tudou2015 / cleanflight-configurator

Google chrome/chromium based configuration tool for the cleanflight firmware

Cleanflight Configurator

Cleanflight Configurator is a crossplatform configuration tool for the Cleanflight flight control system.

It runs as an app within Google Chrome and allows you to configure the Cleanflight software running on any supported Cleanflight target.

Various types of aircraft are supported by the tool and by cleanflight, e.g. quadcopters, hexacopters, octocopters and fixed-wing aircraft.

Project History

Cleanflight Configurator was originally a fork of Baseflight Configurator with support for Cleanflight instead of Baseflight.

This configurator is the only configurator with support for Cleanflight specific features. It will likely require that you run the latest firmware on the flight controller. If you are experiencing any problems please make sure you are running the latest firmware version.

Installation

Via chrome webstore

1. Visit Chrome web store
2. Click + Free

Please note - the application will automatically update itself when new versions are released. Please ensure you maintain configuration backups as described in the Cleanflight documentation.

Alternative way

1. Clone the configurator repository (from Github) to any local directory or download it as zip.
2. Extract to a folder and not the folder.
3. Start Google Chrome.
4. Click the 3-dots on the far right of the URL bar.
5. Select Settings
6. On the left of the screen select Extensions.
7. Check the Developer Mode checkbox.
8. Click on load unpacked extension.
9. Point it to the folder you extracted the zip to.

How to use

You can find the Cleanflight Configurator icon in your application tab "Apps"

Notes

WebGL

Make sure Settings -> System -> "User hardware acceleration when available" is checked to achieve the best performance

Linux users

If connecting Cleanflight Configurator to your flight controller's USB port does not work out-of-the box, follow this check-list:

1. After connecting, sudo dmesg should print a message similar to usb 2-1.1: new full-speed USB device number 17 using ehci-pci. If not, there may be a problem with your cable/FC.
2. FCs with USB Virtual Com Port (VCP) usually use USB CDC (Communications Device Class) ACM (Abstract Control Model) protocol. The driver cdc_acm (kernel option CONFIG_USB_ACM) should pick up the device, cdc_acm 2-1.1:1.0: ttyACM0: USB ACM device should appear in sudo dmesg.
3. The device file (usually /dev/ttyACM0) needs to be writeable by your user account. This is best achieved by creating a udev rule /etc/udev/rules.d/90-ttyACM-group-plugdev.rules that contains KERNEL=="ttyACM[0-9]", GROUP="plugdev" and ensuring you are in the plugdev group using sudo usermod -aG plugdev YOUR_USERNAME. Re-plug the device / logout & login for changes to take effect.

Linux / MacOSX users

If you have 3D model animation problems, enable "Override software rendering list" in Chrome flags chrome://flags/#ignore-gpu-blacklist

Support

If you need help your please use the multiwii or rcgroups forums or visit the IRC channel before raising issues in the issue trackers.

Issue trackers

For Cleanflight configurator issues raise them here

https://github.com/cleanflight/cleanflight-configurator/issues

For Cleanflight firmware issues raise them here

https://github.com/cleanflight/cleanflight/issues

IRC Channel

There is an IRC channel for Cleanflight, here: irc://irc.freenode.net/#cleanflight

Technical details

The configurator is based on chrome.serial API running on Google Chrome/Chromium core.

Developers

We accept clean and reasonable patches, submit them!

Authors

Dominic Clifton/hydra - maintainer of the Cleanflight firmware and configurator. ctn - primary author and maintainer of Baseflight Configurator from which Cleanflight Configurator project was forked.