Duncan Groenewald schrieb:
> Does anyone know if it is possible to use a RC transmitter with
> FlightGear ? If so is it possible to do this on a Mac ?
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> Thanks
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Hi Duncan,
this is what I wrote i the International FlightGear Forum some time ago,
might be a help for you if you are a little skilled with electronics:
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Hi teemodel,
to interface my Graupner MC-16/20 transmitter (and also another cheap
transmitter) with a PC I built a trainer outlet -> USB interface with
the JoyWarrior 24 RC PIC. This works with absolut no problems with
openSUSE 10.x Linux and Win$ XP as a normal USB joystick is simulated.
In FlightGear you just copy the "four-axis-joystick.xml" file to
"JoyWarrior.xml" and after appending the USB-name of the interface into
this file like (example!)
<PropertyList>
<name>Code Mercenaries JoyWarrior24RC</name>
<axis n="0">
you leave it as "FlightGear/data/Input/Joysticks/Default/JoyWarrior.xml"
or put it into a separate folder like "JoyWarriorChip".
If you never did any successful :D electronic soldering you should
better search the internet to buy a already build commercial solution
which is also available.
But building it yourself is cheap (PIC price at that time 13.60 EUR +
some cheap other parts) and fast.
Here some (local, Germany) links but most of the sites can be switched
to English language or ARE already written in English (like the PIC data
sheet). It is only that you have some impression what to search for in
your country.
Interface data - can't buy here, only producer of the chip
http://codemercs.com/D_index.html
Files for JoyWarrior 24 RC:
http://codemercs.com/JWdownloadsD.html
Data sheet for JW24 RC
http://codemercs.com/Downloads/JW24RC-Datasheet.pdf
electronic wiring see page 8!
Just to complete the stuff with two links if some other user from Europe
reads this post:
Deutsches JoyWarrior Forum
http://codemercs.com/phpBB2/viewforum.p ... 43614054b8
<http://codemercs.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=8&sid=cc9eebb916c7a0be1a34cd43614054b8>
Bezug: (where to get it)
http://www.segor.de/SEG_7_02.pdf#search ... r%20PIC%22
<http://www.segor.de/SEG_7_02.pdf#search=%22JoyWarrior%20PIC%22>
Important: use DIP24 version!
JW 24 RC-P
Joy-Warrior 24 DIP24
Hope this helps, works very fine here!
Regards
Georg "HeliFlyer" EDDW
BTW: of course you can use your transmitter as a joystick also with
other programs which support USB joysticks.
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Duncan, as I wrote above, there are also commercial solutions availabe
for this "RC transmitter trainer outlet => USB joystick input" interface.
It is just that your transmitter has to have this trainer female
connector but beside my Graupner transmitter I own some cheap Chinese
transmitters which also have one.
It works perfectly, have fun!
Georg EDDW
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