not handled correctly it is possible to initiate a self check and crash the model. Even the new SXR manual has inconsistencies to confuse the user. The Electronic/Computer Geeks need to speak to Users more and listen to what they say. Just because a thing is possible it does necessarily mean that its a good idea. What on earth are they thinking?? I'm a big fan of FrSky and much appreciate your own efforts to clear he fog. Thank You Painless 360 and FrSky, Come on, get a grip!

Thanks for the video. I was able to set the S6R in a Ranger 757-6 for fpv. Works perfectly. Is it possible to set up a camera panning servo on Channel 6 using the S2 rotary knob of the QX7 or is Channel 6 only meant to work as part of the stabilization circuitry for Elev. 2? Will appreciate a response. Thank you.

Yeah the graupner stabilizer receiver setup is so much easier and works well with gas/nitro engines, but I don't fly graupner I'm an FRSky guy. I'm kind of looking into getting a S6R but I'm kind of leaning more towards just getting an F3 flight controller and running Inav.

Thanks so much your video made this a much simpler process you are a Sir in the RC world, are there any vids on the advanced modes like knife edge and prop hanging, I’m fairly new to Opentx and this stuff is amazing, I’ve got a lipo sensor to figure out now so I can get max flight times Thanks again 👍🏻👍🏻

Wow, thank you Lee! So much detail, this was super useful. Would you recommend this for a beginner to fixed wing or another receiver with level flight/stabilization. I have a TX16 multi-mode.

thank goodness you did this. youre awesome.

Followed your setup. No issues there. The receiver that I am using, SR10-PRO, will not enter the "calibration" mode.

Hi Lee, thanks for making this SxR setup vid. I have found it very useful. Just one question. I seem to be getting a small amount of yaw correcting automatic rudder movement when my S6R setup is in "level" mode. Frsky's instructions suggest this shouldn't happen. I have the latest firmware installed and can confirm the mode switch is working correctly. Is this normal?

3 Questions: 1. When I'll change the calibration switch to the momentary switch, I won't be able to turn the calibration program? It's only works with the 3 switch position? 2. After all the flying and calibration ends, I need to rebind the receiver?? Wouldn't it delete all my work? 3. Will you do a video about the advance program of the S8/6R? 3d and other? Thanks man.

Thanks Lee always excellent .... would you say it was better than a hobbyking product or omninbus f3 ? seems harder to install

thanks for this video just got my s8r and thanks for this video you done i cna now set it up right thanks again

Well done, what a fantastic two part tutorial. I have to agree that this seems awfully complicated to set up. I had been thinking about it for my fixed wings, but now having second thoughts. How would you compare this to the iNav with GPS option in terms of complexity? I have been watching your inav tutorials for fixed wing too. to gain awareness of the options, but not made any purchases yet.

Thanks, for this video. One question: at around 13 minutes, you say to rebind the receiver - I'd be grateful, if you could explain why this is necessary. Thanks. Many thanks, for your quick reply.

Thanks for this vid, helped me a lot! One question though, I didn't get it why that last re-bind was needed? Is not everything stored with the second self-check?

Hey Mr. Painless. I'm pretty new with planes. I've noticed that you know and explain good things so is there plane gyros with that acro mode with autolevel In any other gyro than radiolink Byme?

A sensor can be connected to this receiver to see the battery voltage (11.6 V or 22.8 V ......)

Wow, as easy at that! ;-) Let me just call in my engineering support staff and we should be able to get this all set up in a week or two, I'm sure. :-P

Brilliant vids, any thoughts on doing an advanced vid for the hover and knife edge function? Best regards Mike

Thanks, very helpful. Unfortunately when I am in the calibration mode and am trying to calibrate the S6R on its own my rssi warning comes on, my rx light starts to flash and it prevents me from completing these phases. The same thin happens when I try and configure the rx inside the model. However when I am not in the calibration or configuration mode my transmitter transmits fined and the rsss shows to be over 100.I have moved the transmitter away from the rx and have even moved to different locations but to no avail. I have three of these receivers and they all do the same thing. Any idea why it is doing that? Help would be apparated.

