Is there any usefull Profile to use Streamdeck in GA-Aircraft?
Thre seem to be a lot of Profiels for Airliners, but I´d love to use it for small Aircraft.
Or do you need to set it up for every Plane by yourself?
There are loads for ga planes on flightsim.to
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I created them myself for each aircraft (FreedomFox, StingS4 and Tecnam P2012). But I use connection to MSFS through FlightTracker. If you use AAO, you can find those on flightsim.to
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When I got my first Stream Deck, I’d try to find profiles from flightsim.to or github. I even used plugins such as GitHub - nguyenquyhy/Flight-Tracker-StreamDeck: A Stream Deck plugin to interact with Microsoft Flight Simulation.
After a few weeks I realized I’d be 10 times better off by creating such profiles myself, by using Spad.next (or AAO or whatever, but personally I got stuck with Spad since). It’s much more rewarding and you can customize your profile the way you want. Gradually you pick up the knowledge to go beyond Stream Deck and use Spad & co for all your peripherals, without having a single in-game input mapping.
Once you’ve done this in 1-2 relatively simple GA (such as C152 JPL), then you can do it across all of them, especially in-game aircraft which by default have much fewer features and functionality and LVARs and all (most simply use standard Simconnect events and variables which are easy to figure out once you’ve done it once or have seen it done in another user’s profile).
Obviously it takes some time and you’ll have to spend even more if you want lovely icons and rotating gauges and everything, but it’s doable and very rewarding in the long run.
Having said that, I may still download a flightsim profile or two (even AAO, nevermind that I’m using Spad) as for more complex aircraft I may be after a specific function which I can’t figure out myself so I have to check how the other guys did that. So out of a thousand lines of a decoded profile, I may be interested in only 1-2 of them.
Nowadays whenever I’m about to start flying a new aircraft, I just create a blank profile in Spad and start from scratch. I don’t even have to set up anything in Stream Deck, as all it uses is a completely blank template which is populated by Spad.
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Well said. The more I learn in SPAD, the more I want to spend time creating complete aircraft profiles, with the goal being a ‘zero-mouse, zero-keyboard’ experience.
I’ve tried using others’ profiles and snippets, but almost never find one that I’m satisfied with. So I do it myself. I’ve learned a fair bit, but still have a long way to go before I’m proficient.
Setting up my Stream Decks is very rewarding.
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If you want High Quality have a look here:
Stream Deck Profiles for Microsoft Flight Simulator | Flight Panels
Thanks for that. I don’t fly airliners, but one reason is the complexity of setting up SPAD profiles. A miljet is hard enough, LOL.
Those seem like very reasonable prices. I own a couple of premium airliners, so why not see what all the fuss is about.
I agree with @Zeppos and @BegottenPoet228 , I also initially created profiles, but I see that it’s necessary to move forward, especially because of LVAR. I’m at the beginning, and I want to move on to AAO.
Sometimes I feel like I spend more time in the StreamDeck application than in the cockpit during the flight 
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How very true. After a point, getting to create new profiles for new aircraft or continuously improving existing ones feels equally important than flying the aircaft 
I’ve literally spent hours upon hours creating new Stream Deck profiles and mappings for control peripherals, for detailed aircraft such as the A2A Comanche or Black Square Analog King Air. Once I’ve mapped the vast majority of what I’m interested it, I often feel like my job here is done, let’s move on to the next aircraft. As if there’s no need to even fly at all.
This can become a full time operation, hence there are market needs that are covered by sites like flightpanels.io. These prices may be a bit steep to some, but until you start spending time to properly set up Stream Deck profiles with ergonomic layouts and good-looking fonts and icons, you don’t know how just much time and effort it takes. Then you’ll probably think that spending e.g. 20-25 EUR for a profile for an aircraft you’ll be flying for hundreds of hours is really a bargain.
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Wow that’s a lot for what in a lot of cases is just a few controls for an autopilot. It shows how short the dev time is because there’s an A380 one already.
I had two Stream Decks but eventually set them aside in favor of multiple cheap android tablets running Touch Portal. The primary reason for the switch was the absolutely terrible proprietary editor. More like a carpal tunnel generator.
I was successful in interfacing to Touch Portal using C++ in VS2019. I was then able to code custom commands, voice output/control, etcetera, using simConnect. I then went on to do the same for Blender and Sonar giving me a suite of tools for building scenery and aircraft. I just wish that MSFS2020 had a more fleshed out interface with more accurate and complete documentation.
HTH
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There are many ways for using Streamdeck with GA.
What do you want to controll? I’m using it for the Autopilot, G1000, Fuel Selectors and Pumps,…at many GA. On flightsim.to you’ll find some, just select what you want and create your own set.
Personally, I strive for a 100% mouse/keyboard free virtual cockpit.
There is some carryover between models, but SPAD lets me import, say, a G1000 control set I created from one model to another.
It sometimes gets a little funky when devs use unique controls for what should be simple simconnect events. An example might be Light_Potentiometer_56.
And not all autopilots use the same events.
I have a StreamDeck +, XL, and Mini, so I guess I’m a good spokesperson for SDs, as well as SPad.NEXT. 
I currently have 42 (!) Spad.NEXT profiles for different aircraft, ranging from GA single props to the new FBW A380x. For the Streamdeck+, I usually borrow the profile from a similar plane then customize it as needed. I use it for anything that requires knobs: COM tuner, NAV tuner, autopilot, Baro/Minimums, sometimes light/display bright/dim. I even set the Transponder on the PMDG 737NG using the SD+, as the real unit has knobs as well.
Tinkering with mappings is a good way to pass the time at cruise altitude in a tubeliner, as @SlateEvening147 implies. The issue I have is that sometimes when I’m in the variable monitoring screen, it causes the sim to CTD…not cool.
I have several snippets published for SPAD.Next; search on “stevekane”.
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I’m at about the same number. I use the Streamdeck plus along with a Logitech switch panel, multi panel, a DIY button box, and several other devices all managed through SPAD to make a modular simpit.
The Streamdeck + mostly covers up-front controls like HDG, CRS, and BARO, and several layers of menu to get to ancillary aircraft functions like lights, ADF, XPNDR, fuel, electrical, etc. that I might not want to have to search to mouse click at night or on an approach in hard IMC.
The DIY box also has several modalities - nav and com radios and GPS buttonology that matches either the GNS, GTN, or G1000 layouts as necessary.
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Where to find latest 2024 pages for Touch Portal?