Using Sound to know what your HOTAS is doing !!

[sutex]

USING SOUND TO KNOW WHAT YOUR HOTAS IS DOING


If you wish to land on High G planets or simply hover above the ground, the Rotary dial on your HOTAS (X56 for me) set to the Vertical axis works like a charm.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=220859

The difficultly is knowing you haven't accidentally turned the Rotary dial which can be problematic when leaving the dock as Ive found myself bouncing all over the 'ceilings' of stations in a blind panic trying to reset my Rotary dial back into its deadzone, so therefore OFF.

The other issue is using the Full range on your Throttle HOTAS and trying to find the Zero mark, so your engines are at ZERO, so therefore OFF, before leaving the dock


Enter Gremlin
https://whitemagic.github.io/JoystickGremlin/overview/


With Gremlin and with @hon0#0570 help at HOTAS/HOSAS/SIMPIT who first told me you can know the state of an Axis using Gremlin. Then walked me though it, in setting it up (thanks!)

to play a sound when my Hotas throttle was at the Zero mark ( engines OFF) and when/if the Rotary dial had been turned, so therefore my vertical thrusters where on [where is it]


Having a sound as a cue is very helpful as you can imagine, if you're always taking off backwards from stations or bouncing around 'ceilings' of stations [yesnod]

This image below shows the outcome you're looking for:
Axis 2 is my Throttle Axis 3 is the Rotary dial. I have deadzones setup using the Logitech software 50 for the throttles and 170 for the Rotary dial as its a bit twitchy

Having only one Action and only One Range between - and + means the Sound is played WHEN entering the Deadzone

For the Rotary 1 Axis on the X56 a sound is played for either the positive or negative settings

Having Two Actions each with it's own Ranges of -0.01 and +0.01 means the sound is played WHEN the Rotary dial is moved out of the Dead Zone.

You will need to install Vjoy the link is on the Gremlin home page, and for the X56 set it up like this (as per the instructions given to me)

If you need help or question the experts of HOTAS / Gremlin magic ( as I have no clue ) are here HOTAS/HOSAS/SIMPIT https://discord.gg/e6XKrbK

Hope this helps

 

[Ian Phillips]

changed to " Using Sound to know what your HOTAS is doing !!"

Let me know if it should be something else!

 

[Dizzy B High]

interesting, i use a thrustmaster t flight hotas.

Would this work on my throttle to play a sound when i move it to 75% 50% and 25%

that would be quite useful for planetary approaches i reckon.

 

[sutex]

interesting, i use a thrustmaster t flight hotas.

Would this work on my throttle to play a sound when i move it to 75% 50% and 25%

that would be quite useful for planetary approaches i reckon.

You should be able set it up that way using active axis range , enter range is either anywhere, above or below

-1 is 0% physical. +1 is 100%.

See first post its been Updated

 

[Habu2u]

Another useful thing is that with a throttle, when you put it to the lowest point where a blue horizontal line appears on your speed gauge, that's 75% power. You can get used to setting it that way pretty quickly.
Regards

 

[Crank Larson]

I just use my hands to control what my HOTAS is doing.

 

[sutex]

I just use my hands to control what my HOTAS is doing.

But not your eyes to read ..LOL

 

[sutex]

Another useful thing is that with a throttle, when you put it to the lowest point where a blue horizontal line appears on your speed gauge, that's 75% power. You can get used to setting it that way pretty quickly.
Regards

On my X56 Logitech the visual blue lines on the Throttle Hotas is not accurate at 100% power, when the throttle is all the way forward I'm two more lines past the 100% visual mark

Was using the 50% visual mark ( few lines near it) to try and find my Throttle Zero OFF position. I'm not using VR as yet ( still learning my HOTAS) and trying to see those marks was difficult and in VR impossible

so went looking for a solution, having an Audio cue when the Throttle was in the deadzone and therefore Thrusters are OFF, solved the problem