Requesting a Datapanel Rotary Mode axis

[Flappie]

My navigation + master mode panel is nearing completion! But I'm facing a situation: there's no axis command for "Datapanel Rotary Mode", and since my rotary knobs are axis, I cannot use the left one. 

Can this axis be added to the Viggen, please?

 

This is the line I need added in default.lua:

{action = 3009, cockpit_device_id = devices.NAVIGATIONPANEL, name = _('Datapanel Mode select')},

I added it in to test, but there's an issue: the axis is not "stable", it keeps jiggling. The Master Mode axis does not have this issue.

Edited 1 hour ago by Flappie

[MAXsenna]

Why did you make it an axis?

Looks great though!

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[Vakarian]

Did you make the software for this yourself? If so, it should be fairly trivial to add additional buttons for the certain axis ranges and it would be a perfect fit for your controller.

That approach makes a bit more sense since mapping a rotary control with fixed positions is very prone to behaving differently for everyone else. For example, if you have a potentiometer that turns for 270 degrees the physical rotation would be mapped a bit different to a potentiometer that rotates for 300 degrees or longer.

With that, you'd end up looking more inside the cockpit in the Viggen to see if what you rotated on your controller matches what's actually selected in the cockpit.

[MAXsenna]

3 hours ago, Vakarian said:

With that, you'd end up looking more inside the cockpit in the Viggen to see if what you rotated on your controller matches what's actually selected in the cockpit.

Yeah, but I was wondering about why an axis and not a multi position switch. Then you could just bind every position, and you would physically be able to feel the position. You know, like how it is in the real aircraft.  

Cheers! 

[Flappie]

9 hours ago, Vakarian said:

Did you make the software for this yourself?

Nah, I'm a noob. I'm using a Leo Bodnar BU0836A. And the rotary switch I bought from them (SLI-12) acts as an axis with it.

At first, I thought I was doomed, then I realized that the Master Mode rotary had an axis, and that all I had to do to make its seven positions to work was this (slider + custom curve):

 

And it works flawlessly for the Master Mode rotary.

Hence me asking for a Datapanel rotary axis.

Edited 2 hours ago by Flappie

[MAXsenna]

Nah, I'm a noob. I'm using a Leo Bodnar BU0836A. And the rotary switch I bought from them (SLI-12) acts as an axis with it.
At first, I thought I was doomed, then I realized that the Master Mode rotary had an axis, and that all I had to do to make its seven positions to work was this (slider + custom curve):

 
And it works flawlessly for the Master Mode rotary.
Hence me asking for a Datapanel rotary axis.

Ah, I see. I assumed that one didn't have an axis for it. I'm sure you'll get one in no time!

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