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[quickhakker]

hey guys hows it going im new here, long time linus fan first forum post so go me, been watching since the birth of the petabyte project and even seen him in other videos, ended up watching a lot of his old content and encouraged me to do a tech youtube channel too infact i got a project in the works of my own so yeah, also as a side ive got a hardware question that the macro king would be able to help with where would be the best place to go for that

[minibois]

Hey there, welcome to the forum!
 

If you want to contact the King of Macros, he's on this forum: https://linustechtips.com/main/profile/167131-taranlmg/

Doesn't seem to be all that active on here though. Contacting him on Twitter might be the easiest way to reach him, his handle is @TaranVH there.

Depending on the length of your question, YouTube comments might be an option too; but I feel like YouTube comments get buried by... More comments

 

Off topic: is your name related to the act of 'hakking' as in the dance? Just curious.

[MrFixitBlankFace]

Hi @quickhakker.

Welcome and happy posting!

[quickhakker]

17 hours ago, Minibois said:

Hey there, welcome to the forum!
 

If you want to contact the King of Macros, he's on this forum: https://linustechtips.com/main/profile/167131-taranlmg/

Doesn't seem to be all that active on here though. Contacting him on Twitter might be the easiest way to reach him, his handle is @TaranVH there.

Depending on the length of your question, YouTube comments might be an option too; but I feel like YouTube comments get buried by... More comments

 

Off topic: is your name related to the act of 'hakking' as in the dance? Just curious.

the question would help to get the macro king but anyone who would know how to map keys from a non standard input device to keyboard shortcuts or otherwise would be helpful, as for the name i chose it when i made a youtube channel (initially to comment and such) and it sounded cool in my head so i kept it

[minibois]

8 hours ago, quickhakker said:

the question would help to get the macro king but anyone who would know how to map keys from a non standard input device to keyboard shortcuts or otherwise would be helpful, as for the name i chose it when i made a youtube channel (initially to comment and such) and it sounded cool in my head so i kept it

Huh, interesting question.. I would guess the method of doing this will highly depend on the type of device it is.

I mean, a game controller or a paddle/dial of some sorts will likely require different controls. My main thought is that you probably want to emulate something the program understands.

E.g. with a game controller you want the 'A'-button to just represent a series of keystrokes (such as Ctrl+Alt+B+X, just a kind of difficult shortcut) and just have your macro program (AHK) to capture that.

While with a dial/paddle of some sorts, you probably want to capture the raw input values (e.g. turning it all the way to the left is 0, all the way to the right 255) and do something with those raw values in your macro program of choice (like have AHK set your volume to a percentage relative to the dial control).

 

This requires a 'middle man' of sorts, in the form of a program which capture input and reshapes that input to something usable.

[quickhakker]

1 minute ago, Minibois said:

Huh, interesting question.. I would guess the method of doing this will highly depend on the type of device it is.

I mean, a game controller or a paddle/dial of some sorts will likely require different controls. My main thought is that you probably want to emulate something the program understands.

E.g. with a game controller you want the 'A'-button to just represent a series of keystrokes (such as Ctrl+Alt+B+X, just a kind of difficult shortcut) and just have your macro program (AHK) to capture that.

While with a dial/paddle of some sorts, you probably want to capture the raw input values (e.g. turning it all the way to the left is 0, all the way to the right 255) and do something with those raw values in your macro program of choice (like have AHK set your volume to a percentage relative to the dial control).

 

This requires a 'middle man' of sorts, in the form of a program which capture input and reshapes that input to something usable.

would this be picked up well by joy2key and work that way or don't you know

[minibois]

6 minutes ago, quickhakker said:

would this be picked up well by joy2key and work that way or don't you know

Hmm, I hoped like any other Logitech G product you could just change the buttons to whatever and it would be ez pz, but looks like it has native support in Farm Sim (only?).

Quality setup guide by the way

 

Digging a little further, it looks like this was originally a Saitek product, Saitek now being a company under Logitech. 

Looking at this review:

You can see (starting at around 6:45), this device is just a game controller, with a bunch of buttons and a joystick.

Looks like AHK can see joystick buttons: https://autohotkey.com/docs/misc/RemapJoystick.htm

Here is some more info on that: https://www.autohotkey.com/docs/KeyList.htm#Joystick

So it might just be possible to use this device as a 'macro device'.

 

Whether it's viable (seeing as you can get a Razer Synapse compatible for like 80 USD and get 108 easy to setup macros just like that) is up to you.

So if you were to get this from a store, I would get it from one with a somewhat generous return policy; in case it doesn't work as intended.