Flight sim highlight - Koolertron programmable keyboard
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- Detailed look at the Koolertron 48 key programmable keyboard for use with Microsoft Flight Simulator in my sim cockpit setup.
Buttons mapped for some basic simulation control, auto pilot, and some aircraft controls.
Keyboard: smile.amazon.c...
exactly what I had in mind.
great to have found your video
Thanks!
Great, thanks !!!
Nice setup and thanks for sharing this with us. I have ordered one and can't wait to get my hands on it. Out of interest would you be able to share how did you do that window focus button with Auto Hot Key? Will this keyboard works with Auto Hot Key without Lua Macros? Appreciate it if you could share your thoughts.
Thanks, happy to share!
I map that window focus key to CTRL+ALT+HOME, then in AutoHotKey use this script:
^!Home::
CoordMode, Mouse, Screen
MouseClick, Left, 1815, 20, 1, 0
return
The coordinates will, of course, depend on the screen on which you run the simulator. In my case the coords are the top right corner of my top left most screen (I run 4 screens for flight sim in a grid layout; the two instrument panel screens are bottom-left and bottom-right).
Regarding Lua macros... I don't know that there is any Lua involved. The keyboard is just a keyboard input device and AHK is capturing the keypress to run its own script bits. (Unless I'm misunderstanding and AHK is using Lua. I don't know Lua so wouldn't recognize it.)
@@peterlanoie Many thanks. Appreciate your time in responding to my question. The window focus button is indeed an important key. It is annoying when you lose control of your plane by witching the windows in the game.
Hi Peter I dont understand scripts, could you share the script you used to reposition the mouse. Thanks
Great video, thanks for posting. Out of interest, what touch displays did you use?
I’m definitely going to get hold of one of the Koolertron keyboards.
The monitors are Prechen 15.6 inch. They have been working well. amazon.com/gp/product/B07P7JV7SV
I'm also experimenting with a custom keyboard using repurposed old keyboard buttons, a 3D printed chassis and an Arduino to present it as a joystick keypad (instead of just a keyboard) so I can map buttons directly in the sim to avoid weird keyboard mapping problems (like window focus).
One more important note. Due to something with how the Koolertron keyboard sends its keypresses to the computer I had to clear out ALL of the default key mappings. Very oddly, the keyboard sends key combos like this "A+CTRL+SHIFT" instead of "CTRL+SHIFT+A" like you'd expect. This causes whatever is mapped to "A" to fire first and in addition to the combo. So I had to unmap them all and configure the keyboard to only use full combos. If I recall, I did them like this: "CTRL+SHIFT-A" and "ALT-SHIFT-A" so there was no overlap or ambiguity. Kind of weird. But with flight controllers and 48 keys, you can remap everything so you don't need to use the standard mappings (like just "G" for gear, etc.).
Great idea the refocus button!
How do you program this to do Control+F1?
In the keyboards programming software you can select the key combos. But I don't remember if the function keys are included.