I will definitely loon into the nano. as for the components they are as follows:
Data Sheet for Crossfire: TBS_CROSSFIRE_manual_V2 (team-blacksheep.com)
The transmitter is hardwired into the radio. from there it transmits to the receiver which can output sbus on ch out 1. that currently is going directly to pin 0 of the Arduino. the 5v power is supplied by the Arduino. I've gotten random integers being displayed in the serial console, using a very basic serial script (no decoding), but i have no idea where to go from here. I may be overlooking something very simple as i am quite new to Arduino. Do i just need to use a sbus decoder?