sflight Posted February 2, 2022 Author Report Posted February 2, 2022 Hi John, Thanks ever so much for getting so involved with this. I am using the original free spad with a workaround someone gave me to get it to work originally with P3d 64 bit version. I did try spad next sometime ago, but trying to set up my saitek bip panel tiles was impossible, but extremely easy with the original spad. I will have another look at spad next and if I'm able to set up my bip panel easily with the current version I will be happy to pay for it, I am by my very nature normally very quick to purchase anything for my flight simming, so I was quite disappointed I found it impossible to set up my bip panel. I will download it, hopefully I'll be able to get a trial initially to see if they've improved the bip panel setup.
John Dowson Posted February 2, 2022 Report Posted February 2, 2022 1 minute ago, sflight said: I am using the original free spad with a workaround someone gave me to get it to work originally with P3d 64 bit version. That is interesting - could you share this? And does it work with MSFS? If you share the workaround, I can take a look with SPAD. If it is working, try setting to the FSUIPC offsets that I indicated in an above post. If its working with MSFS, that should do it. 4 minutes ago, sflight said: I did try spad next sometime ago, but trying to set up my saitek bip panel tiles was impossible, but extremely easy with the original spad. That i strange, I did use SPAD, many years ago, but switched to SPAD.next as I found it a lot more advanced and user friendly. There are many profiles for existing aircraft that you can import, and modify as needed. 5 minutes ago, sflight said: I will have another look at spad next and if I'm able to set up my bip panel easily with the current version I will be happy to pay for it, I am by my very nature normally very quick to purchase anything for my flight simming, so I was quite disappointed I found it impossible to set up my bip panel. I will download it, hopefully I'll be able to get a trial initially to see if they've improved the bip panel setup. I think you are only allowed one trial period per email address, so you may not get the 14-day free trial again. They (Ulrich) is very responsive though, so if you don't get the 14-day free trial, you should email their support and request another free trial period - I'm sure they will oblige John
sflight Posted February 2, 2022 Author Report Posted February 2, 2022 Hi John, I had to purchase spad next. Ran the wizard, spent over an hour trying to setup my bip panel tiles, long story short, some stayed lit when they shouldn't and some weren't lit when they should be, quite a few things I tried to set were not obvious at all like in the original spad. And even better, the gear lever on my switch panel, recognised movement in spad next, nothing in the sim, and fsuipc also wasn't picking up the movement when I tried to assign it. Frustrating to say the least. Here is a link to the avsim post that I followed to get soad working for P3d 64 bit, that mostly works for everything except the gear lever. I have 2 radio panels, multi panel, switch panel and bip panel. https://www.avsim.com/forums/topic/531050-solution-for-saitek-panels-in-p3dv4/
John Dowson Posted February 3, 2022 Report Posted February 3, 2022 12 hours ago, sflight said: Here is a link to the avsim post that I followed to get soad working for P3d 64 bit, that mostly works for everything except the gear lever. I have 2 radio panels, multi panel, switch panel and bip panel. https://www.avsim.com/forums/topic/531050-solution-for-saitek-panels-in-p3dv4/ I will take a look at that when I get time - may take me a few days though. 12 hours ago, sflight said: I had to purchase spad next. You should really try these things before purchasing... 12 hours ago, sflight said: And even better, the gear lever on my switch panel, recognised movement in spad next, nothing in the sim, and fsuipc also wasn't picking up the movement when I tried to assign it. Frustrating to say the least. Really don't know what to say. As I said, I had it up and working within a few minutes without issue. Have you configured to use with FSUIPC or without? Did you try both assigning to FSIUPC offsets and MSFS events, as I showed you in the pictures in my previous posts? 12 hours ago, sflight said: fsuipc also wasn't picking up the movement when I tried to assign it. FSUIPC will not recognise the buttons on these devices - this is why you need to use SPAD or SPAD.next. As it seems you have purchased SPAD.next now, you should use there support services to resolve your issues when using this. I will take another look at the original SPAD, following that post, to see if I can get it working with MSFS. John
sflight Posted February 3, 2022 Author Report Posted February 3, 2022 Ok, thanks John. I have been in touch with spad next on their discord channel now, so let's see if anyone can help there.
John Dowson Posted February 7, 2022 Report Posted February 7, 2022 On 2/3/2022 at 9:30 AM, sflight said: I have been in touch with spad next on their discord channel now, so let's see if anyone can help there. Did you get any further with your issue? I just updated my original SPAD to the 64-bit version from that post you kindly shared, and when I run this version the gear lever works without issues in the JF arrow with the default profile, no configuration needed at all. I really don't understand why this is not working for you. John
sflight Posted February 9, 2022 Author Report Posted February 9, 2022 I did speak to spad on their discord, they have very kindly done a video showing how to program some of the bip panel tiles, but it is rather complicated for me, so as if yet I haven't tried to do it, other than the two failed attempts I did before the video. Interesting that it works fine with the 64 bit mid in the original spad fir you, I really don't get why it isn't working for me, it's certainly registering the movement in spad, jyst doesn't do anything in the sim. I might try downloading the software again and see what happens with a fresh install. Thanks for looking into it for me.
sflight Posted February 9, 2022 Author Report Posted February 9, 2022 Ive changed the settings on the spad profile for what the gear button does to being a fsuipc button now instead of a fsuipc offset change, let's see if that fixes it.
sflight Posted February 9, 2022 Author Report Posted February 9, 2022 Fixed it, I needed to delete the mappings I had set to the gear on one of my throttle levers. Obviously it was conflicting.
John Dowson Posted February 9, 2022 Report Posted February 9, 2022 5 minutes ago, sflight said: Fixed it, I needed to delete the mappings I had set to the gear on one of my throttle levers. Ah....logging in FSUIPC should have indicated this... Glad you finally fixed this issue. John
sflight Posted February 9, 2022 Author Report Posted February 9, 2022 Thanks John, I never would if figured it out had you not got involved, you are an absolute star.
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