Betaflight Configurator is a crossplatform configuration tool for the Betaflight flight control system.
It runs as an app within Google Chrome and allows you to configure the Betaflight software running on any supported Betaflight target.
Various types of aircraft are supported by the tool and by Betaflight, e.g. quadcopters, hexacopters, octocopters and fixed-wing aircraft.
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.
- Visit Chrome web store
- Click + Add to Chrome
Please note - the application will automatically update itself when new versions are released. Please ensure you maintain configuration backups as described in the Betaflight documentation.
- Clone the repo to any local directory or download it as zip.
- Extract to a folder and not the folder.
- Start Google Chrome.
- Click the 3-dots on the far right of the URL bar.
- Select "More Tools"
- Select "Extensions"
- Check the Developer Mode checkbox.
- Click on load unpacked extension.
- Point it to the folder you extracted the zip to.
You can find the Betaflight Configurator icon in your application tab "Apps"
Linux build is disabled currently because of unmet dependecies with some distros, it can be enabled in the gulpfile.js.
- Install node.js
- Change to project folder and run
npm install. - Run
npm start.
The tasks are defined in gulpfile.js and can be run either via gulp <task-name> (if the command is in PATH or via ../node_modules/gulp/bin/gulp.js <task-name>:
- Optional, install gulp
npm install --global gulp-cli. - Run
gulp <taskname> [[platform] [platform] ...].
List of possible values of <task-name>:
- dist copies all the JS and CSS files in the
./distfolder. - apps builds the apps in the
./appsfolder [1]. - debug builds debug version of the apps in the
./debugfolder [1]. - release zips up the apps into individual archives in the
./releasefolder [1].
[1] Running this task on macOS or Linux requires Wine, since it's needed to set the icon for the Windows app (build for specific platform to avoid errors).
To build or release only for one specific platform you can append the plaform after the task-name.
If no platform is provided, all the platforms will be done in sequence.
- MacOS use
gulp <task-name> --osx64 - Linux use
gulp <task-name> --linux64 - Windows use
gulp <task-name> --win32
You can also use multiple platforms e.g. gulp <taskname> --osx64 --linux64.
Make sure Settings -> System -> "User hardware acceleration when available" is checked to achieve the best performance
Dont forget to add your user into dialout group "sudo usermod -aG dialout YOUR_USERNAME" for serial access
If you have 3D model animation problems, enable "Override software rendering list" in Chrome flags chrome://flags/#ignore-gpu-blacklist
If you need help please reach out on the betaflightgroup slack channel before raising issues on github. Register and request slack access here.
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
The configurator is based on chrome.serial API running on Google Chrome/Chromium core.
We accept clean and reasonable patches, submit them!
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.