Ep: 10 - DCS Bios | Analog Multi Position Switches | Code Your Flight Simulator
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- čas přidán 9. 07. 2024
- Stop wasting pin space on your Arduino with Multi-position switches!!! Let me show you how to pass up to 16 inputs through 2 wires 😀 All with a bit of theory we learnt in Ep. 9
This is an absolute game changer, and can be used with DCS BIOS!
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0:00 - Intro
0:45 - The Switch
2:00 - Create the Resistive Band
4:25 - PCB in Fusion
8:07 - Soldering the PCB
10:42 - Connecting to Arduino
13:16 - Voltage Dividing / Debugging
16:45 - DCS BIOS Coding
23:57 - Game Play
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those switches and panels are coming up beautifully. Great tutorial.
Thanks mate!!!! 🙌🏻🙌🏻
Thanks again, Scott. The tutorial was interesting, and I'm very grateful for the time you dedicate to all of this for the DCS community. Each tutorial you give us clears up many doubts. With each new tutorial, it becomes more interesting. Looking forward to the next one.
Thank you so much! I’m glad you are enjoying them 😃😃 see you next episode
as a fellow EE, this is remarkably detailed and thorough. nice work dude
Thanks mate!!
I'm an electrical engineer and this would've never occurred to me. Nice work.
Thank you!! 🙌🏻🙌🏻 that means a lot 😃
Your tutorial are the best of the best all over the internet, thank you for sharing 🤩
🙌🏻🙌🏻 you are too kind! Thank you so much ☺️
Wow, great video and very useful explanation. See you next
Thank you!!! See you next episode 😃
Such a PIN saver, thanks a lot!
No worries 😊😊
Amazing as always! Thank you for the time you spend to make these videos. I hope your channel will grow big one day, because this is high quality content. 👍
Thank you so much! It’s been a pleasure making content for the community 😁
I absolutely love your channel. It has given me so many more ideas with my F-18 build.
I am not sure if anyone else has this issue. On a Galaxy phone, your instructions/captions are covered by the video's information. Unfortunately, I can't make out everything.
Thanks again for your channel and everything you've been doing!!!
Thanks so much mate! I really appreciate it
Is that for the long form videos - or the short 1 min videos?
Thanks for following along with the channel 😃
@aHornetsNest My pleasure! It's only during the shorts in vertical orientation.
@@Delta2Oscar ah okay cool :) I’ll have a look around
Theyre directly uploaded from the InstagramTV format from season 1
I’ll have a play around with the next set so they are a bit more readable 😃
How to make a daunting task look easy? Just watch this channel! Awesome work!
Busy working out what switches I want and need then I will be revisiting this series as I build my own panel.
Thanks for your hard work and for sharing all of this!
Thanks mate!!! Any questions let me know 😃
How amazing! Greetings from the UK! Thank you, Scott. It is not often you come across beneficial tutorials, delivered in a professional, clear and simple-to-understand way. Even for me, who does not understand electronics, this was relatively easy to understand. Just so you know - I have subscribed and will follow. I aim to build some panels for A10C, to make my flying tactile. I'll look forward to future videos.
Hey mate! So good to have you here 😃 all the best with the build - keep me updated 🫡
As always, great tutorial!! I could watch your videos for hours!!! It couldn't be better!!
Thanks for your great work!!
Thank you very much! See you next episode!
Got this working, thanks. Then I tried to use the pot to make a rudder trim button for the mozzie and failed pretty quick!
Oh no! Shoot me a message on Instagram and I’ll see if I can help 😃
Great video. Great solution. Just a heads up there are detent rotaries available that are 3 wire. Leo Bodnar SLI-12. I'd really like to see a video regarding the magnetic reset on the LTD/R
Thanks mate! Oh nice I haven’t really delved too deep into the Bodnar world.
I just had a look at them, looks like a nice solution for 12 positions - at least now with the theory you can take any rotary of your choosing and make it 3 wire connection 😃
I’ll do a mag video at some point as the cockpit progresses 🙌🏻
Awesome !!!!! Thanks a lot !
Thank you! 😁
Love these tutorials. You’re making it look easy! I was curious air something though. You seem to basically turn a rotary switch into a stepper potentiometer. Can you explain why you do it this way? Why don’t you wire each pin to the Arduino directly? Is this to save pins on the Arduino, or is there a different reason behind this?
Hey thanks so much! Yeah that’s exactly it
It’s purely to save pins on arduino
It’s not the “best” or “only” way to do it, but it’s the best pin saving way without using multiplexers 😃
Great video and really helps me with the UFC keypad I am building. Any chance you can do a video using the matrix option for switches
Glad you got something out of it 😃 I can’t definitely add it to the list 🙌🏻
Thanks so much for the great info in your tutorials. Im looking at building my own F18 sim pit very soon and the electical side of things was totally foreign to me. One question with the rotary switch and the position of the markings on the panels, how do you know that the switch and panel markins will line up when you turn the knob?
