We're even chipping in on the shipping. Shipping cost have risen a lot this year.

You can watch videos and hear about it but until you try it you just can’t understand how immersive it is. Thanks for the comments.

Absolutely, it’s so immersive you want to go and explore the whole world in MSFS

I have the reverb G2, but might upgrade to the VARJO next year…

@@desmodromic4586 I think in the next year there will be several exciting new headsets to consider for better prices than the Aero I’m not sure the Aero provides the value for the dollar that the G2 does

G2 unbeatable at 600$, PImax Crystal is the one to watch…good that we get new technology into VR

What actually should happen is that when you “touch” the knob in VR ( with mouse, controller, or best of all, hand tracking) that knob should be selected for Knobster input. Maybe a smart person could create such a plugin or Asobo or Laminar could make it an option n their sims. I don’t have the skills to do this but it would be a great addition for either sim.

Unfortunately I don’t think it will. Since you pay for Air Manager they wanted to allow for a DIY Knobster albeit slightly less user friendly than the plug and play paid Knobster. KnobXP and KnobFS are both free plugins so I don’t think the DIY Knobster will be an option. They want people without Air Manager to be able to use the plugins and that would require making a separate program to flash the Arduino. That would overwrite the current Knobster functions unless it was all combined into one plugin. Besides the guys at Sim Innovations need to make a living from their programming efforts.

@@rbarlow thanks for explaining Russ.

Think it is a SSu12 bug forums.flightsimulator.com/t/3rd-party-application-toolbars-scaling-broken/577877

Russ, thank you for your reply and I believe you’re spot on. I sent a message over to siminnovations detailing the issue. They got right back to me and sent a Beta link for me to try. My fingers are crossed that this resolves the issue. Once again thanks for the reply and for the awesome content you make. Please take great care and stay healthy, safe and blessed.

You may be interested to learn that Varjo are working on a device similar to knobster that will work with eye tracking. You look at the knob you want to change and then operate their version of knobster which is strapped to your leg. See the flightsimguy recent KZfaq video of his visit to Varjo in Finland….

I think people are working on it check out Simstrumentation.com and their discord

Knobster is not a HID device but interfaces through a plugin with the sim. It was originally designed to work with Air Manager touch screen panels. You could take an encoder and connect it to an Arduino Micro and create an HiD device that can be used as you desire see. www.okdo.com/project/arduino-hid/?ok_ts=1667646295360

Thanks very much. Well done video too.

Why did you put it away?

@@a.nelprober4971 I stopped using X-Plane once MSFS 2020 was released. Didn't see a need for it in MSFS 2020. Mostly fly in VR.

I don’t think so. Since the interface only supports one window in VR. You can with Air Manager.but that would be no help in VR

The mouse tracking in MSFS20 is one of the biggest problems. If they would make that better we wouldnt need to get Knobbed.

That is a bit more complicated than it sounds and could mite easily be done by Laminar or Asobo. Sim Innovations has an open source API. interface to use Knobster on GitHub github.com/SimInnovations/libknobster

Russ, Just bought a knobster… and had the same thought as Gary. Do you know if/where the feature voting is posted for both XP and MSFS? I’m going to be looking for folks to chat with at Oshkosh next year and pushing for this. All of your amazing videos have helped me build a simulator that helped me earn my PPL this month! No question it will also help with instrument rating this year. Can wait to add the knobster into the mix. One other item that I noticed is missing from the standard component list is carb head for older Cessna’s. :).

I asked Ralph at Sim Innovations and he was looking at that but said he doesn’t think MSFS will allow that.

It doesn't seem to be possible to assign custom events to a joystick/button input, only the standard events. That's something that Microsoft still has to add.

Varjo Aero and HP G2 Reverb

I did the video demo in XP11 and it works the same in XP12. When XP12 is more stable in VR I will consider another demo video.

I was so happy when I saw this. Then I saw the price after shipping it to me and I cried because I knew Id never buy one for that price. Watching SOCIALIST Europeans try to be Capitalists is comical.

No not in MSFS or XP but DCS can display the mouse as a hand. Third party addons using things like Leap Motion hand tracking may but it is not integrated into the sims yet

I think XForcePC had them

Yes the G1000 Knobs. You can create custom menu items(modes) for any MSFS or XP events (Commands) that are available too but the G1000 is already there.

