Recover POV function on H/1?
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I’m using TARGET with Morphine’s profile on my recently acquired Warthog HOTAS ($299.99 at Micro Center till 12/20/15). Since I don’t have Track IR, I’d like to trade the pitch and trim functionality now on the first hat (detected as POV in BMS setup) for simple POV. In the past simply unbinding the relevant commands by placing a “#” on the corresponding line in the .key file did the trick but this no longer appears to be the case. What am I missing?
I’ll dig more in Dunc’s spreadsheet as it helped me get my prior stick and throttle (Saitek X-36/35) working but I’m missing something.
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Supposedly if not bound to any other function the POV will pan around the cockpit. The “#” character denotes a comment effectively deleting the line as far as Falcon is concerned. Either looking around isn’t the unbound behavior anymore or you haven’t managed to successfully unbind everything. There should be callbacks to do this default behavior instead of relying on the default-unbound.
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I can confirm that the pitch and trim functions are unbound by commenting the lines out in the .key file. While I agree that defaulting the POV in the absence of callbacks is sloppy, I can see the argument for doing so as keeping it simple for the newbies.
In reading around, I see a number of folks have fallen afoul of the complexity and non-obvious choices to be made when adding a Warthog stick and throttle to BMS. There appear to be two basic schools:
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Treat the stick and throttle as separate USB devices, use Kolbe’s templates, do without the POV on the throttle, and live with USB enumeration issues.
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Install TARGET to combine the stick and throttle as one virtual USB device, get nifty if complex programming, control LEDS, and get puzzles like my POV issue.
I see you have developed a throttle only TARGET script, which appears to depend on the stick either not being a Warthog or defeating the USB combining in some manner, and perhaps represents some middle ground.
So what do most folks do and why?
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Not sure if relevant, but I played around with a head tracker for a while after which my pov hat no longer worked. I ended up reimaging the pc to an earlier time as I couldn’t figure out what caused the issue.