Monday 1 December 2014

CH PRO PEDALS and Linux X-Plane

The CH Pro Pedals feel like very well constructed pedals and come with no drivers meaning they are USB HID and should work out of the box.



http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00EECN6HO/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=B00EECN6HO&linkCode=as2&tag=xpd259shome-21&linkId=ZVDSGPJMK3HFEVEK
CH PRO PEDALS
they come with with two black plastic "plugs" to lock the sliding motion allowing them to use be used as petrol / brake controls with ease.
and while they don't weigh a lot they don't slide around on my carpet flooring.




Specifications
  • With differential toe brake support and a Petrol / brake function
  • Three axis of control
  • Sliding motion of forward/backward gives rudder input for the "yaw" axis.
  • USB interface with a Seven foot cable
But sadly, while KDE detected them and they worked X-Plane did not.
this is an easy fix.

As root create a file called /etc/udev/rules.d/99-X-plane.rules or where ever your Gnu/Linux stores the rules files for udev
and enter the following on one line of text 

KERNEL=="event*", ATTRS{idProduct}=="00f2", ATTRS{idVendor}=="068e", MODE="0666"

then save and reboot and X-Plane will now detect your new Pedals
and configure as required. (I had to click the  reverse option in X Plane)

The Pedals can be bought from amazon
CH Pro Pedals USB - Flight Simulator Pedals


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