Sprool Posted January 25, 2021 Posted January 25, 2021 I have 2 home made custom button boxes on usb for DCS, both run off Teensy2 microcontroller, windows sees them both as 'Button Box'. For a few reasons I want to be able to rename one of them so I can tell which one is which, in key bind configs and in windows. I went into Regedit to change the name of one of them then found the name change had been applied to both - windows sees them both as identical (but they have differnt configurations). Is there any way I can change one name and not the other so windows reports them differently?
Sokol1_br Posted January 25, 2021 Posted January 25, 2021 (edited) Re-code the sketch used, changing the name and VID/PID (if available) is the "easiest" way. Edited January 25, 2021 by Sokol1_br
Ala12Rv-Tundra Posted January 25, 2021 Posted January 25, 2021 Just go to DCS - Settings - Controls, find the particular device column, double click over the name DCS chose by default (Button box) and type the name you want. No idea for Windows though. 1 i5 8400 | 32 Gb RAM | RTX 2080Ti | Virpil Mongoose T-50 base w/ Warthog & Hornet sticks | Warthog throttle | Cougar throttle USB | Orion 2 throttle base w/ Viper & Hornet grips| VKB T-Rudder Mk IV | Oculus Rift S | Buddy-Fox A-10 UFC | 2x TM MFDs & 1x WW DDI | 2x Bass shakers | SIMple SIMpit chair | WW TakeOff panel | Andre JetSeat | WW Hornet UFC | WW Viper ICP FC3 - Warthog - F-5E - Harrier - NTTR - Hornet - Tomcat - Huey - Viper - C-101 - PG - Hip - SuperCarrier - Syria - Warthog II - Hind - South Atlantic - Sinai - Strike Eagle - Phantom - Mirage F1 - Afghanistan - Irak
Sprool Posted January 31, 2021 Author Posted January 31, 2021 Renaming both in DCS World is no problem, you can call all your controllers anything you like, my hotas stick and pedals pay homage to Bert & Ernie off Sesame Street, but outside of DCS these renamings are invisible to Windows. Within Arduino I cannot see where/how I can rename it, it just seems to adopt the default USB keyboard, mouse & joystick controller. Since both Teensy boards used are identical, just the config & number of buttons + rotary encoders differ, windows sees then as the same item.
No1sonuk Posted January 31, 2021 Posted January 31, 2021 Is this of any use: https://forum.pjrc.com/threads/23523-Change-device-name
Sprool Posted February 10, 2021 Author Posted February 10, 2021 I need to look into this, but have come across an issue since I have two teensy2 boards and i cant change 1 without the other copying
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