Need help with FMS 2.0 Alpha 8.3 and ESKY Heli - urgent.

[Compumind]

Greetings!

I have just purchased an E_SKY Hunter which is a 4 channel, 2.4 Ghz electric heli.

Here is my problem...

I am using a Windows XP, SP3 box with a Logitech USB 3D Extreme Pro Joystick.

E_SKY lets you connect the Transmitter via a USB connection to the computer and provides FMS 2.0 Alpha 8.3 Software for simulation. The instructions for the Heli and FMS software are mainly in Chinese.

When I connected the TX via the USB cable all went OK and the device was "seen" by Windows XP.

However, I could clearly see that there is a conflict with the Logitech Joystick. I can *ONLY* use the FMS software when the Logitech USB drivers are not installed.

Obviously this FMS software is *freeware* and that upsets me a bit, since the two will not work together.

It would appear that "channels 1-4" are used by the Joystick and 5-8 by the FMS/E_SKY controller. It should be the other way around.

I use my Joystick frequently for FSX and would like to have a Heli-Trainer to use with the transmitter, so as to practice first.

Both devices are seen as a HID or "Human Interface Device" to Windows.

Any suggestions? My vendor is HeliDirect.com and they have no clue as how to resolve it, nor does E_SKY have a USA presence for technical support.

To me, each USB device should *not* conflict with one another!

Any help and ideas would be appreciated.

Is there an alternate heli-training software out there that can work with this TX via USB and do the same thing?

TIA

[Steve Lewin]

I think that if you download and install FMS Alpha 8.5 you will find that you can choose within FMS which "joystick" you want it to use.

Steve

[Compumind]

Hi Steve -

You said: "I think that if you download and install FMS Alpha 8.5 you will find that you can choose within FMS which "joystick" you want it to use. "

I installed this version and did not see any way of selecting another joystick.

There is a box showing 2 controls, but no way of selecting the desired one.

Am I overlooking something?

[Steve Lewin]

Sorry, I obviously remembered it wrong....I've never really needed to have multiple joysticks connected so I just guessed that screen was for switching.

But if the FMS calibration screen shows both joystick and Tx working but the Tx shows up as channels 5-8 can't you just set up the boxes on the LH side of the calibration screen to use the appropriate channels 5-8 ?

Only other thing I can think of is have you tried setting the TX "game controller" as first in the Windows Game Controllers list to see if FMS is happier then ? That's always assuming that the programs you want to use the Logitech with can select a joystick that's not first in the list.

Steve

[TreeHugger]

Try setting the controller to .

[Compumind]

Hi -

Thanks, TreeHugger. That did the trick.

When will FMS be updated to a Non-Alpha or Non-Beta version?

Additionally, Are there other backgrounds and Heli's available?

The closest that my ESKY Hunter comes to is the Hughes.

[ggunners]

FMS alpha 8.5 is the latest version and we are not expecting any updates at this time.

-- ggunners