HOW TO: Virtual Cockpit / Device Link

[Maltloaf]

I would go further and say any sort of realistic navigation with out it is pretty much impossible. It is essential for all OCs and anybody who needs to fly a proper bearing.

[Dickie]

I can't get it to come up when in cockpit without difficulty, and then when it does so I lose all FFB. VC or FFB? I choose FFB.

[Von Webber]

Dave;
Yes sir indeed. The compass and gauges are totally worth it. I like it when flying the Spitfire and Hurri, as the compass is a bit of a pup to view when in flight. I can vector in much easier for the bounce.

I still have that window though, I can't figure out why it's there.

[Miki]

... do you think it should work ?

Hello.

I saw some beautiful homebuilt cockpit. FSX and Falcon 4 seem to be the two main supports.

What about CoD ? We have device link, working pretty well to display gauges on a second screen. Anybody knows if it may be suitable to drive some real gauge with servo ?

[Miki]

Seems... yes :



Adruino + UDP...

[Miki]

Ok, I'm a complete noob, but, at least I can try...

With Cliffs of Dover and TF patch, I understand that we have a plugin named DeviceLink, that brings us some parameters.
=> virtual cokpit is an interface, using DL to display gauges on a second screen =>> working good !

Now, what I would like, is a servo to drive a gauge.

Here is a comment of Andrea from the above You Tube video :

So basically you want to go here: http://theairtacticalassaultgroup.com/f ... php?t=3887 in the first post you find the class for c# to read the data; basically you copy and paste in your program. then in a timer you take the data with something like that: GameCommunications Comm = new GameCommunications(); double Rpm = Comm.GetParameter(GameCommunications.ParameterTypes.I_EngineRPM, 0); when you have the variables you can feed them to arduino via serial. about the gauges there is a good amount of tutorials and projects: http://guy.carpenter.id.au/gaugette/201 ... -gaugette/

Ok, so I understand that I've to create a C# program, paste the TF plugin text in it and extract the data.
After that, using this time Arduino program, I've to take this data and drive a servo.

Easy ?

[Donkey]

Ok, I'm a complete noob, but, at least I can try...

With Cliffs of Dover and TF patch, I understand that we have a plugin named DeviceLink, that brings us some parameters.
=> virtual cokpit is an interface, using DL to display gauges on a second screen =>> working good !

Now, what I would like, is a servo to drive a gauge.

Here is a comment of Andrea from the above You Tube video :

So basically you want to go here: http://theairtacticalassaultgroup.com/f ... php?t=3887 in the first post you find the class for c# to read the data; basically you copy and paste in your program. then in a timer you take the data with something like that: GameCommunications Comm = new GameCommunications(); double Rpm = Comm.GetParameter(GameCommunications.ParameterTypes.I_EngineRPM, 0); when you have the variables you can feed them to arduino via serial. about the gauges there is a good amount of tutorials and projects: http://guy.carpenter.id.au/gaugette/201 ... -gaugette/

Ok, so I understand that I've to create a C# program, paste the TF plugin text in it and extract the data.
After that, using this time Arduino program, I've to take this data and drive a servo.

Easy ?

All seems to make sense to me. Should be a fun project!

D

[Miki]

Ok, I've got something !



You can see above my RPM extracted via a C# program !

As I don't really know C# (or any other language...) you can imagine that I'm very happy, it's the first big step !

[Donkey]

Brilliant!

[Miki]

Progress is low.

Anyway, I was able to link my arduino to my PC and sent to my card some info.
Now I've to link the previous prog using DL to my Arduino.

I sure to be near the solution...