Useful Button Mapping Ideas - Any Wheel Setup

[elnino]

Once in awhile i come across a button mapping that just feels like a perfect match - stuff like using paddle shifters for turn signals (if you have H shifter of course) but that's rather obvious. Tonight I came across a new one that had me wiondering what else folks have come up with.

Wipers/Wiper back. If you have a momentary toggle switch on your wheel or elsewhere, with two buttons on the same dial turning left or right (mine is on a thrustmaster TS-PC wheel)- or even just a rotary encoder on a button box, this works great for this. turn one way to increase wiper speed, turn the other way to decrease, or turn off. Previously i was using a single wiper button, which felt way less realistic.

Also, on one of my button boxes, I wired up an external toggle switch with a long wire so i could mount it next to my H-shifter. I use this for high/low range, and can reach it with my thumb while holding the shifter (g27 shifter still)

Not groundbreaking stuff I know but you get the idea. I'm curious what clever mappings everyone has come up with that feel like a nice find.

[natvander]

If you use Joy2Key you can assign multiple keys to the same button/paddle etc. So a button convenient for wiper operation can be used to both turn on and off the wipers (tap to turn on, hold to turn off).

I personally use two small 4 way joysticks attached to my thrustmaster wheel which controls indicators, wipers, auto transmission functions and retarder functions along with two home made button boxes for all other functions.

[elnino]

@natvander That is a good idea. I've used joy2key in the past but at some point stopped using it to simplify my setup a bit, but I could see that being really useful to save on a few buttons. thanks! I've also tried the "extra numberpad as an additional controller" option but for myself it becomes too much to remember (I'm using VR) since I generally sit down to drive only once in awhile these days.