I have some Android tablets for control panels, but I'm frustrated with the limitations of Roccat Power Grid.
Is there anything out there that is similar to power-grid (allows custom graphics and button layout to control the game) but isn't as limited as power-grid? eg
- the power-grid layout is limited to a row of four giant buttons. I'd really like a grid of at least 5x5 if not freedom from a grid altogether.
- the power-grid buttons can't listen for keyboard input. Eg I can create a button that fires a macro, but then the only way to fire that macro is to touch the screen, I can't also have the macro fire from a keyboard input (and my HOTAS can output as a keyboard, so I could get everything tied into the HOTAS if the button could listen for a keypress. HOTAS can also do macros, but I really want the screen to be able to respond to actions)
Touchdown seems to offer the screen layout flexibility (it's effectively a webpage/webserver) but I assume it also talks one-way to the PC such that the page being displayed on the tablet can't respond to key-presses on the PC. Correct?
Is there anything else out there for Android? Or more powerful power-grid hacks available that I don't know about?
Annoyingly, I could almost scrimp the time together to create the "perfect" app myself, but networking it with a pc to control the game isn't something I've done before so that part would be another project in its own right
Is there anything out there that is similar to power-grid (allows custom graphics and button layout to control the game) but isn't as limited as power-grid? eg
- the power-grid layout is limited to a row of four giant buttons. I'd really like a grid of at least 5x5 if not freedom from a grid altogether.
- the power-grid buttons can't listen for keyboard input. Eg I can create a button that fires a macro, but then the only way to fire that macro is to touch the screen, I can't also have the macro fire from a keyboard input (and my HOTAS can output as a keyboard, so I could get everything tied into the HOTAS if the button could listen for a keypress. HOTAS can also do macros, but I really want the screen to be able to respond to actions)
Touchdown seems to offer the screen layout flexibility (it's effectively a webpage/webserver) but I assume it also talks one-way to the PC such that the page being displayed on the tablet can't respond to key-presses on the PC. Correct?
Is there anything else out there for Android? Or more powerful power-grid hacks available that I don't know about?
Annoyingly, I could almost scrimp the time together to create the "perfect" app myself, but networking it with a pc to control the game isn't something I've done before so that part would be another project in its own right
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