New to the Ethos radios

[gflash]

Hello, I recently bought the FrSky X18SE. I am new to Ethos, but I do also own a Taranis X9D, but would consider myself an amatuer, on the OpenTX system. I found the Ethos to be much more intuitive and I successfully set up a pattern plane model after a few evenings of watching Youtube tutorials.

Yesterday while at the field I had made the final couple of tweaks to the model, and thought I would save a copy to to the SD card. I used the File Manager function in the settings menu on the radio. I tried to copy and paste the model, and after several attempts it seemed to work. However, my actions somehow corrupted the original model file and Ethos was reporting an error with the model file and taking me into a create new model function. The Test model was also corrupted. This abruptly ended my flying session. I had my laptop with me, but had not backed up the radio to the laptop. When I returned home, I was able to restore a backup from my home computer and recover the model, minus the most recent changes.

My searches for information about the corruption all pointed to faulty SD cards, but in my case the corruption was in the internal memory, I was not loading the model from the SD card.

Any ideas on how this could have happened? I find it a bit unsettling that I could have corrupted the models using the built in functions without any kind of warning or alert.

 

[gnichola]

I forget the root cause of the corrupt model, but I have not seen it in quite a while. My first question is what version of the OS are you running? If not 1.4.8, update to that. If you want to keep backups of your models, what I would do is click on the little "+" sign in the top right corner of the model select screen.

and create a folder called, "backup", then tap on the model you want to copy and select, "clone". It will make a copy of the model and highlight it. Tap on that new item and select, "change folder" and from there you can move it your backups folder.

Lastly, as to your corrupt model, when that has happened, back in the past with early versions of the OS, the file itself wasn't corrupt, and I was able to select the model, but I couldn't boot directly to it. I assume you tried to select the corrupt model file after starting the radio?

 

[gflash]

The radio is up to date with the latest firmware, the Ethos suite makes that part pretty easy.

Thanks fir the tips. The model files were genuinely corrupted, even in the Ethos Suite.

For now I am going to avoid using the radio to move/copy model files and do it from Windows Explorer instead.

 

[Wayne]

Might be a good idea to grab a good SD card from a quality source and copy everything over to the new card. The cards from FrSky are not very good. This has been a problem over the years. Pretty sure FrSky tests every card these days, but suspect some less than great cards still slip through.