ST-16 Calibration ( secret menu )

Jester · Dec 13, 2016

Richard Shelton said:
This ST16 Calibration post needs to pasted on the outside of the box!!! It fixed my toilet bowl, my moon walk, and my possessed gimbal.
Thanks a million Pete, you have prevented human sacrifice, dogs and cats from living together and mass hysteria!!!!

Agreed. My flab was aghast when I got it calibrated.

papiapo · Mar 18, 2017

Hello
This does not work on the ST16?

Chris Dunn · Mar 24, 2017

this is what we have been going through the last two days the camera was at a 45 degree angle and all Yuneec would say is just send it in... Yes when you calibrate the sticks it has to be in the middle and its very sensitive. and then I had an issue with the speed on the camera tilt ..it was going way to fast. again Yuneec said to send it in...... We worked on the setting and re calibration many times so many times.. Keep in mind we use this for business and we use Team Mode 100% of the time. I'm the pilot and my camera operator does the controls makes life so much better

Capt. Overview · Apr 9, 2017

Thanks for this post. However, after I noticed I could not get my H to fly at normal forward speeds I checked hardware monitor to see front/back stick (right stick, Mode 2) only going to 50%. I'm fully updated on firmware and it was flying fine until today. I tried this process and now, the sticks are completely effed. They won't pass on the recalibration table and in hardware monitor, they are stuck at maximums. The panning controller (K1) is now also AWOL, it was working fine. The speed controller and camera tilt are now also inactive. ST16 went from fully functional with a slight speed hitch to essentially unusable after I attempted the recalibration test (by the numbers). It still syncs and connects with the H no problem. I did the calibration sequence at least 5 times. No luck. The ST16 is like new, has had the best of care, never had any problems in the past. Is there any way to "reset" the ST16 to a baseline and then re-upgrade the firmware? I have a hard time believing both sticks and other controls just suddenly go away like this. Like I said, it was working fine except for speed handicap earlier today. What happened?

Typhoon Charlie · Apr 9, 2017

Go to tablet/settings/backup and restore and do a factory reset. Choose erase and reset. See if that helps. You will have to rebind.

Capt. Overview · Apr 11, 2017

Update: Yuneec customer service wins again. I had missed a step not clear in the post on recalibration. The remote is now back to normal. Also got a few tips as well. One thing I did not know: if you drive somewhere more that 20 miles from your last compass calibration, you should re-calibrate for optimal performance since you've moved enough from magnetic North to have the compass be slightly off (or a lot off, depending on distance). Doing the compass dance takes care of it. Flight test and some new imagery soon!

TomoFromEarth · Apr 12, 2017

Capt. Overview said:
Update: Yuneec customer service wins again. I had missed a step not clear in the post on recalibration. The remote is now back to normal. Also got a few tips as well. One thing I did not know: if you drive somewhere more that 20 miles from your last compass calibration, you should re-calibrate for optimal performance since you've moved enough from magnetic North to have the compass be slightly off (or a lot off, depending on distance). Doing the compass dance takes care of it. Flight test and some new imagery soon!

What was the step that wasn't clear in the post that yuneec CS cleared up for you?

BeeRAD56 · Apr 14, 2017

I did the ST16 calibration yesterday and it went well. One thought to share is to take a picture of the hardware monitor screen that shows the letter and number designations of each switch before you start. You can use that screen shot as a reference as you step through the calibration process. Also remember to set K2 and K3 to the center position where you get "the beep" before you even go into the secret menu.

I followed the ST16 calibration with recalibration of the compass, accelerometer and gimbal on the H and then flew a couple of batteries. I had winds of 15 knots gusting to 20 and was very please with all aspects of both flights. I've had issues in the past with yaw being slow to respond and then over respond. That has now been solved and yaw is very smooth. I also had issues with drifting during landing and even in yesterday's wind in was rock solid and easy to land. On two occasions in the past I've had an issue where upon landing, motors won't go to idle and it starts trying to fly which on both occasions didn't end well. None of that so far and I'm hopeful that too is in the past.

Kudos to the OP for this insight as it may have saved my love affair with the H.

