Joystick Simulation with PIC

[kekko123]

Dear all,

my name is Francesco and I'm a 27 years old italian boy. A few months ago I bought a FMS PIC serial interface for using my PPM Radio Control transmitter (Futaba ff7) under FMS. Under FMS the interface works well.

I want to use the same interface for simulating a joystick under Windows XP and I'm trying to use PPJoy for this pourpose (www.geocities.com/deonvdw/Docs/ Diagrams/Virtual/PPJoyCOM.htm). Specifically, I used PPJoyCom.

As I already did for FMS, I have choosen the following Serial Protocol: "FMS PIC 9600 baud (0xF0 + sync)". Everything seems to work but the following message is displyed: "invalid sync byte 104". Moreover, when I try to calibrate the PPjoy virtual Joystick no input seems to be received.

Is there a way for solving this problem?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Francesco

[Eric Brouwer]

You should try using 19200 baud, as most FMS interfaces sold are using this protocol. Can not remember if PPJoy ask, but the synch bit should be hFF.