Saitek Panels

[ideoplastic 86]

Finally bought the Logitech Saitek Multi Panel and Radio panel, however I cannot get it to work with the PMDG aircraft. Someone mentioned that this is possible. Would be grateful for any feedback or links.

Thanks

 

 

[aeronauta 67]

Hi Joaquin , have a look in here , https://www.spadnext.com/forum/index.php

 

Jorge

[ideoplastic 86]

Thank you Jorge, it looks very daunting, thought perhaps it would be easier but looks as if I'm going to have to do some reading and more learning.

 

Regards

[aeronauta 67]

Once you understand the basics, easy...there are already profiles for the PMDG AC that you can download and install automagically.....

Jorge

[pmb 5,137]

Agree to aeronauta. Learning was a bit steep in the beginning of development indeed, but this doesn't apply anymore. There are quite a number of plane profiles ready to use today. Plus. there is an Assistant guiding you through configuration which is called during the first start and can be rerun later.

I drive all my Saitek Panels, 9 FIPs and the controls (Yoke, TPM etc.) via a networked SPAD.neXt installation freeing resources on the main machine, for Prepar3d as well as X-Plane, btw. I never would return to the Saitek drivers.

Kind regards, Michael

[ideoplastic 86]

Thank you all. Have installed SPADneXt but had some issues posted in forum and developer is looking into it. 

 

Regards

[lennie 48]

On 3/31/2017 at 9:21 PM, pmb said:

Agree to aeronauta. Learning was a bit steep in the beginning of development indeed, but this doesn't apply anymore. There are quite a number of plane profiles ready to use today. Plus. there is an Assistant guiding you through configuration which is called during the first start and can be rerun later.

I drive all my Saitek Panels, 9 FIPs and the controls (Yoke, TPM etc.) via a networked SPAD.neXt installation freeing resources on the main machine, for Prepar3d as well as X-Plane, btw. I never would return to the Saitek drivers.

Kind regards, Michael

Hi Michael,

I am trying to run all Saitek panels and 9 FIPs, and having power problems. Can't get all of them to fire up at any one time; reboot and some will work, others not; reboot again and different ones will work. Maybe i have a power problem? Using 4 Belkin powered hubs; 850w ps. Can you share any ideas on how i can get stuff to all work? I have SPAD, Win7, FSX.

[pmb 5,137]

4 minutes ago, lennie said:

Hi Michael,

I am trying to run all Saitek panels and 9 FIPs, and having power problems. Can't get all of them to fire up at any one time; reboot and some will work, others not; reboot again and different ones will work. Maybe i have a power problem? Using 4 Belkin powered hubs; 850w ps. Can you share any ideas on how i can get stuff to all work? I have SPAD, Win7, FSX.

I am not an expert in this field, but I think a 850w power supply should be sufficient. Here are three things I would try:

- Different combinations between HUBs and PC UBS ports (maybe you already tried this).

- Connecting the devices in groups, i.e. beginning with the/a few FIPs or alternatively the panels, to one HUB, to ísolate the issue.

- Switching off the Windows USB power management. I don't recall exactly the details as this is one is one of the initial steps I did on the laptop my Saitek gear is connected to only once. I think, the present versions of SPAD.neXt give a message at startup if USB power management interferes and an option to switch if off. So you may look out for this one. Otherwise, there is a (quite old) file somewhere on the SPAD.neXt forums which does the work (i.e. registry settings) for you.

If this doesn't help, I would suggest asking at the SPAD.neXt forum under

http://www.spadnext.com/forum/

Fínally, the author of SPAD.neXt is very responsive, thus you can submit at ticket here

https://www.spadnext.com/support/

or directly from within SPAD.neXt.

Kind regards, Michael