XM+ blinking red light problem

[JoshThom]

Hey all,

I decided to tryout the Nazgul5 as my friend bought one and let me fly it-- I thought it was pretty smooth. Now there are some problems with mine...

When I try to bind my XM+ receiver to my Taranis qx7 I get green-red solid lights. I stop the bind process and re-power my quad, which then gives me a flashing red light... no bind.

Anyone know what I'm dealing with here?

Thanks.

 

[okw]

The first thing that comes to mind is that you've got the transmitter too close to the receiver. Try moving it a few feet away to see if you still have the flashing red light.

 

[JoshThom]

The first thing that comes to mind is that you've got the transmitter too close to the receiver. Try moving it a few feet away to see if you still have the flashing red light.

Hm. I don’t think that could be it because I still get the blink without transmitter on

 

[Kilrah]

Those LED patterns mean it didn't bind. Probably mismatched firmware on the radio's RF module and the receiver, FrSky now have "V1" and "V2" ACCST and they must match.

 

[robtest]

I had similar problems with a FrSky XM+ and binding to a Jumper T-lite OpenTX radio.

I was trying the FrSkyX and even FrSky X2 protocols, I power up the receiver with bind held, got the red and green solid...
After binding, the green light would go out, instead of the red, which would mean successful bind.

I watched a ton of youtube videos, and finally found ones in Thai, that I couldn't understand the spoken, but words were in English...
Basically, I had to flash the XM+ receiver with the legacy firmware to get it to work...

 

[mrmund]

How far away is your transmitter when you have this problem?
If TX is too close it can cause loss of signal. Mine does it unless I'm a couple of meters away from the qwad

 

[NeoCloneOne]

Make sure the QX7 protocol for that model profile is set to D16 not D8 or anything else.

 

[JoshThom]

I had similar problems with a FrSky XM+ and binding to a Jumper T-lite OpenTX radio.

I was trying the FrSkyX and even FrSky X2 protocols, I power up the receiver with bind held, got the red and green solid...
After binding, the green light would go out, instead of the red, which would mean successful bind.

I watched a ton of youtube videos, and finally found ones in Thai, that I couldn't understand the spoken, but words were in English...
Basically, I had to flash the XM+ receiver with the legacy firmware to get it to work...

Hey! So I think this is where I'm at as well-- what kind of cables do you use to flash the firmware, or is this something I can do in betaflight? I'm sorry, I've never had this issue before so I literally don't even know where to start for flashing

 

[LUCiD_B3AST]

Hey! So I think this is where I'm at as well-- what kind of cables do you use to flash the firmware, or is this something I can do in betaflight? I'm sorry, I've never had this issue before so I literally don't even know where to start for flashing

Did you ever figure it out?