Direction Gyro Adjustment Only Works When Caged

[MadKreator]

I believe this is backwards is it not? Gyro should  be adjustable when un-caged, to tune in-flight. 
- Also, the adjustment knob should be a rotary encoder, not a potentiometer with end points. If you adjust until about 140 ish degrees it stops.Then to adjust farther you need to turn it all the way back around the other direction. Seeing the same effect with cockpit control and direct device command inputs. 

Edited June 27 by MadKreator

[-Rudel-]

5 hours ago, MadKreator said:

Also, the adjustment knob should be a rotary encoder, not a potentiometer with end points. If you adjust until about 140 ish degrees it stops.Then to adjust farther you need to turn it all the way back around the other direction. Seeing the same effect with cockpit control and direct device command inputs. 

 

We'll look into the knob rotation......In the meantime, I have provided the cage operation below.

 

Edited June 27 by -Rudel-

[MadKreator]

47 minutes ago, -Rudel- said:

 

We'll look into the knob rotation......In the meantime, I have provided the cage operation below.

 

Beautiful! Thank you for the response. Correct as is then!

 As far as the control of it, that is just my findings as I’m running through the cockpit scripts and creating an Interface for Helios. I’ve found a few controls that seem incorrect for the control type ( lighting rheostats the biggest offenders) and a few device commands that don’t seem to work correctly, some with multiple commands  and some devices and gauges commented out like oxygen gauges and a few gauges and devices  that aren’t complete( accelerometer min, various clock function, no chronometer in mainpanelinit.lua). Also don’t see any available devices for indicator lamps.  But none of that is critical at this time, of course. I’m not going to bombard with reports, as it’s early and I’m sure they are still very much being worked on. I’m sure there’s bigger fish to fry at the moment. As time goes on I may pop in and out with things involving “sim pit interfacing” with more detailed explanations and examples.  Very happy to see you created the BatBomb viewport export too, so us Helios guys don’t have to fail any IC doing it ourselves Keep up the good work! Excited to watch it progress!

[MadKreator]

* there’s a good chance I have not fully tested the knob in the proper use case as well. Maybe the knob and indicator only move a certain amount each direction each time it is caged to adjust. ( of course no one is going to move it 360 degrees at any time) Perhaps its not intended to continually rotate

[MadKreator]

@-Rudel- Upon further delving. All seems fine with the knob. I just had to change my thinking. ( Mind you I dove into the module straight to creating and interface for it for external device use, not actually learning it) Most modules use increment and decrement functions for this control and the device has an endless amount of rotation. I was not realizing that each time the device is caged the knob returns to its initial value of 0, still letting you make a full 360 degree adjustment from whatever the  current heading is and once again gives you the full value range of adjustment from -1 to 1. A caveat being, if one was to build this into a physical control in a sim pit, that may be a bit messy  having to use a pot instead of an encoder, and making sure to reset it to center each time. For Helios it works just fine as the virtual control resets based on the in-game control. As it sits, it  seems just fine, once I actually used it in-flight and not on the ground just testing.

Edited June 27 by MadKreator