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ELRS telemetry - greggold - 15-09-2023

ELRS telemetry can cause confusion for flyers migrating from other RC equipment where for example RSSI is a percentage and a positive number. These 2 videos are useful guides to the differences in elrs telemetry.

One principle is that RSSI is better understood when you take account of your packet rate. When I run my lua script on my Radiomaster, it shows typical values for an airplane flyer:
packet rate 100 Hz (full) (-112db)
telemetry ratio 1:32
switch mode 8
Tx power 100mw (dynamic) 

Notice (-112 db) after the packet rate, that is the limit for RSSI, any lower will mean a failsafe. This limit is different for different packet rates. Bardwell recommends a buffer of around 10 db, so I set my RSSI warning for an rssi of -102.

Bardwell on RSSI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnWdIssBk-c

Bardwell on Troubleshooting Failsafes (using telemetry)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4EcxopG-Qo&t=700s

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