In August 2016, Google announced its intent to discontinue support for Chrome Apps on all platforms other than Chrome OS. The plan was to start discontinuing apps starting in mid-2017 with most apps being completely unusable in early 2018. The driving factor behind this decision was that Chrome apps were “not being used” – Google cited that less than 1% of users have ever installed a Chrome app.
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This sucks for the miniquad world – we may very well be the 1% of users Google was talking about. Most of us use at least 3 Chrome apps regularly: Betaflight Configurator, BLHeli Configurator and Blackbox Explorer.
This week it looks like the hammer has dropped. All three apps can no longer be found on the Chrome Store using the built-in search functionality, and we suspect permalinks to them will be going offline shortly. Fortunately, the amazing developers in our community have not been asleep at the wheel – a workaround is available.
Betaflight Configurator and Blackbox Explorer are now available as standalone applications. They can be downloaded from the following locations:
Betaflight Configurator
Betaflight configurator can be run as a standalone application on Windows, Mac and Linux. It can be downloaded from the releases page on Github:
https://github.com/betaflight/betaflight-configurator/releases
Once downloaded, unzip the application somewhere on your computer. There is currently no option to install Betaflight Configurator as a conventional application. You must double click the executable from the unzipped folder to start the app.
Betaflight Blackbox Explorer
Betaflight Blackbox Explorer can be installed as a standalone application installer for Windows and Mac. It can be found under the dist/ directory on Github:
Download the set-up executable for your OS and install as normal. The application can then be started from your OS’ launcher.
BLHeli Configurator
As of 12/11/2017, BLHeli Configurator is not offering a standalone app. If this is not rectified by Google’s closure date for the app store, Windows users can go back to using BLHeliSuite. If an app becomes available, we will post it on this page.
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Betaflight 4.1 Free Download
https://github.com/betaflight/betaflight.../tag/4.0.6
Betaflight 4.0.x Release notes:-
https://github.com/betaflight/betaflight...20Notes.md
Betaflight 4.0.x Tuning notes:-
https://github.com/betaflight/betaflight...ning-Notes
Betaflight 4.0.x community tuning presets:-
https://github.com/betaflight/betaflight...ty-Presets
You'll also need the Betaflight Configurator 10.5 from the following link to go with this release because it includes new additional settings and CLI commands for Betaflight 4.0. It's still backward compatible with older versions of Betaflight firmware that you might have installed on some flight controllers.
https://github.com/betaflight/betaflight...tag/10.5.1
In addition, for Blackbox analysis of Betaflight 4.x blackbox logs you will the new 3.3 version of Blackbox Log Viewer available from the following link.
https://github.com/betaflight/blackbox-l.../tag/3.3.1
And finally, a new version of the LUA scripts for that are compatible with Betaflight 4.0 are available from the following link.
https://github.com/betaflight/betaflight.../tag/1.3.0
Quote:It took us a long time, but now it’s here, and it’s got so many new things!
When we released 3.5 in August last year, the number of different targets supported by Betaflight had reached 150, and maintaining them was becoming a major effort and taking up a lot of our time. It became clear that we had to do something. We had been working on changing the architecture of Betaflight to make it possible to use the same firmware for different flight controllers for some time, and so we decided to complete this change before releasing the next version, and that because of this fundamental change the next version would be 4.0.
As we approached the originally set release date for Betaflight 4.0, we realised that we were not quite ready, and we decided to take another three months, in order to be able to complete the work we had started.
So now, here we are, ‘Unified Targets’, as we called the new ‘one firmware for many flight controllers’ technology, is now a reality in Betaflight 4.0. There is still some work left to be done to add support for flashing Unified Targets with their configurations to Betaflight configurator, but once this is done, we will be able to allow manufacturers to make firmware for any number of boards, or RTF products, available directly in configurator.
As you have come to expect from Betaflight, we have picked up a number of new and exciting improvements to the flight performance, like ESC RPM based filtering, D term management with D_min, and throttle based dynamic gyro and D term filtering.
And, again as expected we have added some more, non flight related new features like launch control, OSD profiles, and support for on-board SPI attached RX.
For an extended list of new features see below.
To get the best out of the flight performance improvements, please read these tuning tips.
If you are upgrading from an earlier version of Betaflight, please read the following section containing a list of things that you might have to change in your configuration.
We have tried to make this release as bug free as possible. If you still find a bug, please report it back to us by opening an issue here.
If you want to talk about Betaflight, ask configuration questions, or just hang out with fellow pilots, you can do this in our Facebook group.
Betaflight also has a presence in the Slack messaging platform. Register here, and then come join us in Slack. Most developers hang out there, so this is a great place to talk about the things you are tinkering with in Betaflight, or get help with really complicated configuration problems.
Kia kaha (stay strong)
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