All controllers on 1 USB HUB or

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This has bin a ongoing discusion when you look on Reddit, yet I’m interessed in the opinion of people here.

So here’s my setup :
Highend desktop with a Gigabyte X670E Auros Master motherboard and way way to much control panels (you can’t have enough buttons) :
3 Virpil panels ( Control panel 1 & 2 and the Sharka50) , 2 Winwing panels (PTO 2 and 18UFC+HUD), 1 VKB FSM-GA.
The a Virpil T-50CM3 base with grip, Virpil T-50CM3 throttle, Virpil AC flight pedals and a Thrustmaster Boeing yoke.
(Yes over the top I know)

Currently all this is divided over 2 USB HUBs with separate power supply :
1 Icybox 7 USB 3.0 port connected with USB-C and 1 Logilink UA0147 4 USB 3.0 HUB with USB 3 connection.
The VR headset (Pimax Crystal) is connected to the desktop straight away
Same with the keyboard, mouse and Virpil TCS base plus with Apache grip collective.

Now there is 1 panel that is scrweing with the keyboard, I can’t find which one because no errors show up.

Currently I’m thinking about putting all the control panels, flight pedal, joystick, throttle and Boeing yoke on 1 dedicated USB HUB, put the VR headset on the Logilink 4 port HUB and only leave the keyboard, mouse and collective straight on the desktop.

Amazon holland has a "sale"on USB hubs (bin thinking about buying a RHSTECH 10 port 3.1 USb HUB with seperate power supply) which will connect to the desktop with USB-C

Thing is :
Is it possible to put 10 contollers on 1 HUB being controlled by just 1 chipset or is this gonna cause trouble ?
In theory a USB control chipset should be able to handle between 64 and 128 different devices yet …

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I have:

Honeycomb Alpha
Warthog stick
Saitek rudder
Saitek throttle quadrant
game pad
TrackIr
and a keyboard

all plugged into an unpowered USB hub that’s plugged into one USB port on my PC and I’ve never had a bit of trouble with it.

PC is a Dell Alienware Aurora R9

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Most flight sim accessories use the USB 2 data lines only, and use very little bandwidth because they’re just control messages here and there. The most likely problem you are to have with lots of devices on a USB hub is with power draw from an unpowered or underpowered hub.

It’s never caused me any trouble to have several input devices all on the same powered hub:

  • honeycomb alpha yoke
  • honeycomb bravo throttle
  • logitech rudder pedals
  • trackir head tracker ir camera (yes, even this uses little enough bandwidth)
  • couple other rando devices not in active use during simulation (analog video capture, webcam)
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I have a VKB Gladiator NXT with a side panel, FSM GA panel, Logitech/Saitek TQ, and a generic XBox controller (for the camera drone) all in a single powered USB. That’s worked across two sim rigs now.

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Hmm weird :
Here, with al the controllers connected, first it dropped the VKB FSM-GA during sturtup of the desktop.
So I reconnected them to different ports.
And now the VPC Ace flight pedals sometimes get dropped during startup of the desktop.

Already ordered a PCI-E USB expansion card with separate controller and power supply yesterday, it should be in tonight.
Let’s see if this works.