I just very recently received my Honeycomb Bravo Throttle (after 7 month wait) I was dismayed to find that SU6 had messed up the ability to readily control the TBM Throttle. After much trial and error
I have had a bit of a break through and have been able using just a single Throttle Axis and two buttons in conjunction with SPAD.NeXT to get the TBM throttle to cycle from C&D to Low Idle up to High Idle ,Across to Flight Idle, Through to Full throttle back to idle switch to Reverse / Beta and Thrust reverse, back to Flight Idle, High Idle, Low idle and cutoff. there a couple of rough spots I need to get better parameter ranges for but it is quite flyable.
Iām a total Noob to the 930 but at rest I can see the prop pitch shifting and when running, The Torque definitely changes as throttle and pitch changes.
Hopefully by the end of the weekend I will be able to document ALL the SimConnect Vars and variables used to make this happen in case someone might want to use the info. For those with SPAD.Next this could be easily built out for any throttle quadrant. I use a StreamDeck XL and the Flight Tracker Plugin alongside SPAD.NeXT, so the first big hurdle to building out a solid profile for the TBM-930 has been overcome.
Great you found a solution. I set my Bravo as described in this video except I put the throttle increase on my prop down switch rather than in the video he uses the mixture control.
Works a treat for me
Seems like there is a lot going on under the hood in the TBM that users cannot see. This is especially evident when you consider the Prop Pitch Throttle interactions. Using SPAD Data Monitor and FSUIPC you can see some events bug when you relate it to events firing in the SDK Debug there is a lot going on there and only some of it makes sense.
[Update Nov 9th 2021] Its been 1 step forward 2 steps back at times. I have the been able to build 4 Streamdeck Buttons to turn Fuel on /Low idle, High Idle and into Flight idle. Each button has specific Prop and Throttle parameters and then the Bravo Throttle axis can handle power and down into Beta/Reverse Thrust. Iām using SPAD.Next to do the conditional logic. I was Hoping to be able to do it in Flight Tracker on the Streamdeck Unfortunately logic is not a strong point with the FlightTracker Streamdeck plugin. SPAD does not handle Button image switching as easily, but I think it can do it.
I expect you could combine all the logic on the buttons into ranges on the throttle axis and have a single Axis run the entire engine power function, but it would be fiddly and still need a button to get into Beta and Reverse thrust.
Iām yet to actually test fly the TBM with this control functionality. I honestly donāt know if the Prop will set properly in flight power modes, Fingers crossed, weāll find out tomorrow night.
[Update Thur Nov 11 2021] After an evening testing out the possibilities of combining all of the TBM930 functionality onto a single Throttlew axis. Iāve determined it just too finicky to get it all on one throttle and it plain old unreliable. I am going back to using button to control the jumps from fuel off to Low idle, High Idle, Flight idle and into reverse thrust. Iām using a Streamdeck XL which is an awesome bit of kit for flight simmers and using the Flight Tracker Plugin. Iām also using SPAD.NeXT to handle the Conditional Logic for idle states that the imposes. I find the SPAD.NeXT implementation to be less pleasing visually but the conditional Logic handling to be vastly superior. I plan to write up the control Logic Iām using for SPAD thic coming weekend. Perhaps it will be useful to others. Who knows, maybe the TBM throttle and missing control options and functions will get some love in the soon upcoming Sim Update release.
[Update Mon Nov 15th 2021] I flew my first actual flight with the Bravo single throttle and Streamdeck XL in the TBM for NZCH to NZWN and it went remarkably well. I still have some issues to solve with reverse throttle, but overall I think I have solid base to actually fly with plenty of Stremdeck refinements to come. I think 90% of the bravo/SPAD work is done. I gave up on the possibility of mapping the entire thottle range onto the single Bravo Throttle. I have 4 Streamdeck Buttons mapped to the various fuel on off and idle modes. FWIW the SPAD.NeXT StreamDeck graphics are pretty sketchy and unstable at present, but its ability to do complex logic is awesome. Graphically speaking, Flight tracker is way better, but it does not yet do complex logic and does not support all the SIMConnect objects though more are being added at each release. We are down to just a few short days from SIMUpdate 7 and Iām really hoping to see many of the breakages that happened in the last two updates are fixed, we shall see on Thursday.
Yeah Itās pretty messy so far, there are lots of things partially wired in the TBM and it makes it that much harder. Hopefully weāll get some love out of SU7 on the 18th and the hacks Iām creating can all go away. Took my First flight in the TBM last night after getting enough programming done to make it work enough to be flyable. I have hacked together Streamdeck profiles in both FlightTracker and SPAD.Next that now seem to co-operate but only time will tell how stable it is. Still so much to do!
Watching this place with great interest. CH TQ6 and FSUIPC user here. My controls are totally messed. Cannot even get it run with mouse.
Tried to make out something from the videos where the guys got it to work throught Spad Next but Im not into this advanced stuff. So Im waiting for a smarter people to figure it out. Would love to fly this little ārocketā but untill this thing with a controls is solved It stays locked in the hangar. Hope to see some results soon.
Got it working with control mapping in game. Posting here to remind myself to detail how I did it when I get home later this week. Iirc followed video close with some minor changes after a few hours of trial and error. Itās a little finicky but it works.
So hereās what I did. I changed the throttle lever to one with a reverser lever on it. Mapped the lever to āhold throttle reverse thrustā and set the button to āon pressā.
Mapped increase throttle to detent of Prop lever and set that one to āon releaseā.
Mapped decrease throttle to detent of throttle and also set that one to āon releaseā.
All other axisās are as in the video.
So how it works. Push Prop lever down once and return to set low idle. Once more to high idle. Increase mixture to full will set lever to throttle. Use throttle as normal and pull reverser when you want to reverse. In the video it put you in full reverse. This way gives you a bit more control over your reverse speed.
When powering down. Set throttle to 0%. Decrease mixture to 0 and hit throttle detent once to move to low idle, again for cut-off.
Just be careful not to bounce the detents or it doesnāt work right. After about 10 times doing it I have it down 100%.
I just got my Bravo, but itās the version that is now part of the Alpha Flight Controls XPC. So the axis and button numberings for the Bravo in my control settings are new and differ from what you show in your post. So Iām having some difficulty following your mappings and wanted to make sure Iām doing it correctly.
You used Button 9 for āhold throttle reverse thrustā May I know where Button 9 is?
You also referred to a video in your post. May I have the link to that video please? TIA!
Works perfect.