Good day! Today we're gonna get creative and have some fun! You see in this last
video I was happy to let you know about the new receiver protocols the
multi-protocol module dev's have given us to use with the jumper t16. Today I'm
happy to let you know Betaflight 4.2 is due out shortly and the Betaflight dev's
have given us new features to go along with IT! I, for one, am very grateful to
them and all of our open-source developers. If you'd like to show your
support for the Betaflight, OpenTX, or the multi-protocol module development
teams ,I've got links in the video descriptions of all of my videos you can
click on at any time to do so. And, if you'd like to support your TMac FPV
channel I've got a patreon link below as well as affiliate links for your
convenience you can use to purchase any of your FPV gear at no additional cost
to you. So the new features of Betaflight 4.2 can be found at this site
which I'll link below. However, today I'm going to show you one
of its fun little secret features not currently mentioned in those notes. It's
your own personalized Betaflight OSD custom logo which you can program to
appear in your OSD when you arm your quad. That's where you can get creative
and strut your stuff! Today I'll show you how you can make your own Betaflight OSD
custom logo and use it prior to the Betaflight 4.2 release when you power up
your quad. Then, for the new feature that works with arming, I'll show you how to
update your quad to Betaflight 4.2, install your personal custom logo, and
strut your stuff on your goggles DVR videos. Now for more fun! I know you can
do a better job of designing your own custom OSD logo than I do in this video.
So I'm going to give you the chance to show me (and the world) what you can come
up with. After you follow the steps in this video, save a screenshot from your
goggles DVR showing your custom logo and either send it to me through email or
through Facebook or Instagram message by Sunday May 17th - my contact information
is below. If I get more than one submission, I'll narrow them down to the
top two or three then post those in my YouTube Community Tab with a poll for
folks to vote on for their favorite logo. I may do the same poll in the
Fast Track FPV Facebook Page as well as Instagram and Facebook Stories so keep
an eye out for those as well. Voting will last one week so make sure
to get all of your friends to vote for yours!
Whichever OSD custom logo gets the most votes, I'll give a shout out to in the
video I post on May 29th and the top logo winner will get a FREE TMac
Diamondback Rattler frame kit which you can check out in the link
below. This IS open to both U.S. and international viewers. Sound like fun?
Then give this video a "thumbs up" below, share it with your artistically gifted
friends, and subscribe to your TMac FPV channel - your home for your
"Journey to Better" FPV fun, flights and racing stuff! All right the
first thing we're gonna do is design our Betaflight OSD custom logo and to do
that I'm using a program called Microsoft PowerPoint. I've been using it
for decades and I really like it, it's very easy to use. If you're not familiar
with it and would like to check it out I've placed links to it down in the
video description below. Let me explain what I have on this sheet to begin with.
First of all, what I've done is I've grabbed my lucky quadcopter image from
Google Images as well as some images of some props. This is what I started out
with. I've also created various shapes in black and white just by using these
shape buttons up here. So I made all these shapes for the various parts of
the quadcopter. Then what I did in order to get this image in a black and
white outlined image is, I used a program called Paint and we'll go to that now.
We just want to upload that image into Microsoft Paint so we just drag and
drop and there's our image. I can close this out. I'm going to zoom in and then
to change this from the emerald green to the black outline four-leaf clover I've
just used this eraser. You can go along in here and erase everything that
you don't want like that. I'm just going through it quickly here
to demonstrate how I went about doing it.
Then, once I was done with that I clicked on file, properties, change it to
black and white, hit OK. It says once you do this you can't undo it. Click OK.
Then you've got a black outlined four-leaf clover.
Go ahead and save that to a folder that you've created on your hard drive.
Now I've got a black and white four-leaf clover I can use for my Betaflight OSD
custom logo which is what we have here. So that's how we went from this image to
this image. Now all we have to do is assemble the parts. So we assemble the
parts. We group it, get rid of this, add some text. We want the inside of the
letters to be white and the outline to be black. So we'll change the inside to
white and the outline to black and we want to make the outline a little bit
thicker.
