NEWBIE HELP - K8055 USB Flight Sim FSX connector

[wildmalc]

NEWBIE HELP - K8055 USB Flight Sim FSX connector

Hi

I just purchased a K8055 preassembled kit which appears to be works correctly, i.e. a button press on the board displays in the demo software on the PC.

I purchased the kit to use it to drive a couple of cockpit buttons in Microsoft Flight Simulator X (FSX). Unfortunaltely the K8055 doesnt appear in the USB Game Controller interface in Windows 7 (32bit) Control Panel. Therefore I can’t map my button inputs into FSX, directly in FSX or even using bridge program like FSUIPC4, which also requires a Windows Joystick/Game controller to be visible.

I am a very rusty (!) programmer and cant seem to work out how to get the K8055 USB recognised as a game controller.

I suspect I would have to modify the supplied Velleman VB code to work with something like Microsoft’s Simconnect FSX interface. But I wondered if anyone has done this before with the K8055 and would be prepared to give me some tips or source code.

Your help is much appreciated in advance

Regards
Malcolm

[VEL448]

This might not work, your game will never know how to send the proper commands to your hardware, I guess you could compare your problem to trying to using a digital camera as a joystick.

So you will indeed need some kind of software that acts as an intermediate between the K8055 and your game. Probably SimConnect FSX might be able to do that.

The SimConnect SDK can be used by programmers to write add-on components for ESP. Add-on components for ESP can be written in C, C++, or, if the managed API calls are being used, any .NET language such as C#.net or VB.net. Typically the components will perform one or more of the following:
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Enable new hardware to work with ESP.
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They offer a lot of documentation + working samples
msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc526983.aspx

Good luck