Voice Attack Hotkey for TM Warthog

[B2Blain]

Thanks to help I received from this forum I have been creating an in game profile for my TM Warthog HOTAS. It has been much easier than scripting in TARGET.

 

But now I have to create a hotkey to enable Voice Attack. I have searched this site but have so far been unable to find any information regarding this issue. I closest topics I have found have been related to the creation of hotkeys for TrackIR. I am looking for something that lays out the process step by step.

 

I'd like to be to press a button on the throttle corresponding the key on the keyboard in order to enable Voice Attack.

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks,

Blain

Edited January 6, 2017 by B2Blain

[FeistyLemur]

The latest voice attack lets you use joystick binds directly. Though it's a bit weird to enable.

 

It's in the settings, I forget off the top of my head how it works but just play around with it. There's probably some further info in the voice attack thread toward the end. I remember having a conversation about it in there. You have to create the binding first in the settings, then use it in the individual profiles, it's kind of goofy.

 

Ok I stopped being lazy and looked and this is an edit. Its settings, general tab, joystick options. Add up to two sticks on this page, there's a little + and - sign at the top, you click plus, add the joystick and keys you want on it, and enable or disable it there. Then in your voice attack profile you have to find the PTT key and change it. If it's hollywoods profiles, you edit the profile and it's under, Push to talk > Transmit XXXX. There are multiple transmit commands for different radios. Then you just edit each one and bind the Joystick button you want to it. Double click Transmit VHF1 for example, at the top there are checkboxes you uncheck "when I press Keys" and check "when I press button" then bind the button with the little ... to the right of that checkbox, then save it. Repeat for any other radios. To change back just change the checkbox back to keys and uncheck the button one.

 

Alternately, I find what's easiest is learn to use autohotkey. It's so much better than target, super easy to use when you get it, and super convenient. You can even make a command in Voice Attack to change your autohotkey profile with the auto profile switching. Very convenient. And the best thing about it is, since you aren't editing your lua files, you don't have to back them up and restore them every time you update DCS. Way less of a pain I think.

Edited January 6, 2017 by FeistyLemur

[B2Blain]

FeistyLemur,

Thanks for the tip on the hotkey in VA. After you mentioned it, I remembered the location where I previously programmed keystrokes for the hot key to enable VA.

 

Hopefully I can find a profile and not have to create one.

 

Thanks again,

Blain

[FeistyLemur]

Try out Vaicom 2.0, there's a sticky about it at the top of this forum. It's really awesome and there are profiles for most modules already.