DCS-ExportScripts for Stream Deck Community Github Library

[AhSoul]

@Trigati Fuel and EDM displays are awesome! One thing, my left and right in SD are showing 5000 when on Ext Wing, despite the cockpit gauge looking like it's closer to 4000.

Should be easy to replicate using the Instant Action -> Sinai -> Ready on the Ramp mission. Maybe the actual value is like 4500 and it's rounding up, but in the cockpit it's 4000 that's much more visible.

Edited June 27, 2023 by AhSoul

[Trigati]

15 minutes ago, AhSoul said:

@Trigati Fuel and EDM displays are awesome! One thing, my left and right in SD are showing 5000 when on Ext Wing, despite the cockpit gauge looking like it's closer to 4000.

Should be easy to replicate using the Sinai instant action mission where you start on ramp. Maybe the actual value is like 4500 and it's rounding up, but in the cockpit it's 4000 that's much more visible.

That is really weird...the data comes from two arguments, the thousands and the hundreds added together...for all other settings the thousands outputs a round number 0, 1000, 2000 or 3000 but on that setting it shows 3648.....and as the hundreds field is showing as 965 these add together get rounded to 5000.....but the gauge has a max of 4000....I'll code a handler to stop this happening and include it in my next release.

Thanks so much for feedback.

[AhSoul]

@Trigati Glad it was easy to fix! Am I right in thinking that you're not going to break the fuel and EDM parts into their own outputs in the official file, and it's down to us to do that if we want to ourselves?

Edited June 27, 2023 by AhSoul

[Trigati]

I was planning to break them out as separate fields as well.. just didn't get to it yet and wanted to at least share the feature so the option is there if you can't wait another couple of days. The backlog at the moment is:

1. Update UFC fields for formatting the longer strings.

2. Separate fields for Engine and Fuel data.

3. HUD Data to display fields

4. Separate Radio Data (if possible)

Along with merging tis with Bailey's file.....

1&2 I hope to complete by Thursday morning. 3&4 by Saturday night.....

[AhSoul]

16 minutes ago, Trigati said:

I was planning to break them out as separate fields as well.. just didn't get to it yet and wanted to at least share the feature so the option is there if you can't wait another couple of days

Ahh ok makes sense - no panic at all

I've seen some things in other aircraft like current time etc. that might be nice eventually.

[Bailey]

5 hours ago, AhSoul said:

@Trigati and @Bailey thanks so much again for getting this up and running!

FWIW I've not seen any crashes of the interface from the UFC outputs - it's been solid so far. Will do some more testing later with 0.5.
Did you have a look at splitting some of the longer UFC elements - either into 2 outputs, or perhaps what might work better would be a newline, so it appears on the same SD button?

e.g the long 'wind qwerty123' one might be better as
wind
qwerty123

I have to use a small font to display these anyway, so there's loads of empty vertical space.

For anyone that would like to take a shot at this, I think (hope) that the apache Lua in the library includes this feature. I made it for the keypad. Feel free to adapt it to the F-15E. How it works is that you can designate how many characters there are in a line. The rest will go to the newline and so on automatically. For the F15 you may want to include a "if space then newline" feature for readability. 

[Trigati]

2 hours ago, AhSoul said:

Ahh ok makes sense - no panic at all

I've seen some things in other aircraft like current time etc. that might be nice eventually.

Regarding the Fuel Gauge and EDM individual data elements....do you think it should just be the actual values or the label as well that is sent?

 

 

[AhSoul]

6 minutes ago, Trigati said:

Regarding the Fuel Gauge and EDM individual data elements....do you think it should just be the actual values or the label as well that is sent?

 

 

I think it probably needs the labels? There's no way in SD to combine static text with the exported value right?

Maybe we should have both sets

[AhSoul]

Unless there's a performance hit from having too many possible outputs?

