Betaflight Configurator

Betaflight Configurator is a crossplatform configuration tool for the Betaflight flight control system.

It runs as an application under different operating systems and allows you to configure the Betaflight software running on any supported Betaflight target. Downloads are available in Releases.

Various types of aircraft are supported by the tool and by Betaflight, e.g. quadcopters, hexacopters, octocopters and fixed-wing aircraft.

Authors

Betaflight Configurator is a fork of the Cleanflight Configurator with support for Betaflight instead of Cleanflight.

This configurator is the only configurator with support for Betaflight specific features. It will likely require that you run the latest firmware on the flight controller.

If you are experiencing any problems please make sure you are running the latest firmware version.

Installation

Standalone

We provide a standalone program for Windows, Linux, Mac and Android.

Download the installer from Releases.

Notes

Windows users

The minimum required version of windows is Windows 8.

MacOS X users

Changes to the security model used in the latest versions of MacOS X 10.14 (Mojave) and 10.15 (Catalina) mean that the operating system will show an error message ('"Betaflight Configurator.app" is damaged and can’t be opened. You should move it to the Trash.') when trying to install the application. To work around this, run the following command in a terminal after installing: sudo xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Betaflight\ Configurator.app.

Linux users

In most Linux distributions your user won't have access to serial interfaces by default. To add this access right type the following command in a terminal, log out your user and log in again:

sudo usermod -aG dialout ${USER}

Post-installation errors can be prevented by making sure the directory /usr/share/desktop-directories exists. To make sure it exists, run the following command before installing the package:

sudo mkdir /usr/share/desktop-directories/

The libatomic library must also be installed before installing Betaflight Configurator. (If the library is missing, the installation will succeed but Betaflight Configurator will not start.) Some Linux distributions (e.g. Fedora) will install it automatically. On Debian or Ubuntu you can install it as follows:

sudo apt install libatomic1

On Ubuntu 23.10 please follow these alternative steps for installation:

sudo echo "deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lunar universe" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/lunar-repos-old.list
sudo apt update
sudo dpkg -i betaflight-configurator_10.10.0_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get -f install

Graphics Issues

If you experience graphics display problems or smudged/dithered fonts display issues in Betaflight Configurator, try invoking the betaflight-configurator executable file with the --disable-gpu command line switch. This will switch off hardware graphics acceleration. Likewise, setting your graphics card antialiasing option to OFF (e.g. FXAA parameter on NVidia graphics cards) might be a remedy as well.

Unstable Testing Versions

The future of the Configurator is moving to a PWA (Progressive Web Application). In this way it will be easier to maintain specially to support different devices like phones, tablets. etc. Is a work in progress but you can have access to the latest snapshot in PWA way without installing anything (take into account that some things don't work and are in development).

• Latest PWA master snapshot of the Configurator: https://master.dev.app.betaflight.com/

Be aware that this version is intended for testing / feedback only, and may be buggy or broken, and can cause flight controller settings to be corrupted. Caution is advised when using this version.

Languages

Please do not submit pull requests for translation changes, but read and follow the instructions below!

Betaflight Configurator has been translated into several languages. The application will try to detect and use your system language if a translation into this language is available. You can help translating the application into your language;

If you prefer to have the application in English or any other language, you can select your desired language in the first screen of the application.

Build and Development

Technical details

The next versions of the Configurator will be a modern tool that based on PWA (Progressive Web Application) and uses principally Node, Yarn, Vite and Vue for development and building. For Android we use Capacitor as wrapper over the PWA. To build and develop over it, follow the instructions below.

Prepare your environment

1. Install node.js (refer to .nvmrc for minimum required version)
2. Install yarn: npm install yarn -g

PWA version

Run development version

1. Change to project folder and run yarn install.
2. Run yarn dev.

The web app will be available at http://localhost:8000 with full HMR.

Run production version

1. Change to project folder and run yarn install.
2. Run yarn build.
3. Run yarn preview after build has finished.

Alternatively you can run yarn review to build and preview in one step.

The web app should behave directly as in production, available at http://localhost:8080.

Android version

NOTE: The Android version is not fully functional yet. It is in development.

Prerequisites

You need to install Android Studio as Capacitor apps are configured and managed through it.

Run development version

1. Change to project folder and run yarn install.
2. Run yarn android:run.

The command will ask for the device to run the app. You need to have some Android virtual machine created or some Android phone connected using ADB.

As alternative to the step 2, you can execute a yarn android:open to open de project into Android Studio and run or debug the app from there.

Run development version with live reload

1. Change to project folder and run yarn install.
2. Run yarn dev --host. It will start the vite server and will show you the IP address where the server is listening.
3. Run yarn android:dev

This will ask for the IP where the server is running (if there are more than one network interfaces). You need to have some Android virtual machine created or some Android phone connected using ADB. Any change make in the code will reload the app in the Android device.

Running tests

yarn test

Support and Developers Channel

There's a dedicated Discord server here:

https://discord.gg/n4E6ak4u3c

We also have a Facebook Group. Join us to get a place to talk about Betaflight, ask configuration questions, or just hang out with fellow pilots.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/betaflightgroup/

Etiquette: Don't ask to ask and please wait around long enough for a reply - sometimes people are out flying, asleep or at work and can't answer immediately.

Issue trackers

For Betaflight configurator issues raise them here

https://github.com/betaflight/betaflight-configurator/issues

For Betaflight firmware issues raise them here

https://github.com/betaflight/betaflight/issues

Developers

We accept clean and reasonable patches, submit them!

Credits

ctn - primary author and maintainer of Baseflight Configurator from which Cleanflight Configurator project was forked.

Hydra - author and maintainer of Cleanflight Configurator from which this project was forked.