My Il-2 does not detect Leo Bodnar's BU0836A

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Originally Posted by oj123

[...] But I will try one BU0836A all by itself in different usb ports - and then report here.

Well, , the problem is *not* about IL-2 ignoring a BU0836A, but all about me having two of them. And not even that exactly, but having them at the IDs 3 and 4... But let me explain:
- Connecting two BU0836A all by themselves, Il-2 will accept both (reporting them, in my case, with ID3 and ID4)
- After additionally connecting a G940 without the Pedals(!), Il2-2 will report the stick with no ID (implicitly ID1) and the throttle with ID2, and one BU0836A with ID4, but will completly ignore the BU0836A at ID3...

I can only guess at the reasons:
- The JoyIDs Utility has a similiar phenomena: You cannot swap ID's between the two BU0836A. You have to swap the one BU0836A with, say, the G940 stick, then the second with the stick, and lastly the first with the stick again...
- Another strange thing: The IDs set with this JoyIDs Utility show perfectly in my own software (using Win32 Api): If I change the ID of the G940 throttle to 5, I can access the throttle using ID 5 - but in Il-2 the throttle perpetually keeps ID2, the stick ID1 and the BU0836As (ID3) and ID4. I am still researching where IL-2 gets its IDs from. Thei show in Users/.../settings.ini as 'JoystickDevice0', 'JoystickDevice1, etc., but have no relation to what JoyIDs and Win32 API set/use/show...

I do not really know what I am confronted with here, but as I feed almost everything via Devicelink and Autohotkey to Il-2, the problem is not really pressing... If I find out new things (playing around with DirectInput), I'll report here.

Thanks to everybody for the suggestions

oj