I can’t believe this plugin is not more know. It’s just insanly good!
I fly mainly airlines and had to change some things, but it makes flying the A320 so much more easy and more realistic.
The only wish I had would be an option that pressing the altitude knob would activate the “Engage managed altitude mode” on the FBW A320… Oh, and button to arm/disarm the spoilers… But even that is only icing on the cake.
This Plugin is so good I am speechless!
I would also suggest a Simrate transcoder option. There is no default way in sim to confirm the current simrate so I’m using a couple of keys on my Streamdeck to increase/decrease simrate and both feedback the current value as well. Would be a good option to include as a transcoder on the Loupedeck.
interested in trying this but have some questions:
1)If your using it just for MSFS is the live or CT version better?
2)Does it offer more functions than class echo device?
3)Does the software already come with “profiles” for the popular aircraft such as fenix a320 or PDMG 737 or do you need to configure it yourself?
For FENIX you find one in flightsim.to, it works perfect with SPADneXt.. for 737 and other you can use to he basic, but you can also configure it yourself.
I use the LIVE
thanks for the reply(and alread use SPAD next)
so just to be clear once you have the live and spadnext - you just need to install the below (github) software? Will this come with a default MSFS plane profile (with basic functions) and some other custom profiles (737 and fenix) or do you need to load the snippets via spadnext to get it working with the fenix and 737?
Have a look here
just ordered one and thanks for the profiles!
1)so are these 2 profiles just general and work on a mix of GA and airliners (such as pdmg and fenix)? or is it better to find a specific one for the pdmg 737 for example?
2)not clear from the link - but do these go into the community folder or are they spadnext snippets (which I already use) or are they installed in the loupedeck software?
3)is spadnext a requirement to get this working?
yaou can use a lot with the statrd but not all buttons but you canconig them with Loupdeck or SpadnaXt. The Fenix link is just for the FENIX with all buttons and knops of LOupdeck, works great. In Spadnext you find a lot of videos tutorial.
thanks - so just to be clear do you mean you can run/programme it with just the loupdeck software?(no spad required)
yes you can run separate or together with SpadneXt
Sim Rate encoder is ready for next release !
Awesome - many thanks. A donation will be incoming.
Spoiler arm input is in the next release (as well as clicking on the spoiler encoder)
thanks works great
Dude; first of all thanks for your work on the profile for MFS2020, a welcome addition to the young & short ecosystem of the loupedeck, hopefully more people with talent will take inspiration & add more stuff for simulators on the loupedeck.
With that bein said I would like to ask you for advice on how to configure the loupedeck (without spadnext) to get the dials to work fast and reliable, for the knobs/dials on Garmin & analogic instruments. I really need to get a way to change heading & course that’s efficient & fast. Because…good grief, it’s effing annoyingly-cumbersome-unreliable to do it with mouse, and keyboard shorcuts aint really practical.
When using the mouse I got to try to target spot-on the dial & hope that for some nanometric displacement I don’t end zooming in/out absurdly, or if trying to change VOR radial, also don’t end up messing with the Barometer, which then I try to correct, and end zooming again (sigh) and talkin about Baro, im pretty much done with trying to set minimums, since trying to use the knob is extremely slow, not efficient, not practical, and that asumming I don’t zoom. Seriously, it has taken me over 20 mins to set minimums, which end up with me needing to use active pause, which of course on an actual test I wont be able to do.
I got the Bravo quadrant, but the dial on it, not helpful. Not reliable, regardless if I try to rotate “click by click” or to move it as fast as I can, heading/course change slooow 1 by 1, or not at all, tho a few, FEW, times it actually goes BAM & changes 15 or 20 in 1 go, but thats very rare, (btw, the bravo dial only works with vor obs1, if I try to use 2 bearings, the second obs I must change with mouse, otherwise the Bravo changes the obs1) mostly I can change 1 digit/degree after 3 or 4 rotations, so…….yep, unreliable & unpractical.
And about the shortcuts: shift+control+home etc, aside of not being “realistic” at all, and not being very comfortable practical to loose the yoke & quadrant to use both hands for the keys comb; it also happens that when I try to use the shortcuts for more than a few changes ( +12 degrees course or 12 or 17 ± Heading) the darn thing gets stuck (heading keeps moving & bug keeps also running the full circle) and the sim stops responding.
So, I humbly ask for your advice on how can I achieve the simpleton function of getting the loupedeck dials to really simulate the heading course and FMD knobs, just with that would be enough for me to justify the purchase of the loupedeck (and breath again with relief … and not feeling like a sucker for buying it) anything else that can be added progressvely later, extra functions awesome, no need for nav & com since I already have it covered with the logitech radio panel (even if it sometimes throw some tantrums & refuse to work, alluding “an instance of the software is already running”) But use properly, realisticaly (close enough) the dials to help me change Heading & Course, is what I ask.
Please help, sorry for bothering, thanks in advance.
Hi,
The 2.x next releases will contain small fixes / improvements to prepare the 3.x.
The aims of that major release are :
I hope to release the 3.x in early 2023
New release 2.3.0 : Little improvements 2
Release 2.3.0 : Minor release · calibx/msfsdeck (github.com)
Thanks for the simrate encoder @CaliBx works great for the most part. Only issue I see is if I want to drop the sim rate, I normally drop it down two speeds from the default value of 1. This works fine with the streamdeck although it only reports the value of 0 both times. With the Loupedeck, it seems I can only drop it one speed, if I rotate it left again, it jumps back to the default 1, it refuses to go any lower. Any idea the cause of this? It’s a handy option to drop the sim rate down when needing to leave a short flight running when you have something else to attend to.
Speeding up the sim rate appears to be fine, it is just this reduction that is causing an issue.
Just played around a little more with this. If I rotate the encoder left, it will drop down to 0.5 sim rate, if I click left again it goes back to 1 and this is repeatable. It should be able to go down to 0.25 sim rate and remain there with any more left rotations. I’m assuming others are seeing this same behaviour and it is not specific to me? Rotating to the right will go all the way up to 128 sim rate and stay there without issues.
Would it also be possible to display at least one decimal place so we can see the current simrate if less than 1? No need for 2 decimal places if space is an issue as 0.5 or 0.2 is sufficient. This would complete this encoder for me.
I used an integer instead of a float 
I will make a fix