Gear Lever Offset 0BE8 internal (intern) in FSX??

[luker23]

Hi All,

I've recently upgraded from FS2004 to FSX (Acceleration Pack). I am using registered versions of FSUIPC4 (4.80) and WideFS 6.94. This is running on Windows 7 Home Premium (32 bit). I have a Phidgets card 8/8/8 attached directly to the FSX computer. I'm using fs2phidgets 4.3.65 to interface to FSX from my Phidgets board.

When I was using FS2004 I had mapped offset 0BE8 to my hardware gear handle using fs2phidgets. When operating the gear handle it would raise and lower the gear in the simulator.

Under FSX I am using the same offset 0BE8 however when I operate my gear handle nothing happens. In fs2phidgets it shows that the value for the bit mapped to the gear handle goes from off to on when I operate the handleso there is nothing wrong with the hardware or the phidgets board...however fs2phidgets shows the Offset value as "intern"

Does this mean that the offset is internal in FSX ??? How can that be? Is there another offset I should be using to operate the gear lever? This is very frustrating as all my other offsets mapped through fs2phidgets work properly and show the correct offset definition in the fs2phidgets GUI.

I'm confused. The issue is probably caused by somehow the offset being defined as internal.

Any advice/help would be welcomed.

Cheers,

Luke

[Pete Dowson]

When I was using FS2004 I had mapped offset 0BE8 to my hardware gear handle using fs2phidgets. When operating the gear handle it would raise and lower the gear in the simulator.

Under FSX I am using the same offset 0BE8 however when I operate my gear handle nothing happens.

There's no change in how that offset operates. It works fine. Try it yourself -- assign a button to "Offset Word Set" for that offset and parameter 0 for "up", 16383 for "down". To check whether your software is working correctly, monitor the offset as type U16 on the right-hand side of the FSUIPC Logging tab. You can select "FS display" to get its value on screen in real time. If they aren't writing it, it won't work, obviously.

In fs2phidgets it shows that the value for the bit mapped to the gear handle goes from off to on when I operate the handleso there is nothing wrong with the hardware or the phidgets board...however fs2phidgets shows the Offset value as "intern"

No idea what they mean by that.

I'm confused. The issue is probably caused by somehow the offset being defined as internal.

Any advice/help would be welcomed.

Sorry, I know nothing at all about fs2phidgets. Don't they have their own support somewhere? I think you need to ask there.

Regards

Pete

[luker23]

Pete,

Thankyou for your reply

I thought as much but I just wanted confirmation that it hasn't changed. I've posted on the fs2phigets support forum before I posted here but so far ... the big "Silence" and no replies.

I'll try some other work arounds

Cheers

Luke