Hey JB, thank you for making this video and all your other great stuff. I was searching sooo long for a solution to change the vtx channel during the flight. Made the short clip to show other betaflight users how to do it, but I'm really not good in making videos :) So thank you for bringing this information this to all interested pilots. The direct translation of "Schon Richtig" is "already right" from german, can't remember why I used this :) Kind regards Steffen

Hey Joshua, "schon richtig" is German and means "already right". It's spoken like "shon rihjtig" or "shon rihjtihj" while you speak the "ch" almost like the "h" in "Hugh" or "human". I hope you learned something, today. BTW I learned something from your video, today. Great work and keep it up! Love your content.

I love that you upload almost/every day, I just got into the hobby and this is really helping me dive down the rabbit hole ☺️

I keep my low power disarm on all the time, if I need full power to see where I am after a crash, I switch to turtle mode and arm

This feature just came in handy for locating my quad lost in a snowy forest. I crashed into the trees. I used the directional patch on my goggles, and via this switch dialed down the lost quads VTX's output to 25mAh allowing me to triangulate with precision the video strength, and I located my downed quad.

As a German I had to laugh a lot when you pronounced "schon richtig": D translated it means: already correct

Bardwell you nailed it! ive been waiting for this for YEARS! Im doing this right now to all my quads this weekend. thank you for your content!

Well, I'm digital and analogue. I remember asking you about this last year. You've so made my night! Thanks !

This is definitely awesome! I got a kick out of how excited you were when you got it all set up lol.

This right here is why I prefer your content over all others. You will openly admit when you're wrong and fill us in on the goodies. Props to you JB!!!

I love your excitement for changing channels with switches. 🤓 I’ve wanted this for years. Also, fun fact, the issue you encountered with the aux channel number is so common it is a name, it’s an “off by one” error.

Mr. Bardwell, you are definitely the best. Every time I see a video of you, I learn, and sometines it makes me smile. The end of this one is very funny, and of course the content in this case, very interesting. Greetings from Spain

just finished building my quad, the timing is perfect. thx!

6:00 did you look at your own notification? 🤣🤣

Oh man thanks for sharing this. I just set this up for my quads and love this simple trick. I used a POT dial for adjusting my 4 power settings. Thanks again for sharing.

Whom ever figured this out first THANKS. N Jb thanks for passing it along. This is great.

This might be my favorite video EVER. Total game changer for us analog loving nerds!!

Doing this as soon as I get home tonight. Thank you for sharing.

Did anyone else notice that Ghost and tracer were laying on the table next to each other all the time? So happy you finally got it. Cannot wait for the review/comparison 😍

ohhh snap! I have been waiting for this for so long! thank you bro!

Nice. I like it. I can see this as a way to use more than 8 channels with a drone. I already had 8 channels in use, so these features would need me to use channels 9 and 10 for full VTX features then. Fantastic that it works. Thank you very much Schon and Joshua for this.

OMG! Yes, you the MAN!!!!! I've been wanting this FOREVER!

Thanks so much Joshua, another great tutorial that worked flawlessly, without your help I’d never figure out how to get out of 25mw. Now I’ve got 800 when I want it

Finally a use for pots on my radio! Thanks Joshua and Schon!

All who learned this have now achieved geek power level X. Even JB learned something today :)

Thanks for making a video about this feature from 2017. I hope you learned something today.

Thanks Joshua, I was able to configure the potentiometer to change the channel! That's awesome!!

Awesome video... this is a game changer. Kudos to you and your sources for bring this largely unknown feature to light. Cheers 🍻

Super helpful as always with your tutorials!! Thank you Mr Bardwell

Great video you knocked it out of the park with this one. This is a great idea and I would love to use my six buttons for power selection. This is cool

Thank you Joshua and "schon richtig" for that. It's very helpful.

Thanks for showing us this feature..Its bloody fantastic.

Great video JB! Looking forward to setting this up.

Thanks so much for this video. This was just one of many very useful one things I learned from you, Joshua. You are the man!

Wow, this is totally going on a knob. Thank you!

Just setup two new Nazgul 5's with this method and works flawlessly. Had to download (Copy) the Tramp table and config the power outputs to only four power levels 25 100 400 and 600. Cant believe how easy this was to setup. Thanks JB.

