F18 IEFI Panel. WIP HMI

[Ben-111]

Team. Working with Pete in BNE and Luke in SYD on some options for the IEFI panel for our F18 sim pits.

 

Discussing using Nextion 7.0” display. Has a few benefits.

1 super easy to program

2 touch screen - you can code the 6 Centre buttons into the screen

(We are using push buttons though)

3 100% compatible with Arduino. Thus the DCS Bios can talk to it via the Serial link

4 very configurable.

 

Will post some updates on progress. Note I am not a DCS Bios expert nor an expert on Arduino. But this is simple. Any questions I will try and answer.

 

Test script run last night. This is not output data from DCS. Will update again tonight.

 

First shot is trying a few of the colours for the text out. These can be changed.

 

The fonts are normal. Windows fonts. No special libraries required.

Edited July 14, 2020 by Ben-111
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[Ben-111]

Code complete for the NOZ positions.

[Ben-111]

Full digital face made. Have to re image the NOZ. but that’s 5 mins.

 

Screen and arduino. Less than $200 AUD.

Edited July 14, 2020 by Ben-111

[Rubberc0rnflake]

What about the code? I'm about to embark on this adventure as well. 

[scorpyq]

Hi, you have my admiration. Beautiful work. It's a shame that I wasn't good at this and I can't program it. Could I ask you to send the codes to the arduino and to the display? I also want to ask, did you have to set something up in DCS or edit some files in order for it to be displayed? Thank you in advance and I look forward to the codes so that I too can be proud of such a wonderful work. Miro