Originally Posted by
RC10Nick
You're probably right. I've added the fan boys to my ignore list so I won't be tempted to engage with the trolls again.
Would like to point out one thing - ELRS is free, but the radio sure as hell wasn't. It was a product made, advertised, and sold by a for-profit company that, from the moment it was released, advertised it as a premier, high quality product and the communitycult of radiomaster followers hyped it up as the world's most advanced radio that will make all other radios obsolete and put companies like futaba and sanwa out of business. And now that I have issues with it, all of a sudden now it's some kind of beta release of a brand new unproven technology being developed by some scrappy and generous devs and how dare I have any expectations of a free technology. Hopefully you can see the contradiction. And $129 is not nothing - especially for a radio that I have no use for otherwise, though I am glad yours isn't completely useless for you.
Not sure how you came to those expectations. It's priced in line with Furaba's bottom of the range 3PV. Even if it didn't have any runaway issues, it wouldn't have lived up to the hype you're describing.
Originally Posted by
RC10Nick
And just for fun - one of the funniest "wtf" things I found about the radio is the silly scroll wheel. Scroll up in a menu and the cursor goes up. Scroll up on a number and the number goes.... down? WTF. I just can't even. The lack of polish and attention to details on "the worlds most advanced radio" is laughable.
Agreed, the UI is pretty bad. It's clearly built by engineers who care more about capabilities than the user experience.