yoke / throttle quad button behavior

[Jason M Tutwiler]

Hello All,
I hope everyone is well!  So, I have an odd problem.  I have the Thrustmaster TCA Boeing Edition Yoke and Throttle.  The throttle has some buttons but they behave strangly.  For example, if I assign something to a button that should be a toggle with two seperate pushes of the button, that's not what happens. The toggle happens as soon as I let go of the button.  For example, I push a button and the light goes on and I let go, of the button, and the switch flips back off.  Any ideas if there's a way to fix this?  Thank you in advance for any assistance you may be able to offer.

Regards,
Jason Tutwiler

[macroflight]

I just got the same yoke and throttle and have not had that problem.

Which throttle quadrant button are you mapping to which PSX function?

If you have installed Thrustmaster's TARGET software, maybe that is doing something unexpected? I'm not using it myself as it was easy to get things working using just the Thrustmaster drivers.

[Jason M Tutwiler]

To put it another way, the buttons on the Thrustmaster TCA Boeing Throttle Quad act as momentary action switches.  Another example is I have some of the buttons assigned to the fuel cutoff switches.  I push the button for fuel cutoff #1 and it goes off but the second I release the button it flips back on. Note that it does this with any 2 state non momentary action button or switch. What am I missing and why is this happening yet I can't find anyone else that reported it?  Thank you in advance!

Regards,
Jason Tutwiler

[Hardy Heinlin]

Is the Thrustmaster's TARGET software supposed to convert momentary action signals to alternating constant states? (I'm not familiar with that software.)

In PSX one fuel cutoff switch requires one alternate action switch, or two momentary actions switches:

https://aerowinx.com/board/index.php/topic,4626.msg49040.html#msg49040


Regards,

|-|ardy

[Jason M Tutwiler]

If the Thrustmaster Target software can make it so that I can turn the fuel cutoff switches on/off with 1 button (2 button presses), I'm very much interested as the target software didn't help.  However, I have found that, using 2 buttons and then checking the checkbox on one of the buttons, makes it work wonderfully.  Thank you Hardy!

Regards,
Jason Tutwiler