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GF-46 Knobs / Buttons Work but not LED Segment Displays
As there is no demo for Pollypot I am trying to get my GF-46 to work with the free plugin before purchasing.
I am able to assign functions and they work fine. Great.
However the 7 Segment / Multi-Segment displays are not showing anything.
The display are working fine - when the USB is connected / system reboots / power cycle - the displays show the model number:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-aowWXy_wnvcHvz-eY5kK9ZkkkLZ7clO/view?ts=5f8ae6b7
I don't think it's a power problem because I have managed to get the basic functionality working in what I would consider worst case scenario - i.e. plugged into the hub on the back of the Saitek yoke without extra DC power.
For completeness I have tried directly into various different USB sockets 3.0 / 2.0 on the PC and via Dlink USB 2 hub (powered). All same result - knobs buttons work but no feedback on the segment displays.
I am able to assign functions and they work fine. Great.
However the 7 Segment / Multi-Segment displays are not showing anything.
The display are working fine - when the USB is connected / system reboots / power cycle - the displays show the model number:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-aowWXy_wnvcHvz-eY5kK9ZkkkLZ7clO/view?ts=5f8ae6b7
I don't think it's a power problem because I have managed to get the basic functionality working in what I would consider worst case scenario - i.e. plugged into the hub on the back of the Saitek yoke without extra DC power.
For completeness I have tried directly into various different USB sockets 3.0 / 2.0 on the PC and via Dlink USB 2 hub (powered). All same result - knobs buttons work but no feedback on the segment displays.
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Best wishes
Steve
I want to drive parameters that I assume only Pollyplot can access specifically to assign the small and large rotary encoders on the GF-46 to the X-Plane 1000 but I would like to know that the GF-46 works ok with X-Plane first but the segment LEDs are nit lighting up despite the controls that i assign work. I am right there is no demo of Pollyplot to test if segments light up and it's just an issue with the free tool.
Best wishes
Steve
This is the GF-46.
I had it plugged in with RP48 and in a fit of frustration removed the RP48 and then it worked.....once.
Have since tried just the GF-46 on its own in various ports and hubs and the display won't come back! So frustrating. Rotary encoders and buttons always work.
Searching on this forum and around the internet it seems there are similar problems but when I bought them for using with FSX years ago they always worked.
"Power related" seems misnomer. You have to assume that the current requirements for the segment displays from a single port or port in a hub is more than a sufficient for a 15 year old design.
Maybe there is just some transistor on the board that is not getting enough voltage or current to turn on (or off) but it *does* when the initialisation occurs and it flashes up the model number when it gets power for the first time it.
Is the microcontroller on the board really using that much current when it's actually functioning as a controller and communicating with the host flight sim (rather than just the initial power flash up of the model number ) that the segment displays work intermittently? But again - it always used to work.
Surely USB ports today supply more than enough current than their counterparts when Go Flight first designed these modules and that's before you even consider using a powered USB hub.
I was very excited at the prospect of assigning the dual GF-46 rotary encoder to the X-1000 dual rotary encoder - I assume that's a Dataref that GIT could assign to.
I can get the display to work by disconnecting and reconnecting the unit every time I launch X-Plane.
Contrast that with - leaving the units plugged in to ports where they have already worked from
Close X-Plane with the display working - restart X-Plane - display won't work
or
Rebooting - launch X-Plane - display not working