AIRIO - Tuning more than one Texaco, etc

[Sandman1330]

Good day,

 

Just got VAICOM - struggling through the setup but making progress.

 

I bought it mostly to control Jester in the F14. Question: If a mission has more than one Texaco (Say, Texaco 1-1, Texaco 2-1, etc), can I have Jester tune 2-1? It seems right now the commands only exist for Arco, Shell and Texaco, with no provision for additional flights.

 

Thx

 

Edit (many edits as I add questions along the way):

 

Further questions:

 

1. How do I get Jester to "tune tac" for a radio frequency? I can't find a command, and it would take longer to look up the frequency and read it out to him than it would just to use the wheel to "tune tac";

2. How do I get Jester to "tune tac" for the new Supercarrier TACAN? It doesn't show up in the list. Same as above, manual tuning defeats the purpose;

3. My question above, what about when there are more than one Texaco?

4. Is there any way to get the Jester wheel back for times when my spoken message just isn't getting through?

5. I am getting no response oftentimes from valid commands. Jester responds affirmative when I tell him to tune the Stennis TACAN, but he doesn't actually do it - or worse, he puts in the wrong frequency! I notice this with tankers especially - I say "tacan tune arco" and he tunes up Shell! Or "tacan tune shell" and I get Arco!

6. Realistic ATC - Doing a Case III, the readback from the player of the marshall instructions is wrong, commence time comes up as 00 every time and I think the DME was wrong too. It seems the entire comms has been shortened, is there a way to disable this and stick with the default DCS calls?

7. SRS integration - I have set it up per the manual, but I am still not clear about what steps to take in cockpit. If I want to make an SRS call, what do I do differently than if I want to make a VAICOM command?

8. Calling for "Status" or "interrogate" activates triggers within my mission. Those triggers are usually done as additional items from the F10 menu (spawning AI fighters). The triggers are all vanilla editor, done by turning flags on/off via F10 menu.

9. Even when having Jester manually tune a tanker frequency, as soon as I request rejoin ("approaching for refuel"), the frequency changes automatically to the frequency of one of the OTHER tankers, not the one I want to use! "Select tunes radio" and "instant select" are unchecked in settings, easy comms in mission on or off makes no difference.

Edited May 26, 2020 by Sandman1330

[Sandman1330]

Anyone? Or do I have to submit an official support ticket for all these questions?

[sthompson]

The answer to your question #4 is no. You cannot access the Jester wheel if ARIO is installed. Even disabling ARIO via the VAICOM Pro control panel does not re-enable the wheel. The only way to get the wheel back is to delete the ARIO DLL file from the VAICOMPRO subfolders.

[Sandman1330]

The answer to your question #4 is no. You cannot access the Jester wheel if ARIO is installed. Even disabling ARIO via the VAICOM Pro control panel does not re-enable the wheel. The only way to get the wheel back is to delete the ARIO DLL file from the VAICOMPRO subfolders.

 

Thanks, I did get some help from the Viacom support team, and they indicated it’s not possible to even implement this due to DCS limitations.

 

For others who may find this thread, resolutions / responses for each question:

 

1. They are looking at including this command now;

2. Coming in the next AIRIO update;

3. They will look into implementing a differentiation between 1-1 and 2-1 callsigns, but it may prove difficult. My workaround for now is to ensure they are on discreet frequencies, and with easy comms off, manually tune the frequencies (or command AIRIO to do it with the frequency rather than callsign)

4. Stated above.

5. Still an issue, I think AIRIO gets confused by the callsign issue in pt3. Workaround is to have jester manually tune by frequency.

6. Nothing to add. They recommend you disable player voice but I like to have it as confirmation the correct command was recognized and sent.

7. Vaicom detects if there are AI units on the same frequency. if there are none, the PTT works normally for SRS and doesn't pick up commands. If there are AI and human players on the same frequency, it listens for a command first. If you don't want to issue a command, you say switch, then it opens up SRS and stops listening for commands.

8. They are looking at my mission and doing some forensics as to what may cause this.

9. Related to a DCS ME issue where easy comms was being forced on despite not being selected to do so in the mission editor options. Maybe a DCS bug but I was able after some random saving and re-saving to clear the bug.