Air Manager 4 & Knobster Q's

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Apologies for being a Newbie. I’m very excited about what I’m seeing above, and after flying the Carenado Mooney to remind me of my Mooney Super21 in the old days, I’ve started on the PMDG B738. I’m using lots of different stuff: Alpha and Bravo and rudder pedals, MSFS Popout Manager, SpaceDesk, AviaServer, and have the overhead panel running over my head (21.5" ancient Android I managed to get running with a Microsoft Edge browser, after Chrome, Firefox, etc., all failed either to run or to display the aviaServer overhead image), 3 main screens, the FMC on a 10" tablet, the PFD, MFD, and engine gauges static on a monitor below the main screens, and I’m trying to get the radio panel on a 19" Samsung tablet to put
on my lower right side, where it belongs. I’m running SpaceDesk on the tablet, and can put up the (community-provided) 737 radio panel and move it onto the tablet, but
then the problems begin:

  1. many of the dials don’t respond to touches. The knobs highlight and rotate, but the radio frequencies don’t change. Other knobs (outer ones, it appears) work just fine.
  2. those same malfunctioning knobs work fine under mouse control, just not fingers
  3. many of the mode knobs are inop… for example, transponder is stuck on ALT, ADF stuck to ON, etc., even when using the mouse.
  4. the knobs on the ADF tune the ACTIVE frequency, rather than the standby… and the transfer is inop. That’s not the best if I were ever again actually to use NDBs, as I used to have to at the airport where I originally based a Skyhawk. But then, my old ADF didn’t used to have a standby, so maybe it’s okay… :slight_smile: I assume that the implementer of the panel just didn’t mess with the ADF standby, but left it in the panel for the sake of looking like the real thing… nice symmetry.

Anyway, I’d appreciate very much any advice about the radio panel… particularly about getting the knobs to work! I’m trying hard to eliminate any need for mouse clicks! (I’ve got the glareshield instrument panels arriving from Istanbul this week, and can’t wait to get them installed!!!)
Thanks to all,
Erik