AutoTrackIR will automaticaly re-enable your Track IR if flight simulator disabled it.
Important: the current version is flagged by some antivirus scanner as "compromised" see:
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/737263914fd4df11fe4905354926592680ccab307e6f9003194b4a8ccc171a03
The main reason is that av scanner heuristics doesn't like unsigned small .exe.
I will try to do something to avoid that but to be honnest a prefer spending time doing more constructive stuff, so i will not spend a lot of time on it.
I understand that you can't trust me only because i'm a good guy 😇 so i've put a Github repo with the source code of the app.
You can check it, get the code, compile it on your side...
https://github.com/toorop/AutoTrackIR
And you can download precompiled package here;
https://github.com/toorop/AutoTrackIR/releases
How it works ?
It just watches for "TRACK IR ENABLE" simconnect variable.
If the simulator switch this variable to FALSE then AutoTrackIR switch it back to TRUE.
How to use it ?
- launch the TrackIr application.
- launch your sim
- when you are on you plane and your TrackIR is active juste launch autoTrackIr.exe
No idea why this is flagged. It's a few dozen lines of Go code that anybody can inspect on Github and there's nothing "evil" in there. Maybe because of that silly Windows alert? Oh well, just grab it off Github then!
As for the app: you are my hero! For one, how well it works - I can use my TrackIR again! The logging of just how often this idiotic disconnect now trigger and the app had to come to the rescue is eye-opening.
But for me personally, I'm learning Go right now (becoming a popular devops language in addition to Python) and this seems to be very clean Go code that uses a lot of the things that make Go ... well, Go! So, I'm learning a lot just reading your code, well done!
2 years ago
Marakai
I trust you, m8
2 years ago
deepstar
Windows Defender is flagging the executable as containing a Trojan at this time. 😱 OP might want to repack it cleanly.
2 years ago
Grrr... small .exe, not signed, for windows defender heuristics it's must be anything else than a virus :(
I will rebuild it with others options to produce another exe, but i don't guarantee anything.
2 years ago
Toorop
zipply
Thank you very much for this! Works very well until Asobo fixes the issue.
2 years ago
CalsFM
works fine! thank you so much!
2 years ago
k0ot
Great brute force fix for the issue. I like it. Unfortunately it can't fully fix the mess Asobo made here, since the camera still resets back to the default position, but it's much much better.
I don't know the simconnect details, but if there was a way to capture the camera offset just before TrackIR gets disabled and then restore it, that would fully fix the problem.
2 years ago
kowgli
Unfortunately it's causing my system to CTD. How do I uninstall the program?
2 years ago
What did you do when CTD happened ?
Is there any error in the AutoTrackIR console/windows ?
That's strange cause this soft use very few CPU & RAM, it just watch/set a simvar.
That said, as there is nothing installed, you have nothing to uninstall, just drop the folder to the trash bin if you don't want to use it anymore.
2 years ago
Toorop
iflygary
Wonderful Thanks so much
2 years ago
ATY027
Thanks for this! It is working as intended, and is a huge improvement over the current broken TrackIR in SU7!
2 years ago
KodiakJac
Sorry but I can not find the switch in camera to turn on the TrackIR, I have watched you video but am still lost ?
2 years ago
It seems to be working with you program, maybe TrackIR is switched on, I would still like to find it though, thank you.
2 years ago
IanY
IanY
Just when I was getting fed up with having to continually restart TrackIR (and not understanding why MSFS keeps stopping it) this utility comes along! Thank you! I look forward to trying it out when I get home in a few days. Out of interest, if I use a hotswitch to pause TrackIR midflight, will this utility override that, or is it just for when MSFS auto-disables it? Thanks again for your work.
2 years ago
bigblip
Merci et un grand bravo !
2 years ago
hbmog
super, thanks a lot !
2 years ago
gol
do you have a tool for earth which don t rotate in worldmap since update VII?
2 years ago
That's a known "issue" with SU7. Resetting your mouse control profile should fix it.
2 years ago
Sangeki
jaco2656
very good job!!!
yesss
2 years ago
jaco2656