We'll make it three. Change this to FPV, align these two, group all of this,
click on it. Then we save it as a picture to a folder we've made. We'll
call this Betaflight OSD TMac FPV logo. Save. Now we've got the beginnings of
our Betaflight OSD custom logo. Now we're ready to finalize it for import
into Betaflight. To do that we open our Microsoft Paint program which is the
same program that we use to erase the emerald color from our four-leaf clover.
Then we import our Betaflight OSD TMac FPV logo by dragging and dropping.
Now our Betaflight OSD custom logo template canvas size is limited to 288
by 72. Down here we see our pixel size at 1694 by 605. So we need to change
this canvas size to . . . by resize, click on pixels, maintain aspect ratio, and we're
gonna go 288 by 72. Now when we change that, this 288 number goes back to 201.
Don't worry about that we'll fix that later, just click OK.
It gets really small so we need to zoom in so we can see what we're doing.
Now we need to change this to 288 by 72 and in order to do that we click on the
corner over here with the left mouse button depressed. We move this out to 288.
7, 8. Let go of the mouse button. All right now our canvas is 288 by 72. We want to
go back to home. I want to select. I'm gonna do a rectangular selection.
I'm going to click on that and then I'm gonna move it to the center of our
canvas by pressing and holding the left mouse button. That looks about centered -
enough space on that side and that side. Now what we want to do is we want to
make sure that our entire image that we've imported is in black and white.
Even if it doesn't appear that you have colors in your image you'll want to make
sure and do this. To do that we go to file, properties, click on black-and-white,
hit OK. Now it's gonna warn us once we do this we cannot revert back to what it
was originally. That's okay. There's our black and white image that we need.
Now once it's in black and white we want this background to be green because
green in the Betaflight OSD is going to show up as transparent. So in order to
get this background green we need to go back to properties and click on color.
Click OK. Once we do that we want to make this background green. In order to do
that we click on edit colors. On this RGB color code we want to change 0 in
green to 255. Click OK. Now we've got this green color up
here. We want to click on the bucket and then move your mouse cursor to the
background. Boom! Do a left mouse click and it fills the entire background with
the green color. It's looking good now. Now we could zoom back out and you get a
better idea of what it might actually look like on your OSD screen. So at this
point what we want to do is save it. I'm gonna save it as Betaflight OSD
TMac FPV logo - a PNG file. Click Save. Now we've got our Betaflight OSD
custom logo ready to be uploaded into Betaflight 4.2. Alright now that we have
our custom logo created prior to Betaflight 4.2 it will only work and we will
only see it on our OSD when we first power up our quad - which for most of us
means we won't actually see it in the OSD! That's why etracer65 has created
the new feature for us where we can actually see it when we arm our quad.
However, prior to Betaflight 4.2, to get this to work when you power up your quad
you go to your Betaflight Configurator. In this case I am using Betaflight
configurator 10.6.0 prior to Betaflight 4.2. We go to our OSD tab. From
there we click on font manager. Then we've got the opportunity to upload our
custom image. This is our Betaflight default image. To upload our custom image,
we select custom,
double-click on our custom OSD logo. It checks to make sure that the size is 288
by 72 which it is, it's in green, and that it contains green, black, and white pixels -
which it does. If either of one of these did not meet the requirements then we
would get a red X with red text. In order to save our custom image it states here
that we click "upload font to persist custom logo." So let's go ahead and do
that. It's uploading. Now we should be good to go with our Betaflight custom
image prior to Betaflight 4.2. We'll go ahead and check it out now as we power
up the quad. Okay I'm gonna power on the quad and let's look for our custom OSD
logo. Looks pretty good. Alright now what happens when I arm the quad? Nothing,
because we're prior to Betaflight 4.2. Let's go ahead now and take a look at
how this is going to work for Betaflight 4.2. Alright prior to uploading
our logo to Betaflight we need to update our flight control firmware to
Betaflight 4.2. Prior to doing that we look down here and it says we need to
have the latest Betaflight Configurator. It's mandatory because earlier versions
are not going to work properly. So the latest Betaflight Configurator
that will be working with Betaflight 4.2 is Betaflight configurator 10.7. Now
at the time I'm making this video it's a release candidate 1. By the time
you're viewing this video (or very shortly thereafter) both the configurator
10.7 as well as Betaflight 4.2 should actually be released to the public. I'm
gonna go ahead and download the Betaflight configurator 10.7 release
candidate 1 for the purposes of making this video. So when you go to download
the regular Betaflight configurator 10.7 official release, you'll
to Betaflight Configurator Releases, just as I am here. For Windows I need
(I'm on Windows 10) - I need this file win32 Exe down here.
