USB ports

[N8862V]

Hi Pete.

Ive just spent several hours programing a CH yoke,Quad throttle and peddals for numerous specific aircraft useing your FSUIPC, god knows how many buttons etc. It all went very well and worked ok. The next time I started the computer up everything was up the creek. After some head scratching it appears that if one swops the position of the USB connections FSUIPC does not recognise them any more. If like me, one has 10 USB ports and one adds or takes away a camera etc all the ports appear to change number and FSUIPC now cannot find the origional yoke or throttle anymore which appears to reqire re doing all the previous hard work. Is there anyway of making FSUIPC recognise a Yoke irrespective of which USB socket it is plugged into?

Brian

[Pete Dowson]

it appears that if one swops the position of the USB connections FSUIPC does not recognise them any more.

Not only FSUIPC. If you move devices around their ID changes in Windows. The only way anything can keep track is for you to keep each control in its respective USB port, or at least plug them back into the same ones if you do happen to remove them.

FSUIPC now cannot find the origional yoke or throttle anymore which appears to reqire re doing all the previous hard work.

Well, not really. The parameters will still be there in the FSUIPC INI file. If you have to move your devices around then you either need to change the Joystick Number (a value from 0 to 15) in each of the parameter lines, or reproduce the entire set 16 times each with a different joystick number so that there are parameters for whatever USB port you happen to use (FSUIPC cannot cope with the 17th device or beyond).

Alternatively just remember which port you used and plug it back in there -- the parameters will then be active as originally. You've not lost anything.

Is there anyway of making FSUIPC recognise a Yoke irrespective of which USB socket it is plugged into?

No. The only unique identity for any USB device is the port it is plugged into. Even if I detected the device's name, that is rarely unique. There are many folks with multiple identical USB devices each of which need to retain their specific assignments and so on.

Regards

Pete