betoule Posted January 4 Posted January 4 (edited) Due to Essential Temour in my hands it's difficult to use a mouse to control the locomotive. I do have a button box from my iRacing days. Can I connect it to SimRail? Edited January 4 by betoule Mis-spelling
Gazz292 Posted January 4 Posted January 4 Yes you can... i use 3D printed switch and button boxes as well as controllers to drive my favourite trains in SimRail... for me it's about immersion, i hate using a keyboard or mouse to drive a train. Can your button box be programmed to send keyboard keys? If so, then that's all you need to do, just program each button on it to send the relevant keyboard keys that you use to operate the controls in the trains (quite a few keybinds need assigning in the controls menu of SimRail first, a lot of things you operate with the mouse can be triggered with keybinds) If the button box only sends joystick buttons, then you can use a program like JoytoKey to change the joystick buttons into keyboard key presses... i use this myself for my home made button boxes that i use a joystick button board inside them. you basically just press each button on the button box with JoytoKey open, and select the input that shows up and set that to the relevant keyboard key that SimRail uses for that control in the trains. Below is a screenshot of the JoytoKey assignment i set up for my EU07 train switch panel :
betoule Posted January 4 Author Posted January 4 Thanks Gazz292. Yes, it’s a simple button box so I will do my best to use the Joytokey software and hope it will make my drives a little easier and on time, at last. 1
betoule Posted January 7 Author Posted January 7 (edited) Many thanks to Gazz292 I have a functioning button box. As helpful as this is it does not negate the problems I have with controlling a mouse as my essential tremors make it very difficult to control brake and power. I am hoping for a commercial control box for SimRail. Edited January 7 by betoule
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