Re: [Flightgear-devel] KX165 - serially feeding data to increment a property value. How?

2011-04-01 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Hallo everybody, I purchased a few rotary encoder and a bunch of 7segment displays to build a physical replacement of the Bendix KX165. I'm using Arduino which feeds data to FGFS on a serial connection. I'd like to update instrumentation/comm[0]/frequencies/standby-mhz property using the

[Flightgear-devel] [OT] The Canterbury Project: Linux Distros merge

2011-04-01 Thread Torsten Dreyer
For those who use Linux, this might be the most interesting news today: http://www.debian.org/ http://www.archlinux.org/ http://www.opensuse.org/ http://www.gentoo.org/ http://grml.org/ All unified in a joint project. Torsten

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ..wee seaplane patch for ju52floats

2011-04-01 Thread Detlef Faber
Am Mittwoch, den 30.03.2011, 23:01 +0200 schrieb Arnt Karlsen: Hi, ..wee seaplane patch for ju52floats, about damn time, eh? ;o) cool, didn't know this feature exists. Gonna try this out. Thanks for the info! --

Re: [Flightgear-devel] KX165 - serially feeding data to increment a property value. How?

2011-04-01 Thread Roberto Inzerillo
Hallo Torsten :-) in the meanwhile I've reviewed what I've done in the past with the Seneca NLG, that NASAL code ... it was fun :-) I think I'll try this approach first. Von: Torsten Dreyer tors...@t3r.de I suggest not to send the raw encoder data to FlightGear but to compute the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] The Canterbury Project: Linux Distros merge

2011-04-01 Thread Erik Hofman
On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 07:43 +0100, Torsten Dreyer wrote: For those who use Linux, this might be the most interesting news today: http://www.debian.org/ http://www.archlinux.org/ http://www.opensuse.org/ http://www.gentoo.org/ http://grml.org/ All unified in a joint project. Even if the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cloud interface from Nasal

2011-04-01 Thread thorsten . i . renk
Since my basic Cu texture image is often 1024x512 (sometimes larger), sorting through the y-coordinate of the texture sheet isn't an option unless you use 4096x4096 sheets - which may not be so nice. (?) Well, I guess that depends on the texture cache which you seem to have anyway. The

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cloud interface from Nasal

2011-04-01 Thread thorsten . i . renk
Which reminds me, a long time ago (in the cutover from PLIB to OSG) we lost the ability to detect clouds using the Weather Radar. It would be very nice to restore that function. The code still exists, it's just the 3d clouds are no longer accessible. What would it need, and what can it

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] The Canterbury Project: Linux Distros merge

2011-04-01 Thread Gene Buckle
On Fri, 1 Apr 2011, Torsten Dreyer wrote: For those who use Linux, this might be the most interesting news today: http://www.debian.org/ http://www.archlinux.org/ http://www.opensuse.org/ http://www.gentoo.org/ http://grml.org/ All unified in a joint project. I may have been born on a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] KX165 - serially feeding data to increment a property value. How?

2011-04-01 Thread Gene Buckle
Von: Gene Buckle ge...@deltasoft.com I used outbound UDP from FG to send data from the sim to my host interface software and then a telnet based command channel that would be used to set properties. I was not happy with Telnet performance, not even after pumping it's speed up. It has some

Re: [Flightgear-devel] KX165 - serially feeding data to increment a property value. How?

2011-04-01 Thread Curtis Olson
On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Gene Buckle ge...@deltasoft.com wrote: What could you possibly be sending via telnet that would require performance? Seriously, the _only_ time you should be sending data TO the simulator is if a control state changed. I seriously doubt it's physically

Re: [Flightgear-devel] KX165 - serially feeding data to increment a property value. How?

2011-04-01 Thread Gene Buckle
On Fri, 1 Apr 2011, Curtis Olson wrote: On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Gene Buckle ge...@deltasoft.com wrote: What could you possibly be sending via telnet that would require performance? Seriously, the _only_ time you should be sending data TO the simulator is if a control state changed.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] KX165 - serially feeding data to increment a property value. How?

2011-04-01 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 1 Apr 2011 06:29:52 -0700 (PDT), Gene wrote in message alpine.lfd.2.00.1104010622240.22...@grumble.deltasoft.com: On Fri, 1 Apr 2011, Curtis Olson wrote: On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Gene Buckle ge...@deltasoft.com wrote: What could you possibly be sending via telnet that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ..wee seaplane patch for ju52floats

2011-04-01 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 01 Apr 2011 08:53:41 +0200, Detlef wrote in message 1301640821.2661.0.camel@Vulnavia: Am Mittwoch, den 30.03.2011, 23:01 +0200 schrieb Arnt Karlsen: Hi, ..wee seaplane patch for ju52floats, about damn time, eh? ;o) cool, didn't know this feature exists. Gonna try this out.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] KX165 - serially feeding data to increment a property value. How?

