Here are some suggestions:
- Make sure you don't have any other joysticks/controllers connected, that might cause a conflict.
- If connecting via USB, make sure you uninstall vJoy and Smartpropoplus if you have them. Their driver messes with things when connecting via USB.
- Make sure you have "Heli" selected as model type on your radio. ("Plane" generally doesn't work very well).
- Perhaps you can remap the yaw output channel (in the menu of the transmitter) so that it sends to another channel.
Sry, I realy searched for a hint - but I seems to be I'm to stupid to get a flysky fs-i6 working with your simulator.
I bought this cable: http://www.banggood.com/FlySky-Data-Cable-USB-Down...
Is this wrong??
The one you linked to seem to be a data cable (for updating the transmitters firmware).
You need a universal USB simulator dongle such as this, or, if the transmitter has a 3.5mm trainer port you can use a standard 3.5mm mono audio cable.
In case you have a spare receiver this wireless simulator dongle is another alternative.
(As always, there is no way that I can guarantee that the suggested products works with your particular setup, the only way to know for sure is to try it yourself)
Hi there,
I have some issues with the Taranis on the mac. The Taranis both works on the FPV Freerider demo + the Recharged demo, but doesn't work on the full version of FVP Freerider itself. The stick input isn't coming through. I tried the fix from a video linked in the first post, but itjust doesn't work with the full version?!
That's weird, the input method for the demo and full version is exactly the same, so it should work. Perhaps you could try restaring your computer, and run the full version before you try the demo, just to be sure that the demo isn't still lingering in memory and somehow interfering with the input on the full version.
Do you see no input whatsoever when you go through the "calibrate contoller" procedure in the full version?
You can email the "output_log.txt" (and "crash.dmp") file to fpvfreerider@gmail.com and I will have a look at it.
Does the full version start at all, do you get to the main menu?
Might have to do with the graphics or soundcard drivers, but if the demo is working the full version should to since they are basically the same.
I know some people have been able to use their Dynam controllers.
- Make sure you uninstall vJoy and Smartpropoplus if you have them. Their driver messes with things when connecting via USB.
- Make sure you don't have any other joysticks/controllers connected, that might cause a conflict.
Do you see any movement of the little circles when going through the calibration phase?
"Dynam USB RC Flight Simulator from RC TECH 6CH Mode 2"
http://www.ebay.com/itm/High-Quality-6CH-USB-3D-RC...
One other strange thing. NO AUDIO! I even installed it on both my laptop and Dual Xeon WS and neither install produces sound.
Would someone please chime in with some advise. I ordered the controller the Developer placed on his website.
Sure hope this one works
Hi there. You say it's known that the Hobby king 6 channel DRX receiver dongle is known to be incompatible with this game but do not say why? Hobby king specifically says it "IS" compatible with FPV Freerider on their website. Can you elaborate on why it doesn't work? Everything works fine with my DX7 with the exception of the aileron channel not be recognized in the simulator. It works fine with the computer & shows fine in the windows 10 setup & calibration. However PFV Freerider doesn't show any movement when calibrating the controller within the simulator. This leads me to believe it's in the FPV freerider software & I was hoping we could work in fixing this so that users can experience sound when flying. I can use Smart Propo Plus & fly but of course that is with no sound & not experiencing the full benefit of this simulator.
Thanks for your understanding & help in resolving this. Any further details you can provide in "why' it's not compatible would be helpful.
Sincerely,
A paid FPV Freerider software owner.
Theduffysden.
Hi, I was referring to this hobbyking 6ch USB controller, which I have received several reports of it not working with the simulator.
Often when only one axis is not working, it can be fixed by trying one of these things:
- Make sure you uninstall vJoy and Smartpropoplus if you have them. Their driver messes with things when connecting via USB.
- Make sure you don't have any other joysticks/controllers connected, that might cause a conflict.
You guys are awesome! Thank you for the advice & helping me out. After following your instruction to remove Vjoy & SmartPropoPlus, clean restart, & then re-installing the Hobby king USB wireless dongle driver everything works great. I was so happy in the success & being able to use my headphones that I had to go out & purchase the FPV Freerider "Recharged" edition to try the new courses & improved graphics.
Thanks again guys & Merry Christmas!!
J.
A tip for Mac users updating to the latest OS X out there. I've got a Turnigy9XR w/ USB dongle connected to a MacBook Pro that worked great.
With the recent OS X 10.12 udpate though the controller no longer was recognized. I ran an SMC reset: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201295 and now everything is running again. Good luck, happy flying.
