Integration of the "Yet another brand new autopilot panel"

[Fabio Drago]

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Hi all,

I know I'm probably the millionth person to make a custom panel and ask how to integrate with FSUIPC 🙂
Anyway, I'm trying to recreate the saitek multipanel (which seems to be disappeared from the market).
I have bought the Teensy4.1 that is capable to implement various USB connections. I think the best choice is  to use an HID connection.
Before to start writing an external program (using the .net interface) I would like to ask if there is something already available.
Could you please advice ?
Kind Regards,
Fabio

Edited November 12, 2020 by John Dowson
Moved to main support forum

[John Dowson]

3 hours ago, Fabio Drago said:

Before to start writing an external program (using the .net interface) I would like to ask if there is something already available.
Could you please advice ?

Sorry, but I have no idea. Maybe someone else can help, but you are probably better off asking over on https://www.cockpitbuilders.com/.
FSUIPC should recognise it if it is registered in windows as a HID device.

John

 

[John Dowson]

3 hours ago, Fabio Drago said:

saitek multipanel (which seems to be disappeared from the market).

I'm pretty sure these are still available (or were until recently), but are now produced by Logitech.

Note that FSUIPC doesn't recognise this device as a standard devices - you need the SPAD or SPAD.next drivers, or to use lua.

[Fabio Drago]

Thanks John,

I'm working to make it as HID device. How can I configure FSUIPC to use it ?

Is the HID the best way to interface with FSUIPC ?

Fabio

[Pete Dowson]

3 hours ago, Fabio Drago said:

I'm working to make it as HID device. How can I configure FSUIPC to use it ?

FSUIPC only directly supports Joystick type HID device -- that's one with the Capabilities showing UsagePage = 1 and Usage 4.  If your device only has switches, buttons, POV hats and analogue axes then it would be more universally accepted classified as a joystick, not just by FSUIPC. Currently FSUIPC directly supports joysticks with up to 32 buttons, 4 POVs and 8 axes.

If the device has displays or indicators then those aren't supported directly in FSUIPC itself.

FSUIPC does provide more generalised HID support for plug-ins written in Lua, but no direct support without programming of some sort.

Pete

 

[Fabio Drago]

Hi Pete, thanks for you clarification.

I'm going to write a custom client in c# to manage the communication towards my panel and to connect to FSUIPC using your .net library.

Thanks for your effort!

Fabio