No FF on AB9 Base

[Kickswitch]

I bought an AB9 base recently - arrived today - and connected the MH16 Flight stick to the Ab9 box. I can see a light on the ab9 power supply a green blacklit "MOZA" I have only one wall socket for power so I use a multiple plug power board and the ab9 box is plugged into that not the wall socket.

The ab9 shows up in "Set up usb game controllers" in the control panel but not the MH16 Stick. I have a screenshot of this attached.

There are six hardware devices for flight sims plugged in, 5 showing one not.

AB9, HOG Throttle, rudder pedals, MFDs 1 & 2

I've heard that power for this base should be connected to a wall socket that can handle 110 to 220v the base isn't though in my case.

I'm not sure why the stick isn't showing in usb controllers. I have installed the moza config software and done a torque calibration but at this point am at a complete loss as to why Force feedback isn't working, the stick works in flight just no FF

Cheers

 

[NAM]

In the DCS -- Misc - there is a force feed back option there.. 

 

[Kickswitch]

Yeah mate I turned that on

[NAM]

1 hour ago, NAM said:

In the DCS -- Misc - there is a force feed back option there.. 

 

there is a small windows program forcetest.exe .. see if problem is DCS or your ab9

You can find it on ffbeast download section

https://ffbeast.github.io/docs/en/downloads_utils.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1 hour ago, Kickswitch said:

Yeah mate I turned that on

 

Edited 9 hours ago by NAM

[MAXsenna]

Yeah mate I turned that on

Does the buttons work in DCS? Or in the game controllers, if you setup the Moza base. Are there buttons there?
Which modules have you tried FFB in?
I would assume the Moza software has some test function?

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[Kickswitch]

@NAM  I just tried IL2 GB and FF works! Unfortunately not in DCS or BMS. So the base itself is ok, looks like a config issue maybe within DCS itself? I tried force test thank you for the link.

@MAXsenna  Yep buttons work in DCS and game controllers. Tried FFB in A10c and F5e also A4e mod no FF at the moment.

 

P.S sorry if I came across as surly thank you both for your help.

So long as it works in one game I ought to be able to work out it out somehow.

I also check the special options for a10c and f5e - I see some options in there for the a4e and f5e that are specific to FF.

[MAXsenna]

@Kickswitch NP!

Can you double check the FFB settings under misc hasn't disabled itself? It has to be checked, and it's the only thing I can think of. As long as you have enabled the direct input thing in the Moza base. You might want to enable the telemetry option too. 

As for why you can't see the grip under the game controllers, is that Windows sees it as part of the base, so that's normal.

14 minutes ago, Kickswitch said:

So long as it works in one game I ought to be able to work out it out somehow.

Most definitely! 

14 minutes ago, Kickswitch said:

I also check the special options for a10c and f5e - I see some options in there for the a4e and f5e that are specific to FF.

They won't have any effect unless FFB is enabled in DCS in general. 

Another thing. When you get it to work, and of you feel the effects behave little strange. Like if you trim in the y axis, but the stick moves in the x axis. You need to click the column under the controls settings for each and every module. Click the FFB tuning button on the bottom, and select swap axis. You might not need this. Only if the effects move in the wrong axis. 

Crossing my fingers now! 

[Kickswitch]

1 hour ago, MAXsenna said:

As long as you have enabled the direct input thing in the Moza base.

Is this what you mean by direct input? and I see Telemetry also up top. It gives me a warning on switching over from integrated to directinput - After reading the warning message

I'm guessing that DCS prefers it's own direct settings for FFB? Just want to be sure before I switch  

1 hour ago, MAXsenna said:

As for why you can't see the grip under the game controllers, is that Windows sees it as part of the base, so that's normal.

Yeah that makes sense.

[Kickswitch]

@MAXsenna  Ok FF works in DCS. Thank you for all your help!

Cheers,

Kick