[Wostg]

I think this is where people get arty and make custom icons that sit behind the moving stuff

[Trigati]

I guess it's pretty easy to have both....and also the ability to enable/disable them. Would only take a few lines of 'configuration settings' at the top of the file to switch the individual feeds off or the labels off/on for these things eg:

EMDOutput = "OFF" -- Can Be Set to "DATA"  to just have the number exported, "LABELS" to have the number and description such as Left RPM or "OFF" to disable completely.

That way it can cater to both camps and avoid any perceived performance hit? Does take away from the plug'n'play simplicity for those that don't want to open the file...so we'd need to agree a default if this is to be done. Does anyone know if the performance is affected by double the number of IDs exported?

[Lekaa]

Thank you for getting the fuel there, @Trigati, i will now look at the stream deck instead of the main screen for fuel check while doing AAR. Can the RPM and the other stuff be separated? I think people are mentioning it but i'm not sure

Edited June 27, 2023 by Lekaa

[Trigati]

1 minute ago, Lekaa said:

Thank you for getting the fuel there, @Trigati, i will now look at the stream deck instead of the main screen for fuel check while doing AAR. Can the RPM and the other stuff be separated? I think people are mentioning it but i'm not sure

 

Yes, we are just discussing it in the post above...include labels...just the numbers...have it so you can switch between or switch it off for those that worry about the performance hit etc etc.

[AhSoul]

Giving options is awesome. Though appreciate it's more work to code up.

BTW do you have to restart DCS for changes to take effect, or just restart the mission?

[Trigati]

It’s not that much work so happy to do it.

You just reload the mission Shift-R


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[jonny415]

F-15E Stream deck XL profile (digitalcombatsimulator.com)

@trigati thanks for the export script file  

[Wostg]

This looks great - may I ask if you'd like to do a 5x3 version. Or to just kludge everything together in 5x3 blocks and I'll have a go setting it out right.

%£%£$ing elgato, I can't believe there's still no staging/buffer area for shifting extra icons around outside the grid. Anyone know 3rd party apps that will do that?

[jonny415]

@Wostg just redownload I added the 5x3 profile 

[Wostg]

4 hours ago, jonny415 said:

@Wostg just redownload I added the 5x3 profile 

Fantastic, thank you! 

[AhSoul]

13 hours ago, Trigati said:

You just reload the mission Shift R

I had no idea you could do that!

[Norsk-L]

 To all who have downloaded my SD profile for F-15E.

Thx to Trigati; the lua file has been updated massively, which now includes the fuel count and wrapping of text for UFC (Allowing bigger font size)

the V 3.0 is out I have also updated the Icons 

Changelog: 

1-Fuel Count has been added
1-All knobs now have unique labels allowing you to read what the switch is for even if the value range is not in place.
2- Major update on the UFC allowing wrapping the information, which results in bigger and more readable text.
3- The icon pack, which there is a link to download, has been updated
4- I have used some of the switches from a profile by "jonny415" as he has created some icons for the F15E; however, I do not have access to his icon packs, and I just copied the switches (you can find those in the ENG folder pilot seat)

 

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3331670/

[Lekaa]

Thanks @Norsk-L

is it possible to get rid of the Text RPM_L from the export ?
nullDon't mind the Fuel in the picture, just testing but this is the RPM from Left side

Got it to work, I removed this line :
null

[AhSoul]

5 minutes ago, Lekaa said:

Thanks @Norsk-L

is it possible to get rid of the Text RPM_L from the export ?
nullDon't mind the Fuel in the picture, just testing but this is the RPM from Left side

Got it to work, I removed this line :
null

I think @Trigati is the one working on the lua

[Lekaa]

This is what i was looking for, Having the Streamdeck as a fuel panel and some other stuff

Edited June 28, 2023 by Lekaa

[AhSoul]

1 hour ago, Lekaa said:

This is what i was looking for, Having the Streamdeck as a fuel panel and some other stuff

 

Yeah I think @Trigati's next version is likely to have a bunch of these split out etc.