Hallo

I can hook up my flysky Tx to a PC to run a simulator. Only this is a very old laptop with limited power.

I do have a top of the line mac. Only I can't get my Tx running with it, I already bought two type of cable to go from trainer port to USB but no luck so far.

Anyone who can help me out.

Samuel

Hey Samuel, Just FYI - the cable that comes with the FS-i6 is a FirmWare update cable only, it cannot be used for Sims. Also if you have purchased another cable did you confirm that it was for simulators? The 'trainer cable' which allows 2 TX to control the same craft, will also not work for sims.

I use this one with my FS-i6X...

Did you try to first plug in the USB and power on the TX BEFORE you start the simulation program. (Then scan for controller.)

Velocidrone only needs the sim cable to be connected to recognize that it will be receiving PWM PPM signals, you can launch the sim and plug the TX in when you load a track and it will be fine.

(28-Jan-2018, 09:51 AM)Tom BD Bad Wrote: Hey Samuel, Just FYI - the cable that comes with the FS-i6 is a FirmWare update cable only, it cannot be used for Sims. Also if you have purchased another cable did you confirm that it was for simulators? The 'trainer cable' which allows 2 TX to control the same craft, will also not work for sims.

I use this one with my FS-i6X...

This is not correct you can use the micro-USB port (I have FS-i6s V2.00 HW:3.0) and it work awsonly well, both Mac and Windows wit most of the simulators

(22-Feb-2018, 12:33 PM)Eryk_LDN Wrote: This is not correct you can use the micro-USB port (I have FS-i6s V2.00 HW:3.0) and it work awsonly well, both Mac and Windows wit most of the simulators

The FS-I6S, FS-I8 and FS-I10 have a micro USB port, the original FS-I6 and the FS-I6X have an S-Video port instead, this needs to have the correct individual cable for either sim, trainer or firmware update.

The firmware update cable has a USB plug, which misleads people into thinking that it will work for sims but it does not! The trainer cable is S-Video to S-video, the sim cable uses the PC sound card to recognize the output frequencies of the radio, these PPM frequencies are then used to control the simulator. 

There is actually a hack for the FS-I6 and FS-I6X to convert an S-Video cable and attach a quarter inch headphone jack, used in conjunction with a program called Smart Propo Plus, to recognize the PPM signals to control a sim.