RadioMaster boxer - overhyped?

Radio control gear
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I bought this as it’s so well reviewed, but after a year, I regret it.
Here are my major gripes about it for FPV use, in no particular order.

  1. Black on black buttons. Can’t see what I’m doing and I hate holding a torch in my teeth.
  2. Pointless controls. My FPV setup on this assigns ARM and the gimbals. The trim switches are of no use, nor are the six function buttons or circular pots.
  3. The screen flickers a bit on low settings, like it’s at death’s door.
  4. The internal battery lasted less than a year.
  5. You can’t assign buttons to launch the ELRS menu.
  6. I have big hands and this thing feels like holding a brick.
  7. They haven’t labelled which of the two USB ports is which.
  8. It takes up by far the most room of all my kit.
  9. The interface is designed for so many use cases, it takes endless menu-wrangling to set up profiles. I guess that’s on Edge TX, though.
  10. There are too many buttons for navigating through menus - roller, roller press, page left, page right, return.
  11. Tiny strap at the back for people who have three arms?
  12. Mine came with two branded keyrings. Why not bundle something useful like hi-vis covers for the rockers, or a roll of masking tape and a pen to mark the button assignments?

The gimbals do feel very good, and once it’s set up, it’s very reliable and battery life is great. But I can see myself selling this pretty soon.

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For pure FPV it does feel like a full-size radio built around features you never touch. The gimbals are the bit that keep it from being a total miss, but the black-on-black controls are such an own goal.

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The layout feels like it was designed for a different use case, then FPV got bolted on after. Nice gimbals can only carry so much when basic switches disappear in low light. It’s a bit like a Nine Casino https://casinonine.one/
where the games and slots look polished, but the controls are hidden in the dark exactly when you need them most.

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Hi Pete, welcome to DroneHub.

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That’s a very odd comment Pete!

Copy and Paste error, or are you a spambot!?

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I started out with a 2nd hand Tx16 MK1, having large hands, the full size gimbals suit me well. I don’t fly anything but quads so far, so all the extra switches and whatnot just made the thing awkward to transport safely.

When the Tx15 came out, I was all over it. I hold the radio like an Xbox controller (despite never having used one for more than a moment or two as I hate them for gaming), and use just my thumbs on the sticks (TBS Honey Stick ends). The rounded, ergonomic shape fits perfectly in my hands, and I have only one more switch than I need for FPV quads.

I have the display timeout set as short as possible too, no point burning battery when I have goggles on.