Available 12-channel receiver

My Devo RX1202 receiver might be faulty so I would like to try an alternative.
What other 12-channels receivers will work with Deviation?

Sometimes my RX1202 loose the connection with the transmitter. The only way to recover the connection is to turn off and then on the transmitter again… which might be somewhat stressful to do midflight.

I also have some 8- and 10-channel devo receivers but they do not behave this way.

Thank you for the tip. I have already removed the telemetry, and that improved the stability a bit, but that did still not solve the problem completely. Since then I have also upgraded to the latest nightly and after that I have not had any lost connections.

But on the other and… since these problem only occurs for my RX1202 I assumed that the problem was related to my receiver and not a software related.

I am building a new model and I need a new 12-channel receiver and this time I thought that I might try another receiver then the RX1202. The only other 12-channel receiver I can find that might be compatible with the Deviation project is the Spektrum AR12020… but those bugger are not cheap.

What type of flight controller do you run? A spektrum satellite can receive 12 channels and costs <$10! If using multiwii you can correct one directly. If not you could potentially build your own PPM converter using a sat and an arduino to give you standard outputs, total cost <$15.

If you're using a KK2.1 board, some of the alternative firmware for it can connect directly to the satellite as well, and use various CPPM options, though that's probably not a good idea with 12 channels.

Another alternative is the FrSky X8R, which is a 16 channel Rx that's compatible with Deviation. However, I'd go one of the other routes first, possibly even getting another FC, as it's only supported in the nightly build, and there were problems in the telemetry whose fixes aren't in the latest nightly, and it requires adding a module as well. If your FC does SBUS, you can use that to get up to 16 channels, or use two of them - which is still a lot cheaper than the AR12020 - to get up to 16 standard servo channels.

Cereal_Killer wrote: What type of flight controller do you run? A spektrum satellite can receive 12 channels and costs <$10! If using multiwii you can correct one directly. If not you could potentially build your own PPM converter using a sat and an arduino to give you standard outputs, total cost <$15.

I’m going to use the new Pixraptor (Pixhawk/Pixhack clone). And yes, it has Spektrum satellite support. I never thought of that. I do actually have a couple of Spektrum satellites.
But, now when I think about it, as far as I know the satellite will only provide the number of channels used by the main receiver. So in order for me to get 12-channels serial out from my Spektrum satellite I will still need a 12-channel Spektrum receiver to do the bind process… or am I missing something?

mwm wrote: Another alternative is the FrSky X8R, which is a 16 channel Rx that's compatible with Deviation. However, I'd go one of the other routes first, possibly even getting another FC, as it's only supported in the nightly build, and there were problems in the telemetry whose fixes aren't in the latest nightly, and it requires adding a module as well. If your FC does SBUS, you can use that to get up to 16 channels, or use two of them - which is still a lot cheaper than the AR12020 - to get up to 16 standard servo channels.

Ah, that FrSky X8R sound interesting. Pixhawk support SBUS in so that might work.

brerax wrote: k about it, as far as I know the satellite will only provide the number of channels used by the main receiver. So in order for me to get 12-channels serial out from my Spektrum satellite I will still need a 12-channel Spektrum receiver to do the bind process… or am I missing something?

Multiwii (and apparently KK2.1.5) can accept ONLY the satellite, no full receiver is needed. The multiwii based FC can talk to the spektrum sat directly over a serial line.