DCS and PoKeys?

[Weezer]

Hiya All!

 

 

My name is Fred. I'm an old cockpit builder from Sweden. I have built me an F-16 cockpit with all the bells and whistles for BMS, using X-Keys for switches and PoKeys for Pots, Lights, gauges etc. Figured I'd make the pit work with DCS aswell, but unfortunately I can't find any utility or software to make that transition.

 

 

The HogKeys project sounded very interesting, especially the 2.0 release, but from what I understand, it was never released?

 

 

Could anyone point me in a direction of perhaps the manual to the "First" version of HogKeys? so I can try that out? Perhaps someone have a beta of the 2.0? maby the source for the 2.0 (wink, wink, @Whartsell):music_whistling:

 

 

I'd like to see what options there are out there for my PoKeys integration, before I tear everything down and transfer over to Arduino (I Love my PoKeys!)

 

 

Best,

Fred

[RightStuff]

Hi Fred, welcome aboard.

 

Yes.. Unfortunately Pokeys is almost no factor in DCS.

Really a pity...

 

The easiest way to get your current cockpit hardware up and running with DCS is currently not available:

Enhancing F4toPokeys so that it is able to use the exported data of DCS instead of the shared mem.

 

https://github.com/johndcollins/F4ToPokeysV2

 

Maybe with a little 'proxy program' F4toPokeys can be tricked:

This program shall read the data from DCS exports and write them in the same format into the Shared Memory as F4P expects them there. These header files are commonly known.

 

That way both worlds would benefit from this great piece of software.

 

Otherwise: DCSBios would be the way to go... - but this lacks an interface to Pokeys as it is "Arduino-native".

[Weezer]

Hiya RightStuff, thanks for the warm welcome!! Yeah, I understand DCS-Bios is the way to go - if to go the Arduino way...just feels a bit scary to rip everything apart that is up and working...

 

 

I'll have a look into the "Tricking F4TP" thingie...sound interesting!

 

 

To be continued...

 

 

/Fred