Virpil Interceptor Pedals Not Recognized

[DaleHawerchuk]

I am having some trouble setting up my interceptor pedals with DCS, and I am wondering if I am doing something wrong.

Here is my setup:

• VPC button panel
• VPC CM3 base w/ Warthog stick
• VPC CM3 throttle
• Wingwing PTO2
• Winwing MIP (VR)
• VPC Interceptor pedals

Everything is working fine in DCS, except for the rudder pedals. For some reason it is not showing up in the upper columns in the controls binding menu.

All devices have been calibrated. Weirdly the pedals are showing up in the VPC software, I see all the axis inputs are correct, but not showing up in DCS.

I have a lot of devices (not including keyboard and mice), is it possible I reached a devices limit in DCS??? I don't think my issue is hardware caused because I can see the rudder pedals working properly in the VPC software. Any other idea?

Thanks

[speed-of-heat]

if it is showing up in Windows thew only thing i can think of is to re enable hot plug, run a scan for new devices and then disable hot plug

[DaleHawerchuk]

Thanks for the suggestion, tried this without success.

After doing more tests this morning it looks like I've hit a device limit. I am not sure whether the limit is coming from DCS or from the VPC software. Since the software is "seeing" all the Winwing devices as well, it may be from VPC software. If I unplug a device and connect another, it appears.

Now trying to daisy chain one of my panels so both the stick and the panel are "seen" as a single device.

[speed-of-heat]

so max joysticks is 16 ... you are at 9 ... so its not that;  you might have have a device ID collision , in which case this might help (Joystick and HOTAS port mapping program - JoyID (theairtacticalassaultgroup.com) ) or if you are you using either vJoy or Razer Tartrus (the latter is a joystick, but also has some of its software that can screw up other joysticks being added, even if its not the Razer device itself that has the issue ) 

[DaleHawerchuk]

You are right, there is definitely something wrong my devices ID... It seems I cannot have my stick base and my rudder pedals connected at the same time. I'm not sure what to do at this point honestly. I tried the JoyID but it just seems to show me to problem, not sure to understand how I can use the software to solve it..

[speed-of-heat]

try this unplugging devices until you can see the new pedals and then use JoyID swap to change the Joy ID 

to one not already in use

 

to do that click on the device you want to move and then click on the unused slot ... 

[DaleHawerchuk]

This is so weird... I disconnected all Virpil devices, I connect the pedals, move it to ID#10, then as soon as I connect the stick rudder disappears and everything changes order.

 

[speed-of-heat]

Why is your stick showing up twice? As #1 and  #7?

[DaleHawerchuk]

I think it is because I have daisy chained it with my button panel, thinking it would save me one device. I am now doing tests back in its standalone connection (as it was initially) to see if something changes.

[Marshallman]

Update all Virpil software...

[DaleHawerchuk]

Yeah I did yesterday but I am now re-updating/re-setting all my devices. I think I may have done the initial setup through hubs yesterday, which they recommend against. Will check if that solves the issue.

[Marshallman]

1 hour ago, DaleHawerchuk said:

Yeah I did yesterday but I am now re-updating/re-setting all my devices. I think I may have done the initial setup through hubs yesterday, which they recommend against. Will check if that solves the issue.

Good move, couldnt recognise my Apache grip.... went through most of what you are experiencing......

[DaleHawerchuk]

I found the issue. It looks like I just had too many USB devices connected (not controllers per se, just devices in general). My simpit is next to my workstation, so I have almost everything in double, keyboards, mice, plenty of wireless dongles, etc. With the added hubs from the simpit, I assume it was too much to handle. 

I removed what I was not really using, and can now connect all my Winwing and Virpil devices without a problem every time. Rebooted several times, all devices now keep the same ID. Thanks Speed for that JoyID app, that turned out to be quite useful. 

If this can help somebody with a similar issue in the future. Thanks for the suggestions guys really appreciated.