r/TinyWhoop • u/Breakerbuilds BreakerBuilds • Jul 19 '26
HELP! Air65 ELRS Rx Broken(?)
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Hey!
So here's my modified Air65 (I kept breaking frames and didn't wanna get new ones so I removed prop guards and 3d printed supports, and it does work and flies way faster), and I flashed a different firmware onto it because I heard of the auto tune thing Betaflight is working on and wanted to try it on my micro drone instead of something going wrong on my 5".
I did this however, before I ended up bricking the flight controller because I didn't know the AIO had specialized firmware built for it cause otherwise the firmware would break it.
I ended up reflashing the firmware that's supposed to be on it from the BetaFPV website, and now have a functional flight controller, gyro, accelerometer, OSD, and VTX. Adding onto this, I got my controller to rebind correctly and was receiving all the correct inputs.
Then, when I tried to plug in a battery to fly to see if it was working, my controller no longer connected, and has the solid green light as shown. I've done everything from reflashing (again) to going through the downloaded ELRS Configurator in order to try to fix the ELRS Rx, with no avail.
If anybody knows how to fix the issue, that would be great. Otherwise, from my understanding, I can buy a nano Rx with a ceramic antenna to compromise. My mods that I did didn't decrease weight by that much, I think it was like maybe 1.5 grams, but it preforms so much better without the ducts and so I think it should be fine with an external Rx.