PTT Keybind Problems

[McNubblet]

Heyas,

Hopefully someone can point out a glaringly obvious mistake I'm making with my config, I'm very new to VA

I currently use different keybinds for PTT ingame voip (CAPSLOCK), and PTT Discord (MOUSE4).

Issue #1 - When I set the Global Hotkey "Push to not listen Caps Lock", VA is not suspending listening when holding down caps lock.  When setting the hotkey, it recognises the key press and sets it correctly, it just doesn't work.  Setting the Mouse Click Recognition to "Back Down Stop Listening" works as expected.

Issue #2 - The global hotkeys are "resuming listening" even if listening was previously disabled.  I get that this is probably expected behaviour (or should be for a toggle action anyways), but when "hold to disable" type functionality is selected, I would expect it see that it's already not listening, so don't turn it back on when the hotkey release action occurs? 

I tried to get around #2 with a command, however I can only see the option to bind to a key press+release/click event, not a button hold event and a separate release event.  I do see the option to "repeat command while buttons are held down", however I don't see an option to select "listening state" as a variable for an if condition.

Any help anyone can give is greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Nub

[Pfeil]

Issue #1 - When I set the Global Hotkey "Push to not listen Caps Lock", VA is not suspending listening when holding down caps lock.  When setting the hotkey, it recognises the key press and sets it correctly, it just doesn't work.

What do you mean by "it just doesn't work"?

I tried to get around #2 with a command, however I can only see the option to bind to a key press+release/click event, not a button hold event and a separate release event.  I do see the option to "repeat command while buttons are held down", however I don't see an option to select "listening state" as a variable for an if condition.

As mentioned in this topic, you'd normally use two separate commands.

The "Repeat command while buttons are held down" is not intended for this. It executes the actions within your command over and over again in a loop, as long as the button(s) are held down.

The listening state can be checked using the "{STATE_LISTENING}" token.


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[McNubblet]

What do you mean by "it just doesn't work"?

When I hold down the Caps Lock key, VA doesn't stop listening.

Really helpful info.

Thanks very much for this - I think I can see a way around the problem now.