Bill Foster · Apr 21, 2017

Peter Venkman said:
For your information

On the ST-16. When you access the secret menu and do the calibration test for the ST-16. it's important that the TILT and the Turtle / Rabbit sliders are set to the middle. ( not at the top, not at the buttom, but in the middle )

On the flight mode screen

Tap the system settings
Tap the About Controller many times

this will open the secret menu

You will see:

ENTER TEST
HW TEST
WIFI TEST
CALIBRATE TEST
HDMI SETTINGS
FIRMWARE UPGRADE

My Gimbal would not pan well. It would not go to horizon and always stay below the horizon.

I did several Gimball calibrations, i could see the camera going up and doing is thing perfectly fine. But the camera would always point a bit down.

I could see it wasn't a gimbal problem.

( this calibration could be usefull for H that drift and can't keep a perfect hoover )

I tried to calibrate the ST-16 many times, and the pan slider in HARDWARE MONITOR would always behave differently. ( not going completely up on the HARDWARE MONITOR when the slider was physically completely up )

That's when i understood that the pan " slider " probably needed to be in a certain position before doing the calibrations.

I tried it starting in the center position and sure enough, my problem was gone.

The gimbal is now working as it should.

Go in CALIBRATE TEST then, press START ( at the buttom )
Press all the butons they ask you untill they become GREEN.

once all of them are green. Press NEXT ( at the buttom )

Re-do the same thing with all the buttons on the remote. ( ALL OF THEM EVEN CAMERA OR CAMCORDER )

Once you are done, all icons should be green. Press FINISH at the buttom and go back to the FLIGHT MODE SCREEN.

Go to HARDWARE MONITOR and check that the behavior of all your " buttons / sticks / sliders " are behaving normally.

If not, remake the calibration.

When doing the calibration, it's important to push the sticks all the way in all working directions. ( up / down / left / right )

Toggle switches that have 3 positions need to go in all of those 3 positions in order to calibrate.

I wouldn't recommend to go in this setting unless you are deseperate ( like i was ) and have tried everything you think you should have tried.

In my case, i did the GPS calibration, Compass calibration, gimbal calibration / i checked to see if my firmware were up to date. Removed the battery. Made a complete factory reset. Re-Binded both the H and the ST-16. Remade all those calibrations. Made the gimball calibration 4 or 5 times. Then, tried the ST-16 Calibration.

I was desesperate and had nothing to loose !

Be aware this could maybe F*** up you H.

I wanted to share this with you, and this makes me a place to go back to if i ever feel the need to remake a calibration.

Thanks for your info. I was having trouble with J4, the yaw stick not going to neutral. I've completed a full factory reset and calibration and have solved the issue completely. Cheers Bill

Mojoe35 · Apr 25, 2017

I've made it a practice to check the Hardware Monitor before I fly. Earlier today I checked and saw the right slider was showing in the middle of the scale and when I moved the slider for Rabbit/Turtle, It would NOT go up, only down. I did the re-calibration and that fixed it! I don't know why Yuneec never mentioned the 'secret' calibration screen in the manual. It would save a lot of grief! Having the Forum like this is worth a paying a membership fee!!

skwty · Apr 26, 2017

Capt. Overview said:
Update: Yuneec customer service wins again. I had missed a step not clear in the post on recalibration. The remote is now back to normal. Also got a few tips as well. One thing I did not know: if you drive somewhere more that 20 miles from your last compass calibration, you should re-calibrate for optimal performance since you've moved enough from magnetic North to have the compass be slightly off (or a lot off, depending on distance). Doing the compass dance takes care of it. Flight test and some new imagery soon!

I am also curious about this

Please explain. @Capt. Overview

Waldo · Apr 30, 2017

I have a 3 external antenna version of the ST-16 with the current firmware update installed on the ST-16 and Typhoon H (3.1.30 & 3.04-A resp.).
I've tried the multiple taps on "About Controller" multiple times (~15 times slow and fast) with no test screen showing up.
Am I doing something wrong or did the current firmware update change the way to access the test menu?

Thanks

mbuten · Apr 30, 2017

Waldo,
You may be asking the same question I just had... see this thread and the solution that fixed it for me...

Not able to get into ST16 Calibration mode

Whitefalcon · May 30, 2017

Does the Typhoon need to be on to do the calibration?

