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Cross-platform cross-simulator pilot client for virtual air traffic networks
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Use Flightgears PTT hotkeys for swift #244

Open hbeni opened 6 months ago

hbeni commented 6 months ago

Hi, According to the comment:

Separate COM volumes can now be set in the UI and can be controlled from G and XP. Available with 0.9.7.149 and 0.9.8.36 (or later).

Originally posted by @ltoenning in https://github.com/swift-project/pilotclient/issues/100#issuecomment-1016238931

Controlling the COM volume should be possible by the insim values. And indeed, they seem to be transmitted to swift: grafik

I did just connect my first time to VATSIM and listened to radio calls from EDDM, which worked fine. However, the incoming radio messages where always the same volume, regardless what I did set in FlightGear. Changing them in swifts gui did work.

What am I doing wrong? (or is there something broken?)

Also just as an idea; flightgear has built in PTT buttons. That could be used as PTT enabling the radios in swift, so for example simulation of the C182s' GMA340 audio panel (or other aircraft simulating complex audio panels) could be supported.

hbeni commented 6 months ago

OK.... nevermind, sorry for the noise.

I had "COM integration" not enabled. Ticket that and it worked. grafik

InSim PTT does still not work, however.

hbeni commented 6 months ago

InSim PTT does still not work, however.

(I do not talk about the PTT hotkey binding in swift; which needs read access to /dev/input/event* (provided by group inputin debian 12); but the /controls/radios/comm-ptt/ FGCom property, which contains: /controls/radios/comm-ptt/ Bedeutung
0 kein TX
1 TX COM1
2 TX COM2
ltoenning commented 6 months ago

/controls/radios/comm-ptt/ Bedeutung 0 kein TX 1 TX COM1 2 TX COM2

This would indeed be an interesting feature. But it would also require internal changes to the simulator plugin interface because this feature is not implemented for any simulator so far. We'll keep it on the list :+1:

which needs read access to /dev/input/event* (provided by group inputin debian 12

Just as a side note: We recently updated our docs regarding this. We now recommend a different method to allow reading input from a specific device using udev rules for security reasons (see https://swift-project.org/troubleshooting/linux_hotkeys/)

hbeni commented 6 months ago

Thank you!