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Seahawk240 / Microsoft-FS2020-To-Arduino

A Simple Program which enables communication between a Serial Device (like an Arduino) and the Flight Simulator 2020
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What I dream about -> plugin for FS2020 #29

Open Seahawk240 opened 3 years ago

Seahawk240 commented 3 years ago

One thing I dream about is a plugin for FS2020, which can send and receive commands completely controlled by a Serial Device like an Arduino or any other MCU. This plugin would work pretty much the same way as my program. This way one could develop a panel, joystick or whatever they want with the main program and afterwards ship it with a light weight and enduser friendly plugin for the Flight Simulator. So one could easily design their own professional-grade hardware!

What do you think?

Discman777 commented 3 years ago

Hi Matthias,

I did come across something like what you’ve described in this post. Though this plug-in was written for X-Plane11, from Curiosity Workshop. Couple of months ago, I was looking for an interface to develop my project to work with X-Plane, and this worked out quite well. After a few weeks of coding, I got my touchscreen mini panel to talk X-Plane, co-residing with its previous FS2020 functions using your FS2020TA. Here’s a demo video if you’re interested: https://youtu.be/xO_V5KUn0ts

It would be so cool if you can make your software to be dual-platform capable! I know, it’s easy said than done. But, I too can dream. :)

You can read about that X-Plane plug-in here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/x-plane-direct-43341946

Joe