HOTAs and FSUIPC config for heading and speed adjustment

[helix1250]

HI everyone, I am starting to get back into flying again, I was wondering if anyone can tell me if I can configure the rotary switches on the HOTAs Rhino to adjust the Speed, heading or radio frequence via FSUIPC. I am running P3Dv4.5 at the moment with a view of going to V5 at some point. 

 

Any advise is welcome 

Rob

[John Dowson]

1 hour ago, helix1250 said:

I can configure the rotary switches on the HOTAs Rhino to adjust the Speed, heading or radio frequence via FSUIPC.

Yes, shouldn't be an issue, especially if the rotaries operate on buttons (as opposed to axes).

I can provide you with a trial license for FUIPC6 if you would like to try it. Of course, if you already have FSUIPC5, you can continue to use that with P3Dv4.5.

John

[helix1250]

Hi John, Yes I would like that, I wont have my new HOTAs until Friday but will be tinkering over the weekend. 

So if its not to much trouble that would be very appreciated 🙂

Rob 

[helix1250]

Hi John 

It looks like they work like Axis according to the set guide for the throttle, if you look at page six they are RTY3 and RTY4

So I am not sure if that will work, any ideas?

 

x56-hotas (1).pdf

[John Dowson]

9 minutes ago, helix1250 said:

So I am not sure if that will work, any ideas?

You should still be able to use them but would be trickier to set-up. Usually, for speed, heading and radio frequencies, you would assign to either up/down buttons, or up, fast-up/down, fast-down, for rotaries with two buttons in each direction. It doesn't really make sense to use axes for these - and there are no axes controls for such things.

Probably the easiest way to set-up such rotaries would be via a lua script. You can assign the rotary to write its value to a (free for general use) FSUIPC offset.
In the lua, which should be auto-started, you can monitor the offset using the event.offset function. When your handling function receives the value, you can then compare it to the previous value seen, and then send the appropriate inc/dec (or fast inc/dec) control depending upon whether it is greater or less than the previous value received, which indicates the direction.

John

[helix1250]

Hi John, 

Thank you for the info, if the offer of a trial is still available then I will try and give it a go, not that I know much about LUA scripts. 

Thank you for your help 🙂

Rob

[John Dowson]

4 hours ago, helix1250 said:

if the offer of a trial is still available then I will try and give it a go

Please use the attached key file, valid until 30th November.

John

FSUIPC6.key

[helix1250]

Thank you John, I will try it over the weekend and let you know if I have any joy 🙂

Once again thank you for you help.

 

Rob