Oh sounds perfect!

 

Please notify me when you are ready, you´ll definately be the hero of the day in my book! ;-)

 

Hi,

 

My new FMC V3 is now up and running with my OCP4B7x7 Manager. I need to do some more testing before I release it.

 

rgs

Hi,

 

My new FMC V3 is now up and running with my OCP4B7x7 Manager. I need to do some more testing before I release it.

 

rgs

 

Oh looks like I need to polish up my king of the day-medal then;)

Hi,

 

I need someone to test a new beta for OpenCockpits FMC V3 (CDU).

Download at www.flightsim4fun.com

 

Report back to [email protected]

 

rgs

I havent received my FMC yet... but hopefully it will arrive soon then i´ll get right to testing this! thanks alot!

How does it seem otherwise?

 

/Niklas Eriksson

My opencockpits FMCv3 arrived today and I'm happy to say that it works very nice with the NGX using roarkr's software mentioned above. Thank you Roar!

 

 

 

The hardware is very nice and the backlight looks good.

Two things were required to make it work - the output (display) and the input (buttons).

I use Nvidia surround with a cheap extra graphics card for some auxiliary displays, so I connected the FMC's VGA port to this card (the CDU screen is just a regular monitor). Windows reported it to have 1024x768 as native resolution but opencockpits says 800x600... I picked 800x600 and set the screen as an extended desktop screen in the Nvidia settings. In fsx.cfg I made sure that FSX will use 800x600 for this screen by specifying Mode=800x600x32 in the relevant DISPLAY.XXXXXXX section.

 

Then I modified the NGX's panel.cfg to add a new panel containing just the bare CDU display:

 

[Window02]
background_color=0,0,0
size_mm=385,600
window_size=0.13,0.535
position=8
visible=1
ident=958
zorder=99
gauge00=PMDG_737NGX!CDU_Screen,0,0,390,625,L #0

 

In FSX this window can then be dragged to the CDU screen (I use fullscreen, but you can undock it if you use windowed mode). The sizes should of course be adjusted to match your setup.

 

As for the input/buttons part (and the indicators), the FMC is technically a general USB HID device (although not a keyboard or a joystick device). I installed the latest SIOC from opencockpits which is the interface to the hardware.

Then I installed the latest software from roarkr which is the interface to the NGX and SIOC. In SIOC I could see that the FMC showed up as card #0, and according to the documentation this means that sioc.ini should contain:

MASTER = 13,13,1,0

 

I started roarkr's OCP4B7x7 Manager and clicked on the cockpit image, which in turn starts SIOC and OCP4GX.

And everything worked! (For some reason it didn't work when starting OCP4NGX and SIOC manually, which I thought would be the same thing?)

 

I've always liked the hardware that opencockpits produce but I really, really, really don't like SIOC in any way so some time in the future I'll likely write a small standalone software that talks directly to the USB device and the NGX SDK.

Man. This really makes me wanna get a FMC now. I use a triple head to go for my main monitor and run FSX full screen and have just been worried if I could still make it work all together and still be in full screen.

 

Wonder if I could try testing this maybe by setting up a 800x600 monitor on a little dinky 2nd video card.

 

How's the quality of the CDU and the feel of the buttons? Any chance for a video demo?

My opencockpits FMCv3 arrived today and I'm happy to say that it works very nice with the NGX using roarkr's software mentioned above. Thank you Roar!

 

 

 

The hardware is very nice and the backlight looks good.

Two things were required to make it work - the output (display) and the input (buttons).

I use Nvidia surround with a cheap extra graphics card for some auxiliary displays, so I connected the FMC's VGA port to this card (the CDU screen is just a regular monitor). Windows reported it to have 1024x768 as native resolution but opencockpits says 800x600... I picked 800x600 and set the screen as an extended desktop screen in the Nvidia settings. In fsx.cfg I made sure that FSX will use 800x600 for this screen by specifying Mode=800x600x32 in the relevant DISPLAY.XXXXXXX section.

 

Then I modified the NGX's panel.cfg to add a new panel containing just the bare CDU display:

 

[Window02]
background_color=0,0,0
size_mm=385,600
window_size=0.13,0.535
position=8
visible=1
ident=958
zorder=99
gauge00=PMDG_737NGX!CDU_Screen,0,0,390,625,L #0

 

In FSX this window can then be dragged to the CDU screen (I use fullscreen, but you can undock it if you use windowed mode). The sizes should of course be adjusted to match your setup.

 

As for the input/buttons part (and the indicators), the FMC is technically a general USB HID device (although not a keyboard or a joystick device). I installed the latest SIOC from opencockpits which is the interface to the hardware.

Then I installed the latest software from roarkr which is the interface to the NGX and SIOC. In SIOC I could see that the FMC showed up as card #0, and according to the documentation this means that sioc.ini should contain:

MASTER = 13,13,1,0

 

I started roarkr's OCP4B7x7 Manager and clicked on the cockpit image, which in turn starts SIOC and OCP4GX.

And everything worked! (For some reason it didn't work when starting OCP4NGX and SIOC manually, which I thought would be the same thing?)

 

I've always liked the hardware that opencockpits produce but I really, really, really don't like SIOC in any way so some time in the future I'll likely write a small standalone software that talks directly to the USB device and the NGX SDK.

 

Hi, may i ask what date you ordered your FMC?... Im starting to get a bit worried that my order has dissapeared;) It has actually been a while since I placed my order :-)

 

/Niklas

Hi, may i ask what date you ordered your FMC?... Im starting to get a bit worried that my order has dissapeared;) It has actually been a while since I placed my order :-)

 

Ordered 26/7, shipped 8/8, delivered by UPS 9/8.

 

Wonder if I could try testing this maybe by setting up a 800x600 monitor on a little dinky 2nd video card.

 

How's the quality of the CDU and the feel of the buttons? Any chance for a video demo?

 

That's exactly how I tested it (I used a small touchscreen as CDU before). If any monitor works, the FMCv3 will work as well. Unfortunately I haven't had the opportunity to use it very much but I will soon, hopefully. So far I have nothing negative to say about it though.

Thanks a lot... Hopefully ill get it soon...

I cannot get the fmc working, I get the display on the fmc but the buttons doesnt work...

What do I need to do?

I have downloaded the SIOC from the open cockpit website and started it but that doesnt help

I have also tried roarks application but that just crashes as soon as i try to click the cockpit image...

 

HELP!;)

/Niklas

 

(If someone got the time to assist me you can add me on skype

niklasnigge is the nickname)

I will be forever thankful:)

Ok, I got it working after a lot of trial and error... However I cannot get the brightness knob to work... Has anyone gotten the knob working?

Ok, I got it working after a lot of trial and error... However I cannot get the brightness knob to work... Has anyone gotten the knob working?

 

I'm in the same situation.

 

Please can you tell me how you have solved the problem.

 

Israel Abril

All I did to get it to work was to... wait for it.... turn the brightness knob! :)

I think it simply takes the power from the power cable directly so there's no software magic involved.

Of course this is for the backlight only, I don't think there is a way to change the screen brighness if that's what you mean.

Ah i see, then i guess the backlight on mine doesnt work, nothing happens when i turn the brt knop...

Another short question... Is it only me that is noticing a REAL high FPS impact when using the SIOC application?

the SIOC application is using about 22% of the cpu... (AMD x6 phenom at 3.5 ghz) (6 core)...

 

Is it just me?