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I have also have had problems with usb hubs when adding a second in serial with an other. The communication via the second was very unreliable, stopping suddenly with socat reporting "no permission". The work around was to remove the second usb hub and connect all Arduinos to the first usb hub via 5 meter long usb cables. I don't know why the second hub caused the errors. It's a cheap no-name hub without power connection, but it's specified for USB 3.0. Maybe a more quality brand hub would solve the problem, but these are expensive.

There is the multicast-console.cmd script which I use.

Thanks for your work with the manual! But there should be a unique version number every time the document is updated. For example on the first page in the document. If you previously have downloaded the document, you never know if this is the latest update version or not.

I'm using script multiple-com-ports.cmd, which is auto started at Windows boot. I have configured the script with the 2 com ports use. If have to adjust any Arduino code, the script has to be stopped/killed manually. And after the upload of code to Arduino, restarted manually. It's ok to use the script with only one com-port also.

Thanks!

How do you examine an aircraft module? In DCS-BIOS Developer Guide (https://github.com/DCSFlightpanels/dcs-bios/blob/master/Scripts/DCS-BIOS/doc/developerguide.adoc), in chapter "The DCS-BIOS Lua Code", are some information about how to add a new aircraft module, but no info about how to examine an already installed module. There is a minimal example how to add a module, which give some hints how to examine a module. But I don't to understand much of this. Are there other sources which have a more detailed description about this matter? What tools do I need to get further?

In BIOS.lua are lot of statements like this: I assume in this case the file "Util.lua" is executed, and some global variables are set. But don't understand the syntax. I have learnt "lfs" stands for Lua file system, but I have not found any lfs manual referens which has "writedir". For example this: http://math2.org/luasearch/lfs.html And what the ".." mean/do?

I have filed bug report for DCS-bios and AJS37. https://github.com/DCSFlightpanels/dcs-bios/issues/170 As the bug report says, the dcs-bios for AJS37 should be updated.

Thanks! I thought I had to download the arduino-library separately, but I now realize it's included in the dcs-bios zipfile. If you have have the standard DCS (not beta), should you use same dcs-bios zipfile, as for the beta version?

Thanks for your input, but it doesn't fully answer my questions. The video tell to download the zip file under the "Code" header, but doesn't explain what the other downloadfiles under "Release" are, and their purpose.

I use openbeta. Which dcs-bios zip file should I download? On page https://github.com/DCSFlightpanels/dcs-bios are several download alternatives: - Code/Download Zip - New DCS Stable Update 2.8.4 (Releases/Latest) with 3 Assets/download files: - DCS-BIOS_0.7.48.zip - Source code (zip) - Source code (tar.gz) Which should I download and use? What's the difference between "Code/Download Zip" and "DCS-BIOS_0.7.48.zip"? I have the same question about downloading dcs-bios-arduino-library. What file should I download? I also have an other installation with a standard version of DCS. Should I use the same dcs-files as for the openbeta?

Thank for info! My idea is to start DCS and serial communication from one and same batch file, so I don't have to start those separately.

Is it possible start DCS and connect-serial-port.cmd from one script/batch-file? I assume this is a problem because (i assume) the the serial communication can not be started before DCS is fully loaded and started.

Thanks for the information. It's very valuable to me as an new user of DCS-BIOS. I also found the multiple-com-ports.cmd file. I wasn't aware of this before.

Does this mean that every Arduino will have it own COM-port (using Windows) and do I have to start several connect-serial-port.cmd, each indicating a different COM-port for each Arduino?

Is it possible to connect several Ardunio's to DCS-BIOS (flightpanel fork)?

I'm not thankfull! I have 3 projectors in surround mode. Now the control page is scattered over all these displays. Making hard to set controls.

In most monitor setup files are UIMainView and GU_MAIN_VIEWPORT assigned to some viewport defined earlier in the file. What does UIMainView and GU_MAIN_VIEWPORT control and set?

Thanks all for your information! I have now found the specific modules manuals. What I'm was seeking at first hand, was a manual about DCS itself, explaining all the common terms and how to start playing with DCS. For example explain what MFCD is. The FAQ explains lot of details, but I think it should include more about the first steps with DCS.

I have not found any manual for DCS. Only https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/support/faq/ and it has no explanation about the terms.

I'm new with DCS and have trouble to understand when setting up monitor the meaning of MFCD, LEFT_MFCD, RIGHT_MFCD etc. I can't find any explanation of these.