Raildriver Controller

Morning all.

Been looking at buying the raildriver controller. I've found this one

https://www.keyboardspecialists.co.uk/products/raildriver-desktop-train-cab-controller

Is it legit. Has anyone dealt with this company please?

 

Can't tell you about the company but I will say this, make sure you pay with either PayPal or a credit card (not debit) because if it doesn't get delivered or isn't as described then you can raise a dispute with PayPal or your card provider and get your money back.

 

Quite legitimate. I bought a Raildriver from them in April. It arrived with no problems, other than being temporally out of stock when I ordered.

 

Have you looked at this site too? https://raildriver.com/products/

 

Thanks, you never know these days.

 

No I didn't see that one, I'll take a look. Thanks.

 

I ordered one from keyboard specialist. It appears to be UK registered, hopefully UK stock and no import duty etc....

 

Fast service, just got home and my rail driver is in my safe place. Obviously I didn't research it properly and just realized it's no good for old British stock

 

What do you mean by "Old British Stock"?
Steam Locos?

 

No like anything British that hasn't got a combined handle.
I couldn't get it to work with train simulator anyway. Got it working with tsw but I cant get on with it.
Theres no notches on the levers so it ends up doing things like continuously jumping between notch 1 and 2 etc.
I got it so I could easily drive with no hud but it seems I still have to keep looking at the handles in the cab or have the hud.

 

Step 1) Uninstall any software that came with the RailDriver
Step 2) Go here > Ts Classic Raildriver And Joystick Interface
(and here for TSW) > Ts World Raildriver And Joystick Interface

 

Emulating hardware notches in accelerator handle of an escutcheon plate under a brake lever with virtual notches will be a bit more difficult to implement.

First of all, one needs a electronically stable variable resistor/potentiometer or better a Hall sensor and a lever mechanism without slop or slack. Would you like to have tactile notches, then a very tight calibration is needed to have the output match the notch position.

Possible with professional hardware, but most of this is out of the price range for a mass market game controller I suppose.
Flight sim hardware sells in larger numbers compared to train driving hardware, so there are reasonably priced flight sticks, yoke's and pedal available, usually in the > 500 < 1000 price range.