Having upgraded my 7E to 6 switches, the next thing I worked on was to add 2 potentiometers to it. These will show up as AUX4 and AUX5 inside the DeviationTX firmware. It’s a slightly trickier process than the switch upgrade, as there are no convenient pins on the main board to use. As such, it requires soldering directly to the pins on the processor. This however, like the processor upgrade, can be done safely if you take the necessary…
For me, my biggest gripe with the Devo7e transmitter is that it comes with only two 2-way switches, HOLD and FMOD. My second biggest gripe is that it has no potentiometers. I know that there are mods available to get 2 extra 3-way switches, but I wasn’t really satisfied with that, so I set about looking for someway to get more. The stock Devo7e has already reached it’s limit for new code so it wasn’t really possible to do this until…
[UPDATE: 17th May 2016] While the method below can still be used to build from source, PhracturedBlue has release a Docker container that contains the build environment with a GUI to ease the process. Find the wiki documentation about it here. Alternatively, if you do not want to build from source yourself, compiled versions can be found on the Test Builds page on deviationtx.com. Let’s walk through the process of building DeviationTX from source. You’ll need to do this if you…
We’ve now got a nice new processor installed in our 7e and we need to flash a boot loader onto it. The bootloader we need is the 256K variant that PhracturedBlue has so nicely modified for us. It is based on the original stock Walkera bootloader, but allows for files larger than 128K to be uploaded. You can find it from the links that I put in the “DeviationTX: Build environment and tools” post. I’ll assume that you’ve also already acquired and…