The DroneBridge Drone Light Show Edition (DLSE) is an optimized version of DroneBridge for ESP32 for Light Show Drones. It is compatible with the skybrush.io ecosystem.
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New: Battery Voltage and Current Monitor via additional GPIOs with forwarding to the GCS when in sleep mode
New: CPU Load Monitor in the web-interface
Improvement: Only allow reboot of ESP32 if flight controller explicitly reports to be disarmed
Improvement: Push to esp-idf 5.5.2 for official & stable ESP32-C5 support
Fix: Correct processing of Skybrush Live broadcast commands
Fix: Much lower CPU usage due to better idle management
Fix: Default antenna parameter 'radio_ant_select' set to 0 in the parameter file
UI Update: Activation Key visible in the License Management of the ESP32 web-interface
Previous Releases
DLSE BETA3
DroneBridge for ESP32 DLSE v1.0.0 BETA3
Release Notes
Hotfix 25.12.2025: ESP32 will turn off power to the drone using its power management function when Skybrush Live commands "Power-Off" and the Emergency Power-Off option is activated in the ESP32s configuration. Hard coded REBOOT_SHUTDOWN_CONDITIONS_FORCE (for REBOOT_SHUTDOWN_ACTION_SHUTDOWN)
New: Emergency Power-Off support can be enabled in the power management settings. Allows to kill power to the drone regardless of armed-state of the flight controller
New: Web-Interface settings export
New: Web-Interface settings import
New: Web-Interface license file download
New: Sanity check for GPIO parameters. ESP32 will not accept GPIO configurations that are known to cause issues because these pins are already used by other functions
UI Update: Wi-Fi AP Mode & Client Mode settings are visible at the same time for faster initial configuration
Improvement: Faster log download speeds with flow control enabled (set RTS threshold to 127)
Improvement: Faster MAVFTP uploads
Fix: RSSI update in Wi-Fi AP Mode
API Change: license API endpoint changed from /api/license/upload to /api/license
Removed: LTM/MSP support and unused parameters radio_dis_onarm & ltm_per_packet
DLSE BETA2
DroneBridge for ESP32 DLSE v1.0.0 BETA2
Release Notes
Added support for Seeed Studio C6 external antenna and generic antenna switches
Fixed stability issue where serial noise could be interpreted as messages from the FC
Added support for 802.11r/k/v (fast roaming)
DLSE BETA1
DroneBridge for ESP32 DLSE v1.0.0 BETA
Release Notes
Initial BETA Release with full support for Skybrush
