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Thrustmaster TPR Pendular pedals

Postby leechpool » Sun Jul 10, 2022 2:52 am

Hi everyone,
I'm thinking of getting some Thrustmaster TPR pendular rudder pedals. I use Flightgear 2020.3.12 on Ubuntu linux 22.04.
From what I can tell they will just get recognized and work with calibration by jstest etc but thought I better check as I can find very little trying to search for confirmation. (If needs be I can connect them to a Windows machine to run any configuration change software that might be needed- I saw reference to having to do this to set/change the dead spot).
Anyone who has first hand experience, I would appreciate comments/confirmation that these pedals will work with Ubuntu/Flightgear.
Sorry if this is covered elsewhere but I couldn't find it.
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Re: Thrustmaster TPR Pendular pedals

Postby wkitty42 » Sun Jul 10, 2022 10:26 am

FWIW: AFAIK jstest is just for testing the connected device(s)... not for actual calibration... if calibration is needed, you usually do that via your OS' provided calibration tool...
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Re: Thrustmaster TPR Pendular pedals

Postby leechpool » Sun Jul 10, 2022 4:28 pm

wkitty42 wrote in Sun Jul 10, 2022 10:26 am:FWIW: AFAIK jstest is just for testing the connected device(s)... not for actual calibration... if calibration is needed, you usually do that via your OS' provided calibration tool...


wkitty42,
You are probably technically correct. I think I ran jstest-gtk for my existing pedals, which has a GUI front end. Pressed the calibrate button, then used something like the following to make the calibration permanent.

sudo jscal-store /dev/input/js1


I'd still really appreciate anyone who has experience of the Thrustmaster TRP pedals commenting on their compatibility and use with linux / ubuntu and Flightgear.

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Re: Thrustmaster TPR Pendular pedals (and Fulrum One Yoke)  

Postby leechpool » Sun Sep 25, 2022 3:02 pm

Hi everyone,
I ended up getting the Thrustmaster TPR Pendular pedals. Fantastic. I love them. On another level to CH Products Pro pedals. Expensive, but if you have the money and want the improvement, I don't hesitate to recommend :).
I seem to remember them working fine out of the box, but any attempt to use the procedure in the last post to remove the dead spot etc caused issues, but it was easily remedied by manually editing the file /var/lib/joystick/joystick.state (this is where the calibration is saved and reapplied when you restart etc).
joystick.state then contained the following for the pedals:

NAME="Thrustmaster T-Pendular-Rudder"
VENDOR="044f"
PRODUCT="b68f"
jscal -u 3,0,1,2,0
jscal -s 3,1,65535,32767,32767,-16500,-16500,1,65535,32767,32767,-16500,-16500,1,65535,32767,32767,16500,16500

I'm not an expert and the above might not be optimal, but for anyone stuck with jstest / cal throwing a spac, the above might help.

Also for anyone interested and finds this via searching, I also got a Fulcrum One yoke. The improvement over CH Products Yoke was massive / on another level. I loved the CH products yoke and pedals, and I had endless fun using Flightgear with them, but the Fulcrum Yoke and TPR Pedals take you to a much higher level of simulation / control. It comes down to money, what you can afford and how much you value flight sim.... I held off for ages making the upgrades but wished I done it earlier! For completeness the equivalent to the lines above for the Fulcrum Yoke I am using are as follows but I have a feeling the jstest / cal gui was better behaved with the Fulcrum:

NAME="Vitaly [mega_mozg] Naidentsev Fulcrum One Yoke"
VENDOR="0000"
PRODUCT="0000"
jscal -u 4,0,1,16,17,8,288,289,290,291,292,293,294,295
jscal -s 4,1,0,2000,2000,270455,258475,1,0,2100,2100,256377,269911,1,0,0,0,536854528,536854528,1,0,0,0,536854528,536854528


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