Some may know about my cockpit, which is a very loose approximation of a Twin Otter built around the Aerosoft Twin Otter Extended. For a while now Russ has been helping me make it better by adding gauges with Air Manager. We're almost there so I thought I would share this video of an early test flight with the new panel.
Twin Otter Cockpit
Re: Twin Otter Cockpit
Neat setup!
My YouTube Chanel on the A320 (Real SOPs by an Airline Pilot IRL):
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... 0Q6SBASRqJ
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... 0Q6SBASRqJ
Re: Twin Otter Cockpit
Hi,
Very nice work Mark
Something that might be of interest to you somewhere in the future, is that the upcoming raspberry pi version of Air Manager also has support for hardware I/O, like LED's, buttons, rotary encoders, etc. You can also drive the full HD monitor with all the instruments from the same raspberry Pi.
See this link for available API functions:
http://siminnovations.com/wiki/index.ph ... lopment.29
Demo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEZkd7cYj6k
Not sure if you even want to go that route, or maybe you have another way of interfacing hardware with FSX. Just saying
Kind regards,
Corjan
Very nice work Mark
Something that might be of interest to you somewhere in the future, is that the upcoming raspberry pi version of Air Manager also has support for hardware I/O, like LED's, buttons, rotary encoders, etc. You can also drive the full HD monitor with all the instruments from the same raspberry Pi.
See this link for available API functions:
http://siminnovations.com/wiki/index.ph ... lopment.29
Demo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEZkd7cYj6k
Not sure if you even want to go that route, or maybe you have another way of interfacing hardware with FSX. Just saying
Kind regards,
Corjan
Re: Twin Otter Cockpit
Well it looks like a different direction but ultimately it may be a better option. I can't tell how it's all going to fit together from those little snippets but I would imagine you are taking all the logic (Lua code) off the server and onto a client machine. As long as we can read and write the FSX vars and Lvars remotely it will make things a lot simpler than now. No FSUIPC and no LINDA, for a startCorjan wrote: Not sure if you even want to go that route, or maybe you have another way of interfacing hardware with FSX. Just saying
Re: Twin Otter Cockpit
Hi,
It is indeed a client raspberry pi which does basically all the work.
It can run a full instrument, just like the desktop version of Air Manager. In fact, the same instrument that runs on the desktop version can run on the raspberry pi (with one exception to the text objects). The raspberry is powerful enough to run a full HD monitor around 30 FPS.
The functions that drive the hardware are available in the same manner as all other API functions. So you can for example write to a LVAR when you press a button, or drive a LED from a LVAR. The possibilities are quite endless
Small code example:
For the hardware functions to work, the instrument should run on the raspberry pi itself, it cannot run on the desktop. We have plans to also support the hardware API functions with external hardware like teensy and arduino's, but that will still take a while.
Kind regards,
Corjan
It is indeed a client raspberry pi which does basically all the work.
It can run a full instrument, just like the desktop version of Air Manager. In fact, the same instrument that runs on the desktop version can run on the raspberry pi (with one exception to the text objects). The raspberry is powerful enough to run a full HD monitor around 30 FPS.
The functions that drive the hardware are available in the same manner as all other API functions. So you can for example write to a LVAR when you press a button, or drive a LED from a LVAR. The possibilities are quite endless
Small code example:
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-- Bind to Raspberry Pi 2, Header P1, Pin 38, and drive the output low initially
hw_output_id = hw_output_add("RPI_V2_P1_38", false)
function callback(altitude)
-- Drive the output high when altitude is higher then 1000
hw_output_write(hw_output_id, altitude > 1000)
end
fsx_variable_subscribe("INDICATED ALTITUDE", "Feet", callback)
For the hardware functions to work, the instrument should run on the raspberry pi itself, it cannot run on the desktop. We have plans to also support the hardware API functions with external hardware like teensy and arduino's, but that will still take a while.
Kind regards,
Corjan
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Re: Twin Otter Cockpit
Plz when can we ekspect to Get our hands on these Gauges.twin otter
Re: Twin Otter Cockpit
Hello to All
Christian the french cockpit builder, has published on the Aircockpit forum a few pics of his Twin Otter cockpit. Though the message is in french, I thought you could have a look at the photos.
http://www.aircockpit.com/viewtopic.php ... 429#p64429
Jacques
Christian the french cockpit builder, has published on the Aircockpit forum a few pics of his Twin Otter cockpit. Though the message is in french, I thought you could have a look at the photos.
http://www.aircockpit.com/viewtopic.php ... 429#p64429
Jacques
My YouTube Chanel on the A320 (Real SOPs by an Airline Pilot IRL):
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... 0Q6SBASRqJ
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... 0Q6SBASRqJ
Re: Twin Otter Cockpit
Christian a fait un grand projet
Google chrome offers to translate the forum page to English so I was able to get most of the comments there.
Google chrome offers to translate the forum page to English so I was able to get most of the comments there.
Russ Barlow
Air Manager Evangelist
Air Manager Evangelist
Re: Twin Otter Cockpit
Merci, tous les développeurs y sont pour quelque chose.Christian a fait un grand projet
Thank you also in developers(gauge, electronic, panel ...)
Christian
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Re: Twin Otter Cockpit
im about to order some screens for gauges, im thinking of Dell P2016 19.5" 1440x900, is this an ok screen for use with the upcoming gauges?
frank
frank