Eagle's Eye Video · May 30, 2017

Whitefalcon said:
Does the Typhoon need to be on to do the calibration?

The calibration of the ST-16? No, the Typhoon does not need to be powered on. It does need to be powered up for all
other calibrations of the Typhoon itself... compass, accelerometer and gimbal.

Whitefalcon · May 30, 2017

Thank you.

Capt. Overview · Jun 2, 2017

So the thing I missed in the post (which is probably obvious but I apparently missed it), is that when you tap the Hardware button a bunch of times and then select the calibration menu, you get a screen with five red boxes up top and a Next and Finish buttons at the bottom right. What I didn't catch before hitting NEXT was that those red boxes are the FIRST set of calibration tools to use, and they are for the primary controls (the sticks). I went to NEXT page first where ALL the control boxes are. Because I did not reset the sticks on the first page, they would of course not reset on the second. So kind of a "duh" move on my part but I was following the script on the page and I guess I misunderstood it. So to recap: stir the sticks when you see the big red boxes
(they should turn green), THEN hit NEXT and do all the buttons and other controls. That's what I did eventually and everything went to zero set (baseline) and the controller worked fine. If you can't get a box to go green, that's a good hint you may have a bad sub-unit in the controller.

PatR · Jun 2, 2017

When the second page is complete push "finish" and return to the "Home" screen by pushing the "Return" button on the -16. Simply clicking finish takes you back to the first calibration screen and you really don't want to start the whole process over again.

Jean-Claude Picard · Jul 5, 2017

Peter Venkman said:
For your information

On the ST-16. When you access the secret menu and do the calibration test for the ST-16. it's important that the TILT and the Turtle / Rabbit sliders are set to the middle. ( not at the top, not at the buttom, but in the middle )

On the flight mode screen

Tap the system settings
Tap the About Controller many times

this will open the secret menu

You will see:

ENTER TEST
HW TEST
WIFI TEST
CALIBRATE TEST
HDMI SETTINGS
FIRMWARE UPGRADE

My Gimbal would not pan well. It would not go to horizon and always stay below the horizon.

I did several Gimball calibrations, i could see the camera going up and doing is thing perfectly fine. But the camera would always point a bit down.

I could see it wasn't a gimbal problem.

( this calibration could be usefull for H that drift and can't keep a perfect hoover )

I tried to calibrate the ST-16 many times, and the pan slider in HARDWARE MONITOR would always behave differently. ( not going completely up on the HARDWARE MONITOR when the slider was physically completely up )

That's when i understood that the pan " slider " probably needed to be in a certain position before doing the calibrations.

I tried it starting in the center position and sure enough, my problem was gone.

The gimbal is now working as it should.

Go in CALIBRATE TEST then, press START ( at the buttom )
Press all the butons they ask you untill they become GREEN.

once all of them are green. Press NEXT ( at the buttom )

Re-do the same thing with all the buttons on the remote. ( ALL OF THEM EVEN CAMERA OR CAMCORDER )

Once you are done, all icons should be green. Press FINISH at the buttom and go back to the FLIGHT MODE SCREEN.

Go to HARDWARE MONITOR and check that the behavior of all your " buttons / sticks / sliders " are behaving normally.

If not, remake the calibration.

When doing the calibration, it's important to push the sticks all the way in all working directions. ( up / down / left / right )

Toggle switches that have 3 positions need to go in all of those 3 positions in order to calibrate.

I wouldn't recommend to go in this setting unless you are deseperate ( like i was ) and have tried everything you think you should have tried.

In my case, i did the GPS calibration, Compass calibration, gimbal calibration / i checked to see if my firmware were up to date. Removed the battery. Made a complete factory reset. Re-Binded both the H and the ST-16. Remade all those calibrations. Made the gimball calibration 4 or 5 times. Then, tried the ST-16 Calibration.

I was desesperate and had nothing to loose !

Be aware this could maybe F*** up you H.

I wanted to share this with you, and this makes me a place to go back to if i ever feel the need to remake a calibration.

Hello,
Very interesting text, but unfortunately I don't have those choices "Enter test,HW test, WiFi test, and so on" clicking on "about controller" I only get firmware version 03.01.b23, is there something I didn't do?