Yes the acceleration is a max value but the actual input is proportional to the speed of the knob rotation. You could try a lower value and then it might work more like you desire with a moderate rate of rotation. No matter the acceleration value a very slow rotation will yield one degree per click. With a value like 3 or 5 you will be able to see the bug movement to get it in the approximate value you want to fine tune with slower clicks.

@@rbarlow Hm... I`m not sure if i understand what you mean. OK, my english is ot the best - sorry... i lowerd the value to "major_acceleration": 3, but i dont recognize a major effect. It's still very tricky to change a value to a exact value over a longer range (e.g. 90° >270°). Is it possible for you to send/write me your best AP_ HDG or AP_Speed setting for FBWA32NX ? So i can see/test if it works for me?

It ramps up when you rotate it fast. It takes a little while to go back to single steps. About a second or so, I'm not exactly sure.

Confused! Today i modify some of the .json files in modes folder with other variablesbut there was no effect in the airplane. All the same.... Then i delete all the files in the modes folder and restart MSFS and wondering: All the same, knobster works as before.... I`m wondering for what the .json files are needed... Any idea?

@@lukaskergl1404 you would have to reboot the KnobFS service to see any changes.

Bad? Explain and offer solutions if possible.

@@rbarlow Excuse me my briefness, Sir. So you need to check your audio levels in your video editor before rendering your content out. Your voice is way too quiet here. You need to apply some kind of normalization on the raw audio material (that's possible in video editors too), but a simple "peak-to-0" normalization is not sufficient. You should apply "RMS normalization", which you can find under this name or as "dynamic compression". (I don't recommend using hard limiting, that would be too harsh.) One more thing, if there is a threshold option, set it to -0.1 to -0.3 dB, to make sure you don't overdrive the audio. Sir, this is IMPORTANT, as people tend to click away, if the audio is not pleasing. If I can help, I'm here.

That depends on Asobo making Simconnect available on Xbox

No, that's not possible. Only Xbox/Microsoft approved device are available on the Xbox.

Check out Simstrumentation.com and their Discord. Many are using them on panels there for MSFS.

@@rbarlow thanks for your answer, first of all. But I did not intend to use a touch screen or another kind of panel. I'm considering the idea of simply using the knobster to minimize the use of the mouse and try to have a better user experience. I use TrackIR and I really hate when the visual zooms in while I'm trying to change a frequency. 🙂

@@alfonsozecca5468 sorry I understand now and KnobFS will work in 2D too.

They definitely make a nice throttle unit. HOTAS is perfect for VR.

They definitely make a nice throttle unit. HOTAS is perfect for VR.

In smaller quantities things are definitely more expensive. The X-Touch looks cool but you’re still having to feel and grope and count buttons and never know you have the right control until you try it. This brings the controls into VR which I find far easier and better.

It’s funny actually. Guys who sim only as a hobby say everything is too expensive, and real life pilots are amazed how cheap things are compared to real aviation. I figure if you can afford a VR headset, flight controls and s computer worthy of a decent VR experience a hundred €s is. small potatoes. I understand that financially things are especially difficult in the UK now so I definitely understand your viewpoint though.

@@rbarlow There's nothing funny about having had 5 strokes so being unemployable at just 52 and having to live on £324 per month from the UK government, especially now with the increasing costs of living. But I get your point, so maybe it would be cheaper for me to take up flying for real but the trouble is with my wrecked eyesight, heart condition and history of strokes that's not something the CAA aren't going to allow!

@@TheOneTrueSpLiT sorry if you thought I was making sport of your situation. I just found the different vantage point of a pilot that spends hundreds of dollars for each hour and guys who only sim as a hobby for a small fraction of that having such divergent opinions of the costs. Sorry to hear of your misfortune.

You also have to remember that developing the KnobFS application (and KnobXP for that matter) takes time, and thus money. The application is free and development time is paid for by the sales of the Knobster. On top of that, only the (Elma) encoder itself costs €25. Then there's the rest of the board and components, housing, assembly, etc...

I recently got a knobster, and struggling with a bug. If I turn the knob any faster than one single slow click at a time, it crashes the VR session. I am using an Oculus headset with the Oculus Tray tool. All updated studio drivers for nvidia rtx. Anyone else seeing this issue?