triise's A-10C pit

[Warhog]

Good to see you back Tore. :)

 

In your absence, there have been some significant upgrades to DCS-BIOS. It will require you to download the latest version as well as the Arduino library. You will then need to rewrite your sketches but the rewrite is, for the most part, extremely simple. Ian has made changes that simplify creating a sketch, it includes code for using an RS-485 bus and increases performance.

 

See his thread for more info. http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=141096

[triise]

Good to see you back Tore. :)

 

In your absence, there have been some significant upgrades to DCS-BIOS. It will require you to download the latest version as well as the Arduino library. You will then need to rewrite your sketches but the rewrite is, for the most part, extremely simple. Ian has made changes that simplify creating a sketch, it includes code for using an RS-485 bus and increases performance.

 

See his thread for more info. http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=141096

 

Thank you John :)

 

I've been very busy the last 6 months with my new job, so the homepit has been collecting dust for the most of the time. Hopefully I'll have some time again soon. It's a bit annoying not having time for it, as I had a quick testflight last week and discovered that I'd forgotten many of the HOTAS commands... Well, they probably come back fast when I start again :pilotfly:

 

Hows your project coming along John?

[Warhog]

Thank you John :)

 

I've been very busy the last 6 months with my new job, so the homepit has been collecting dust for the most of the time. Hopefully I'll have some time again soon. It's a bit annoying not having time for it...

 

Hows your project coming along John?

 

It has slowed down considerably which has me very frustrated. I had a series of heart attacks, one in Dec., one in Jan and one in Feb and each time I had a one or two week stay in Hospital That set me back quite a bit. Things have stabilized so I,m back to work on it but it's at a slow pace. It's now getting to the point where I'm asking myself "will I ever get this finished?" I've been at this for 2 years now and it's far from complete. I think it's taking so long because I'm a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to making stuff. I've even rebuilt 3 panels right from scratch as I wasn't happy with how I made them first time around. With all that I have learned this past year, I look at my first panels and realize they are just so poorly made that I need to make new ones. So I have redone my caution panel, Tacan, VVI and Speed indicator. I also remade parts of both VHF radios and the UHF radio. But at least now they won't start to smoke and catch fire any time soon.:music_whistling: :megalol:

 

Sorry for the ramble. I do that a lot now that I'm a grumpy old man.:smilewink:.

 

Good to see you back and Clay...we haven't heard much from you either. Glad to see you are still around as well.

 

John

[0414 Wee Neal]

Hi Warhog

sorry to hear you have been unwell, I hope things improve!

 

On a cheeky note considering its not your own thread, would you be happy to share your updated details for your caution panel? I have previously used your older design but messed up the LED matrix a bit and am just starting to redo the panel; chinese parts pending?

 

Regards

 

Neal

[Warhog]

Hi Warhog

sorry to hear you have been unwell, I hope things improve!

 

On a cheeky note considering its not your own thread, would you be happy to share your updated details for your caution panel? I have previously used your older design but messed up the LED matrix a bit and am just starting to redo the panel; chinese parts pending?

 

Regards

 

Neal

 

Hi Neal

 

I didn't do much in the way of changing things on the caution panel. I kept everything except the PCB for the LED matrix. That didn't work properly. What I ended up doing was to copy Tigersharks example "to the letter" to create the matrix and then used Ians code for the rest. Actually I think Clay had Ian's code on pastebin and thats what I ended up using. Yup, I found it... http://pastebin.com/n9yUkJFx .

 

Here's the thread with Tigersharks matrix in it. http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=142202&highlight=clay It worked very well.

 

But now I have to add the RS-485 to both the physical panel and also to the code. I'll post something on it once I have it running again.

[FSFIan]

Here is a version of that Caution Lights Panel sketch that works with the current version of the DCS-BIOS Arduino Library.

[ClayM]

As I have said many times before.......

 

Thanks Ian!

 

Clay

[Warhog]

Ian, is this the sketch that you modified for my old badly setup matrix or is this the version that matches Tigersharks matrix.

 

PS. email on COG for you.

[simulatoregp]

With great pleasure I watched all his work. Congratulations, all very nice. Sincere wishes of good work. We all make sacrifices, and we work hard to build . Best regard from Italy Mr Warhog.

[Hansolo]

Welcome back Triise and thanks a lot for sharing your Arduino code. I am slowly getting to the point of starter my conversion into DCS-BIOS so that is highly appreciated.

Likewise thanks Ian for the cuation panel code. I hope I can make heads and tails on it later :-)

 

Cheers

Hans