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SimTools v2 - Game Dash v2.3

Format and Send Game Dash data to a device/program.

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    eaorobbie Well-Known Member SimTools Developer Gold Contributor

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    mmm , I thought the round function still work that way, Its the same as the round function in visual basic math function. With my dash code I send rpm as a 5 digit so no rounding then use the map function with the Ard to map it to so many (8) leds.
    Just beware some games send -1 , you need a replace -1 0 in the script to avoid this too.

    Ok the others , Press Help and it explains basically how to use the script.

    Scale will scale a value as in if set - Scale 10 200 will make sure the value like in rpm = 0 will send 10 and if rpm maxs it will send 200. I haven't used this fuction , I prefer to do all remaping (scaling) of values in the microcontroller.

    Percent Min Max this is a handy function for emulating a fuel gauge, it if tank is empty on 0 then Min will be set to 0 and if Full is like 67L then Max is set too 67. This way when the fuel is empty it sends 0 and when its full its sends 100 so it makes it easy to remap these to servo movements or anything else to drive a gauge.

    Hope that helps
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    PERCENT - will give you the percentage used.
    So say the value is 500 with the min at 0 and the max at 1000, you would get 50%.

    Scale can take the 50% and then get the output needed for a different output range.
    So if the min was 0 and the max was 200, the output would be 100.

    hope that makes sense?
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    I believe to get the effect you want with rounding, you can just subtract -.5 before the rounding?
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    Thanks @eaorobbie (yes, bad wording: I described ROUND behaviour which is regular but what I wanted was TRUNC )

    Thanks @yobuddy

    I'll share a video this week-end hopefully!
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    Thank you this will come in handy :)
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    I know @nobuddy is working on adding CLAMP support to GameDash, but I needed it for my project and I needed to share it with everyone for an article I'm working on. Attached is my modified GameDash that does not allow PERCENT to return negative numbers. This exe will be useless soon when the update comes out and I'll try to come back here and note that.

    Attached Files:

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    Hello,
    since i do simracing, i dream about a fully working cluster. I terached myself some arduino and electri skills in the last 2-3 years. Currently I am able do drive a cluster manually via arduino. I wan't to create a simple board with arduino to interface with gamedash that everyone can rebuild, and make a tutorial.

    But at the moment i've got some Problems with the Software. For testing, i have all installed on my taable Pc. Game Engine, Game Manager and Game Dash. I looked for all steps that are descriped on page 1. and set it up Like this.

    Since the only game installed atm is Richard Burns Rally, i downloaded updatet plugin with dashoutput. I run the SSE version of RBR as descriped. Im getting blue banner says connectet. In game dash, all valuesd are displayed are 0. If i hook up my Arduino and set it as device, The Rx led lights so i think everything is working ok.

    But i don't get any output only 0. I hope someone can help me fixing this Problem. Maybe i've forgot something.
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    today test gamedash output to network interface, but nothing see on network..
    can someone tell me any suggestion ?
    thanks

    below my config where can't create preset.
    upload_2015-4-1_23-43-55.png
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    An application can be written to receive the UDP packets and serialize them back to data.
    What are you trying to achieve ?
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    thanks.
    wireshark on lan see anything, but a local udp listener receive all data.
    i'm working for a wrapper between gamedash and generic ODBII software to visualize rpm and speed on tablet, but the real goal is create a simple android app as dashboard for gamedash.

    regards
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    This is possible , I wrote a personal app that communicates to the jrks via a udp connection and uses the dll's that pololu supply just as a test version to see if I can get more definition out of the motion cue's. And yep it sure does, but early days for it, many little errors in it that I have to fix.

    Ok what are you coding this in , Im familiar with VB.net - Basic , learning C# and MCF very quickly too.
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    my project is in vb2010.
    actual version working, but i want implement code for easy gamedash config of paramter
    i'm very happy if @yobuddy implement OBD protocol.
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    Agree @soraz would be nice to get the GameDash to output in OBD protocol, without much free time to investigate this, an addon could be a while off , but if the information and how its needed to output we could proberly toss something together quite quickly to test and possibly add on to GameDash for all to use.

    So if you have a sample we could look at , I would be happy to look into it.
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    Stupid question time!

    Ive got a symprojects SPI-D and want to try get KMH speed to output to this from m2 emulator for Daytona USA

    I know the memory hack output but im confused what im actually meant to be doing to get this working? Ive seen someone else get this working on the same game however he used X-SIM and I see symprojects app for this actually has a x-sim plugin made
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    Hello,
    can someone help me for Arduino Uno codes to drive an RC Electronic speed Controller?
    I have a RC brushless motor and ESC combo pack that I used on my rc buggy, and I am planning to put a propeller on the motor in order to have the wind simulation on my RollerCoaster sim.
    Here is the wiring of the hardware, arduino_esc_lucaszanela_com.png I need codes for Arduino to work with Game Dash.
    I think that once having the codes this hardware configuration will be the best for wind (fan) simulation because they are cheap and there are many models for application needed as power, dimensions, long life, high RPM etc...
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    Is there a game dash supported game list ?
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    Yes, Dirt3 and Grid2... Both not supported haha i read that somewhere
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