DISCLAIMER OF LIABILITY

SimVimX is our personal hobby project, available for free download and use by the flight simulation community for non-commercial personal use only. It is not intended for professional use.

SimVimX users agree to use it "as is", at their own discretion and for their own purposes, at their own risk and responsibility.

We do not assume liability or responsibility for any damages occured in the use of the SimVimX software, or caused to any hardware equipment connected to your Arduino Mega2560 master board. So make sure you understand what you are doing, learn the basic safety precautions and read relevant web recourses related to use of electric and electronics equipment.

We reserve the right to make changes or improvements to SimVimX without any obligation.

Usage

It is prohibited to use SimVimX software in your commercial products, as well as to embed SimVimX firmware into any sold equipment as part of panels and modules. It's not allowed to distribute your products together with SimVimX/SimVimPanel software, place our files on other web resources and include them in the delivery set of any products sold by you. SimVimX/SimVimPanel software can be downloaded free of charge only from this site.

! We do not provide support for any commercial cockpit hardware that can be purchased elsewhere as a module for the SimVimX interface. We are not responsible for any issues you may encounter or failure of the device after the next automatic SimVimX firmware update or installation of a newer SimVimX plugin.

Notes For Home Cockpit Builders:

• While using the SimVimX system can greatly simplify the process of creating a home flight simulator, you will need some DIY skills, basic wiring and soldering skills, and a fair amount of technical knowledge in an aviation-related field. Basic knowledge of electronics can be useful (but not required) and only a basic understanding of X-Plane commands and datarefs can be useful for custom I/O data configuration.


• Please first carefully study the pages of this site (all information is presented in a fairly understandable form). Please read the basic powering and safety precautions and wiring tips.


• If you are going to purchase any third-party device to integrate it into the cockpit and use with the SimVimX system, make sure that this device does not have a built-in Mega2560 board inside and it only has the necessary switches, LEDs, displays to which you can have access to connect (solder) wires from the master board or I/O extensions.
Read "DIY or Buy?" page.

Notes For Hardware Sellers:

If you produce and sell panel modules/devices for home cockpit builders and would like to sell them for use with SimVimX, please note the following:

• Design your device so that all wires from switches, encoders, displays, and multiplexers are accessible or connected to the terminal blocks (headers) of your device chassis. This way, users can easily wire them into an external SimVimX master board and SimVimX I/O expansion boards and make custom configuration along with all the other hundreds of cockpit I/O controls.


• Don't integrate the controller board (Arduino) into device you sell for using with SimVimX System, because only one "master" board can be used in the whole cockpit system for hundreds other I/O devices. Just describe that your product can be used with SimVimX System and place a direct link to these website pages.


• You have an opportunity to produce cheap, convenient bezels, kits and DIY-modules with all knobs and switches in their places, but without the need to include any complex electronics inside your products!

This project is in a constant development, the hardware design can be improved and extended, the communication protocol can be changed frequently. The firmware has changed significantly from version to version several times to comply the SimVim(X) plugin protocol, and further changes may be made to the protocol and configuration.

For the purposes of education and creativity in some non-profit institutions, museums, or schools, you can contact us and we will concider a way to provide a version for you.