The ATC module works fine on any adjust of the main rotary encoder, to change the squawk code. However when physically changing the other Encoder for Stby/Off/Xpndr/Ta/Ta/Ra the change is not reflected in the sim, on the PMDG pedestal, it does not move.
So the ‘selector’ encoder doesn’t change the selection, and the ‘main’ encoder always acts as if the ‘selector’ encoder is in the ‘Xpndr’ position?
I’m no expert but FSUIPC logging sees some kind of event when the hardware encoder is turned:
8098641 *** EVENT: Cntrl= 65715 (0x000100b3), Param= 512 (0x00000200) XPNDR_SET
That is setting the transponder/squawk code to 0200 (or maybe 1200, if the leading 0 is assumed). So it looks like the main rotary is always controlling the Xpndr.
Any ideas if we can get this encoder working?
This depends on how and where you have assigned the rotary encoders. To control the selector/mode switch/rotary in the PMDG 737, you would use the following PMDG custom control:
#define EVT_TCAS_MODE (THIRD_PARTY_EVENT_ID_MIN + 800)
As for the other rotary, I am not sure about this as there is no such knob on the TCAS – there are only rotaries to control the ATC code left/right, so I am not sure what this should control when the selector/mode switch is in each position. However, the standard way of using an inc/dec rotary where the value being changed depends on a selector switch is to overload the assignments on the rotary (i.e. assign to every inc/dec function needed) and then add a conditional on the assignments so that only one is sent depending on the position of the selector/mode switch. For the PMDG 737, this would be a conditional on the value held in the PMDG-specific offset for XPDR_ModeSel:
6C64 1 BYTE XPDR_ModeSel: 0: STBY
1: ALT RPTG OFF
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4: TA / RAIf you are assigning in FSUIPC, I can help further if you provide more information on what you expect the rotary to control (depending on the mode), but if using SIOC I cannot help with this.
John
