Communication using UDP

[flightmodder1]

Hi,

First of all, I am sorry if this post is not in the correct forum, I could actually not figure out where to post this.

We are relatively new to DCS but have been making a few aircraft flight simulators here and there, a few months ago, we got a retired simulator cockpit for an F-16, the sellers didn't provide us with the flight dynamics model / system model. But the shell was working and was open for communication via Opensplice DDS(Data Distribution Service). We have checked all the outputs(indicators/lights) and inputs(stick/throttle etc) by making our own DDS Application and were wondering how to integrate it with DCS to perform a sort of a flight check and compare it with one of the models that we have made inhouse. I looked into DCS BIOS but majority of the posts were about using it with Arduino and communicating via Serial, but we don't want to reverse engineer the cockpit and do all of this again, so I thought about asking here.

Is there any available resource that can tell us how to extract the outputs from DCS and give input to DCS. We can use UDP/TCP to communicate with our program that hosts the DDS. But how do we communicate on UDP/TCP? Any resources will be appreciated.

Thanks.

[t_hedlund]

Welcome to the wonderful world of DCS. I think that this post would be better off in this area Home Cockpits - ED Forums (dcs.world). I'm not sure if one of the moderators will move it, hopefully that group will be able to help you. Good luck and it will be interesting to see your progress on this.