Announcing a new(ish) iPhone DCS companion app

[POLARIS1]

https://itunes.apple.com/il/app/yawc/id495914525?mt=8

[Digital Aura]

https://itunes.apple.com/il/app/yawc/id495914525?mt=8

 

That's not even the same one I had. Mine was called iWarthog. It was for the iphone. This is only for the ipad.

Edited June 14, 2014 by Digital Aura

[FLEXCopMNPD]

iWarthog was removed from the AppStore for some reason :( I have it on my iPhone but not my iPad :(

 

TS,

Are there any versions compatible with IOS 5.x? I have an original iPad that I "got back" from my family since they all have the New iPad and don't need the ancient one that they "acquired" from me when I first bought it.

 

FLEX

[TigersharkBAS]

Check out YAWC. Yet another warthog checklist. It should still be available.

[Lt_Berkut]

I would certainly be interested... why not start a kickstarter fund raiser?

[CodeToad]

DCS World "Kneeboard" app

 

Sorry I am late to the party here (just noticed this thread) - please see this post re my in-progress DCS World "Kneeboard" app:

 

• open source
  
• collaborative
  
• multi-device (phone, tablet, laptop, desktop)
  
• multi-OS (win, mac, linux, ios, android etc.)
  
• "web app" ie everything just runs in a web browser (HTML, javascript)
  

 

for DCS related info (checklists, maps, annotations, calculators etc)

Would love to hear your thoughts, suggestions.

 

[TigersharkBAS]

CodeToad...thanks for sharing

Your idea is intriguing. It would better if all this content was available as a kind of service for anyone to write any kind of UI on top. I mean, separate the data from the presentation.

 

Can a webpage read UDP from DCS and react accordingly like a an app could?

[jay43]

Will this be available for android or are you only making it for ipad.

[TigersharkBAS]

My app is iOS only. I have neither the time or resources to learn how to make stuff for Android. CodeToad though is proposing something that is platform independent as it will be web browser based.

[Ninja1959]

Great work congratulations........

[CodeToad]

CodeToad...thanks for sharing

Your idea is intriguing. It would better if all this content was available as a kind of service for anyone to write any kind of UI on top. I mean, separate the data from the presentation.

 

TigerSharkBAS - thank you. You and other people on the forum really set the standard for helping us DCS fans and organizing information like you do on your wiki !

 

Yes, what you suggest - separating the data from the presentation - is good software engineering practice and I'd be happy to coordinate on how how to do that best. Here or on PM ? Couple of thoughts:

 

1. there will probably still be some form of markup (think title, description for glossary entries or "steps" for checklists and then some markup for things like keyboard shortcuts or links to manual pages etc.) So one question would be invent new kind of markup or use HTML ?

 

2. secondly, this will complicate things a little bit since the data will need to be parsed and compiled into code (Java for Android, ObjC for iOS, HTML for web), so that adds steps to the process between "adding the data" and "seeing it work" for testing. Not a big deal for a software engineer, but more work for someone who doesn't (and probably shouldn't need to) understand tools like php, python or other scripts to do the compilation from data into html. My intention was to open the data creation and editing up to a very broad audience, thus allowing easier and more numerous contributions. You just need a text editor and a browser: edit, save, reload (repeat). But lets think, perhaps there is an easy way to do that with the data separated out (loading the data file with javascript and generating the necessary HTML via javascript only) ?

 

Can a webpage read UDP from DCS and react accordingly like a an app could?

 

I am guessing you are asking because you want to send DCS telemetry directly to a browser, for example to show instrument clusters or realtime TacView type displays ?

 

There is WebRTC (UDP). It is designed for real time communication - think Audio/Video. But one could use WebRTC generic data channels for telemetry over UDP. (Browser support)

 

If you are willing (and DCS is able) to go TCP, then WebSockets are good, low latency, broadly supported way to do that.

You could then also use a node.js server on your DCS machine to read the UDP streams and socket.io library for easy distribution to clients.

 

There are a lot of good free as well as commercial graphing tools and dashboards tools available (Highcharts, Raphael.js, Google Chart widgets, riemann realtime dashboard).

 

For TacView like 3D visualizations WebGL is available in any modern browser (and >=iOS 8 Safari).

Somewhat related examples: spacecraft telemetry visualizer, Cesium library for creating 3D globes and 2D maps showing realtime data. World flight route visualization, and contrails

Edited August 23, 2014 by CodeToad