Configure XBox 360 as a controller

[kimo]

I have got Heli-X running on Windows XP Pro and can get a 3DConnexion device to be recognised as a controller to start the engine and turn the machine.
It doesn't work very well, I have not got any power to lift up and have to hold down a button to keep the engine running.
This was for some debugging really, I would prefer to use the Xbox.

I cannot get the Xbox 360 remote USB controller to be recognised.
Should I expect it to be found? It tests out in the control panel, and I am careful to wake it up before I launch Heli-X.

I have installed Pinnacle Game Profiler to attempt to configure the controller as a mouse, which did, but still Heli-X did not see it.
I would prefer for the Xbox controller to look like an RC controller so that I could use it just the same was as for a model helicopter RC.


I have now found the Joystick Analyser:

E:\download\helicopter\HELI-X\JoystickAnalyzer>set system=windows-i586
E:\download\helicopter\HELI-X\JoystickAnalyzer>set libPath=./libs
E:\download\helicopter\HELI-X\JoystickAnalyzer>set libPath=./libs;./libs/jinput/
windows-i586
E:\download\helicopter\HELI-X\JoystickAnalyzer>set jars=./libs
E:\download\helicopter\HELI-X\JoystickAnalyzer>set jars=./libs;./libs/jinput/Jin
put.jar
E:\download\helicopter\HELI-X\JoystickAnalyzer>java -Djava.library.path=./libs;.
/libs/jinput/windows-i586 -classpath ./libs;./libs/jinput/Jinput.jar Analyzer
Joystick-Analyzer (by Michael Schreiner)

Controller: Mouse
Type: Mouse
Controller: Keyboard
Type: Keyboard
Controller: HID-compliant device
Type: Unknown
Controller: Controller (Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver for Windows)
Type: Gamepad
Analog component found:Y Axis
Analog component found:X Axis
Analog component found:Y Rotation
Analog component found:X Rotation
Analog component found:Z Axis
Digital component found:Button 0
Digital component found:Button 1
Digital component found:Button 2
Digital component found:Button 3
Digital component found:Button 4
Digital component found:Button 5
Digital component found:Button 6
Digital component found:Button 7
Digital component found:Button 8
Digital component found:Button 9
Digital component found:Hat Switch
Controller: USB Receiver
Type: Unknown
Controller: USB Receiver
Type: Unknown
Controller: USB Receiver
Type: Unknown
Controller: USB to PS2 Adaptor v1.12
Type: Unknown
Controller: USB to PS2 Adaptor v1.12
Type: Unknown

[Michael]

Hello

the Controller of type Gamepad should be recognized within HELI-X (not Version 0.9). But it does not make much sense to use HELI-X with such a controller. This has nothing to do what you have in reality.

Michael

[kimo]

My mistake, I forgot I had downloaded 0.9 to try first. I will try again with 4.1
I realise that an XBox controller is not a wireless remote for a real model helicopter, but my cheap model controller does not have a USB interface for a computer.
So I thought that I could use an XBox controller and configure it because it has two joysticks with pressure sensors that might be good enough.
Of course a simulator is not reality either, so it still might be fun to use an XBox.

[ThomasC]

@kimo: in order to really train flying, you might buy sth. like an E-Sky EK2-0905a 4-channel USB simulator controller. Xbox controllers are more difficult to learn flying because they are not precise enough, my opinion.

2013 greetings

ThomasC