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Steering tiller
Hi fellow simmers,
I'm having a great difficulty trying to assign a tiller (10K pot) to FSUIPC. I'm using Phidgets 8/8/8 card and Alan's great FS2Phidgets software:D. In FS2Phidgets software I can calibrate and assign the same (10K pot) to an FS variable like (Rudder control), but when I go to FSUIPC software to assign an axis to the same pot, FSUIPC dose not recognizes the axis at all! I have noticed that non of my phidgets analog inputs are recognized by FSUIPC. What am I missing here?
Thank you,
Phil
Window XP PRO SP3
FSX, SP1 Acecclaration
FSUIPC 4.152
FS2Phidgets 4.3.7
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Don't you have to use the rescan button to assign an axis in FSUIPC if an axis is not set up in FS? Move the axis to confirm in fact it is the correct one (axis values will increase/decrease as you move the axis/pot).
Check this out http://fsuipc.simflight.com/beta/CH_...ith_FSUIPC.pdf
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My problem is that FSUIPC dose not recognize the 8/8/8 Phidget board as a joystick, therefore, the movement of any analog inputs are not registered and not recognized in FSUIPC software.:(
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Rudder
hi phil......
the Steering Tilller is an 'internal' FSUIPC refinement which Pete included with the program. i believe that FSUIPC will only see your axis if it is input via the windows joystick routines which is reading joystick axes only.
so, my best guess is that FSUIPC is not seeing your axis because it is being delivered by another method (the 8/8/8 board )
i had a similar issue when trying to deliver axes thru the CPFlight MCPEX1 board. so threw in the towel and put all axes onto BU0836X boards which i can assign and calibrate in FSUIPC.
or maybe you can sweet talk Alan into writing something similar into FS2Phidgets.
good luck anyway.... regards ... ian
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Hi Ian,
Thank you for the info, I was hoping that I don't have to go that route, but if all fails I have no choice to change my setup and use another joystick board. Can I use a 10K pot with BU0836X board?
Cheers
Phil
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10k Pot
hi phil,
absolutely no problem with 10k pots. i have a mixture of 10k and 100k pots and as long as you calibrate the axes in the windows control panel before going into FSUIPC, i never get an issue. cracking piece of kit and as well as your axes, it will allow you 32 more inputs for switches, pushbuttons and encoders which again you can assign (or record macro's for) in FSUIPC.
good luck captain ... ian
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Thank you Ian! I will definitely keep that option open.;)
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Phil,
I think you mean that Windows does not see Phidgets as a joystick.
Mainly, because it is not a joystick.
FSUIPC talks to the Windows Joystick component .
Joystick vendors write drivers to interface their hardware with joystick component of Windows.
FS2Phidget can send any analog value to any FSUIPC offset.
Whether it will do anything useful depends on the offset.
Offset you mention is really two offsets that do two different things.
It appears from a brief glance that one offset is the value for a the control.
The other offset is the type of control.
I am not familiar with that offset.
You could try:
- assigning the analog Phidget to the Value portion of the offset.
- Assign a switch to the other portion - the switch would send appropriate value when switch is on (or off, for that matter).
Two offsets -> Two functions -> Two devices
Regards,
Alan
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Hi Phil,
I got around this glitch mechanically by having the Tiller & Rudder pot combined. The drive from my pedals rotates the pot shaft and the Tiller rotates the pot housing - too easy!!!
http://www.mycockpit.org/photopost/d...sim_tiller.JPG
http://www.mycockpit.org/photopost/d..._drive_pot.JPG
http://www.mycockpit.org/photopost/d..._connected.JPG
Another method to consider!!!
Regards, Gwyn
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Thank you Alan and Gwyn,
Alan, I will try what you suggested and post my findings! Gwyn, how dose the rudder paddles rotates the pot shaft? The tiller to pot shaft is very clear, I see a second pulley and a cable going down to the rudder mechanism, how is the second pulley attached to the rudder mechanism? Is there a third pulley on a crank?:roll:
Best regards,
Phil