EinsteinEP Posted July 11, 2009 Posted July 11, 2009 I've taken up, as a hobby, writing applications that interface with the MFD on my x52 Pro. I'm currently working on one that takes data from IL2 and displays it on the MFD. Next I was going to make a similar utility for Falcon 4.0. Eventually, I'd like to make something for Black Shark as well. IL2 shares info via DeviceLink (see DeviceLink.txt in your IL2 folder) and I'm planning on using the F4SharedMemory reader for Falcon 4.0, but I haven't been able to find any info on how to get info from/to Black Shark. Perhaps I'm just not looking in the right place? Shoot to Kill. Play to Have Fun.
Boulund Posted July 11, 2009 Posted July 11, 2009 Ooo I'd love to get involved in this hobby project. I'm waiting for my X52 Pro and I've been thinking about producing something to display the RCtrl+Enter thingy for checking your trim on the small MFD. Maybe we could crack this one together in a couple of weeks when I've gotten aquainted with my X52 Pro? Unfortunately I do not know how to interface the MFD to the game information yet. Maybe someone else knows? Core i5-760 @ 3.6Ghz, 4GB DDR3, Geforce GTX470, Samsung SATA HDD, Dell UH2311H 1920x1080, Saitek X52 Pro., FreeTrack homemade cap w/ LifeCam VX-1000, Windows 7 Professional x64 SP1. FreeTrack in DCS A10C (64bit): samttheeagle's headtracker.dll
Kurtz Posted July 11, 2009 Posted July 11, 2009 I've been thinking about producing something to display the RCtrl+Enter thingy for checking your trim on the small MFD. Hey thats a great idea :thumbup:
Zorg_DK Posted July 11, 2009 Posted July 11, 2009 Totally awesome idea!!!! "There are only 10 types of people in the world — those who understand binary, and those who don't." [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
CyBerkut Posted July 11, 2009 Posted July 11, 2009 This thread might give you a lead... http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=29716 [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] There's no place like 127.0.0.1
EinsteinEP Posted July 12, 2009 Author Posted July 12, 2009 This thread might give you a lead... http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=29716Thanks for the lead, CyBerkut, but, unfortunately, it's got as much information as we've got in this thread! Oh well. Off to go do some diggin'. Shoot to Kill. Play to Have Fun.
CyBerkut Posted July 12, 2009 Posted July 12, 2009 Thanks for the lead, CyBerkut, but, unfortunately, it's got as much information as we've got in this thread! Oh well. Off to go do some diggin'. Has anyone asked Balu about it? He's a member of these forums. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] There's no place like 127.0.0.1
ruprecht Posted July 20, 2009 Posted July 20, 2009 Data is exported via Lua, the same as Lock On. http://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/index.php?end_pos=567&scr=default&lang=en If you're able to interface with F4 SharedMem, you should have no issues with Lua sockets. 1 DCS Wishlist: | Navy F-14 | Navy F/A-18 | AH-6 | Navy A-6 | Official Navy A-4 | Carrier Ops | Dynamic Campaign | Marine AH-1 | Streaming DCS sometimes:
senn Posted July 25, 2009 Posted July 25, 2009 this is probably going to seem like a bit of a n00b question, but how big of a difference is there between the X52 and x52 Pro MFD? Is there a way to get something that works on both?
BKLronin Posted July 28, 2009 Posted July 28, 2009 Any progress on that project yet? [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
Slayer Posted July 29, 2009 Posted July 29, 2009 There already is some basic implemented functionality but all it does is send a message to your MFD. If you look in C:\Eagle Dynamics\Ka-50\bin\stable you will see a file called lua-direct_output.dll. Saitek is the only game controler I know of that uses DirectOutput(It's what sends stuff to the MFD) so maybee you could find out what they implemented in their DLL and make a C program to call on the functions of it. I have a feeling that it was just a pet project for ED and never really got implemented properly. If you make your own code you will probably have to remove or rename the ED file. As previous posters have stated you would have to get your data from LUA [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] System Specs Intel I7-3930K, Asrock EXTREME9, EVGA TITAN, Mushkin Chronos SSD, 16GB G.SKILL Ripjaws Z series 2133, TM Warthog and MFD's, Saitek Proflight Combat pedals, TrackIR 5 + TrackClip PRO, Windows 7 x64, 3-Asus VS2248H-P monitors, Thermaltake Level 10 GT, Obutto cockpit
BKLronin Posted April 8, 2010 Posted April 8, 2010 ED? Many of the X52pro users would love to have this Plugin workin. I guess it´s 1000times easier for you guys to do that little code snippet. As you can see noone was able to get it to work :D [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
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