With the dongle set up as such I started Heli-圆 simulator and it worked!! It did allow me to see that with the dongle switch in position ‘3: G5 G6 G7’ it recognised more inputs or channels than in any other switch position.
So after some research I downloaded some shareware called ‘USB Overdrive’ which is “a device driver for Mac OS X that handles any USB or Bluetooth mouse, keyboard, trackball, joystick, gamepad or gaming device from any manufacturer.” This software is interesting as you can open it and will be able to see if your mac is recognizing inputs from your transmitter – and then map them if you wish to keystrokes or mouse movements (which for this purpose is completely useless). I tried it with the HELI-X6 simulator and it didn’t work either. I later got it to work but not sure why it didn’t work at first, it was perhaps because I had the switch on my dongle in the wrong position (Phoenix RC mode doesn’t work). I couldn’t find any mac drivers despite lots of searching so I haven’t used any dongle specific drivers.įirstly I tried to use the controller with the Freerider simulator, but it didn’t work at this point. The software linked by Banggood are windows drivers and are useless for Mac.
blink slowly if you’ve connected your transmitter to it with the cable and it has detected it without any problem.stay on constantly if it hasn’t found your transmitter,.When you connect it to your USB it will flash rapidly for a few seconds. I bought this one from Bangood, I think they all work the same though: (search banggood for "22 in 1 RC Flight Simulator Cable for Realflight G7 G6 G5 G4")įor this dongle at least, there is a white LED inside.
I quickly realized it was necessary to buy a cheap USB dongle to act as an interface or USB “controller” to translate the PPM signal from my transmitter into something that Mac OSX could understand. I hope this thread will help others to use their controller with their mac and flight simulators without expensive or difficult to use additional software. The only answer I could find was using a VM but after about a week I got it to work. Hi, this is my first post on RC Groups, I had a lot of trouble trying to get my transmitter to control quad flight sims on my mac using OSX and without using a VM (virtual machine) because my mac doesn’t have any VM software installed or set up.