OpenTX widgets

This is a collection of various widgets and telemetry for OpenTX and EdgeTX

Requirements

The widgets have only been tested with OpenTX 2.3.14 and EdgeTX 2.6.0, older versions may not work.

Installing

Go to the releases page and download the latest release and unzip to the root folder on your OpenTX SD card.

Widgets and telemetry

• GPS widget
• HomeArrow widget
• AvgBatt widget
• CrsfLQ widget
• gps telemetry
• home telemetry

GPS widget (WIDGETS/GPS/main.lua)

Display GPS coordinates in decimal degrees or Plus code in a widget.

GPS widget settings

• TextColor The normal text color
• DisabledColor The text color when GPS is lost
• TextSize Size of text
  • 0 Auto size
  • 1 Small size
  • 2 Normal size
  • 3 Mid size
  • 4 Double size
  • 5 XXL size
• Shadow Show text shadow
• PlusCode Display PlusCode instead of decimal degrees

HomeArrow widget (WIDGETS/HomeArrow/main.lua)

Displays distance and an arrow to the home position in a widget. Uses GPS telemetry to calculate distance and direction to home. The home position is initially set when the specified switch for armed is activated.

HomeArrow widget settings

• TextColor The normal text color
• DisabledColor The text color when GPS is lost
• Shadow Show text shadow
• Armed Source for Armed switch. This must be positive value when armed. When this becomes active the current position is used as the home position.
• ArmedReversed Reverses the armed switch meaning. So when armed value becomes negative the current position is used as the home position.

AvgBatt widget (WIDGETS/AvgBatt/main.lua)

Displays average battery cell voltage in a widget.

AvgBatt widget settings

• Batt Telemetry source for the total battery value
• Cells Number of cells for battery or 0 value for auto detection of cells
• TextColor The normal text color
• DisabledColor The text color when telemetry is lost
• Shadow Show text shadow

CrsfLQ widget (WIDGETS/CrsfLQ/main.lua)

Displays LQ value for Crossfire link (Combined RFMD and RLQY).

CrsfLQ widget settings

• TextColor The normal text color
• DisabledColor The text color when telemetry is lost
• Shadow Show text shadow

gps telemetry (SCRIPTS/TELEMETRY/gps.lua)

Displays GPS coordinates in decimal degrees and Plus code in a telemetry full screen (FrSky Taranis only)

home telemetry (SCRIPTS/TELEMETRY/home.lua)

Displays distance and an arrow to the home position in a telemetry full screen (FrSky Taranis only)

To change the switch to use for arming you can edit the SCRIPTS/TELEMETRY/home.lua file and change the following constants:

• ARMED_SWITCH
• ARMED_SWITCH_REVERSED