HeliFlight Configurator is a crossplatform configuration tool for the HeliFlight flight control system.
HeliFlight Configurator is forked from Betaflight Configurator.
This is the default installation method, and at some point in the future this will become the only way available for most platforms. Please use this method whenever possible.
Download the installer from Releases.
Changes to the security model used in the latest versions of MacOS X 10.14 (Mojave) and 10.15 (Catalina) mean that the operating system will show an error message ('"Heliflight Configurator.app" is damaged and can’t be opened. You should move it to the Trash.') when trying to install the application. To work around this, run the following command in a terminal after installing: sudo xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Betaflight\ Configurator.app.
- Install node.js (version 10 required)
- Install yarn:
npm install yarn -g - (For Android platform only) Install Java JDK 8, Gradle and Android Studio (Android SDK at least level 19)
- Change to project folder and run
yarn install. - Run
yarn start.
yarn test
The tasks are defined in gulpfile.js and can be run with through yarn:
yarn gulp <taskname> [[platform] [platform] ...]
List of possible values of <task-name>:
- dist copies all the JS and CSS files in the
./distfolder [2]. - apps builds the apps in the
./appsfolder [1]. - debug builds debug version of the apps in the
./debugfolder [1][3]. - release zips up the apps into individual archives in the
./releasefolder [1].
[1] Running this task on macOS or Linux requires Wine, since it's needed to set the icon for the Windows app (build for specific platform to avoid errors).
[2] For Android platform, dist task will generate folders and files in the ./dist_cordova folder.
[3] For Android platform, you need to configure an emulator or to plug an Android device with USB debugging enabled
To build or release only for one specific platform you can append the plaform after the task-name.
If no platform is provided, all the platforms will be done in sequence.
- MacOS X use
yarn gulp <task-name> --osx64 - Linux use
yarn gulp <task-name> --linux64 - Windows use
yarn gulp <task-name> --win32 - ChromeOS use
yarn gulp <task-name> --chromeos - Android use
yarn gulp <task-name> --android
You can also use multiple platforms e.g. yarn gulp <taskname> --osx64 --linux64.
HeliFlight Configurator has been translated into several languages. The application will try to detect and use your system language if a translation into this language is available. You can help translating the application into your language;
If you prefer to have the application in English or any other language, you can select your desired language in the first screen of the application.
If you experience graphics display problems or smudged/dithered fonts display issues in Betaflight Configurator, try invoking the betaflight-configurator executable file with the --disable-gpu command line switch. This will switch off hardware graphics acceleration. Likewise, setting your graphics card antialiasing option to OFF (e.g. FXAA parameter on NVidia graphics cards) might be a remedy as well.
In most Linux distributions your user won't have access to serial interfaces by default. To add this access right type the following command in a terminal, log out your user and log in again:
sudo usermod -aG dialout ${USER}
If you have 3D model animation problems, enable "Override software rendering list" in Chrome flags chrome://flags/#ignore-gpu-blacklist
If you need help please reach out on the HeliFlight Discord channel before raising issues on github.
For Betaflight configurator issues raise them here
https://github.com/heliflight3d/heliflight-configurator/issues
For Betaflight firmware issues raise them here
https://github.com/heliflight3d/heliflight/issues
The configurator is based on chrome.serial API running on Google Chrome/Chromium core.
We accept clean and reasonable patches, submit them!
ctn - primary author and maintainer of Baseflight Configurator from which Cleanflight Configurator project was forked.
Hydra - author and maintainer of Cleanflight Configurator from which the Betaflight project was forked.
Betaflight devs - From which this project was forked.