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Thanks for sharing! I'll be in attendance at FSExpo this year (hope to see some other DCS fans there as well) so I'll try to share some pictures/videos from the show floor if I can snag any. Totally agree with you @rapid, the more the merrier in terms of competition in the market. In the end, enthusiasts like us benefit.

Very late in seeing this but thank you for doing this kind of outreach @Props. I'm hopeful that the presence of the combat flight sim side of the house will continue to grow in future years (especially from the DCS side of the house). I've done my best to promote the show on my podcast ("The Hangar Bay") over the past few months and I'll continue to do so next year as well. Given the relatively niche nature of our community I think it's incredibly important to have events like these where we can come together and celebrate all that it has to offer. Can't wait to see what this years expo has in store (especially this year's panel). I'll be watching online (hope to attend next year)! Have a great time at this year's show!

Hello @Rinz1er. I just wanted to drop in and thank you for making this and sharing it with the community! I featured Flight Deck on the last 2 episodes of my podcast ("The Hangar Bay") so hopefully that will bring a few more folks your way who will try it out and provide some feedback. Quick question: Given the announcement in this week's newsletter about ED developing their own new launcher, do you still plan to continue developing Flight Deck? It looks like you'll still have some key features that one will be missing initially so it would be great if you continue working on it, but I'd also understand if you choose not ton continue. Thanks again for all your hard work!

Good Evening, Apologies in advance if this isn't the proper forum for manual discrepancies. I believe there is an error on page 420 of the current DCS manual (Updated 18 July 2023) or I'm just confused and reading things wrong (50/50, honestly). Figure 234 on page 419 (attached to this post) references the rings as follows: Outer ring: Non-Lethal Threat Band Middle ring: Lethal Band Inner ring: Cortical Band On page 420 the accompanying text contradicts this by stating: Based on my test flights I believe Figure 234 on page 419 is the correct implementation and the wording on page 420 just needs to be updated to reflect that. Have a great evening/weekend. -Stewmanji Figure 234 (pg 419) Band description (pg 420)

A girlfriend that solders flight simulation hardware?!? A definite keeper sir! I congratulated you on Reddit already but this project (and your cockpit) deserve a 2nd shout-out. Well done!

The TEDAC you put together looks absolutely incredible. Well done! Thanks for continuing to share your progress!

I haven't tested it, but I feel like Joy2Key might be the solution you're looking for: https://joytokey.net/en/ Alternatively, you could look into Joystick Gremlin. It's much more powerful but should also be able to deliver the same functionality.

I know exactly how you feel. I used to have the same kind of desk with a huge hutch on one side and I only ended up using about 10% of it, haha. Regarding space, it helped when my flight sim hobby grew to be too much and my wife kicked me to the basement! Before that I was wedged in to one small corner of the living room. I swear, this hobby is one big rabbit hole...you're always moving on to something bigger and better...it's great!

I'll second tnutz.com. I've had many great purchasing experiences from them over the past several years. If you're looking at building something more like consoles that would sit on either side of you (ala a real cockpit) you could consider dropping down to 2020 (20 mm x 20 mm) extrusion. It's often used with 3D printers but it's very sturdy, cheaper, and more available than the bigger extrusion (10 series, 15 series, or the larger metric extrusion options). I originally built my simpit framework out of 15 series (1.5 inch x 1.5 inch) but I've since built both side consoles out of 2020 and it's rock solid. Perfect for mounting my throttle, button boxes, joystick, etc. You can find 2020 all over Amazon but I've purchased mine from Zyltech.com. Highly recommend them as they have a great cut to size service as well. Photos attached to give you some ideas (it's a work in progress so apologies for the mess).

It's a huge pain, isn't it? I wish there was a way to prioritize devices in-game. Having said that, this little tool is designed to solve this issue. Unfortunately, while it used to work for me with DCS I haven't had luck recently. I need to give it another go, but perhaps you'll have more success. https://github.com/briankendall/devreorder

Per a comment for this F-14B streamdeck profile on the User Files page: https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3317152/ Make a copy of F-14B.lua that was provided in the download and rename it to F-14A-135-GR.lua I think all the switches and knobs should work, but I have not fully tested them all yet. Hopefully that does the trick for you!

I believe what you're looking for is some sort of multi-action in which you chain multiple key-presses together. Try something like this: https://help.elgato.com/hc/en-us/articles/360027960912-Elgato-Stream-Deck-Multi-Actions

As Toni mentioned above, the issue is that there is some underlying difference in the way the streamdeck software differentiates Left-Win and the way DCS does. The only workaround right now is to change the DCS hotkey to something else (that doesn't use the Win Key). Note: I believe this also affects the PAUSE key too. Toni, Bailey and I previously discussed this in these threads:

Hey @Toni Carrera, great question and I know exactly what you're trying to do. I would think this is possible, but I honestly haven't tried something like that before. It might be worth a question directly to @ctytler I wonder if there is a way to make the streamdeck virtually push buttons for you. For example, by pressing this button I execute a macro which presses the other buttons I've already made x times, and then that one y times. I'm totally spitballing here so none of that might be possible, but it's one possible workaround that came to mind.

Hey @Toni Carrera, I've encountered this same problem in the past and the path of least resistance for me has been to simply rebind the commands that make use of these keys to something else. For example, I rebound anything that used PAUSE to be "L Shift + L Alt + P" or something like that. It's not ideal, but it's functional. I've tried a variety of different solutions and still haven't come up with anything that addresses the larger issue...there's just something weird going on behind the scenes regarding the way DCS and the StreamDeck reference these specific keys. This is similar to the route we had to take a few months back with the snap-view keys, if you recall that discussion. I'd love to get a DCS programmer and a StreamDeck programmer in a room together to figure out what they're doing differently. -Stew