welir / inav-configurator

INAV Configurator

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

It runs as an app within Google Chrome and allows you to configure the INAV software running on any supported INAV target.

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

INAV Configurator start minimized, what should I do?

You have to remove C:\Users%Your_UserNname%\AppData\Local\inav-configurator folder and all its content.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMoULyiFDp4

Alternatively, on Windows with PowerShell you can use post_install_cleanup.ps1 script that will do the cleaning. (thank you James Cherrill)

Installation

Depending on target operating system, INAV Configurator is distributed as standalone application or Chrome App.

Windows

1. Visit release page
2. Download Configurator for Windows platform (win32 or win64 is present)
3. Extract ZIP archive
4. Run INAV Configurator app from unpacked folder
5. Configurator is not signed, so you have to allow Windows to run untrusted application. There might be a monit for it during first run

Mac

1. Visit release page
2. Download Configurator for Mac platform
3. Extract ZIP archive
4. Run INAV Configurator
5. Configurator is not signed, so you have to allow Mac to run untrusted application. There might be a monit for it during first run

ChromeOS

INAV Configurator form ChromeOS is available in Chrome Web Store

Building and running INAV Configurator locally (for development or Linux users)

For local development, node.js build system is used.

1. Install node.js
2. From project folder run npm install
3. To build the JS and CSS files and start the configurator:
   • With NW.js: Run npm start.
   • With Chrome: Run ./node_modules/gulp/bin/gulp.js. Then open chrome://extensions, enable the Developer mode, click on the Load unpacked extension... button and select the inav-configurator directory.

Other tasks are also defined in gulpfile.js. To run a task, use ./node_modules/gulp/bin/gulp.js task-name. Available ones are:

• build: Generate JS and CSS output files used by the configurator from their sources. It must be run whenever changes are made to any .js or .css files in order to have those changes appear in the configurator. If new files are added, they must be included in gulpfile.js. See the comments at the top of gulpfile.js to learn how to do so. See also the watch task.
• watch: Watch JS and CSS sources for changes and run the build task whenever they're edited.
• dist: Create a distribution of the app (valid for packaging both as a Chrome app or a NW.js app) in the ./dist/ directory.
• release: Create NW.js apps for each supported platform (win32, osx64 and linux64) in the ./apps directory. Running this task on macOS or Linux requires Wine, since it's needed to set the icon for the Windows app. If you don't have Wine installed you can create a release by running the release-only-linux task.

Authors

Konstantin Sharlaimov/DigitalEntity - maintainer of the INAV firmware and configurator.

INAV Configurator was originally a fork of Cleanflight Configurator with support for INAV instead of Cleanflight.

This configurator is the only configurator with support for INAV 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.

Notes

WebGL

Make sure Settings -> System -> "User hardware acceleration when available" is checked to achieve the best performance

Linux users

1. Dont forget to add your user into dialout group "sudo usermod -aG dialout YOUR_USERNAME" for serial access
2. If you have 3D model animation problems, enable "Override software rendering list" in Chrome flags chrome://flags/#ignore-gpu-blacklist

Support

GitHub issue tracker is reserved for bugs and other technical problems. If you do not know how to setup everything, hardware is not working or have any other support problem, please consult:

• rcgroups main thread
• Slack channel

Issue trackers

For INAV configurator issues raise them here

https://github.com/iNavFlight/inav-configurator/issues

For INAV firmware issues raise them here

https://github.com/iNavFlight/inav/issues

Developers

We accept clean and reasonable patches, submit them!

Credits

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