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HMA, Yes that's what I meant. Also I think (I can't recall now as I demoved these mappings) there was one or two toggles which I could not map at all but to tell you exactly I'll need to use your settings once again. Ian, You gave me, a absolute beginner, an amazing information to work with. Also I got one of the Arduino boards on my desk and I'm playing with it now. Watching your videos and other videos on youtube. Excited. Confused. Overwhelmed. :) Regards, Janis

Ian, Thank you for the info. I will give it a go. See if I can manage my way around. If I'll get stuck there is google and other tools out there to help at the end of the day I can seek for help here as well. HMA, Thank you too. I've tried your settings but not all of them work. But never mind it gives me an idea. I have noticed though that your lua script is modified in a different way from what I've read earlier. I guess there are various ways of achieving the same results. May I ask you ... how did you know all the values for down = 3001, up = 3001, cockpit_device_id = 7, value_down = 0.2, value_up = 0.1? Is there some sort of reference you use? Kind regards, Janis

Ian, I guess I'll have to spend more time learning about Arduino and DCS-BIOS then. Can you advise what would be the very basic Arduino card for this process? Is MEGA 2560 good enough? I imagine it probably all depends on how many inputs/outputs I need right?

So will it be right to say that I need to modify diff.lua? They are even more confusing. Brrrrrr

Thanks Puma, I am using a USB HID (Leo Bodnar). I did map them via Helios fine. As from within DCS - I can't find a way to map them so they work properly, hence I'm asking the questions in my first post. Warhog, Thank you for the advice. I have seen and read through DCS BIOS sticky some time ago and yes I found it very interesting but also challenging for my little brain :) It's already been a very steep learning curve from knowing nothing to push myself and buy switches and Leo's board and getting it all to work. I do agree that Arduino looks easy. I might use that in future projects (panels) once I gain more knowledge. For time being I think USB HID is a good start - just want to understand how to modify lua scripts to get them work. Thank you. Regards, Janis

Hi guys, I haven't ordered laser cut & engraved plexi panels just yet but I could not wait and wanted to try and build my first panel. A10C AHCP is really easy especially when using BU0836X controller. My first attemp was cardboard and I have already realised that it is too soft for the application. Never mind that. I was searching and reading this forum in order to understand how to bind toggle switches. Found that Helios is very simple way. Done it. It works. Apart from one thing - "Synchronize cockpit controls at startup" seems to work in it's own strange way. All toggle switches are not in the same position in VC as they are on my hardware panel. But enough of that - I'd like to bind my toggle switches within default.lua and this is where I got stuck. With the help of this forum I managed to get ON-OFF switches to work by adding up = iCommandPlaneAHCPTGPOnOff,to existing {down = iCommandPlaneAHCPTGPOnOff, name = _('TGP switch ON/OFF'), category = _('Armament HUD Control Panel')}, But I struggle with ON-OFF-ON toggles. So far reading forum hasn't helped me even though I'm not giving up. It cannot be that complicated can it? Please, can anybody help me with this? Also I was not sure either I should make changes to my default.lua in (D:\DCS World\Mods\aircraft\A-10C\Input\A-10C\joystick) or BU0836X Interface {E1881150-ACB0-11e4-8001-444553540000}.diff.lua in C:\Users\JF\Saved Games\DCS\Config\Input\A-10C\joystick Quite frankly I'm not familiar with programming at all and I struggle understanding this. Thank you. Regards, Janis

Tone, Thanks for the tip. Tried that but it didn't work. For time being I'll just disconnet the 1920x1200 screen whilst in DCS after all I'm not using it in sim anyway. It must be something to do with this screen though as the problem appears only when it's on. By the way - it is great to see see somebody from S'ton here on forum!

1920x1200 is part of the main windows desktop, yes. When in Windows, it is used as extension (same as 2x 800x600 lilliput screens unless they are switched off). But since in DCS options (in game) I have defined screen resolution as 1920x1680 and MONITORS is pointing to above *.lua the 1920x1200 whilse in DSC is not being used. If it's a bug I'm not going to chase it - for time being I can survive without 1920x1200 but if it's a case of me doing/setting/configuring something wrong I'd like to fix it.

So far I have isolated the problem to what I think is my second display. My current cofig is 1x 1920x1080, 1x 1920x1200 & 2x 800x600. For DCS I use 1920x1080 for my GUI and 2x 800x600 touchscreens for my MFD's as in lua script above. Second 1920x1200 screen is not in use by DCS byt it seems that when it is physically connected to GPU my MFD's go blurry as in the video above. I disconnect the 1920x1200 screen and restart my PC and after I run DCS labels in my MFD's are sharp and stay so. I can see that many people been looking at my post but so far there are no replies ... I hope that with this extra info somebody will be able to guide me. -- Janis

Hi guys, I have moved my left and right MFCD screens to external displays (2x Lilliput UM82/C/T - 8" USB touchscreen monitors). My GUI is on the main screen which is typical 1920x1080. I do have another display attached which is 1920x1200 but it is not being used by DSC. I have noticed that once I start a flight (doesn't matter what sort of flight) all the green text labels on both left and right screens are crisp and sharp as they are in virtual cockpit. Few seconds later (sometimes a second later) they all go blurry/distorted. Main image (either it is a map or TGP or MAV stays normal). Here is a very short video I managed to shoot to show the problem: Has anybody experienced anything like this and can you suggest what could be the cuse of this strange behaviour? Monitor configuration I use is as follows: _ = function(p) return p; end; name = _('MFD SETUP'); Description = 'USB MON' Viewports = { Center = { x = 0; y = 0; width = 1920; height = 1080; viewDx = 0; viewDy = 0; aspect = 1.7; } } GUI= { x = 0; y = 0; width = 1920; height = 1080; } LEFT_MFCD = { x = 250 + 5; y = 1100; width = 550; height = 550; } RIGHT_MFCD = { x = 1120; y = 1100; width = 550; height = 550; } UIMainView = GUI Thank you. Regards, Janis