Devo 12?

First of all!
Hi and congrats to a superb job with the devo firmware etc and your website...

My name is Tomas Olsson and I'm a helicopter flight engineer from sweden with a passion for RC planes and choppers. I currently use a Spektrum Dx7 but I want to upgrade to a TX with more channels. But I still wanna use my shitload of spektrum receivers. I found Walkeras radios and your site. The thrill of beeing able to use my dsm2 recivers with a devo sounds perfect!
Only prob is that I'm horny for a Devo 12, preferebly the first edition with the silver housing 'cause it looks nicer... I plan to uppgrade it to 12s to get telemetry.

I noticed that the latest edition doesn't support devo 12 and that a solution is quite a while away...

Do u have any interest in making a firmware compatible with devo 12?
I know your work is only a hobby and based on interest so I guess you just go about it when you have time to spare and feel like it.

But anyways, a little hint from you, ofcourse with no obligation or pressure, but still.... do you see a devo 12 release in the future...

This might decide if I will buy the devo 12 or go for a devo 8. The prob is that walkera don't have a descent shock flyer rx for the devos so I need to use my dsm2 ones.

Ok bye for now and keep up the good work

Btw! If you need a translation to swedish(the major ruling language in the world!! NOT! ) then I'm your man!


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Tomas Olsson
Sweden

I too wanted a devo 12 and had a hard time talking myself into a devo 8. Let me tell you - I wish I had just bit the bullet sooner. The devo 8 will do anything you want it to with deviation. Believe me I am hard pressed to use all the switches and channels and only have one plane in my hanger that comes close! Even on my 10 cell 90mm viperjet, I am using a 3 position mix switch just to start the timers. LOL I had to look for things to assign to switches because there is just so much functionality! I still have one trim button unassigned and can not even think of something to do with it. My desire for the 12 was just cool factor - and the sweet sliders!! Believe me, I am much happier laying a 200 dollar radio on the ground to make adjustments in the field than a 400 dollar one. I throw it in my flight caddy and ride to the field - no extra case to lug around to protect a huge investment. Bite the bullet and grab an 8 - you will not regret it. Every spektrum flyer at my field is eyeballing my radio with envy now after they all said walkera who? You will always be able to find a fellow flyer to unload the 8 on after the 12 is finally ready. Time is wasting and everyday I spend with my devo I find more functionality with deviation. Trust me, you will not find the limits of a devo 8 any time soon thanks to the great work done here. Join in!!!! You will not regret it!

Yupp, I surely understand that it takes at crapload of work to write a firmware to a complex plattform as the devo 12 if u wanna take advantage of all the benefits in that radio... And I've got the message... I hate to feel like a parasite due to lack of knowledge and unability to contribute to the progress... I will make a swedish translation as soon as I know how, and I know you don't ask for help... that's why I offered it... But I don't even know how to do that so I guess I have some homework to do...

As for the devo 8 instead of the 12 I think I will start with the devo 8 ... As you pointed out, it's much cheaper and it will most likely do everything I ask of it.... Only thing is that a friend of mine recently bought the Dx8s and is wearing me down asking how many channels I've got....I would love to break him in half with 12 fu..ing channels! But if I have 8 it might be enough 'cause after all the dx8 doesn't have a touch color screen...

Thanks for all the comments!