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Yeah AB let's you set keys for screenshots and movies.

UH-1H too please. It has so many hard to reach panels and having them in Helios would save my neck :)

I don't understand why this hasn't at least been acknowledged/reported, even if ED don't have the solution yet.

I wonder if any of these displays would be good options to use with the RPi for the CDU? http://makersify.com/collections/raspberry-pi/products/adafruit-dpi-tft-kippah-for-raspberry-pi-ada2454 TFT Interface £11.70 or http://makersify.com/products/adafruit-tfp401-hdmi-dvi-decoder-to-40-pin-ttl-breakout-without-touch HDMI to TTL board £19.80 with http://makersify.com/products/adafruit-5-0-40-pin-800x480-tft-display-without-touchscreen 5" 800x480 TFT £24.30 or http://makersify.com/collections/lcds-displays/products/adafruit-7-0-40-pin-tft-display-800x480-without-touchscreen 7" 800x480 TFT £29.70 The cheapest combo there comes to £36. Alternatively this touchscreen connects without any additional boards. http://makersify.com/collections/lcds-displays/products/adafruit-pi-foundation-pitft-7-touchscreen-display-for-raspberry-pi 7" touchscreen £49.50 I know 7" is too big but perhaps we could block off part of it with the panels so that only the right amount is visible (how big is the real CDU?). If we used the touchscreen, we could perhaps utilise that so that the buttons either side of the display push soft pads onto onscreen buttons, rather than being wired up to anything. Or maybe the 5" non-touchscreen would be easier to frame to match the proper size?

Regarding using a dummy vga monitor, obviously we can't drag and drop instruments to the non-existent monitor, so is it just a matter of editing a text file to specify the co-ordinates on the "ghost" monitor where the MFCDs and CDU will draw? I'm using two real monitors in a vertical arrangement connected to my ATI 6950 but presumably I can enable my onboard Intel GPU and connect a dummy adapter to that to use with DCSPanelsPro?

Could be a very good option for backseat/gunner as well, once ED give us multiseat, for friends who aren't interested in buying a full HOTAS and pedals set.

I don't know whether GFE actually does a good job of configuring settings automatically but it is quite ridiculous that users have to faff about manually changing settings and in many cases editing config files, testing the game each time they change the settings, to try and get games running optimally on their systems. Even then users have no idea if there's going to be parts of the game that will have more objects, enemies, etc that will cause the fps to drop. Games can easily detect what hardware you have and should be able to auto-configure to run optimally. Maybe offer a couple of choices like "Constant 30fps with maximum detail" if that's all the hardware can manage (maximum meaning the best settings to produce the highest quality the specific hardware can maintain 30fps at, not all settings on max) and "Around 60fps but may drop, with reduced detail", where the settings are configured to give the best detail possible whilst maintaining 60fps most of the time.

I'm using the current version of Edtracker and it works nicely with DCS. It presents as a joystick device so a column for it appears in DCS' control page but I'm using it with Opentrack to allow me to set curves, etc and that makes a TrackIR column appear as well, so I just unmap the Edtracker column. No need to drop any files in the DCS folder to make it work :)

Thanks for the support guys :)

I stumbled across this example of a MS Windows Speech Recognition Macro, which seems to use prefix and suffixes and I have to say, it looks a lot more easier to setup and to review than Voice Attack's method https://forums.bistudio.com/topic/174532-voice-command-sp/#entry2730730

Well you can if it doesn't work ;) I tried that before the other options and it never worked for me. I was told the lighting needs to be right, so if I'd been able to arrange some way of better illuminating my face it might have improved (although wearing glasses is apparently an issue with it as well) but I gave up and moved onto the PS3 Eye/LED option. I think there's an option in OpenTrack (might be in FTNoIR as well) to have it track a printed marker stuck to a hat which might work reasonably well but I haven't tried that one.

For anyone following this thread, I would like to invite you to read and discuss my suggestion to improve voice control of radio comms in DCS here http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?p=2523986#post2523986 I also made some comments about Voice Attack and compared some of it's pros and cons vs VAC in this thread: http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=2523997&postcount=8

Bit late but I just saw this! Yep, in VAC for each command you can set a success sound WAV (you can select a file or record a new one from within VAC) or a success phrase, which is just text that's read by Windows text to speech function, so you can select any of the available voices for that. Obviously the latter is the quickest option and works well for me for most purposes.

VIACOM is indeed a great work but it just demonstrates how complicated it is to setup a voice recognition profile to work the current F-key operated radio menus. I have a suggestion which I believe would make things a lot easier going forward and I encourage everyone to take a look and discuss it here http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?p=2523986#post2523986 Voice Attack's UI isn't ideal either though, for example it would make things a lot easier to follow if it locked all prefix commands at the top of the list and grouped any suffix commands under the relevant prefix commands, or perhaps a completely different UI, with a box on the left that just lists any prefix commands and when one is selected, a box to the right shows all the suffix commands associated with that prefix. VAC also has the advantage of storing profiles in easily editable xml files that look like this: which means they can be edited in Notepad++, which is sometimes quicker than using the UI to create/edit profiles. Voice Attacks VAP files are text files that can be opened in Notepad++ but they're much more lengthy, which each command spread over maybe 10 lines, so it's not really practical to edit them by hand. Then again, VAC doesn't have prefix/suffix commands, nor any recognition threshold settings, so neither program is ideal. As things stand, Voice Attack has more features so if it sorts out the UI and the profiles (it might be possible to improve the UI to the extent that there is no benefit in being able to manually edit the profiles but I'm skeptical whether that's possible, if you think about how quickly one can copy and paste and search and replace in Notepad++). However, if DCS exposes the radio commands as I've suggested in my wishlist thread, so that Voice Attack can send direct commands over UDP like "Kobuleti request landing" instead of sequences of F-keys, that would certainly simplify both the UI and the profile files.