That's awesome Joshua, great video, great info. Now just need to get the tx16s. Your radio looks awesome.

Awesome! Wins most helpful info of the year award. And it’s only January.

Indeed this is a thing that many of us probably dreamed for years. SmartAudio/Tramp was a big progress, but it badly needed easier VTX control for things like you described. By the way noticed DJI like "PIT mode" in Betaflight 4.3 where Betaflight itself keep VTX on low power before first arming.

My vtx power was not changing automatically and as a result my video signal quality was poor. I have followed your instructions and have set a switch for 25, 200 and 400. Gonna do an outdoor test flight on my meteor75 pro. Thanks Josh!

Just tried this in EmuFlight works perfectly.. thanks Mr Bardwell

This is awesome, thanks Joshua for this video!

This are the type of videos I really like !

Awesome! Thank you Joshua!

So WE'RE going to learn something today

Hi Josh Great news !! Thanks for showing us these methods. I have been waiting to do this for my wings. I just wanted to use the lowest settings on startup and be able to go to full power after I'm up and flying. I just hope I can follow the computer. lol. Thanks again for the video and information.

You can use your trim switches for this with a bit of OpenTX wrangling... have one to click through channels 1-8, then have two power levels on another trim. You can even put pit mode on the same channel as the power trim, with pit mode using the first half of the range so that the centre beep lets you know it’s on!

Joshua, if you don't remember, I asked you once if this was possible. I discovered it this christmas thanks to my brother in law who has never flown a quad or something similar and just found out after 5 minutes looking on internet when I hopeless explained him how easy would be to do that and wasn't possible. yeah really happy with this new option! Now I take off on 25mw and switch to 800mw when Im away!

The moment I saw the light changing position on the vtx... That was beautiful.

I like the idea of using the two knobs for power and channel. That is so cool. Only caveat is making sure you have wide switches enabled if you are using the six or a knob on ExpressLRS.

Amazing setup. Thanks so much for sharing this info!

This is amazing! Thank you for uploading

Great video thanks have my first smart audio vtx on the way and will definitely use this!

sweet! Ive been looking for something to fiddle with on my quads during the long winter and 8pm curfew.

Great! Its been waay long time since you last shared these kind of useful tips!

Wow 👌, i was just trying to setup this exact feature. THANK YOU!

This is so kool! Love it JB. Thank you.

Josh! I've been trying to do this for too long. Thanks!

Ooooo sweet! That's gonna be super useful, I'm implementing it today thanks a lot.

Finally a use for those buttons

I obviously learned something today, thanks!

The is one of my favorite updates for any quad

I've been using low power disarm awhile now, it is definely handy, keeps vtx nice and cool

Fantastic! I think you learned something Joshua

Hahaha, JB learnt something the other day! Thanks for the guide!

That channel change feature for the transmitter is really cool, and would work well with TBS cloud to auto change to goggle channel as well.

Welcome to the party! The VTX command is awesome. I recommend putting VTx power on a dial. Much better than fumbling for buttons when wearing goggles.

Sweet! Thanks Joshua!

Woah I didnt know this , awesomness here JB

💥💥 GAME CHANGER 💥💥 I wanted this forever and asked in several FPV communities. I even started programming my own LUA script to change VTX settings with a dial but without success. Now I will finally replace a pot on my QX7 with a 8-way rotary switch and some resistors and can happily switch channels without the OSD/LUA script. BTW: "Schon Richtig" isn't a name. It is German and means "quite right" (mostly in the context of a fact being contested).

Thx Joshua B. It works fine :) I learned something, today. :D Happy Fly

Great video! I really fell hard for programming microcontrollers in college, and this is the kind of stuff I love. Don't blame the computer programmers for starting the count at zero. The microcontrollers, by nature, like to start at zero. So if you have an 8-bit port called Port B, the pins will be manufactured in that the bits (pins) of Port B are labeled PB0-PB7. The programmers just have to follow that convention. When we write code to use the first bit of the port we say PB0.

Fantastic it will now fill another day at home as we have to stay indoors for another 6 months UK 🇬🇧 thank fuck for this hobby otherwise ithis situation would do my head in. Thanks for vids,( think its my 4th year ! With you now )!

Thanks DUDE! You help me a lot!

