Betaflight Motors and ESC: CLI settings

Motor protocol (DShot, PWM), bidirectional DShot, motor poles and idle, 3D mode, the mixer and crashflip, dynamic idle and the ESC telemetry sensor. `motor_poles` must match the motor for RPM filtering to work.

23 settings in Betaflight 2026.6, plus 2 that earlier releases had. Each range and value list is read from the firmware's settings.c, each default from the CLI get of the release built for the simulator (no board config applied), so a board's own config can still change it. Set one with set name = value, then save. Paste a diff all into the CLI checker to test it against any release.

Setting	Type	Range or values	Default	4.4	4.5	2025.12	2026.6	Notes
`3d_deadband_high` #	uint16 global	1500 to 2250	`1514`	✓	✓	✓	✓
`3d_deadband_low` #	uint16 global	750 to 1500	`1406`	✓	✓	✓	✓
`3d_deadband_throttle` #	uint16 global	1 to 100	`50`	✓	✓	✓	✓
`3d_limit_high` #	uint16 global	1500 to 2250	`2000`	✓	✓	✓	✓
`3d_limit_low` #	uint16 global	750 to 1500	`1000`	✓	✓	✓	✓
`3d_neutral` #	uint16 global	750 to 2250	`1460`	✓	✓	✓	✓
`3d_switched_mode` #	uint8 global	OFF, ON	`OFF`	✓	✓	✓	✓
`crashflip_auto_rearm` #	int8 global	OFF, ON	`set by the target`	—	—	✓	✓
`crashflip_expo` #	uint8 global	0 to 100	`35`	✓	✓	—	—	Removed in 2025.12.
`crashflip_motor_percent` #	uint8 global	0 to 100	`0`	✓	✓	✓	✓
`crashflip_rate` #	uint8 global	0 to 250	`set by the target`	—	—	✓	✓
`max_throttle` #	uint16 global	750 to 2250	`2000`	✓	✓	✓	✓
`min_command` #	uint16 global	750 to 2250	`1000`	✓	✓	✓	✓
`min_throttle` #	uint16 global	750 to 2250	`set by the target`	✓	✓	—	—	Removed in 2025.12.
`mixer_type` #	uint8 global	LEGACY, LINEAR, DYNAMIC, EZLANDING	`LEGACY`	✓	Δ	✓	✓	4.5: new values EZLANDING
`motor_idle` # was dshot_idle_value	uint16 global	0 to 2000	`set by the target`	✓	✓	Δ	✓	Renamed from dshot_idle_value in 2025.12. DShot users set motor_idle to their old dshot_idle_value; minthrottle was removed in the same change. source
`motor_kv` #	uint16 global	1 to 40000	`1960`	—	✓	✓	✓
`motor_output_limit` #	uint8 PID profile	1 to 100	`100`	✓	✓	✓	✓
`motor_output_reordering` #	uint8 global	8 comma-separated values, 0 to 255	`0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7`	✓	✓	✓	✓
`motor_poles` #	uint8 global	4 to 255	`14`	✓	✓	✓	✓
`motor_pwm_inversion` #	uint8 global	OFF, ON	`OFF`	✓	✓	✓	✓
`motor_pwm_protocol` #	uint8 global	11 values PWM, ONESHOT125, ONESHOT42, MULTISHOT, BRUSHED, DSHOT150, DSHOT300, DSHOT600, PROSHOT1000, DISABLED, DRONECAN	`set by the target`	✓	✓	✓	Δ	2026.6: new values DRONECAN
`motor_pwm_rate` #	uint16 global	200 to 32000	`set by the target`	✓	✓	✓	✓
`use_unsynced_pwm` #	uint8 global	OFF, ON	`set by the target`	✓	✓	✓	✓
`yaw_motors_reversed` #	int8 global	OFF, ON	`OFF`	✓	✓	✓	✓

✓ present, Δ changed in that release (hover for what changed), — not in that release. “needs USE_…” is the build option the setting is compiled with: a cloud build without it has no such setting.

Also in this section

These settings exist in 2026.6, but their default depends on build options the simulator build does not compile (DShot, RPM filter, board drivers), so it is not printed here rather than guessed: dshot_bidir, dshot_bitbang, dshot_bitbang_timer, dshot_burst, dshot_edt, dyn_idle_d_gain, dyn_idle_i_gain, dyn_idle_max_increase, dyn_idle_min_rpm, dyn_idle_p_gain, esc_sensor_current_offset, esc_sensor_halfduplex, rpm_limit, rpm_limit_d, rpm_limit_i, rpm_limit_p, rpm_limit_value.

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What changed between releases: 4.4 → 4.5 · 4.5 → 2025.12 · 2025.12 → 2026.6. Machine-readable: params.json (2026.6.2), GPL-3.0 like the firmware it comes from.