SPAD.neXt

Sorry if this has been posted some where but I did not find it.

When you look into support for the Saitek yoke can you see if there is any way to set the clock to FSX time and not your PC time.

This would be good for flying M/Player on servers not set in your time zone.

Thanks

good idea. Definitely possible and will be implemented.

Thank you.
Saitek did not even replay to me when I ask them about it.

I found the odd post about whats coming - Can you please point me to (if there is) a live list of whats been asked and been asked and able to be / not able to be done.

Current public viewable is http://www.fsgs.com/tag/Feature-Request , the real list is on paper still ....
As soon as the wiki is up an running, there will be a live list of features being asked and considered or rejected.

Oz Flyer wrote: When you look into support for the Saitek yoke can you see if there is any way to set the clock to FSX time and not your PC time.

This would be good for flying M/Player on servers not set in your time zone.

Short update on this:

I am able to update the clock on the Yoke, to any "time" i like, however something does always overwrite it

I'm still trying to find out, who and what is overwriting my time-settings even if no saitek stuff at all (not even the profiler or saimfd ) is running. I suspect this is done by the usb driver/yoke itself, in which case the feature cannot be implemented in the way planned. I'll keep you updated on the progress....

Thank you for the update.

I investigated a bit into this.
The clock is driven by the Yoke driver itself. So far I did not find a way to prevent this.

Hi Ulrich,
As said before I am no programer so I only ask.

Do you know how often it updates the clock?
If this is only at a slow rate (Once a minute or so) then is there some way to monitor the yoke requests and use that to trigger an update?
I know you will most likely get a flicker on the clock display.

The driver sends a "Update second" every second and "Update time" every 60 seconds to the device.
From what I have seen so far it should be possible to influence that, but I did not find out how yet, since there is no documentation from Saitek.

As soon as 0.8 is released I'll investigate 3 things:

a) Is it possible to disable the Saitek driver completely, and have the Yoke working with SPAD.neXt anyway? This should be possible, since SPAD.neXt directly talks to the device and is not using the Saitek driver anyway. However this might come with the drawback to lose the ability to use the Yoke as normal joystick in other software than FSX/P3D.

b) How to influence the Saitek Driver which time to display. Should be possible as well, to my current knowledge.

c) Monitor the system time and send an extra "Update Time" to the device every "00"-Second to overwrite the time the driver wrote to it. This will most likely result in a short flicker, but if it's the only way, I could live with that.
(Leaves the open question, how to turn that of, when Stopwatch-mode is active. Have to investigate that)