SLI-Pro and SLI-F1 plugin for SimHub

lukester1975 · Oct 4, 2020

In case it's of use to anyone else, I knocked up a quick plugin for SimHub to interface to a SLI-Pro and SLI-F1 boards. I've never been sufficiently intelligent to understand the SLIMaxManager UI and have had some issues with Fanaleds, hence the plugin. Plus it fills in a few things with PersistentDataTracker that are missing in AMS2 (and PC[2], I guess) like deltas, which is handy.

Bug reports or features best on github if possible!

Cheers

Mikael Hammar · Oct 22, 2020

Thanks a bunch man it's up and running here!

I would love to be able to set fixed data on left and right fields without the need for a rotary, since I don't have any connected to it

SOLO59 · Oct 23, 2020

This is really kool!!! Might have to look into this! Really great find bro

lukester1975 · Oct 23, 2020

Mikael Hammar said:
Thanks a bunch man it's up and running here! I would love to be able to set fixed data on left and right fields without the need for a rotary, since I don't have any connected to it

Sure, should be easy enough. It's a start on #1 on the todo list anyway ... "Make everything configurable."

Ian Watkins · Oct 23, 2020

Any chance this can be adapted to support the SLI-F1? Not sure how similar they actually are.

lukester1975 · Oct 23, 2020

Ian Watkins said:
Any chance this can be adapted to support the SLI-F1? Not sure how similar they actually are.

Dunno, but probably quite similar. I did put it on the list but unlike the SLI-PRO, I can't find anything on the Bodnar website documenting the USB message formats. Sadly I don't have one to sniff around with wireshark and figure it out the old fashioned way, though maybe they'll oblige with the info after a friendly email...

lukester1975 · Oct 26, 2020

Mikael Hammar said:
Thanks a bunch man it's up and running here! I would love to be able to set fixed data on left and right fields without the need for a rotary, since I don't have any connected to it

OK there's a new version that has some dropdowns in the UI to set the segment display modes. I'll probably add support for buttons to cycle through them too at some point.

Cheers

lukester1975 · Oct 30, 2020

This version has the ability to assign buttons to control the displays.

@Ian Watkins I'll try and ping Bodnar Electronics sometime soonish and see if they can help with the F1. If no luck, I could guess if you're happy to try it out

(I would need the USB ProductId though; easy enough to get at if you don't know how!).

Cheers

Ian Watkins · Oct 30, 2020

@lukester1975 , I'm happy to try it out. I'll have a Google and look for the ProductId.

lukester1975 · Oct 31, 2020

Ian Watkins said:
@lukester1975 , I'm happy to try it out. I'll have a Google and look for the ProductId.

OK sounds good, but no need yet - they may just give me the info!

lukester1975 · Nov 12, 2020

lukester1975 said:
OK sounds good, but no need yet - they may just give me the info!

Turns out they are jolly nice folks and gave me more than the info (OK, lent...)! Give me a week or two and hopefully I'll have something hacked up. Probably a separate plugin for a first cut and I'll merge them together at some point.

Cheers

lukester1975 · Nov 12, 2020

BTW @Ian Watkins, do you know which firmware version you are using (1.12, 1.13 or 1.15)? I'll work on whichever one you have first as there are small differences between them that will need support...

Cheers

Ian Watkins · Nov 12, 2020

@lukester1975 that's great. I'm on 1.15.

Thanks for your efforts.

lukester1975 · Nov 15, 2020

Ian Watkins said:
@lukester1975 that's great. I'm on 1.15.

Thanks for your efforts.

No problem, it keeps me off the streets. At least I think that's what's doing it, though maybe there's some other reason.

We have a heartbeat!

Do you use rotary switches to control the left/right segment displays, or just up/down buttons (or rotary encoders doing the same)? Haven't figured out the rotary switches yet, though I think I have one I took out my wheel so should be able to figure them out. Buttons/encoder should just work.

Cheers

Ian Watkins · Nov 16, 2020

I have 3 rotary switches. At the moment they're being used in fanaleds as one for each display and one for brightness.

lukester1975 · Nov 16, 2020

OK. Couldn't find a spare rotary switch but a pot did the job to figure things out, so hopefully have something to try later in the week or at the weekend.

Cheers

lukester1975 · Nov 20, 2020

Here you go, SLI-F1 plugin: https://github.com/simelation/simhub-plugins/packages/512134

Functionality wise it's the same as the SLI-Pro, which has some new bits in latest build:

* added a peek current segment display mode name function assignable to a button.
* added external LED support.
* added feedback dialogs for rotary detection process.
* show device status in UI.

I'll merge them in to one plugin sometime soon and start with more customisation of on-board LEDs etc.

Feedback/bugs welcome!

Cheers

Ian Watkins · Nov 20, 2020

Fantastic, thank you so much.

lukester1975 · Dec 9, 2020

RIghto, I merged the two plugins. New version is here: https://github.com/simelation/simhub-plugins/packages/534382

Plus a bunch of other stuff:

Multiple device support (per-device config keyed by device serial number).
Editable pit lane RPM LED animation.
Added ability to assign a control to peek any segment mode.
Status LEDs can now be edited.
Status and external LEDs support ncalc expressions (direct property binding removed; javascript not working yet).

In terms of configuration, probably just the segment displays to do but that will take a while, even if I start it...

Anyone upgrading to this version should delete the old SliPro / SliF1 plugin dlls from the SimHub install directory.

Cheers

lukester1975 · Dec 14, 2020

New version 0.7.0 up. All status / external LEDs will now work again.

Cheers

Bug Fixes

simhub-sli-plugin: was always setting LED index 0 for status and external LEDs. (2c54ccc)

Features

simhub-sli-plugin: added support for mapping rotary switches to vJoy devices. (a476b44)
simhub-sli-plugin: use FormulaPicker for LEDs. Javascript now works. (d54318d)