Hi peeps,
just wanted to let y'all know that FPV freerider is perfectly picking up on my Turnigy Evolution transmitter. Simply a matter of connecting the micro USB cable and the game picks it up from there. in my case no calibration or any other setting up was needed. truly plug and play.
Not sure is this was already confirmed and I didn't see any mention of it anywhere so i figured i'd let people know just in case anyone is wondering about compatibility with the new Turnigy Evolution transmitter. if u own one, ur good to go.
Hi, For some reason, I can't get my Turnigy Evolution to work with FPV Freerider and it is very frustrating. I can see that the computer recognizes the transmitter but when I go to calibrate the transmitter, none of the little circles on the page move when I move around the transmitter sticks. Sometime, only one of the aux switches on the transmitter will move just one of the circles on the calibrate page. I am using Windows 7 on my PC. When am I doing wrong???? I did not load the Vjoy driver becasue I was afraid it might interfere with my flight yoke for my other flight simulator game. And Yes, I did unplug my other flight yoke when I tried to get the Turnigy Evolution working. Can somebody please help me?? Thanks, Chris
Hi all! I need a big help!
I've already looked at various forums ... including this one: "https://itch.io/t/19817/getting-your-controller-co...
I've already watched this video: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3Fb5HLK0i0"
I've already consulted the manual as well and I did not find anything that could solve my problem ...
I am using the openTX firmware on the flysky th9x radio and to connect to the computer I am using a USB adapter
When I set up in FPV freerider, the program only recognizes 3 channels.
Please, what is the configuration should I perform on my flysky th9x radio (openTX) to work properly? I'm trying a solution for several days ... please help me!
Often if one channel is not recognized one of these general advice can be of help:
- Make sure you don't have any other joysticks/controllers connected, that might cause a conflict.
- Make sure you uninstall vJoy and Smartpropoplus if you have them. Their driver messes with things when connecting via USB.
- Make sure you have "Heli" selected as model type on your radio. ("Plane" generally doesn't work very well).
- If you are using a USB dongle - check if there's a switch on the dongle where you can select different modes.
- Perhaps you can remap the output channels (in the menu of the transmitter) so that it sends to another channel.
It should automatically keep the calibration (as well as other settings). You can alter some values in the custom settings menu and see if those are being saved. If not, perhaps you can investigate so that there is no permission issue that keeps it from saving (I'm not familiar how these things work in Linux). (In linux I believe the Playerprefs are stored under "/home/your user/.config/unity3d").
As you have sort of figured out you select the mode during calibration (by using the stick that you want for each axis, for example, it says "throttle up" on the top of the calibration window and you use the stick you want to assign as throttle. It is described in the manual. The quick mode selection is for touch screen input only). I remember another Linux user reporting a while back that he also had to recalibrate each time. Might have something to do with the joystick drivers if that is the case for you too.
I bought and used your simulator on linux. It's a nice little piece of software and very handy for training! However I have the issue that it is not able to access my joystick/gamepad from '/dev/input/js2'. It is a generic standard 4 axis device that I built according to the instructions in RC Transmitter to USB Gamepad Using Arduino that allows me to connect my Spectrum DX6i Transmitter to my PC. As it is working with e.g. flightgear and other software I have to assume the joystick/gamepad handling in FPV Freerider is not able to recognize it. How can I fix that?
I'm not a Linux user myself and don't know how to configure joysticks in Linux. Hopefully someone who knows will be able to chime in.
At least on Windows, you want to make sure to not have any other joysticks or special input devices such as wacom tablets connected as that sometimes causes a conflict which makes Freerider unable to recognize your joystick.
After looking through several forums and playing around with python-uinput (allows to software emulate HID stuff like joysticks) I found that this framework needs a joystick that has at least 1 button in order to use it - having 4 axes only is not sufficient!
On top of what framework was this software written? Is this Source Engine? Or UNITY Engine? I noticed that this console text output pattern ("Using libudev for joystick management") is pretty common. If you could tell me that I would open a bug report there.
I'm not sure if you ever found a solution, but thanks to the information you provided about needing at least one button I was able to resolve the same issue for myself.
I used Wejoy (https://github.com/Vantskruv/wejoy) to create a "virtual" joystick with 1 button and 4 axes and just forward the necessary axes from the physical device to the virtual. Hopefully that's useful to you or some future Linux user in need of a fix.
Good Afternoon: Need your assistance please.
I have the Hobby King OrangeRX DSMX/DSM2 USB Dongle
Using an Orange T-Six DSM2 Transmitter
I am trying to successfully calibrate to be able to utilize with FPV Freerider Simulator.
