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by saidinesh5 1391 days ago
The shady part was not them releasing their new ACCESS system. But releasing stupid "critical" (not really) firmware updates to their ACCST 1.x systems, that were backwards incompatible with their own systems. At one point users couldn't even find the older firmware for their own hardware, and had to download it from 3rd party backups on Google drive etc.

It seemed like they always took that one extra step to make life more miserable to their own users. Inverted ports for sbus (that were a pain for telemetry on F4 processors). Kept releasing so many protocols (D8, ACCST 1.x, ACCST 2.x, R9, R9 2019) and new hardware that didn't work well with their own older hardware, just to stick it to "1:1 clones"?

I used to help out a lot of newbies with this hobby and half the issues I have had to help them with were just the Frsky compatibility issues.