Many many thanks, absute brilliant Video! Only chance for me to get this thing running. I now have a problem using Lua to set everything. With my new x9d+ on the latest firmware the Lua let's me select a parameter, say "wingtype" but I can not change it. Is it a bug, or Firmware inkompatibility?

I am curious as I use the only two position switch for retracts and I am setting this up on an EDF where doyou suggest I move the Helpme function to for safety.

Very helpful. Hope to try mine next week. I am not clear on the difference between Auto Level and Urgent mode.

Thank You for your answer.......incidentally, what controller do you now use?

If I've set failsafe on my radio and then power off and the plane acts as expected does that mean it's correct or do I need to press the rx button as well? I'm thinking it's OK but first time it went to full throttle scared the hell out of me

between you and shondorc i managed to get mine right , its not that hard but yep 18 months of open tx is about right lol

Thanks so much for video. I have a question though. When programming channel 11 for added flight modes, will knife edge only work in one orientation? It seems to me it always goes to the same side no matter what. Thanks in advance.

Excellent. Many thanks.

Hi. thanks for exellent instructions. I Have a S6R and I'm new to the hobby. I wanted to have ailerons on seperate channels, but the AIL2 is not respoding to stick movement. Is there some setup that needs to done? I have the 4 basic inputs, Mixes in the order on the receiver (with AIL2 on channel 5).

Just a quick one , i just bought the taranis x9d 2019 plus access .all the latest firmwares , i cant use the trims or reverse in lua script for the s6r i have the scroll wheel instead of buttons and it will only work in one direction hence nothing can be adjusted ,everything else works spot on after following your vids , do you have any ideas ? all the latest firmware

Calibration and setup with lua seemed to go well. I was following your tutorial - set a Ch 9 gain on S2 - twiddling that I get (0-50-100) - I note that with full beans of +100 and switch A down (Ch10 +100), I can feel (but only just) tiny control surface corrections which seem to be going in the right way. I think that is at least a small However, with switch A up, Ch10 is -100 and a death roll to starboard results - this I don't understand - there is no change in the aileron(s) on the channels monitor screen, What am I doing wrong? PS., how do I re-subscribe to your Patreon?

Update, it seems my S6R firmware did not update correctly and it works OK using the old switch combination settings.

Done it.all by what you have explained, but my rudder is not correcting and on my 3pos switch i only have stabi mode, middle and down do nothing, only if i switch my momentary switch it auto levels

Hi it’s me again what is the best orientation for those two antenna is that i have to bent them or straight a head ? ? ? Thank you very much Lucien

Does anyone know if the self-level mode will work through the S-bus output? Or will it only work with servos connected to the PWM outputs?

I have the Taranis X9D plus. I got and loaded the firmware for my S8R receiver and flashed it. When I tried to calibrate it w/ SXR, the first pic came up showing which way to orient the receiver. After that nothing would occur after I hit enter. What do you think might be the problem?

Off to buy one. Please augment this for a wing too! Love your vids!

I followed your setup. Everything works great in off mode, and in stabilized mode. As soon as i put it in self leveling mode, or the oh crap mode the aileron goes nuts when the plane rolls right, and the elevator goes in the wrong direction. Do you think I screwed up, or do you think I got a bum reciever? The gain works well as well.

Hi Painless when I setup my s6r I do the self check move sticks in high rates it’s all good but when I’m in flight and flick to mid Rates I get no control at all do you have to do self check on each rate positions ? Please help

Thanks for the shoutout!!!

i can bind and calibrate and all that, can get throttle to move motor, but cant get ailerons to move, its like theres no servo signal output from the reciever, any help?

Thanks for that Lee, clear and informative as ever. As a reasonably experienced pilot I was intending to use this in its 'advanced' mode in a 3D capable plane just for a laugh. I can find no videos at all with it operating in hover or knife-edge, has anybody actually done this do you know?

Awesome videos it's helped me so much, I'm having 2 issues first is it seems channel 10 switch is setting it to stabilise and knife edge and when add channel 12 I get auto level mixed between the 2 switches. The second problem is it will not go into calibration mode with the channel 12 switch, is there something I'm missing?

