I don’t have a Knobster, so I still use the Stream Deck to operate the FMS knobs on the G1000. I’m using the Air Manager for buttons though. That’s typically quicker and more convenient than switching to another screen (folder) in the SD to get to my PFD / MFD functions. I find using the on screen knobs to be very imprecise and awkward.
I just built a DIY one with a dual rotary encoder from propwash simulation and an old arduino I have lying around.
The wiring mess took me far longer to figure out than it should have, but they are easy to cobble together. I bought a touch screen usb-c monitor now to house my gauges and to be able to easily select which knob I want my knobster to interact with.
If you want to go the route of wiring up your own DIY Knobster, since they are out of stock everywhere, hit me up, I’ll gladly help.
I think all in, I spent 50ish on the knobs and other kit I needed, but thats just because I didn’t have any breadboards or jumper wires lying around.
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I’m ok with this setup for now. But at some point, I just may take you up on that offer.
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the knobster is truly revolutionary. I might not even need my streamdeck anymore! but that doesn’t mean I’ll give up contributing!
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I’ll tell you what’s limited my Streamdeck usage is my Bravo Throttle. The AP buttons and rotary knobs work so well. And with inputs remapped through vJoy with Joystick Gremlin, I get proper acceleration behavior for Altitude, heading, course and FLC. It’s reduced my Streamdeck to menial tasks like entering squawk codes or displaying a timer or Zulu clock or opening and closing the cowl flaps.
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I have all of the above options, stream deck, touch screen, knobster and a couple of RealSimGear units. They all work great and you can get by with any of them, just depends on how close to real you want to get and how much you want to spend. The stream deck is great by itself. I will continue to use mine.
For those of you with out a knobster here is how to build one
http://siminnovations.com/wiki/index.php?title=Knobster_DIY
I have a purchased one and I’m now wrapping up building a second one.
Have fun and keep the great ideas coming.
pls send me the link for the knobster to buy IT.
Thx
This solution from ShakePrint Simulations is a good addition to the Stream Deck. For me one of the best solutions.
just about to embark on this part of the journey. I have pan to build out a custom panel with several encoders. Will start with getting just one working first.
I like that tail number on the screen. Lol
A Question for the Devs. @NguyenQHy , @Pieter1982NL, @RMROC451, I was doing some Air Mangler and Stream Deck prototyping and saw the Entry in the MOBIFLIGHT Events: MOBIFLIGHT_AS1000_PFD_VOL_1_INC = 10000
Am I correct in assuming the = 10000 implies that this event can take a parameter? If so what are the min max values? and is it justr an integer datatype? I was digging in the code a bit but have not yet found the MobiFlight message passing, and thought to ask to be sure how the event is intended to be used? MOBIFLIGHT Pastebin Does not show the same event with a parm.
Thanks,
Phil
This has some of the exact Advanced NAV functions I have been thinking of / sketching out for Stream Deck / Air Manager / NAVIGRAPH integration. I Like the clean design.
That is just us setting the enum value, a way to add spacing in between enum vales.
Doest mean you can set a value.
I’m not sure if this event is actually working. If it is, let me know
How do you display Zulu (and local) time?
You can use BarRaiders World Time stream deck plugin and select Etc/UTC in the city dropdown.
I checked last night and it is not working using MOBIFLIGHT. You can ajust volume using the in sim knob only I found.
I see that the PROP DEICE SWITCH:{index} has been added in the new release. This should display the status for the state of the prop deice, correct?
If so, I’m not able to get it to work. Any suggestions?
I am discovering this fantastic tool, and I came up with a question: is it possible to triggle multiple events with the same button? Let’s take the example of the LVL button of the Garmin autopilot. It should trigger AP_WING_LEVELER and AUTOPILOT_ON events. do you know a way to reproduce that? Thanks!
I am also looking for the event indicating the power percentage of the propeller, mainly flying the SR22 (% Pwr at the top of right screen)
Ok, thanks. How about in-game time?
There should be environment variables LOCAL TIME and ZULU TIME both in seconds but they don’t seem to be accessible from the flight tracker plugin
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/microsoft-esp/cc526981(v=msdn.10)