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How to know the game you are playing through the serial port

Discussion in 'New users start here - FAQ' started by liuzhimin, Nov 23, 2021.

  1. liuzhimin

    liuzhimin New Member

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    How to know the game you are playing through the serial port, I need these data to call my different parameter groups.
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    liuzhimin, Nov 23, 2021
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  2. noorbeast

    noorbeast VR Tassie Devil Staff Member Moderator Race Director

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    Can you please explain a little more about what you are trying to do, and what you are using, or hoping to use, to do it.
    noorbeast, Nov 23, 2021
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  3. liuzhimin

    liuzhimin New Member

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    Different games for different DOF settings, I need to know what game I am currently playing to call my parameter group. I only need different games. Simtools can give me a different number code.
    liuzhimin, Nov 23, 2021
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  4. Dirty

    Dirty Well-Known Member Gold Contributor

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    There are certainly more qualified people here, but afaik SimTools does not recognize which game sent the values that it receives. I wrote one plugin and looked at a few others but I didn't notice any parameter that identified the source of the data to SimTools. Others, please correct me if I'm wrong!

    In my own software, I do transmit a "SimulatorID" parameter and I eventually want to use it to load the approriate profile, or at least show a caution message to the user if the loaded profile does not match with the data received.
    RawData - SimID.png

    I don't know wether or not Mover does that.
    Dirty, Nov 23, 2021
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