Is there a way for me to paste a dump into betaflight and see what the gui would show on each tab without actually putting it onto a board?

When I’m trying to help get someone in the air, once I’ve ruled out wiring and hardware, I find myself looking through their diff or dump line by line.

I miss things that way, and it takes a ridiculous amount of time.

Is there a way I can view someone else’s dump or diff all in the typical betaflight gui, and run some basic cli commands in a virtual environment?

Unfortunately no, not with the current versions of Betaflight Configurator. The virtual FC is a nice-to-have that let's you find things in the GUI but the CLI part just doesn't work. I'm not sure if the devs will ever have the appetite to make it more fully featured but it's probably right at the bottom of their list of priorities.

I have a couple of spare FCs kicking around for that exact purpose so I just hook one of those up if I want to load up any settings from someone's dump.

I figured it was a no, but I had hope.

I didn’t even think of designating a couple boards as bench testers. Thanks for that. I’ve got a couple spares that would be more suited for this than flying.