English Text XIM Nexus Trigger Calibration Full Guide

All right guys,

So today I want to show you how to calibrate your Nexus Triggers. This is the fifth part of probably 6 videos, in which I will show you all trigger features of XIM Nexus. In the previous part you have learned how to setup the Quick Pull Feature. If you haven’t watched it yet, then you can find a link to it in the video description.

One of the biggest advantages of XIM Nexus is that you can re-run the calibration process whenever you want to. Normal controllers are calibrated once in the factory and cannot be re-calibrated anymore once they have left the production facility. As a result they can develop stick drift or trigger problems. With Nexus you will not have these issues. You can redo the calibration at any point, and it will only take a few seconds. On top of that you can even manually adjust the calibration outcome, so the triggers and sticks will work exactly how you want them to feel. Today I will show you how to do that for the Nexus triggers.

Now in order to access the calibration menu just head into the global settings of your Nexus Manager. You can find this menu in the top right corner of your Nexus Manager. After that you have to click on the calibration button.
As you can see there are two calibration options. The top one will re-calibrate your sticks and triggers, while the bottom one will calibrate your sensor. After each stick and trigger calibration you must also run the sensor calibration, so please keep that in mind if you want to recalibrate your Nexus.

Let’s do the automated calibration first. So what I will do now is to click on the trigger and stick calibration.
For 10 seconds I will now have to spin the analog sticks in circles, and press and release the triggers several times. It doesn’t matter into which direction you spin the sticks, and you do not have to do both at the same time. Personally I prefer to spin the sticks for 5 seconds, and then press and release the triggers for another 5 seconds. Please make sure to not press your triggers with too much force as this can negatively affect the calibration outcome. So press them with the same force as you would do in a normal gaming session. Also, you can re-run the calibration as often as you want to.

Once your stick and trigger calibration is complete, its time to do the sensor calibration. As I said earlier, you will have to do this each time you do the stick and trigger calibration. The second calibration is quite easy. Just place your Nexus on a flat surface and wait a few seconds. The surface should object that doesn’t move while the Nexus is doing the calibration. Also do not touch your Nexus while the calibration is still running.
Once this this done the automatic calibration is complete.

You can either leave this menu now, or manually tweak your calibration results. In general the automatic calibration should always provide excellent results. So normally there shouldn’t be any need to do some manual changes. If you want to do that however, then you have to swipe three times to the right to enter the trigger calibration. In a future video I will of course also show you how to do manually adjust your analog stick calibration.

As you can see there are five values to adjust here. The top two are the trigger deadzones.
The inner deadzone specifies the area in which the controller will not recognize any trigger input. So this equals the 0% range. If I set this value to 200 for example, and slowly press the trigger to 100%, you can see how a large share of my trigger will not result in an activation. I have to press the trigger beyond the dark area before any input is being recognized. As long as the indicator shows a red colour my Nexus will ignore this input. And once it turns blue the press distance is being recognized.

Now the same applies to the outer deadzone. This is the area in which the Nexus will register a 100% input. If I lower my outer deadzone value by 200 you can once again see the dark area. When I completely press my Nexus Trigger now, the Nexus will recognize a 100% trigger signal as soon as I enter the dark area. As you can see I can release by trigger by quite a bit and still stay in the dark area.
So if your trigger starts to become lose or develops an unwanted activation behavior, then you can easily fix that by changing the deadzone values.

The last three values are the Center, Limit and Noise options.
The easiest one to understand is the noise option. It eliminates the natural jitter of analog sensors. The noise value usually doesn’t require any tweaking at all.
The second option is the limit value. You can imagine this option as a safe area around the range results that you got from the trigger calibration. The lower the value, the more you are pushing the limits of the calibrated range. Here is an example for a better understanding. Lets say during the calibration you pressed the triggers with too much force into the controller. As a result you can only reach the 100% activation when you press the trigger with the same force. To avoid that you can increase the limit value, so you no longer have to press the trigger with so much force into the controller.
The last option is the center. The center value allows you to adjust the location that your Nexus will interpret as the middle of your trigger. You obviously want the middle of your physical trigger to be in line with the recognized trigger distance. So that when you press your trigger to the 50% mark, your Nexus will also read that as a 50% trigger press.

And you can of course you can do the same for the left trigger as well. For that just swipe one more time to the right. Once you are done with your calibration adjustments you can press the save button in the top left and leave this menu. In the next episode I will show you how to assign the Trigger roles and what they are used for.