I am using Echo Aviation Controller on GeForce Now before it’s supported. Hear’s how…
I don’t have a PC good enough to run Microsoft Flight Sim 2024 and I don’t have the money to buy one.
But I’ve found that my old laptop can use GeForce Now to run MSFS 24 and it’s good!!!
So for a nice minimal setup I bought the Honeycomb Echo Aviation Controller. What a great device!
Unfortunately it is not yet supported by GeForce Now (here’s hoping as this would be the best device to use for mobile flight simming).
I looked at many solutions like Flexihub that try to send your usb to a cloud desctop but I couldn’t get it to work on GeForce Now.
But I found one video suggesting that you can use usb controllers through steam installed on your pc.
My pc is man enough to install Steam and the Echo controller is installed too.
The trick…
1) Open steam go to the ‘Steam’ dropdown (top left) and select ‘settings’.
2) Select ‘Controls’ you inside settings. You will see the Echo Aviation and you can use a wizard to set up each button to control steam and any game you play.
3) in the wizard most buttons are self explanitory to set up A,B,X,Y Use the hat for up,down,left,right the left joysick is obvious but after messing around I pulled the parking break out instead of pressing down on the left joystick.
I moved the back steering paddles instead of the right joystick left right and I chose one of the throttles instead of the right joystick up down (put the throttle in a middle position and when it asks you to move the right stick up, move the throttle from the middle to the top and back, then when that is confirmed, when it asks you to move the right stick down, move the throttle down and back to the middle.)
I used the gear up instead of right joystick click.
I gently turned the trim wheel up for the left bumper and down for the left trigger and the flap down for Right bumper and flap up instead of Right Trigger.
After that the select start and home buttons were the three buttons around the main on off button on the controller.
4) Once that’s done in the controller wizard move to the second part of the wizard to make sure that add xbox controllers to games is on and add support for other controllers is also on.
You can now close the settings.
5) Use the ‘add other software’ button bottom left of the steam UI from the list add ‘GeForce Now’.
This will now show GeForce Now in your Steam library.
This is the clever bit!!! If steam launches GeForce Now, it passes the controls that you set up through to GeForce Now!!!
6) Last step…
Open GeForce Now from inside your steam library. You will find you can now navigate around the GeForce Now UI using the hat switch and select using the 4 buttons next to it.
Open Microsoft Flight sim inside GeForce Now (if you are testing you can pat £3.99 for one day)
Once MSFS 24 loads, (you should know it’s working as you can still navigate using the hat switch and the 4 buttons ABXY. Now we just need to set up the controls in settings.
Tip…When setting up the controls start with the throttle you set up in the middle position, the parking break pushed in and the landing gear switch up.
You should see in the controller setting area three input devices Mouse, keyboard and Controller.
Click on controller and set it up as you like.
I found the gear and parking break needed the same input but switch one to be ‘action on release’ (i.e when the switch is turned off) think of these as working like a light switch. Gear down when turned on, gear up when turned off.
AND THAT’S IT YOU CAN PLAY
Hope that helped. Sorry you can’t use the Bumpers/triggers or three of the throttles but at least we can play using the Echo Aviation in GeForce Now before it’s supported.
I recon this would work for any other controllers that steam can recognise too.
Have a go. Let me know if it works for too.
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Mcrumpto ·
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