FDS interface boards and MSFS2020

[jr2mey]

Hello all,

I have a question as to whether or not I am able to use FSUICP7 to create a LUA script that calls upon a dll file.  What I am wanting to do is use my simulators current Flight Deck Solution boards which use TekWorx interfaceITAPI x64 dll file and integrate them with PMDG 737 in MSFS2020 via a LUA script in FSUICP.

Currently I have not been able to find anything out there to make my boards usable with MSFS2020 and I really am trying to prevent having to spend a bunch more money and time to uninstall old boards and reinstall new boards.

Thanks,

James

[John Dowson]

I think that depends on the dll. There seem to be various solutions around for using dlls with lua - for example, see
    https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2835716/how-do-i-call-functions-inside-c-dll-from-lua
    https://blog.devgenius.io/how-to-add-your-c-library-in-lua-46fd246f0fa8
    https://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaProxyDllTwo
I don't see why this wouldn't work in an FSUIPC7 lua script, but best to try it - there is a trial license available at the top of this sub-forum if needed.

John

[jr2mey]

Thank you for the information.  Sorry for the late reply. Had family emergency.  I will be looking into this this week.

I really hope that this works so that I can integrate the FDS TekWorx IO boards with PMDG 737.

 

Regards,

 

[Captain777]

There is a developer named Oudoum working on a solution to allow FDS (and some other) hardware to work with FSUIPC and with PMDG 737 (and 777).  It is called Device Interface Manager.
It is available here: https://github.com/Oudoum/DeviceInterfaceManager

and there is a live Discord channel for latest discussion and feedback. https://discord.com/channels/1024920961939669052/1236087452637204571

Cheers!