spad next question

[Daveroo]

Hey ya's,im having trouble with my controllers once again,only a few planes are able to be "mapped" .last time i contacted spadnext people it took7 months to get a reply,and that reply was "this support questions was submitted more then 6 months ago,please resubmit"..that may not be the excat wording,but its damned close,so im not willing to try thier support again....so..if i delete spadnext and everything to do with it,and re install,should it start working correctly again?..btw.it used to work great for me,but now it only "see's" less than an 1/8 on my installed planes..but i cant seem to get them setup in FSUIPC either..so is something completely differant going on here?

[wombat666]

Can't really help Davy, I'm just a stick and rudder man myself.
:encouragement:

[Naismith]

I think the delays in reply from Spad_next is in large part because it is not so much a 'they' as a 'him' type operation. A one man operation if memory serves. Initially I was impressed with his efforts then he shifted to payware and ended up quite expensive imo if you wanted the various FS versions. But that was only my impression.

Have you considered LINDA? Programming of controllers can be achieved with that software - for FREE. There are several YouTube videos to get you started. Check it out.

https://www.avsim.com/forums/topic/456174-new-linda-296-released-17-may-17-v3/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrH6ZWrGNsU

[roger-wilco-66]

Hi Dave,

I've been using SpadNext for quite some time now, in a complex setup:

- Warthog joystick OR CH Yoke
- Simped pedals
- dual Saitek throttle quadrants
- Saitek trim wheel
- Saitek radio panel
- Saitek multifunction panel
- Saitek switch panel

I have three generic profiles, single engine, dual engine, and four engines (mapping the two engines on either side as one). I use SpadNext for that, and do not configure FSUIPC in that regard at all.
The whole setup works like a charm, however, there are a few things to say about it:

- use a dedicated (no non-controller related units go there, expecially no usb sticks or drives) externally powered USB hub and connect all controllers / panels to it. For all the other external units I have a second hub. If possible, leave the controller hub alone and don't unplug the hub or the units while the computer is running. This can throw off the usb config and make a bloody mess out of everything. Chances are high that you loose your complete mapping and controller config in the sim doing so.
- with some aircraft, expecially with xml driven gauges or switches which are embedded in a more complex background, the panels (switches and lights / readouts) won't work. I don't know if there are ways to make it work, since there's the fall back to "normal" operation and it doesn't bother me too much.

Re SpadNext not finding aircraft, where do you install your aircraft? Do you see a pattern of aircraft found / not found depending on specific aircraft installation locations? Did you try to run SpadNext as admin ? Anyway, if it is somehow messed up, you could of course uninstall it completely and do a fresh install with the latest version.
On my setup I never experienced such a problem, but I have all my aircraft in the default p3d root simobject folder (doing it the old way).

If you think this is a definite SpadNext problem, you also could take it to their forums, which seem to be frequented:

https://www.spadnext.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=1




Hope that helps!
Mark