Horus X12S

About 2 years ago I bought the Horus X12S, I wanted a top of the range Tx but couldn't afford the Futaba. I was so pleased when it arrived, it's magnificent, so many bells and whistles to play with and the gimbals are silky smooth. Like all FrSky stuff it comes with no documentation and there's a lot of stuff you have to 'intuit', but we're men right? We don't need instructions! Anyway, with all my messing about I managed to delete a folder. It comes with the following folders, AIRPLANE, HORUS, HELICOPTER, GLIDER, MULTICOPTER and CUSTOM. While messing around I accidentally erased the HORUS folder with absolutely no idea of its contents! The new Tx has been languishing in a drawer ever since.
I am getting the ex Garry Pollard Speedair 40 ready to fly and thought it would be nice to give the Horus the job of controlling it.
Does anyone know what this HORUS folder contained, is it important and where can I get a copy to reinstall it?

It might be stating the obvious, but have you tried the FRSKY website?
www.frsky-rc.com/category/download/

Yup, been there, upgraded my firmware from it. I can't find any reference to what is shipped on the Flash drive for the Horus. It's possible I'm not using the right search string when on the site.

Patience is a virtue they say, your link gives me different pages! Buried on page 4 is the Horus and it gives me all the files I need!

That's a really good archive, thank you Lord.

How do I know if I'm on Open TX or FrOS ?

Don't know about the Horus, but my X9 tells me I'm on Open TX - for about half a second on switch-on, as it boots up.

Well after carefully reading everything there was about OpenTx I downloaded the Companion to my computer and started to use what I'd read to set up a few models, including the Speed Air. After a few false starts (it isn't as easy as they would have you believe) I have a number of models working successfully on the computer, including various sound bites when I flipped switches to select functions on the X8R receiver (Like ,Stabilize, Auto level, Hover and Knife edge)
Since I was still getting nowhere with the FrOS programming system (the offering you get from FrSky and preloaded in the TX) I bit the bullet and installed OpenTX on my Horus. What a disaster! Everything worked as it should with 2 exceptions, the mode selection is wrong, in order to get Mode 2 (AETR) I had to select Mode 4, secondly, and far more serious, even after calibrating the sticks I only ever got the sticks to work in one direction from centre, I checked everything I could but no dice, Ailerons worked one side of the stick and not the other, Elevators, Rudder and Throttle the same, after 4 days I decided to switch back.
It's taken me 3 days to get my old Horus back, the online instructions are wrong! Finally got it back this morning! Goodbye OpenTX, forever!

Can't afford one Tony! Anyway now the Horus is back to normal I decided to program in the Nemo, and the throttle sensor decided it wasn't going to go to zero! Stripped the back off, took out the gimbal complete and discovered a small screw stuck to the magnet of the Hall sensor! I inspected everything and couldn't find one missing anywhere so I assume it must have dropped in during manufacture. Re-assembled and tested, everything works fine.

crash happy wrote: If patience truly is a virtue, then you certainly have some Klippy. I would have thrown all my toys out of the pram by now & kicked the pram over !!!

Including postage it cost me nearly 500quid! I can't afford to have that kind of investment sitting around doing nothing! And of course Mary's seen it around now for a while so it's not something new that I've bought! Domestic fraud rules, OK!
Besides, Operating system aside, in the hand the Horus is class, nice feel, Hall effect sticks (so no rubbing of potentiometers), wireless trainer and the ability to plug any module in to control any other RX.

Looks good, and nice price.