Quick Setup

The fastest path from unboxing to a moving servo: the supplied 3.5 mm jack into your radio’s trainer port. Five steps, no Web UI yet.

Got a different output in mind?

This guide picks one path on purpose — PPM out of Magic Box into a classic radio’s trainer port. It’s the cable that’s in the box and works with any radio that has a trainer port. Wiring straight into a TX module or driving a digital protocol? Get the rig powered first with the steps below, then jump to Output Signals to switch protocol.

Five steps

1. Connect Magic Box to your radio. Plug the supplied 3.5 mm jack cable into Magic Box’s PPM port. The other end goes into your radio’s trainer port.
2. Plug in your USB devices. Joystick, throttle, pedals, switch panel — up to 4. Hot-plug works, but a clean boot is more reliable.
3. Power Magic Box. 3–6S LiPo via the XT60 connector. USB alone won’t run a full HOTAS rig.
4. Bind your receiver to your radio. Standard binding flow for your radio system — Magic Box isn’t involved yet, just your radio and the RX talking to each other.
5. Wire the receiver into your model and test. Plug a servo into the bound channel, move the matching axis on your HOTAS, watch the servo move. That’s the chain end-to-end.

That’s the rig. From here it’s all Web UI.

Setup walkthrough

What’s next

Servos move? Time to bind the rest of your HOTAS:

• Connect to the Magic Box Wi-Fi (MagicBox-XXXX) and open the URL on the Magic Box screen — that’s the Web UI.
• Flying with X56, WinWing or another popular HOTAS? Load a profile from Supported Devices.
• Using SBUS, IBUS or CRSF, or wiring a TX module directly to Magic Box? See Output Signals.