I know ED have got their hands full but nonetheless, the OB and upcoming 2.0 seem as good as time as any to ask them to implement this. DCS currently allows for external programs running on the same PC (Helios) or apps on a tablet to send commands to it, to control the cockpit. I think this relies on the lua files being correctly configured and I presume it listens on a UDP or TCP interface for the commands. I find the system of datarefs and commands that X-Plane uses much simpler to understand and it might be worth considering moving to a similar system in future but that's not my main request http://www.xsquawkbox.net/xpsdk/docs/DataRefs.txt What I'd really like to request is to have the radio menu commands exposed on an interface in the same way as cockpit commands currently are. So instead of having to drill through F-key menus, a voice recognition program would only have to send a command like "Flight/Cover Me" (this is a single command but following the syntax of the x-plane method is written nested, to make the list of commands easy for the user to follow). This would make it much easier to create profiles in voice recognition programs, as they wouldn't have to contain conditional commands to drill down to the appropriate F-key menu for Flight before selecting Cover Me. The VIACOM profile for Voice Attack http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?p=2333187#post2333187 is an amazing piece of work but just demonstrates how complicated profiles have to be with the current system. Partly that's due to the way Voice Attack works but there needs to be changes in both DCS and the voice recognition programs to simplify things and until DCS exposes the comms menu on a UDP interface, no voice recognition program is going to appear that sends commands that way. Sending F-keys means that the voice recognition program has to be running on the same PC as DCS (so can't be run on a tablet). Also, DCS has to have focus to receive the F-key sequences being sent, which can be problematic if one is using a secondary touchscreen which could steal focus when touched. For example, some people might prefer to use touch buttons on a secondary touchscreen to trigger the radio commands rather than voice recognition (which may not be an option for people with certain disabilities) but this isn't possible at present as touching the screen would steal focus from DCS. Using a UDP interface solves both those problems

I think the only time I've had problems is when I've gone to play a game that natively uses my Xbox360 controller and I've accidentally left Xpadder running, with it mapping my controller, joystick or pedals to keypresses. That caused some surprising issues as you can imagine! Actually, I do recall some games repeatedly scrolling through the main menu if my joystick isn't centred, even without xpadder. I bought a hub with 3 groups of 3 sockets and a switch on each group, so I can disconnect three things at the press of a button but I haven't had to do that much.

Hi MattBW I have the same problem and created a thread in the "Installation Problems" sub-forum, which is probably the most appropriate place for this, so you might want to post there. http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=150246

Good points. I can see that a seat locking or request/permission sequence is necessary.

Fantastic!

If the server rules clearly say "No jumping in back seat without pilot's permission" and someone does so anyway, then I think a kick/ban is perfectly fair.

Thanks, sounds great. Can't wait to try that.

Sounds awesome. How exactly do you do that? Guess you have to be careful not to move your head when looking down at the shkval on the second monitor, if the weapons are aimed by where you're looking on the main monitor?

Nope and it seems specific to DCS. If I try in Dragon Age Inquisition for example, it properly recognises \ as \ .

OB (standalone) is working fine for me on Win 8.1 x64. On Win 10 Pro x64 however, I just get "The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b)". Before that I got errors about missing MSVCP120.dll and MSVCR120.dll files, which I found elsewhere and copied to Windows\system32\ which fixed those errors. I ran the vcredist_x64.exe from the OB\dist folder and let it repair. I also have the OB installed separately with Steam, so I tried launching it from there, which made it install 7 (I think) required packages but it doesn't do anything afterwards when I click Play and it didn't help with the standalone OB either. Tried verifying integrity of files in Steam as well. Programs and Features shows I've got the x86 and x64 versions of: Visual C++ 2005 Visual C++ 2008 Visual C++ 2010 Visual C++ 2012 There's actually two versions of the x64 2012 installed, v11.0.50727 and v11.0.61030. Only the latter is installed for x86. Someone suggested that the vcredist_x64.exe supplied with OB is the wrong version and I needed VC 2013, so I downloaded that but installing the x64 version didn't help and neither did installing the x86 version. There was another thread about this http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=147740 but the title's been changed from "The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b)" to "Needed to install VS2013 Redistributable" so someone obviously thinks it's solved but clearly it isn't. This "Installation problems" sub-forum seems more appropriate than "General Questions" anyway. There's no logs to post as DCS isn't launching at all. EDIT: I've attached my log from running the OB in Win 8.1, just in case it's helpful. dcs.zip

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