I have the honeycomb throttle and bravo quadrant.

I thought about using spad.next (or axes and ohs) to keep configurations outside of the sim.  I basically want to create profiles for about 5 different configs like in this video:

  

 

From the sounds of it, at least with spad, it seems like there needs to be a new profile for EVERY aircraft in the sim?  For what i'm doing this feels like wayyy too much work, as there are tons of buttons and assignments that have to be manually inputted.. I was hoping it would have some sort of prefilled defaults already there like msfs does (tons of buttons etc for the bravo at least).

Whats the best approach here, i guess either forget about external managers and just use msfs, or manually and painstakingly create all these?

In the trial, if i goto the published area, i dont see snippets cant search on profiles, im assuming maybe this is where i'd just grab some template and go from there, but maybe it needs the full version, catch 22.

Thanks in advance

You can download preset configuration files for a host of different planes from within SPAD.neXt ("Online Profiles"). These are of mixed quality and may need a bit of trial and error, sometimes.

You can also assign planes arbitrarily to profiles. If you start a new plane in MSFS which SPAD.neXt doesn't know yet, it asks you which profile to use for this plane, and you are free to use any of the installed profiles (which of course only makes sense if the configurations fits).

No, you don't need to assign profiles to every aircraft. Many MSFS default aircraft which I never used don't have a profile assigned.

You can delete assignments and reassign a new profile to a plane.

You can also take the downloaded profiles and modify them (which may need a bit of knowledge about the working of assignments, though).

There are also so-called "snippets" which can be assigned to a certain button/dial, if you don't want to download/use a complete profile.

The trial may indeed have restrictions, which I don't know. Best you ask the author, who is very reponsive, via Discord. (I don't like Discord at all but that's the place where most coders are those days.)

Kind regards, Michael

I don't have any profiles setup in the sim,   only in spad.

I suggest you start with profiles and videos by Les O'Reilly.

https://www.youtube.com/@LesOReilly/search?query=honeycomb bravo

Would the Fenix A320 work with Spad with my Honeycomb Bravo Throttle Quadrant??

When it comes to Spad.next and Honeycomb, Les O'Reilly is the man:

 

18 hours ago, pmb said:

You can download preset configuration files for a host of different planes from within SPAD.neXt ("Online Profiles"). These are of mixed quality and may need a bit of trial and error, sometimes.

This is what I do....

 

Plus you can see how many times each shared profile has been downloaded with the assumption that the more times = the better profile..

17 hours ago, tull said:

Would the Fenix A320 work with Spad with my Honeycomb Bravo Throttle Quadrant??

Yes. 

For those that have the Alpha and Bravo, I just published profiles for the PMDG737's and Fenix A320.  You can find them authored by "DiscoStu" or just sort the online profiles list by date in decending order to see the newest profiles first.  My profiles are designed to be functionally similar across both aircraft so you get consistency when flying these.  Still working out a few kinks but they should give you a decent flying experience.  FYI I started with some of Les Oreiley's work.  You only need SPAD.Next for my profiles so you don't need to run the HoneyComb AFC_Bridge or FSUIPC etc.  I prefer to keep my addons/integrations with the sim to a minimum.

I put detailed instructions into the profile descriptions but the general idea is to keep mappings in MSFS almost empty for both the Alpha and Bravo.  The exception to that is that I don't have the HC Charlie pedals yet and I don't use any other pedals so I map brakes and parking brakes to buttons on the Alpha and rudder to the X-axis for on the Alpha for now.  I also have a few camera functions mapped in MSFS for the Alpha.  My bravo profile in MSFS is completely empty so there is no need to switch between controller profiles in MSFS when I switch planes.