Hey mate! Glad to hear another F18 sim is coming into the world
So the rotary switch has a registration stub on it to 1) stop the switch backing rotating when you try turn the knob and 2) but it shows you where position 0 is for the switch
I will design my panels to have a registration hole in them to align the switch and you can find on DCS Bios where POS 0 is so I know it will align each time
On the Hornet SENSOR panel - the POS 0 is in the 9 o’clock position for both switches
Hope this helps :)
@@aHornetsNest at the moment its still a little hazy. i think once i build a panel and play with the switch position it'll be more clear to me.... am i right in thinking you can adjust the throw/step on the switch to match the markings on the physical panel?
Yeah once you start working with it it should make more sense
Yeah you can buy different throw angles for the switch
As well as different pin counts
Most common throw angles are 30, 45 and 90
Another fantastic video. The educational value is priceless... This is better than Netflix!!! Can't wait till next week, ... exciting... Would you happen to know if it's possible to use DCS Bios code together with plain arduino code on the same board? Like for combining a shift register or a matrix with DCS Bios. Or does DCS Bios support shift registers or matrix? Thank you very much for all your efforts enormously appreciated!👍👍👍👏👏👏
Thanks mate!! Yeah you definitely can
I run my caution panel using output data from BIOS and then normal code for a shift bit register for the caution lights
You just can’t mix BIOS with HID
Hope that helps 😃 see you next episode
Thanks a lot, any chance on a tutorial on shift registers or matrix?
@@wardker hey I can definitely look into a tutorial like that 😄
Exciting...You truly are the Obi-Wan Kenobi of simpit builders!! 👏👏👏@@aHornetsNest
Thank you 🙏 😁
can someone help me im trying to find that switch on amazon and i cant seem to find it?
Hey you may need to buy it from a company like Mouser or Digikey
awesome.
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Thank you!
Nice - save those pins! Question: you copied and pasted the AnalogMultiPos line of code and it caused the error because Resolution/step was no longer needed. How would we ever know this? You literally used the code it provided, but it was incorrect…why is what was provided wrong in the first place? You also said mentioned something about if we looked at the back end coding we would see that. I don’t really know what that means. Where do we see this back end coding? Thanks!
Hey! Great comment 😃 BoRT and DCS Bios at times can have a tendency to be out of sync as I believe they were initially made by two seperate entities. As well as this technique is so rarely used by people I think updating it would have been over looked. But I’m not exactly sure on the reason why
Back end code is the library files, you can navigate your way through the arduino dcs library and find the switch type you are using - and inside that file you can read the public and private class code and work out how the code works - if you have a understanding of arduino concepts it should be fairly easy to decipher
I hope this helps 😃 I’ll be testing all snippets and creating more fixes if I find any
Another brilliant tutorial. If I can ask, what is the gauge of wire that you use in the panels?
Thanks mate!!! I’m using 26AWG wire with silicone coating so they’re nice and flexible
Thanks
😃
Nice video mate! I’m encountering an issue with polling the state of the cockpit switches: if the switches aren’t aligned with the sim I have to move first the switch for it to be “registered” and then it works. This happens with toggle switches that for example are “off” by default in the sim (e.g. cold & dark) however left in the “on” position on the physical panel. Any way around that other than having the physical switch aligned before the handshake with DCS bios?
Hey mate! There is a work around :) I’ll just need to go digging a bit to see the lines of code I added to the bios library to make it auto poll 😃 but I 100% know that frustration of needing to manually reset switches when you just wish it would update immediately on start up
I’ll keep you updated 😃
@@aHornetsNest awesome! Thanks a million!
@@The_ViperProject 😃😃😃
C&K A11203RNMCQ is this the right 12 position variant?
Hey mate they are :)
Hi. Great work and very usefull. Can you show how to connect several axis to an arduino to connect to a joystick and throttle. Ive built my own and would like to use arduinos on each module.
Hey :) yeah I can do a tutorial on how to connect Arduino as a HID controller with Axis control
Thanks. That would be really usefull.
@@barriedrew 😁
Is there no way to launch/connect DCS BIOS serial without opening that program every single time and entering the same port?
Hey there there if you have a fixed set up, and you know it’ll be COM X every time, you can go an edit the multi com serial file and open that one instead
But for the purpose of the tutorials, and the potential all of new viewers I use single serial port
But once the cockpit is up and running I’ll transition to the multi serial
@@aHornetsNest Gotcha! Thanks so much for this. I'm working on my A10 cockpit myself. I just need to figure out where DCS BIOS hid the "Hide Labels" and NVG code.
@@jehlybean636 oh very nice!!
I need my fix, when is the next video?
😁😁 this Tuesday! I think is going to be a good one 🫡
is that a magnetically held switch in the middle there?
spotted that too...
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Hi me Again, is this the exact same theory for connecting a 12 position switch? and only utilising only 4 of the pins? as im gathering you code it out in arduino? as i will be using the built in stopper for the switches?
Hey :) yeah exact same theory, I’d still use resistors and connect all the pins - just incase one day you do need the extra capability, and it’ll also keep the coding a bit more intuitive
But at the same time - if you just wanted to connect the required pins that is also okay - just adjust the code as required … but the voltage dividing theory is the same
@aHornetsNest Perfect your an absolute star and a complete credit to the sim community thankyou!
@clarkyclackers2684 thanks mate I appreciate it 🫡 looking forward to coming back and making more episodes soon