I currently use SimVim cockpit for the control of my flight console hardware, which is analog. I have nothing but praise for how SimVim lets me control my hardware yoke, pedals and throttle controls. As recommended, I use SimVim cockpit with X plane, loading the plugin onto an Arduino Mega. Love it!

I use Air Manager for separate panel display of instruments. Can't use it for instrument control due to AM's lack of a calibration routine, which SimVim excels at.

I would like to switch completely over to SimVim Panel for my instrument display. But, reading what documentation I found, I saw that the screen shot of the system schematic showed a PC or a Raspberry Pi controlling a display.

I don't want to make an assumption, so my main question is, will SimVim panel work on the same Arduino where I have SimVim cockpit running or do I need a separate pc/Raspberry/Arduino ? I would expect that the two plugins would work together, on one device, but I don't want to make the assumption.

Thank You

Tom
Feb 11, 2021 in SimVimPanel program by

1 Answer

Hi Tom,

SimVimPanel is not related to Arduino - it's a program for displaying instruments on a computer display, and needs to be run on a separate computer/Raspberry than the one running X-Plane. It communicates with X-Plane via same SimVimCockpit plugin by LAN.

So, you have SimVim plugin running in X-Plane, and it can communicate with an Arduino running RSC Firmware, and/or with any number of computers connected by LAN running SimVimPanel modules.

Best regards,
Roman
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