I'll be playing with this this week.

This is so awesome thank you so much I tried it and love it awesome feature

Oh Josh you should know it better, PIT Mode is lower then 25mW, it is only about 1mW and by the way In Inav it is much easier to setup VTX Chanel or Power to a Switch. There you not need the CLI you can easy setup it by the configurator

Hey man thank you for sharing this! I actually found this trick some months ago while reading the BF wiki, but it didn't work. I guess that I missed out the part that says the VTX must be powered and ready while typing the commands. And I also missed your video. That's even stranger! :-D

Great content, Joshua. Happy to support you in Patreon and encourage others to do the same.

Pretty cool. For an overheating VTX you might set it to low on disarm + high on beeper.

saw this video long ago, did it today. Was running out of aux channels so I put my beeper as position 6, and the vtx tx powers as positions 1-4. Nice thing about this is if I select the beeper, since it's outside the range of the vtx command it just won't respond to it, so I can beeper at any vtx setting. Had a close call where I forgot the quad was still on 25mw mode after working on it, now I can change the tx power on the fly to balance range, gps interference, and being a good RF neighbor. 😎

That's so cool thanks to all

"schon richtig" Is german for "thats right/correct". The "schon" implies that there might be a "but/however" coming. Its pronounced the almost same as past tense of shine "shone" but without the e. The "richtig" is pretty close =)

That's pretty interesting! 😃 Thanks a lot, Joshua!!! Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊 BTW, about the "thank you programmers"... You're welcome. 😝

Thank you a ton JB, My job deals with radar tech and we use drones as a method of testing our equipment which i find extremely fascinating. My company is looking to grow the roster of pilots and all your videos have provided answers to all my questions including this video. I couldn't learn anything from my co-workers as most ( all ) of them fly... erm.. i mean... tell a Mercedes Benz where they wanna go ( Cough cough DJI cough cough ) Iv been flying basic off the shelf " toy " drones/helis/planes my whole life but always wanted to get into FPV and learn free-style. thanks to you and the FPV community iv been absorbing all the content on youtube.. Now im no freestyle crazy pilot with advanced skills. but i make all the DJI users look bad xD

JB you are amazing! thx

I did learn something today! 👊🏼

Damn dude. Very cool! I followed your instructions and it works. I always worried about crashing far away in the summer and the vtx overheating. SA is nice but a pain in the ass when you're in a hurry and want to immediately start walking to your quad and not stand there while you flip through menus. Plus I assume if you're far enough away that 25mw won't let you see video, you can flick the switch back to 500 or 800mw to take a quick peek and flip back to 25mw. Which might also make it easier to find if you go down in a large field with no landmarks by going down to 25mw and using a patch antenna on your goggles to get the direction of the quad. It's great to just flick a switch and get down to 25mw. Much faster than going through SA.

Nice Joshua. Thanks brother your for sure the best👍

Thanx Joshua! I tested this method and I found two issues. 1. there is only 10 positions of vtx index (from 0 to 9) so if you want set one swith for channels and second for power then there is not enough position in the index for all. 2. swhitching channels worked only until first arm, after that, channel cannot be changed. I have to unplug battery and plug it back then I can change the channel by switch again.

I've been doing this since beginning of 4.2, have not lost a VTX since.

Hey everyone. For example, because the Taranis QX7 has a maximum of three-position switches, it is possible to set four or more VTX power values to servo knob and this knob set for AUX channel. I use it for 25 mW, 200 mW, 500mW and 800mW TBS Unify Pro. JB explanation is awesome...of cource. Thanks.

Been thinking about this since I got in fpv.

Thanks for the video!

This is cool thanks jb. I set my trim switches to move through 8 rb channels. No need for lua or osd at races now. And it syncs up before unify nano pro 32 boots so no boot on wrong channel. :D and I can change channel with quad unplugged and no matter what quad I grab or what proticol its running. I know what channel and power it will boot on. :D I wish it had more than 9 lines though.

Hey ! I'm sorry that I deleted my previous comment before I see the answer, I watched the video again and found out about the index. Thanks a lot for your help !

I always catch these videos right before i go to bed,i always download it and watch it Tomorrow, also i leave a like😄😄😉

thanks, it work very well !

Great video!!!

Thank you very march dude!