Very helpful set of videos. Liked and Subscribed :) I still can't get past correction check though. self check seems to go through fine but it doesn't seem to correct when I twist it around. I'm using a 9XR Pro with an XJT module so I may have incorrect limits on the 3 position switch (I have it at half for all 3 then 100). Any ideas? Thanks.

Once its all setup do I need to have the plane level when plugging in the battery ?. Reason for asking its easier to install the battery with the plane upside down but I wondered if this would cause a problem.

Does the S8R need to have maximum movement on control surfaces during calibration and can this me reduced to easier weights after calibration?

Great video . Can you tell me do you need to make a delta wing model or a normal plane model to fly delta wing ( does the rx sort this out for ya ?)

Great video series. Im very new to RC planes and just got this receiver and should have it in a day or 2. The plane I have is an Easy Trainer 1280. The radio I have is the FrSky ACCST Taranis Q X7. Would it be possible to program in flaperons with this receiver/transmitter combo?

Will the stabilization and auto level work on a 3ch plane that does not have rudder? I am at a university and we are using the RMRC Skyhunter that has an H-Tail Setup with no rudder. Thanks!

Hello, I have everything setup on s8r and done all self checks after I trimmed the plane. My question is on channel 12 lockout, I just unassigned the switch. It does not try to calibrate when moving the switch now. Is this how to lockout the switch or should I do something different with it?

Thanks for your videos. I have some S8R in a EDF Jets and works fine, but just now I have a freewing Mirage 2000 Delta Wing and I have a lot of problems whe stabilize or autolevel mode. When turning right or left wing beguin to move continously and only when plane is flat it works well. I have reduced Travel of Ail to 80 and mixer to AIL 50 and EXPO 50 but just the same. I have a S2 button to control the gain and putting it at minium also the same issue. I have changed the gain by lua script to ail 30 and Ele to 60 in auto level and estabilization and also the same. The only thing I have to do is to reduce the gain to a 10 for AIL and ELE and test what happens. Isaw in yout video that you put gains to 0 value at all items but I thing that it will be as a manual mode because no gain to mantain the plane flat in autolevel. What do you think about it? Thanks There are othe parameters as AutoCrab and others but I don't know what is it function. Last firmaware and las Lua in my Taranis 9Xplus

I've set it up as you said but channel 12 is not going into self check. it only goes into recover mode. i can´t find where i´m going wrong

To make setup easier seeing this is the first time I have ever done it I decided to not do the flaperons. I had it most all working until the rebind then for some reason everything got messed up. The stabilize switch is no longer working and the pitch correction goes to the ailerons and if it needs to correct enough it turns the motor on. Tried to redo everything but nothing seems to help. After just over 8 hours of working on it still nothing. Any idea where I could be going wrong?

What is the difference between self level and panic mode?

Hi. I have a question please. How can I program my Teranis so that my retracts don’t retract when the rudder is deployed by more than 30%.

By the way the latest software version (2.0.1) for flashing the S8R receiver could not bind with my X9D Plus. I had to select the last 2019 version which bound perfectly.

sometimes my lua script wont fill out, or even partially fills out. also when i change the servo directions for self level they dont seem to save. i have an s8r and have it pointing plugs to the back and antennas forward. i thought this was correct but seems completely backwards on self level. also the rudder does nothing on self level. any help would be appreciated!!!

Im stuck with the switches. I put them on the channels but i they dont seem to work. im trying to turn sabilisation ect off to finetune the servos and so on. but i cant manage it.

Hi i thank you for your very Nice vidéo I’m from Québec Canada and Need informations regardons S8R or S6R receiver may i used them in gasser plane like dle20 and up to dle55 Thank you very much

When programming a remote controller and using a buddy box. Does the buddy box also need to be set up the same so that the stabilization work? Or me as a master can set stabilization on when handing control to the slave?

Any chance of a non-basic setup video? I have every channel working correctly, yet cannot for the life of me get the Rx to go into sell test.

Did it have batt telemetry or do i need an extra volatge sensor modul?