Helios - Falcon BMS MFD bindings
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@linknet
Thank you for your help. I did everything you said and still “no joy”.
Probably it’s something so easy and obvious (for those who know Helios) but I have no idea what is wrong. -
@mel-i try downloading a working profile and working back from there?
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@Atlas yeah, good idea. Could you recomend something with MFD’s on touch screen?
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@mel-i I 'll send you my profile with this, I have it on my tablet and its working great.
One note though, for the buttons to work I have to start the profile on Helios Control Center, AFTER I enter 3D. Never took the time to figure out why. All the displays work, but the button callbacks only work If I start the profile while in 3D.
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@danaos75 said in Helios - Falcon BMS MFD bindings:
One note though, for the buttons to work I have to start the profile on Helios Control Center, AFTER I enter 3D.
This. But it’s only started happening relatively recently (maybe since the latest Helios update or the one before that). I’ve tried combinations of “run as admin” but nothing has resolved it. Though, and I need to test this (afk); if I close BMS (with Helios running OK in 3D),and start it again, the buttons work OK - again, this might be imaginary.
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@CriticalMass Thats a very odd issue. Helios button pushing only sends callbacks that are read from the keyfile you’ve selected in Helios. Are you using a tablet or something that is not an actual touch screen monitor? If so, I’d look there first for oddities like that.
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@Wheelchock on tablet with spacedesk.
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@CriticalMass yes exactly the same behavior.
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@danaos75 said in Helios - Falcon BMS MFD bindings:
@Wheelchock on tablet with spacedesk.
Also tablet with Spacedesk (with USB tethering)
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@danaos75 said in Helios - Falcon BMS MFD bindings:
@mel-i I 'll send you my profile with this, I have it on my tablet and its working great.
One note though, for the buttons to work I have to start the profile on Helios Control Center, …@danaos75 thanks for the profile - all gauges work but MFDs buttons doesn’t. Tried all the “abrakadabra” mentioned above with the same results - NONE
I do exactly what tutorials say and still can’t force this buttons to work -
@mel-i have you gone through the touch screen calibration? I’m not sure if its the same using spacedesk. Also there are some settings for touch screen as well in Windows. its hard to help you any further without much details. Somewhere on here there was a guide on setting up spacedesk for use with Helios.
Try this
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If the MFD buttons don’t work but standard push buttons work it’s most probably a windows scaling factor mismatch. Those MFD’s are particularly sensitive since they are large and the button presses are referenced to the top left corner if I remember correctly. Therefore a scaling factor mismatch means that the touch misses some or all of the buttons. With something smaller such as a single button there is still a mismatch but small enough that the button still works.
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@linknet does that mean that if I’ll touch the screen anywere I can activate the callback by chance even if it is not “on the button”?
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@mel-i said in Helios - Falcon BMS MFD bindings:
@linknet does that mean that if I’ll touch the screen anywere I can activate the callback by chance even if it is not “on the button”?
Theoretically yes, but I’ve tried to do that without success.
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@mel-i just to be sure try this.
- Open Helios control center, start the profile I sent you.
- Now load up BMS and start any training mission that you are on the air
- Alt+tab to Helios CC and push the stop button. The profile will close from whatever screen you have it on. And immediately after that press the start button on the Helios CC and the profile will load up again on whatever screen you have it on.
4 Alt+tab to BMS and try the push buttons again.
Hope it helps.
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@danaos75 unfortunatelly it didn’t
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@mel-i
What are you using for a touchscreen, the two other posters on here are using a tablet with spacedesk, is that what you’re also using?If you’re using a standard windows touchscreen check that you have the same windows scaling factor for both your main display and the touchscreen.
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@linknet I use iPad2 10,2" with Splashtop Wired XDisplay to communicate with Windows. I have no idea what the spacedesk is.
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@mel-i
I’ve just tried a trial version of Splashtop Wired XDisplay with an Android tablet and the MFD’s work without any problem.-
Are you sure that you have the callbacks set up correctly?
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Another thing to check is that the display on the tablet has the same Windows Scale Factor as the main display.
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- callbacks are set correctly for sure - I’ve checked it on my own profile and the one downloaded from danaos75
- iPad is running on same resolution 1920x1080 and same Scale Factor (100%) as main PC monitor.