DFM-Batt

Define and track the usage of groups of battery packs

Allows pilot to define multiple groups of battery packs and select a group for each model. On startup of the model, pops up a window to select one or more battery packs from the selected group for that flight.

Release Notes

Version 2.4 Update: Maximum battery capacity has been increased from 9999 mAh to 32767 mAh to accommodate new high-capacity batteries

Version 2.2 Update : There is a new key defined on the popup screen where you select a battery group, called "+Batt". This allows selection of multiple batteries. When the popup is displayed, position the cursor to what you consider the primary battery ... the app will read capacity and warning levels from this battery. If you press OK it will be selected as the one battery as the app has worked before. If you press "+Batt" it will select this battery as primary and re-load the menu where you can position the cursor to a second battery and press enter, selecting a second battery. You can repeat this as many times as you like. All selected batteries will be announced with an audio announcement, and all will have their cycle count incremented.

Also, for Version 2.2, we've added a key in the group setup screen to delete a battery group.

Note: If you downloaded the original version, the file is DFM-Batt.lua. The newer versions are DFM-Batt.lc. If you see DFM-Batt listed twice when adding an app, you still have the old DFM-Batt.lua file .. you may want to delete it. The old app will come up as version 1.0 in the Applications menu if you want to confirm. This was done to allow the app to continue to work on the older mono TX devices.

DFM-Amix.lua

Create two mixing curves that correct knife edge trim for aileron and elevator.

Once established with the app, the values can be transferred to a built-in mix curve.

Version 1.3

Adaptive Knife EdgeMixing

This app is used to create a pitch and a roll trim curve to be mixed with the elevator and aileron controls so that aileron and elevator trim is compensated across the entire range of rudder motion in knife-edge flight.

The aileron and elevator mixing controls can be set to be any proportional controls.

There is an instructional video by Harry Curzon on how to set up and use this app, check out Harry's Youtube channel

Usage

1. Assign the main control (e.g. Rudder) and make sure to set it to proportional
2. Assign the controls for Rudder, Aileron and Alevator, they also must be set to proportional
3. Assign a switch to enable adjustment of the Elevator (Automix Elevator control)
4. Assign a switch to enable adjustment of the Aileron (Automix Aileron control)
5. You may wish to set the Aileron and Elevator switches to the same physical switch

DFM-Watt.lua

Compute and display power consumption for electric motors

Battery Power Announcer

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This app computes power consumption for electric motors and shares data with DFM-GRat via global variables

DFM-Crow.lua

Create a mixing curve that corrects pitch trim over the range of crow.

Inspired by the OpenTX implementation done by Mike Shellim.

Version 1.6

Now allows logcial switch for crow control.

Example from Multiplex Cularis

Adaptive Crow Trim Mixing

This app is used to create a pitch trim curve to be mixed with the elevator control so that pitch trim is compensated across the entire range of Crow.

The crow mixing controls can be set to any proportional controls, or with a few additional steps and creating a flight mode, it is possible to use the original digital trim buttons

The app creates a mix curve with pilot-specified spacing (linear or log) and a selctable number of points. The crow trim compensation can be set for each of these points and values in between points are interpolated.

There is also an autotrim-like capability, called autocrow, where the trim is adjusted by movement of the elevator stick.

Usage

1. In the main menu, assign the controls for crow and crow trim

2. In the settings menu confirm the values of trim step (how far the trim value moves for each press of the crow control

3. If you want to use autocrow, use that menu to select an on/off switch to enable autocrow, set the elevator control, and confirm rate and expo settings

DFM-Temp

Display temperatures including images of the engines and placement of temperature probes.

Version 1.0 26-Jan-2023

Documentation

There is an instructional video by Harry Curzon on how to set up and use this app, check out Harry's Youtube channel

Usage

1. Assign telemetry sensors to the temperature probe inputs
2. Edit the probe parameters as required
3. Select the type of display desired

DFM-TimV

Create and display variable rate timers

The Variable Rate Timer App (DFM-TimV) creates two count-down timers. Both are controlled by the value of a proportional stick (typically throttle). One timer (the Variable Rate Timer) goes at normal speed with the stick at 100% and slows down proportionally (or with optional expo) as the stick is reduced. The other timer (the Variable Duration Timer) always counts down at normal speed but computes the time to zero based on the value of the stick. Both timers reach the final 0:00 time simultaneously.

This app is intended as a substitute for actual capacity measurements of battery mAh or fuel (gas or jet).

