T.Flight Hotas X: Weird random issue
Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2023 5:28 pm
In my post "My experience w/ T.Flight Hotas X" I didn't mention an issue which I had experienced only once, but after posting I had a longer Oolite session in which exactly this issue occurred for the second time. So, I'd like to describe this and hope that some type of Scottie is around here to give a hint 
First of all, I like to couple the thrust lever's rocker with the z-axis of the stick, such as to yaw using either the rocker or the stick. To do this, one has to press the Home Button of the T.Flight to lit up red. Maybe this has some relation to the problem.
Description: I approach the docking station, wait in front of the buoy, get my clearance and accelerate. Exactly when I push the thrust lever forward, the station wanders to the right of the center, even accelerating, too, so that I can't even keep up! It is impossible to reach the station, when this misinterpretation of joystick signals has set in. And it sometimes does so, although the whole journey before took place without any steering problems whatsoever.
In other words, it seems as if the accelerate command from the stick suddenly became interpreted as a yaw to the left.
All my attempts to reset the stick while the game is running or paused fail. There's no escape but exiting Oolite and start from scratch, in this case everything's fine again. There's also no way to control speed with the keyboard using w and s, these keys simply don't work when I use the T.Flight. Strangely, ; and . work. Hm...
This is no showstopper by every means, but a silly, strange malfunction which destroys the journey in the last moment. The only thing I haven't tried yet is, to pause the game, switch from PC to PS2 and back. Maybe this helps? I don't know. But of course, it would be appreciated to find out more about the reason. It could be some kind of driver problem on the OS level between hardware and Oolite. I have no clue.
First of all, I like to couple the thrust lever's rocker with the z-axis of the stick, such as to yaw using either the rocker or the stick. To do this, one has to press the Home Button of the T.Flight to lit up red. Maybe this has some relation to the problem.
Description: I approach the docking station, wait in front of the buoy, get my clearance and accelerate. Exactly when I push the thrust lever forward, the station wanders to the right of the center, even accelerating, too, so that I can't even keep up! It is impossible to reach the station, when this misinterpretation of joystick signals has set in. And it sometimes does so, although the whole journey before took place without any steering problems whatsoever.
In other words, it seems as if the accelerate command from the stick suddenly became interpreted as a yaw to the left.
All my attempts to reset the stick while the game is running or paused fail. There's no escape but exiting Oolite and start from scratch, in this case everything's fine again. There's also no way to control speed with the keyboard using w and s, these keys simply don't work when I use the T.Flight. Strangely, ; and . work. Hm...
This is no showstopper by every means, but a silly, strange malfunction which destroys the journey in the last moment. The only thing I haven't tried yet is, to pause the game, switch from PC to PS2 and back. Maybe this helps? I don't know. But of course, it would be appreciated to find out more about the reason. It could be some kind of driver problem on the OS level between hardware and Oolite. I have no clue.
). But maybe I download some random space-shooter to do more testing.
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