Gaming pedal/button issues

smoothyuk

Hi,

I have a Logitech USB gaming pedal set (Wingman Formula GP) that I'm trying to setup, first of all the wizard would not detect the pedal presses (they are analogue), instead I flipped the wheel part upside down in order to use the paddle shifter buttons. The paddle shifters press and release are recognised by the wizard (in a 2 pedal configuration) but do not seem to take effect properly, instead of the left being Rewind and the right being Play/Forward (as the wizard suggests), they simply act as Rewind and Fast Forward alone, I cannot get the right shifter to start or stop playback no matter how I press or tap it.

My other option is to use the Logitech Gaming software to assign key presses to button or pedal pushes, this is confirmed as working (even with the pedals) but it's a little impractical. I cannot set the right pedal to cycle Play/Pause (is there such a button?), and holding down the right pedal (when assigned to F9) simply stutters the beginning of the audio file (as expected since holding F9 would result in the same behavior).

Any advice?

Thank you.

chris_newson

Hi,

There is an open source program called AutoHotkey that can convert joystick movements to key presses.

My gaming steering wheel and pedals emulates a joystick with the wheel doing the x-xis and the pedals the y-axis.

Assuming your pedals are operating the y-axis (left 50-100 and right 0-50) then the following script does more or less what you are asking for:

Left pedal rewinds and right pedal full depress Stop, half depress Play You may need to edit the numbers to suit how far you wish to press the pedals for each function.

In theory it is possible to assign more keypresses to each pedal but I am not sure if it is practical to have more than two options per pedal.

-------------------Script------------------------------------

#Persistent ; Keep this script running until the user explicitly exits it.

SetTimer, WatchAxis, 5

return

WatchAxis:

GetKeyState, JoyY, JoyY ; Get position of Y axis.

if JoyY <5 ; Right Full depress

{

Send, {F4} ; Stop

sleep, 500 ; 1/2 second delay to ensure that Right pedal fully up before next GetKeyState

}

else if JoyY < 45 ; Right Half Depress

Send, {F10} ; Play

else if JoyY > 70 ;Left Depress

Send, {F7} ; Rewind

return ; Do nothing.

-----------------------End Script -------------------------------------

Chris