Joystick with Mac/iOS

[takepan]

What software are people using to connect their joystick to the IF? I tried Map-Connect but it didn’t worked (Map-Connect did successfully connect to the IF and Map-Connect did recognize my joystick, but input was not registered to the IF itself.) Any software recommendation?

[Murilo_Heindrich]

Did you manage to talk to Map-connect developer?

[CaptainSooraj]

Hey!

This is what the developers of Map Connect have said, about a month ago.

Map Connect - Use your Joystick and Keyboard to fly!

🚨Official Notice from Map-Flight Studio Staff Team🚨 Since the last year people usually ask me, and the team, when will the new update for Map Connect. I am sorry about it we haven’t release it to public or Alpha/Beta. Because of the schoolwork in China is too hard for me and @AirChina196 to do our work. Last term was my final term in Junior High School, and I have to study for a better Senior High School. At the same time, @AirChina196 was studying for IELTS to study aboard. Luckily, he has got…

I’d suggest continuing in that same thread.

[Murilo_Heindrich]

Given that, I’ll suggest the one that currently IFRaspberryPi. Map-connect is very good too.

IFJoystickPi - connect your joystick devices to IF using a Raspberry Pi! (Free Beta)

NOTE: THIS IS A PRE-RELEASE BETA VERSION - YOU MAY RUN INTO ISSUES Hey everyone! I’m John, the third-party developer of In-Flight Assistant (app to bring IF realism to the next level), In-Flight Operations (flight report generator app), and In-Flight Instruments. One of the most requested features for IF is to connect a joystick, unfortunately iOS only supports Bluetooth devices but joysticks tend to be USB only. This is a Raspberry Pi program that will connect to a running IF instance and le…

[takepan]

I’ve read that thread, and I thought asking them for a help now isn’t the best idea.

[takepan]

This didn’t work for me(I don’t have a linux environment)

[takepan]

Update on this: map-connect suddenly decided to work

[sqeezelemon]

As far as I’m aware, a java executable should work in a JVM on a non-linux device. Sadly I don’t have my joystick with me to try at the moment, but it might still be worthy of a try. Just search up how to run a ,jar file on your platform and you should be good

[takepan]

I did managed to run a IFJoystickPi and it connected to the IF successfully, but it didn’t recognize my joystick (I couldn’t install a required package). Homebrew doesn’t have a package I needed (joystick).