POV not available in DCS?

[dlder]

I've been playing around with those stupid 4-way HATs that Virpil uses for literally hours now.

If used as default, you only have 4 physical and thus 4 logical buttons. Diagonal are just 2 directional keys combined; that doesn't work in DCS.
There is NO WAY to set them to 8-way; you can use "Toggles Decoding" to create 4 virtual buttons for the diagonal, which does work somewhat (you get a new logical button which can be assigned in DCS), but because both the directional keys + the diagonal key get activated, it can happen that DCS doesn't activate the diagonal, but one of the directional keys. Very frustrating that.

So, the only other way I thought might be possible: create a POV; it doesn't use buttons and thus there is no... "cross talk" between the directional and diagonal keys.
The problem here though is: DCS doesn't see POVs? Windows does:

But I can find now way to bind the POV to anything...

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Any idea what could be wrong?
Or does anyone know how to use a Virpil 4-physical-button-HAT as a 8-button-HAT?

Thanks,
dlder

PS: for completeness sakes, here's the Virpil forum post: https://forum.virpil.com/index.php?/topic/16977-hatspovs-with-8-buttons/

 

[dlder]

Ok... small update: I'm mildly optimistic that it works, just the way I've configured in the VPC Config.

Seems I just had to restart DCS:

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I'm gonna continue to configure this Hotas, but I might just finally have figured out how to do it... (fingers crossed)

Thanks anyway