ericosmith

I did get it to work with the PTT. I'm not sure what I did the first time, maybe something needed to be restarted for it to work. In any event, I'm a happy camper now. Yes, SB4 is still in beta. I guess it would have to be since they haven't released any updates since the original beta version over a year ago. I'd be really happy if Vatsim would allow payware and somebody would produce a supported application. It's not like most of us who fly online don't already spend a bunch of money on add ons.

I have searched a number of forums but I can't seem to find a way to map a joystick button to SB4 running on a remote computer. I've tried mapping PTT through FSX but that doesn't seem to work. I've also tried sending a keystroke value through WideFS but that doesn't seem to work either. I realize that SB4 uses simconnect rather than WideFS, but I'm hoping that there's some way to still make the PTT function work. Thanks

I'm not suggesting that FSUIPC makes my joystick start transmitting. What I am suggesting is that if my joystick causes FSUIPC to notify Squawkbox on the other PC that my mic should be open, and it doesn't instruct it to close the mic, then the mic is going to stay open till I shut down and restart Squawkbox. That's what appears to be happening. My last message might not have been totally correct because I'm not sure exactly what the order was that I tried different things. I do know that the way I got it to stop was to delete the FSUIPC config file, restart flight simulator, then restart Squawkbox. Basically just removing the button mapping from the config file and restarting SB afterward. I'll try remapping to a different button, but I've never had any issues with any of the joystick buttons in the past.

I set up both fields just like stated in the documentation. Only way I could get rid of it was to delete the config file and restart FS9, then restart SB3. Even rebooting both PCs gave me a mic on without even touching the joystick.

I'm running WideFS 6.5 and FSUIPC 3.5. I mapped a button on my Joystick following the instructions in FSUIPC and it pushes to talk alright, but then it sticks open. Anybody got any ideas? Is there anything different that needs to be set in SB3? BTW, the first time I tried to do this is after I installed the new versions. Oh, and for what it's worth, I have a fully registered version of both products. Thanks