ChokDK Posted September 3, 2018 Share Posted September 3, 2018 Hi! My very first post and noob too, so watch out lol :) Bought a used Saitek yoke with a switch panel lately. I'm not very familiar to SFX, but have tried it a few times before with joystick etc. The yoke is showing up in settings, but how do I get the switch to show up for editing etc? I have downloaded and installed the "Flight yoke system drivers" and the "FSX and Prepar3D Plug-in". I also "installed" the FSX profile from the zip, but even I have reset the profile and saved it, some functions are not working as ( I ) expected. Fe. the most-left low button at the throttle panel - it should be "auto start engine" (if I have read that right) but it isn't pr default. However it works fine when I edit the button myself, but that makes me think that reset isn't all I need to do.. Excuse me if all this has been mentioned a lot of times earlier, I searched the forum a bit but didn't read all posts about this :) Regards ChokDK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clutch Cargo Posted September 3, 2018 Share Posted September 3, 2018 Firstly, welcome to the forums! A few ideas: Since you bought it used... have you actually seen the panel work before? Saitek was bought out by Logitech. I would go to their website and download two items. One is the Logitech driver for the switch panel and two they have a little test app (can't remember the name), where you can run and it will basically reveal a graphic of the panel and as you click each button it will show its movement. This is a good way to see if indeed the OS is seeing the panel before running it inside FSX. Another idea is to use SPAD. This was a little freeware app that worked very well for my with my Saitak panels when I was on FSX. I search for that and try it. Hopefully, these will get you in the right direction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChokDK Posted September 3, 2018 Author Share Posted September 3, 2018 Thank you for the welcome :) Well.. I Tried to download the SPAD software to see if it worked. At first there wa no difference but then I randomly clicked the plane's "profile" in SPAD - and everything worked as expected! No I will hurry up to adjust death zones etc (even at low the plane feels slow to start navigate?) and try out FSEconomy (never tried that when I ued joystick).. etc :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pvarn Posted September 3, 2018 Share Posted September 3, 2018 Just a reminder there is a dedicated Hardware Forum: https://www.flightsim.com/vbfs/forumdisplay.php?6-PC-Hardware-Video-And-Audio-Help The bindings editor built into FS is for assigning KEYS to dedicated FS features. To assign controller switches and buttons to internal FS keys, external control mapping software is required which comes with most controllers as an installable application. There are also some third party control mappers. -Pv- 2 carrot salad, 10.41 liter bucket, electric doorbell, 17 inch fan, 12X14, 85 Dbm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avsimavsim Posted September 3, 2018 Share Posted September 3, 2018 SPAD + FSUIPC get it working Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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