Setup Taranis Q X7 for MindPX & MindRacer

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Taranis Q X7 remote controller can be used with MindPX & MindRacer. By default upon unboxing it is at initial status with no configuration. Proper setup is needed to make it work best with MindPX.

By default X7 only configured 4 control channels (usually the 4 channels on throttle stick). However MindPX is a professional flight controller that can fly very complex air vehicles, 4 channels are obviously not enough. To get more channels, the mixer setup is needed.

Power on X7 and short click on 'Menu' button, then use 'page' button to navigate to page #6 'Mixer'. Initially there are only 4 entries there are configured from CH1 - CH4. Another at least 4 channels need to be added to control MindPX effectively, i.e., CH5 - CH8.

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Step 1. Setup flight mode control channel (#5)
We want CH5 to be 3-position switch so it can output 3 status to control the flight mode of MindPX, which are: Manual mode, alt-hold mode, and mission-mode. Each position corresponds to one flight mode. To achieve that, we need to create a separate mixer for each of the position/status under CH5.
Now the wheel button to scroll down the cursor to entry CH5, short click on it and it will enter into the edit interface of CH5. As CH5 is empty in beginning, this will create the first mixer we can call it 'manual'.
Most of the fields in edit table can be left with default value, just pay attention to 2 fields: 'source' and
'switch'. scroll the cursor down to 'source' field, click on it and then you can spin the wheel button to select input source. Select 'S1' as input source.

Then continuing scroll down cursor to 'switch' field and again click on it, spin to select 'SA!' as value.

Optionally, you can give a name to this mixer, so it is easier to recall and refer to later. In this case we input 'man' for Manual mode.

After done, press 'exit' button to quit edition of this mixer. Now you can see under CH5 one mixer has been created and marked as 'S1' & 'SA!'.
Now we add the second mixer to CH5. Scroll the cursor onto the mixer entry you just created and long-press the wheel button, it will prompts you with a pop-up menu, select "insert after", a new mixer entry is created and you
are brought into the edition interface again for this new entry. The edition table are same with previous one, and we just need a different value for 'source' and 'switch' field. This time select 'SA' for 'source', and 'SA-' for switch, and then press 'exit' button to go back to Mixer list menu.
Following same procedure we then add the 3rd mixer, the difference is this time we select 'MAX' for 'source' and 'SA^' for 'switch'.
Below is what CH5 should looks like after correctly configured.

So far we have accomplished setup of CH5. Test the setup by putting the SA switch into different positions and you can see the corresponding change on screen.

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**Step 2. Setup flight mode control channel (#6) **

So we have setup control for manual, alt-hold, and mission. However there are other flight modes like position-hold. We will configure it onto channel 6.

Repeat the setup process as for CH5, but set the 'source' and 'switch' fields as in below's screenshot.

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Step 3. Setup flight mode control channel (#7)

CH7 is configured to control Return mode. Repeat the setup process as for CH5, but set the 'source' and 'switch' fields as in below's screenshot.

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Step 4. Setup flight mode control channel (#8)

CH8 is configured to control Hold mode. Repeat the setup process as for CH5, but set the 'source' and 'switch' fields as in below's screenshot.

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Step 5. Calibrate and setup MindPX flight modes control

After all above steps, do not forget to match these configurations of remote controller to the settings on MindPX. Connect MindPX/MindRacer to MindCentral ground station, calibrate the remote controller, and set the flight mode control under the 'Flight mode' tab, make sure the channels assignment is exactly as in below's screenshot.

So far we have setup extra 4 channels to control the flight modes of MindPX. This has basically meet the generic demand of MindPX flight control. More channels and more control functions can be configured following similar method, and we will leave that on advanced topics.