Gladiator NXT Premium Ministick Config

[joshc]

Just got my new Gladiator NXT today and I love it so far. One thing I'm iffy on so far is the POV/ministick.

Is it possible to configure it as POV with pushbutton only - no mode switching? I want to use the center press as a center view button. I've found the instructions to set it to TempoB so that a short press registers as a button push and a long press as a mode switch, but I'm not sure that's what I want.

I have limited use for a ministick because I have my radar cursor mapped to a ministick on my throttle. I could try using it for that, but adjusting to mode switching between POV and radar cursor sounds like a pain. I'm also leery of accidentally holding the button a bit too long and switching modes unintentionally.

I know I could swap the ministick for the hat module that came in the box but I'm not sure if it's an 8-way or 4-way hat, and if I can do the same thing with a software change, that'd be a lot easier.

So is there any way to leave the hardware as it is but disable mode switching? Or maybe make the long press time something long enough that I couldn't do it accidentally?

[Ron61]

Hi joshc.
There are two ways to solve the problem.
We can turn off the axes for microstick mode and leave only POVs. Uncheck the En, Vs checkboxes in Profile-Axes-Logic axes for 5 and 6 axes and set Povs to Always instead of ON / Off. Naturally, we do not need a switch in this case and we configure it as a simple button.
Or we can leave everything as it is, but increase the timing of Tempo up to 1(1000ms) second. This is a parameter in Global-Common-Tempo Time.