[NSRCA-discussion] How many transmitters let you add your own features?

[Peter Vogel]

Yeah, I am well aware of the FrSky.  I was thinking more about the
"mainstream" radios...

On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 4:08 PM, Jon Lowe via NSRCA-discussion <
nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org> wrote:

> Jeti is quite late to the party with Lua. The FrSky Taranis has had this
> capability for a couple of years. And no, I'm not sponsored by them.
>
> Jon
>
> On Dec 30, 2016 5:26 PM, "Vogel, Peter via NSRCA-discussion" <
> nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org> wrote:
>
> Jeti's DC-24 added Lua scripting capability so you can add your own
> "native" features to the radio easily. They just released a SW update so
> you can do the same with the DC and DS-16s too.
>
> I played with it a bit today. This is AMAZING. I've written a Lua script
> here: https://github.com/pvogel1967/Lua-Apps/tree/master/
> Discharged%20Flightpack for warning if you arm your plane with a
> discharged flight pack (happens more often than I would like in
> competition). While it *is* possible to get the same functionality from the
> native features of the radio, it burns a sequencer and several logical
> switches. It's even more complicated to do if you have an ESC with a BEC
> and you use a separate RX backup pack as many of us flying competition do!
> As an added bonus I added the ability to have it announce the model name
> when the TX is powered up or a model is selected. While this is ostensibly
> a distinct function it seemed silly to burn another one of 10 script slots
> just for announcing the name of the model. See the readme in the above
> directory for details of the app.
>
> Everything you see on the screen below is a result of this script being
> enabled for this model.
>
> [image: Image]
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