MICROSOFT FLIGHT SIMULATOR 2020 - POWER/LIGHTS PANEL

Quick Start

Download the following two files.

Link: Latest release of Power/Lights Panel for Raspberry Pi Zero W

Link: Latest release of Instrument Data Link for Windows

Unzip instrument-data-link into its own folder and double-click instrument-data-link.exe to run it.

Untar power-lights-panel on your Raspberry Pi. Edit settings/power-lights-panel.json and in the "Data Link" section change the IP address of the "Host" to the address where FS2020 is running on your local network, e.g. 192.168.0.1 - You can find the correct address of your host by running a command prompt on the host machine and running ipconfig, then scroll back and look for the first "IPv4 Address" line. Now enter ./run.sh to run the program.

Introduction

A power/lights panel for MS FlightSim 2020. This program is designed to run on a Raspberry Pi Zero W and requires the following hardware:

Double rocker switch x 2 : https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0743BMMGG

On/off switch x 7 : https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07MS12WV6

Push button with LED x 3 : https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07KPSZ731

It requires the companion program from here

https://github.com/scott-vincent/instrument-data-link

The companion program runs on the same host as MS FS2020 and passes data between the panel and the flight simulator over your Wifi connection.

Donate

If you find this project useful, would like to see it developed further or would just like to buy the author a beer, please consider a small donation.

Additional Photos

Panel Front

Panel Back