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VAICOM and VA - comms menu won't initialise


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I have been setting up VAICOM with VA over the weekend and I think its nearly right now.

I have the autohotkey script running and I think I am passing commands to DCS (a-10C) correctly.

my problem is with the comms menu initialisation. I have the standard \ key mapped to comms menu, but its not being recognised either as a keypress or as a VA command.

 

When I make a voice command 'startup' I see the command being processed in the VA command window and also the views in the sim change as the F1, F3 etc are sent. Why is the \ command not recognised? NumLock is on and I have checked the \ key maps to the correct character using notepad.

Thanks

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I have been doing some more work on this error and I'm still stuck.

Basically no \ command (to initialise comms) is passed to the sim.

A keyboard \ press doesn't work, but I have checked that it works OK as a keypress elsewhere.

The error occurs with DCS 1.5 beta which (I was working on) and 2.1 alpha (which I did not touch). I have done a repair/reinstall on both, which has not remedied the situation.

 

I assume therefore that something external to DCS (ie in Voiceattack or VAICOM) is blocking the \ keypress.

 

I have no mods installed.

 

Any ideas anyone?

Thanks

Edited by xray20
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Posted (edited)

Just for the record, I'm getting closer to solving this issue. I tested by changing the initialise comms command from \ to something else. This restored comms functionality.

 

I found that \ had been changed to keystroke OEM102 by Voiceattack, VAICOM or Autohotkey (probably the latter).

This means that \ appears as \ in normal apps, including Notepad++ but is interpreted differently by DCS. and appears as OEM102 in the controls menu.

 

Now I just have to find out how to change OEM102 back to \

 

PS now I have searched the forum for OEM102, I find this is a known issue with VA and UK keyboards described in ED Forums » English » DCS World Topics » Input and Output » VAICOM 2.0 for VoiceAttack

Edited by xray20
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