When I plug my dongle in as instructed on printout instructions I seem to be successful and it shows up in my Printers/Device List on my PC. Seems to me that I am binding with no issues.
However, when I go to the settings tab and try to calibrate transmitter to computer I do not seem to be getting much response at all. X-axis seems to go left and right but no other axis move when I utilize the sticks on the transmitter.
I have transmitter in ACRO mode is this correct?
There does not seem to be any assistance with this that I have been able to locate that advises me on my issue.
FPV Freerider opens with no issues but if I try to calibrate using that program I get no response whatsoever.
I cant help you with a solution because I have exactly the same problem. However I dont think its got anything to do with Freerider. I , like you can get the transmitter to bind with the dongle but in any sim I try (DRL,Velocidrone) the result is excatly the same as you describe , only one axis seems to be recognised. I tried the dongle with an old Spektrum Dx4 transmitter I have and it works fine so its something to do with the Orange Tx and the dongle but I cant work out what! They do recommend that you have your transmitter set to HELI but didnt make any difference for me.
Thanks for replying and glad to know that I am not the only one out there with this issue. Spent hours trying to resolve to no avail. All I wanted to do is practice on a drone simulator and had no idea it would be this difficult. I agree this has NOTHING to do with Freerider but some quirky setup on computer I am sure. Sorry that you are facing the same. I guess I will have to see if I can return the dongle as right now it is not useable and look into purchasing a simulator transmitter that should work.
I appreciate your time.
Have a great week.
Mark
Your welcome. I've ordered a cable off eBay to see if that works with the transmitter as I'd rather use the Orange one as opposed to the DX4 but slightly disappointing that the dongle doesn't appear to work with a transmitter from the same manufacturer ! I was hoping it might be something simple but I've tried all I can think of to no avail!
Paul
Here are some general suggestions which often helps when one or more sticks are not recognized:
- Make sure you don't have any other joysticks/controllers connected, that might cause a conflict.
- If connecting via USB, make sure you uninstall vJoy and Smartpropoplus if you have them. Their driver messes with things when connecting via USB.
- Make sure you have "Heli" selected as model type on your radio. ("Plane" generally doesn't work very well).
- Perhaps you can remap the output channels (in the menu of the transmitter) so that it sends to another channel.
If none of the above works you could try to connect an ordinary 3.5mm audio cable from the trainer port of the transmitter to the audio-in (or mic-in) jack of your computer, along with a software called Smartpropoplus (Windows only).
http://www.smartpropoplus.com/site/
There is more info on that in the Spektrum setup tips document:
https://github.com/nigelsim/ppmadapter is an linux alternative to SmartPropoPlus.
You could also add https://www.instructables.com/id/RC-Transmitter-to-USB-Gamepad-Using-Arduino/ to the manual, as this is an USB Adapter that works for win, linux and mac as standard HID interface, meaning it does not need any driver. It basically allows you to connect any PPM outputting transmitter (which is a quite big class) as gamepad to your machine. Only thing is you have to build it yourself based on an Arduino - however you can see this as an advantage or a drawback, as you wish... ;) I like it and it for me the preferred way of connecting any transmitter.
Hello,
I'm trying to play with USB joystick. First I used a gamepad which worked fine. Then I tried to use my Thrustmaster Topgun Afterburner and I can not even calibrate it since the values jump erratically.
The joystick works fine in other games and also moves correctly in Windows' control panel tester.
When I looked more closely I think that the reason for the problem is that this joystick gives raw values in the range of -128 to 127 - that is it uses signed bytes for raw data. On the other hand my gamepad feeds axes data in the range 0 to 255 - unsigned bytes.
Then after looking again in Freerider calibration I think this is confirmed - when I move the axes in the upper halves (where supposedly they should move between 0 and 127, the sliders in the game move fine, but as soon as I move the axis in the negative half - the slider snaps to the maximum value.
It seems that freerider does not support joystick hardware which gives signed values for the axes. Is it possible to support such hardware?
Thank you!
FPV Freerider does not have the ability to read the values directly, it goes though Unity's input manager (That is used when developing the sim). I can only see that values that is coming through that input manager.
Is your Thrustmaster connected directly via USB, or does it have some other kind of connection/driver?
It is connected through USB - standard HID device, no drivers needed.
I also tested with Unity 5.6.0f3 and the behavior is the same. I don't think there is anything that can be done. Others have also stumbled upon this:
http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/351141/joysti...
Alas there seems to be no solution.
Anyway ... I've hooked my RC transmitter through vjoy so I'll use that.
Best~
