bastins

I'd like to get some more time using it, but I think I've accomplished what I was looking for. After adding SaitekRPanel = 0 and commenting out the SaitekRPanel initialization in ConnectSRP, and disabling the radio panel under Joystick Setup, the final piece to the puzzle seems to have been to also untick the 'Saitek Panels' option. Unticking 'Saitek Panels' was the second thing I tried previously, and it disabled both of my panels (which does make sense)... but it's leaving the switch panel alone now like I want, so I'm not going to argue with it :wink:

Sure thing; the files are on their way. Hopefully it won't be an issue, but I don't actually have any controls assigned right now, as you'll see in the config-hid files. With all the playing around and uninstalling and re-installing of LINDA to troubleshoot the Aerosoft Katana (it doesn't seem to like the recent versions of LINDA), I've held off on really setting everything up. I set/removed an assignment to create the /aircrafts/FSX Default/config-hid.lua file, but that's about it.

I gave that a try, along with starting FSX/LINDA/SPAD in various orders, but not much luck again.

And to quick jump back to your request for feedback... I actually had a few issues between LINDA and the Saitek Radio Panel, but I suspect that a couple of them were due to my own current inexperience with each. There was one thing, however, that I know is by-design and I didn't really like: the speed of tuning a frequency. As I understand it, LINDA updates the panel display every second, and thus, you only see your changes at that rate. It might just be me, I don't know, but I found it very unnatural and impractical to tune the radios so slowly. What I like about SPAD in this regard is simply that it works much more like a normal radio. Frequencies can be tuned quickly, and the displays update as quickly. And, of course, SPAD fixes the inherent problems with the jumpy tuning knobs. As for one of the other issues that I believe is my own doing... I couldn't actually get the mode selector knobs on the left (COM 1, COM 2, NAV 1, NAV 2, etc.) to change the radio panel's displays. I had everything mapped, and it all worked, except the mode selectors. Both displays just stay on COM 1. By the way, thanks for taking the time to offer some help. It's definitely appreciated, as I would really like to get back to how ridiculously easy LINDA makes it to program the switch panel. So much easier than hunting down variables and manually setting everything in FSUIPC :wink:

Hmm, I gave that a shot, but it doesn't seem to have worked; it's still booting up the radio displays when LINDA launches (Edit: and FSX is running). Just to be sure I didn't miss something: First I turned on Developer Mode. Then I edited ConnectSRP in ...\FSX\Modules\linda\system\common.lua, giving me the following: function ConnectSRP () -- Connect to Saitek Radio Panel -- Trying to make a persistent connection to SRP _logg('[COMM] Connecting Saitek Radio Panel ..') SaitekRPanel, radio_rd, radio_rdf = com.openhid(SAITEK_VID, RADIO_PANEL_PID, 0, 0) if SaitekRPanel == 0 then --_err("[COMM] Could not open Saitek Radio Panel!") ipc.display("[COMM] Saitek Radio Panel is DETECTED " .. "but couldn't be opened" , 10) end SaitekRPanel = 0 end Saved it and closed the editor. Then un-ticked the Saitek Radio Panel in Joystick Setup, saved the changes, and closed LINDA. LINDA then launches with FSX, and upon starting a flight, the radio displays come on.

Yes and no. While testing to see if I could get LINDA to not use the radio panel displays, I made sure SPAD was not running. However, under normal circumstances, yes, I would like to have SPAD running in addition to LINDA. Ideally, I'd like SPAD handling the Saitek Radio Panel, while LINDA handles the Saitek Switch Panel. I tried doing it all with LINDA, but I'm not a fan of the way it handles the radio panel. Unfortunately, this option in particular is what I'm hoping to avoid. It certainly did the trick in disabling the radio panel (displays included), but at the cost of also disabling my switch panel, which is no good. It'd be perfect if there was a middle ground - switch panel enabled / radio panel disabled, to be handled by other software.

I see there is an option in LINDA's joystick setup page to disable individual devices. This seems to work as expected with the Saitek Radio Panel buttons and knobs, but not with the LED displays. Even with the radio panel 'disabled' in the device list, LINDA continues to display info on the LEDs. As you can probably imagine, this then makes the display flicker between two sets of information when using other software to handle the radio panel. Any advice with this would be appreciated; this is the only issue preventing me from using LINDA again.