HappyModel F405 boards support (CrazyF405HD ELRS, etc.)

[yannbouteiller]

Hi everyone,

Lately I talked to the iNAV developpers and to the HappyModel team, in the hope that iNAV could support the HappyModel AIO flight controllers. I am particularly interested in these boards because they have through-hole soldering (although the holes are quite small...) and/or connectors for everything, while my client needs a quadcopter flight controller on which everything can be plugged or at least very strongly soldered (i.e., no soldering pads). I don't seem to find AIO alternative. As of now, their boards are only supported by BetaFlight, I believe.

So I would like to keep track of where those discussions are going, if they are going anywhere, please :)

(Also, if you have recommendations for equivalent hardware - F405-based with connectors or through-hole connections for UART/Motors/Power instead of soldering pads - that is already supported by iNAV and that is available for purchase, I would be interested too, as I cannot seem to find anything outside of HappyModel.)

Thanks!

[sensei-hacker]

I expect you'll see a pull request or two from Happy Model soon. It'll pop up here:

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

Once the pull request(s) are submitted, you can follow the process of the testing, which I'll post as a comment on the PR. Hopefully you'll see it marked as merged by the time INAV 8.1 is released.

[yannbouteiller]

To follow up on this, @sensei-hacker said he received these boards which might get supported in INAV 8.1 :) See this issue: #10266