2011-04-01 Thread Roberto Inzerillo
What could you possibly be sending via telnet that would require performance? Seriously, the _only_ time you should be sending data TO the simulator is if a control state changed. I seriously doubt it's physically possible for you to fiddle with enough switches knobs simultaneously to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] KX165 - serially feeding data to increment a property value. How?

2011-04-01 Thread Gene Buckle
On Fri, 1 Apr 2011, Roberto Inzerillo wrote: What could you possibly be sending via telnet that would require performance? Seriously, the _only_ time you should be sending data TO the simulator is if a control state changed. I seriously doubt it's physically possible for you to fiddle with

Re: [Flightgear-devel] KX165 - serially feeding data to increment a property value. How?

2011-04-01 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Gene Buckle -- Friday 01 April 2011: Using something like Leo Bodnar's joystick interface would be a good start. I think it does work with Linux MacOS as well as Windows. It does on Linux. The BU0836* expert for Linux is even a former FlightGear developer:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] KX165 - serially feeding data to increment a property value. How?

2011-04-01 Thread Roberto Inzerillo
Actually ... there is, I kinda like the idea of building my own hardware Yoke and Pedals, and not use any plastic toy at all. You know, just for fun, no need, out of curiosity :-) Oh sure, I completely understand that! What I was saying though is that you're going to be much better off

Re: [Flightgear-devel] KX165 - serially feeding data to increment a property value. How?

2011-04-01 Thread Gene Buckle
On Sat, 2 Apr 2011, Harry Campigli wrote: Robertto, Another way is to drop a Microchip Pic in your com box, if you use one of the smaller 18f 40 pin versions you have heaps of analog and bidirectional digital io pins, and construction wise you only need add an xtal and an rs232 or Ethernet

Re: [Flightgear-devel] KX165 - serially feeding data to increment a property value. How?

2011-04-01 Thread Gene Buckle
On Fri, 1 Apr 2011, Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Gene Buckle -- Friday 01 April 2011: Using something like Leo Bodnar's joystick interface would be a good start. I think it does work with Linux MacOS as well as Windows. It does on Linux. The BU0836* expert for Linux is even a former FlightGear

Re: [Flightgear-devel] KX165 - serially feeding data to increment a property value. How?

2011-04-01 Thread Gene Buckle
On Fri, 1 Apr 2011, Roberto Inzerillo wrote: But I really like to make my own hack with FGFS ... I never really got into ICs, C++ programming and PICs before. I'm learning a lot using Arduino as middleware, it pulls down the learning curve and makes people like me more confortable with the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] KX165 - serially feeding data to increment a property value. How?

2011-04-01 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 1 Apr 2011 12:24:11 -0700 (PDT), Gene wrote in message alpine.lfd.2.00.1104011222580.1...@grumble.deltasoft.com: On Fri, 1 Apr 2011, Roberto Inzerillo wrote: But I really like to make my own hack with FGFS ... I never really got into ICs, C++ programming and PICs before. I'm

Re: [Flightgear-devel] KX165 - serially feeding data to increment a property value. How?

2011-04-01 Thread Roberto Inzerillo
http://ppjoy.blogspot.com/ Is this PPjoy you're talking about? That's exactly it! ..it's at http://ppjoy.bossstation.dnsalias.org/ , Actually that's a very old web page, the author of PPjoy later on used his blog instead ... which is not very up to date anyway, latest test released were

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] The Canterbury Project: Linux Distros merge

2011-04-01 Thread George Patterson
On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 12:05 AM, Gene Buckle ge...@deltasoft.com wrote: On Fri, 1 Apr 2011, Torsten Dreyer wrote: For those who use Linux, this might be the most interesting news today: http://www.debian.org/ http://www.archlinux.org/ http://www.opensuse.org/ http://www.gentoo.org/

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] The Canterbury Project: Linux Distros merge

2011-04-01 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 2 Apr 2011 11:12:03 +1100, George wrote in message banlktikx3_44ozkxps4zg5ucy2wfbvn...@mail.gmail.com: On Fri, 01 Apr 2011 09:50:07 +0200, Erik wrote in message 1301644207.3660.0.camel@Raptor: On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 07:43 +0100, Torsten Dreyer wrote: For those who use Linux,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] KX165 - serially feeding data to increment a property value. How?

2011-04-01 Thread Gene Buckle
On Sat, 2 Apr 2011, Roberto Inzerillo wrote: http://ppjoy.blogspot.com/ Is this PPjoy you're talking about? That's exactly it! ..it's at http://ppjoy.bossstation.dnsalias.org/ , Actually that's a very old web page, the author of PPjoy later on used his blog instead ... which is not very