Version 0.4

Documentation

There is an instructional video by Harry Curzon on how to set up and use this app, check out Harry's Youtube channel

Usage

1. Assign the main control (e.g. Throttle) and make sure to set it to proportional
2. Assign switches to start/stop and reset the timer (optional)
3. Set the starting time for the countdown on the main app menu
4. Choose a countdown for the final seconds of the Variable Duration Timer. If set to n seconds, the app will announce each of the last n seconds as it counts to 0:00
5. You can optionally set up stick shakes at t=0
6. There is a setting for a min throttle value with the stick at idle to compensate for idle fuel flow on non-electric models
7. The app creates one double telemetry window, enable it with the Displayed Telemetry menu command on the TX. The Variable Rate timer is on top and the Variable Duration timer is on the bottom
8. In the telemetry window, the smaller numbers on the right are the throttle stick percentages (0 to 100). The top value is the actual stick position, the bottom number is after expo is applied.

DFM-Dial

Draw configurable dials, bargraphs and charts for telemetry values

Update V 1.2 01/16/23 The fix in 1.1 did not work on all transmitters, this one should!

Update V 1.1 01/03/2023 Fixed bug that could cause app crashes with a lua console error mentioning userdata. This update does not require you to re-configure saved data.

Upadate V 1.0 12/3/2022 Fixed bug that set some values to zero before sensor data existed

Description

DFM-Dial was suggested by Harry Curzon as a simple app that could format graphical representations of telemetry data in the Jeti transmitter's telemetry windows. It can do arc and needle dials, horizontal bargraphs and chart-recorder style time recordings.

Usage

Like all Jeti lua apps, DFM-Graph can have two telemetry windows defined. After the app is added to the Applications menu for a model, the pilot has to define one or two telemetry windows by going first to the Timer/Sensors menu, then to the Displayed Telemetry menu. On this menu press the "+" key and then "Lua" and pick one of the two menus from the app .. you can then press "+" again and select a second one.

Once the two windows are defined, you can use the App's menu structure to set up each of the two telemetry windows. Each window can have several different screens from the standard single-telemetry channel double size window all the way up to a few 4-telemetry channel windows. Once you have selected the window, press F3 (the edit button) to pick the sensor(s) for that set of window panes. Then press F3 again to set up each of the sensor windows.

In order to more easily set up max and min values there is a value and multiplier. As usual, when editing the values, the menu key allows x1, x10 and x100 from the base increment on the 3D wheel. The multiplier applies to both the gauge range (Max/Min displayed value) and the Warning value, typically less in absolute value than the max or min. When the telemetry value is outside the warning or gauge range, the main displayed numerical value turns red.

You can also apply an n-point running average with an exponentially decaying weighting by specifying the smoothing value. 1 is no smoothing, 2 is a 2-point running average, etc.

DFM-GRat.lua

Compute and display glide ratios from telemetry

Glide Ratio Announcer

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This app computes and announces glide ratio and shares data via global variables with DFM-Watt

V-SensXF

V-SensXF is based on the excellent Jeti V-Sensor app, the XF refers to extended functions.

Usage

The main extensions to Jeti's V-Sensor are:

• An arbitrary number of telemetry variables can be defined and named using the Telemetry Sensors menu. These variables can then be used in expressions to create live computed results. Expressions are defined in the Result Expressions menu.

• GPS sensors may be defined, along with GPS points on the GPS Sensors and GPS Points menus

• We have added a number of special functions to the environment of the Lua interpreter that is used to evaluate the Lua expressions. See the help screen on the Results Expressions menu for more information. For example we have GPS distance and bearing functions, no fly inside and outside functions, and a knob and slider reading function to adjust parameters during flight.

• Results can be displayed in telemetry windows and can be set to single or double size telemetry windows with the TX Displayed Telemetry menu. You can assign specific results to specific telemetry windows with the Telemetry Windows menu.

• Results are logged to the logfile up to the max number your transmitter permits (10 for Gen 1 monochome devices, 24 for others).

• Results can have Lua controls associated with them. These are set with the Lua controls menu. The limit for the number Lua controls is 4 on Gen 1 devices, and 10 for others. This allow interaction with the TX programming by using a Lua control to drive a logic switch or any other function that allows Lua controls.

• You can have an arbitrary number of result expressions, but the telemetry windows, log entries and Lua controls are limited to the numbers available on the TX depending on its capacity as noted above.

DFM-SWT.lua

Make 4 different announcements when a momentary button is pressed multiple short times or one long time

Usage Instructions

1. Assign the momentary swich to use
2. Assign a telemetry parameter of virtual function to each number of presses
3. Adjust units and decimal places for telemetry sensors