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Message started by Aerobat on Oct 12^th, 2011, 10:23am

Title: SDK - Hardware
Post by Aerobat on Oct 12^th, 2011, 10:23am

I have been reading the SDK and plan on developing a hardware
version of the INS. The SDK is really good
expcept I dont see provisions for seeing what is displayed on the
unit. Upon further searching in the CIVASDK.h i see a struct for both
the display and the "to from" display as well. See below.

From the CIVASDK.h:

typedef struct cdu_data_display_tag {

char szString [ 8 ]; // Display text (NULL terminated)
int iIconId; // N/S or E/W icons (0=N/E, 1=S/W)
int iUpperDot1; // first upper "dot" *RIGHTMOST*
int iUpperDot2; // second upper "dot"
int iLowerDot1; // first lower "dot" *RIGHTMOST*
int iLowerDot2; // second lower "dot"

} INSDATADSP, * PINSDATADSP;

//
// FromTo Display Descriptor
//
typedef struct cdu_fromto_display_tag {

char szString [ 3 ]; // 2 chars + NULL Term.

} INSFTDSP, * PINSFTDSP;

Problem is there is no example of how to call this up. Just wondering if
you can tell me how to get this data?

Title: Re: SDK - Hardware
Post by Marco Ravanello on Oct 17^th, 2011, 6:56pm

Humm......Aerobat....I fear there is NO support for that in current release...SDK was kind of a work in progress....

What kind of hardware are you willing to build?

Marco

Title: Re: SDK - Hardware
Post by Aerobat on Oct 17^th, 2011, 7:33pm

I actually already have build some circuits on a breadboard. Which includes MCP panel (altitude) so far and have it communicating through RS232 with flightsim. The circuit is comprised of an ATMEGA AVR micoprocessor and rotary encoder (knob) to change the altitude. I plan on switching to USB instead of rs232 as it is mainstream now. I just started out with rs232 because it was simple to program. This has been designed with the maddog md-80. I also enjoy the FSLabs concorde using your civaINS and would love to have an external INS. I plan on building a full hardware model and would love to run you software to drive it. SO if you could help me that would be great. One way I could drive it is to make a program that looks on the screen and converts what is seen on the display but that is a bit of a pain in the butt and the CDU would have to be display on the screen for it too work. First thing i will do is make a small model on a breadboard I would be happy to show you as i get it together. ANY help would be great!

Title: Re: SDK - Hardware
Post by Marco Ravanello on Oct 19^th, 2011, 10:31am

Aerobat,

Could you please email me (at i n s at simufly dot com) so that we could discuss privately?

Thanks
Marco

Title: Re: SDK - Hardware
Post by LH784 on Oct 21^st, 2011, 10:52am

Hi,
may I jump in as well ?

I am working (very slowly) on a hardware version as well.
The system is based on SIOC (Opencockpits.com). Via them you can get all sorts of hardware interfaces (i.e. IO cards for the push buttons and the switches and also 7-Segment cards to drive the outputs.
Basically it should be rather straight forward as long as the CIVA data (error codes, calculated values etc) could somehow be obtained.

Regards,
Florian