That remote is dangerous imho. I’ve had too many close calls / odd things happen while using it.
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That’s odd mine seems near perfect so far and I think most other reviews seem positive.
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One issue is that if you hold the trigger down while turning it on, it will calibrate itself wrong and you might get a reverse throttle effect. I’ve also had the remote randomly disconnect / reconnect with a long delay in RF dense environments.
Finally – I believe it was either Bioboards or Lacroix who used to offer it as a remote option for their boards back when it launched. And now they don’t anymore. So I guess one of those companies had a bad experience with it as well.
(Honestly such a shame, I LOVED that remote’s form factor)
Any thoughts on current state of remotes? Really need something reliable with basic telemetry and range display. Wait for a puck pro? I have xv4 which is okay but not overly happy with it.
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The puck is the best remote, nothing comes close really. Vx4 doesn’t even have a remote protocol… It uses lora…
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Currently there is a vacuum of quality VESC-compatible remotes with a display for telemetry. As far as I know, your options are VESC Wand, Flipsky, Maytech, and Spintend. None of them appeal to me… BKB’s V2 might be cool but who knows when it’ll be in stock? And me wanting trigger (not thumbwheels) doesn’t help.
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Just curious what you mean by this. not having a remote protocol?
technically lora is the modem. and the vx4 does have a protocol on top of it for communicating vesc telemetry across it. do you just mean not using some standard protocol? is there a standard?
Isn’t LORA for controlling smart home stuff?
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I mean a protocol for rc cars, drones etc. Something that has low latency and is robust like elrs. The puck uses Flysky
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It uses the same radio? or one of flysky’s several protocols?
I’ve heard it’s same radio as gt2b but i always assumed hoyt was a custom protocol. (and have been meaning to confirm the radio)
ELRS is based on the LORA modem too. That’s where a lot of it’s benefits come from.
the vx4 is only transmitting one channel, throttle. I doubt it has latency concerns relative to ELRS even if it has a custom protocol.
LORA’s just a robust low power longer range modem. which is why the drone people got into it.
robustness is why a bunch of the ESK8 Racers are using LORA/ELRS now by way of the Mt12 (that and edgtex on remote configuratbility of curves and buttons and junk)
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You can use lora without elrs. With lora you can change 80 channels, send more data(like telemetry with the vx4) etc. It is quite different compared to elrs-flysky(16 channels) that are meant for low latency radio control. Latency comes from software too.
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Ok, yeah, I get this.
I’m familiar with the ELRS packet strategies over LoRA
and I can’t imagine a custom protocol to send one channel would end up adding way more latency then one designed to send 16+
However, I think your point is flipsky’s vx4 is using a custom protocol (on lora radio) and it’s probably not as good as a flysky protocol (on flysky radio) that hoyt is using.
that’s a fair hypothosis to have.
still want to get confirmation on what hoyt shares with flysky. I suspect custom protocol on same radio module that flysky is using. but it’s just a guess.
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New remote from Radiomaster
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Thanks for that! Their promotional video doesn’t make it clear how to brake using the remote though
I am surprised, but BKB makes a decent remote here -
I promise I am not a shill! I just like how it has a great display.
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The remote looks like it has all the physical properties right. It looks like it floats, is chunky enough to take a beating, has a cool trigger and wrist strap so you don’t lose it.
What I don’t like is the display, it has such limited information on screen that the screen is basically useless. Let’s see some RPMs, battery voltages, high/med/low acceleration switches, top speeds, SOMETHING more useful.
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I’m also not the biggest fan of the Voyager display but I was under the impression it had most of these things: h/m/l acceleration switch is shown in the top right under remote battery and is changed with a tap of the setting button, board voltage is shown under the percentage bar at the top.