Migrating from baseflight
Procedure
First ensure your main flight battery is disconnected or your props are off!
Before flashing with cleanflight, dump your configs for each profile via the CLI and save to a text file.
Then after flashing cleanflight paste the output from each dump command into the cli, switching profiles as you go.
You’ll note that some commands are not recognised by cleanflight when you do this. For the commands that are not recognised look up the new configuration options and choose appropriate values for the settings. See below for a list of differences.
Once you’ve done this for the first profile, save the config. Then verify your config is OK, e.g. features serial ports, etc. When you’ve verified the first profile is OK repeat for the other profiles.
It’s also advisable to take screenshots of your AUX settings from baseflight configurator and then after re-applying the settings verify your aux config is correct - aux settings are not backwards compatible.
CLI command differences from baseflight
In general all CLI commands use underscore characters to separate words for consistency. In baseflight the format of CLI commands is somewhat haphazard.
gps_baudrate
reason: new serial port configuration.
See serial
command.
gps_type
reason: renamed to gps_provider
for consistency
serialrx_type
reason: renamed to serialrx_provider
for consistency
rssi_aux_channel
reason: renamed to rssi_channel
for improved functionality
Cleanflight supports using any RX channel for rssi. Baseflight only supports AUX1 to 4.
In Cleanflight a value of 0 disables the feature, a higher value indicates the channel number to read RSSI information from.
Example: to use RSSI on AUX1 in Cleanflight use set rssi_channel = 5
, since 5 is the first AUX channel (this is equivalent to set rssi_aux_channel = 1
in Baseflight).
failsafe_detect_threshold
reason: improved functionality
See rx_min_usec
and rx_max_usec
in Failsafe documentation.
emfavoidance
reason: renamed to emf_avoidance
for consistency
yawrate
reason: renamed to yaw_rate
for consistency
yawdeadband
reason: renamed to yaw_deadband
for consistency
midrc
reason: renamed to mid_rc
for consistency
mincheck
reason: renamed to min_check
for consistency
maxcheck
reason: renamed to max_check
for consistency
minthrottle
reason: renamed to min_throttle
for consistency
maxthrottle
reason: renamed to max_throttle
for consistency
mincommand
reason: renamed to min_command
for consistency
deadband3d_low
reason: renamed to 3d_deadband_low
for consistency
deadband3d_high
reason: renamed to 3d_deadband_high
for consistency
deadband3d_throttle
reason: renamed to 3d_deadband_throttle
for consistency
neutral3d
reason: renamed to 3d_neutral
for consistency
alt_hold_throttle_neutral
reason: renamed to alt_hold_deadband
for consistency
gimbal_flags
reason: seperation of features.
see gimbal_mode
and CHANNEL_FORWARDING
feature