So I'll click on that. It downloads over here. Once it's
downloaded, I'll cut and paste that to a folder that
I've already created previously on my computer. So I go to that folder and I
paste that file. Then I go ahead and double click on this. You see it's
populating all the files underneath that folder. Alright now that it's done
installing, we click finish. Go over to my Start menu. Click on Betaflight
Configurator. Over here in the top left we see that it's updated to 10.7.0
-- release candidate one. In your case it'll be the official
release. All right now with our quadcopter connected to our computer and
its props off, we connect it to the configurator. We take a look at our
target board and we see that our board name is omnibusF4FW right here, by Airbot.
OmnibusF4FW. So now we go update firmware, omnibusF4FW right here. At the
time I'm recording this video, Betaflight 4.2 is not officially released
yet. Hopefully by the time you're viewing this video or shortly thereafter,
Betaflight 4.2 will be officially released. So for now, for the purposes of
recording this video, I'm going to show development. We see the latest
development version 4.2 is number twenty one eighty two dated four twenty eight.
So I'm gonna click on that. I'm gonna load firmware online and now I'm gonna
flash firmware. Because I received a failed notice here I'm gonna run the
ImpulseRC Driver Fixer. Drivers fixed. That's a good thing! So now, we go back
and we've already loaded our firmware online - so now I'm just gonna flash
firmware again. Make sure it's the right one. 4.2. Flash firmware. You see
how that ImpulseRC Driver Fixer works like magic? It's awesome! Now we're
flashing. This is the same process that you'll use with the official release of
4.2 The only difference is you do not show unstable releases and
this will not show as development, it'll show as Release. Programming is
successful! That's a good thing! Now we connect
and we do want to apply custom defaults. We come up with a warning there's no
motor output protocol selected, accelerometer is enabled but not
calibrated. Okay, so let's calibrate the
accelerometer. It flips my quadcopter up the correct way. Now we're gonna
go to our CLI to make sure that we've got the correct firmware for our flight
controller loaded by typing in "dump." Scroll to the top and we have omnibusf4fw
Betaflight 4.2, dated 28 April 2020 installed and that's good thing! Now
we're ready to upload our Betaflight OSD custom logo! Alright now we connect
our quad to the configurator 10.7.0
RC1 and we go to our OSD tab. In our OSD tab, we click on font manager. Here's
what the default image is - the Betaflight logo. There's a reminder here
that says our size must be 288 by 72 and it has to have green, black, and white
pixels. So we select our custom image which is our Betaflight OSD tTMac FPV
logo. We double click on that. It uploads and it checks to make sure that it's 288
by 72, which it is. We did a nice job centering it here - thank you very much!
It has to contain green, black, and white pixels - which it does. Now it's
uploaded. Then after we've uploaded the Betaflight OSD custom logo, in my
case TMac FPV, it says "Click upload font to
persist custom logo." So we're gonna click upload font and we should be good to go!
So let's go check it out. Alright let's see how this works with Betaflight 4.2
installed. We'll power on the quad like we did before.
Looks good. Now the real test is when we arm the quad. Niiice!
That's another fun feature the Betaflight dev's have given us. Special thanks
to -tracer65, Bruce Luckcuck for this one. Remember to send in your custom OSD
logo for a chance to win the Rattler and check it out along with more free
resources at TMacFPV.com. Thanks for your time. I'll see you next
video. Clear skies friend!