dcspy 1.7.3

Integrating DCS (Digital Combat Simulator) planes with Logitech G13/G15/G510/G19 LCD

DCSpy

DCSpy is able to pull information from DCS aircraft and display on Logitech G-series keyboards LCD. It supports:

• Logitech device with 160x43 px (4 lines) monochrome LCD - G13, G15 (v1 and v2) and G510
• Logitech device with 320x240 px (8 lines) full RGBA LCD - G19

See more information on Wiki page.

Sponsored by Jetbrains Open Source Support Program

Aircraft and instruments

• F/A-18C Hornet UFC - Up Front Controller
• F-16C Viper DED - Data Entry Display
• Ka-50 Black Shark PVI-800 and autopilot channels
• A-10C Warthog and A-10C II Tank Killer - Radio frequency information
• F-14A and F-14B Tomcat - basic support for RIO CAP
• AV-8B Night Attack Harrier - Up Front Controller and Option Display Unit
• AH-64D Apache - Enhanced Up Front Display
• more to come....

Requirements

• Python 3.10 but 3.7+ (with tcl/tk support, see installation) should be fine, please choose Windows x86-64 version, file should be python-3.10.5-amd64.exe.
• Logitech Gaming Software 9.04.49
• DCS-BIOS 0.7.46 (or newer)
• DCS 2.7.17.29140 Open Beta - previous 2.7.16.28157 not working

Notes:

• If you upgrade DCSpy from 1.5.1 or older you can safely remove Logitech LCD SDK from C:\Program Files\Logitech Gaming Software\LCDSDK_8.57.148. Since DCSpy version 1.6.0 use built-in SDK in LGS (Logitech Gaming Software).

New ideas

I have lots of plans and new ideas how to improve it internally and form user's perspective, but don't hesitate to contact me. Maybe it will motivate me to implement some new stuff. Please open issue if you find bug or have any crazy idea.
You are welcome dcspy Discord server.

Contributing

You want contribute, perfect see: contributing guide.

1.7.3

• Align F-16C DED and AH-64D EUFD with DCS-BIOS 0.7.46 changes
• Basic support for F-14A Tomcat

1.7.2

• AH-64D Apache
  • update name from AH64DBLKII to AH64D
  • fix display PRE mode for G19
  • fix handling buttons
• Internal:
  • update unit test for better coverage and more use-cases

1.7.1

• New config settings:
  • auto_start - run DCSpy atomically after start
  • verbose - show more logs in terminal/console window
• Fixing handling of dcsbios settings from config.yaml
• Start and stop buttons can be used several times without closing GUI
• F-16C Viper
  • replace * with inverse white circle character at DED
  • Fix unhandled buttons for G19 (menu, ok and cancel)
• G19 and F/A-18C Hornet
  • Push Menu and Cancel toggle cockpit button down, push it again toggles button up (Integrated Fuel/Engine Indicator - IFEI).
  • Add handling Ok as Attitude Selector Switch, INS/AUTO/STBY
• Internal:
  • use Pythonic way using temporary directory
  • speed-up tests - cache json files instead of downloading from internet
  • use Enum for LCD type
  • use Enum for LCD buttons, add to LcdInfo dataclass

1.7.0

• Support for AH-64D Apache with 3 modes:
  • IDM - Squeeze and shows radios frequencies (from Radio Area), IDM and RTS rocker are used to scroll down
  • WCA - Enter button display warnings, cautions, and advisories, WCA rocker is used to scroll down
  • PRE - Preset button displays the preset menu for the selected radio, WCA rocker is used to scroll down
• F-16C Viper DED clean-up extra characters

1.6.1

• Update F-16C Viper for latest DSC-BIOS (0.7.45)
• Fresh installation of DCS-BIOS is painless
• Drop support for Python 3.6

1.6.0

• use fonts in dynamic way - you can customize fonts in config.yaml file (see Configuration)
• usage for LCD SDK built-in LGS - no need additional package for usage
• support for Python 3.10 (use dataclasses internally)
• ability to stop DCSpy from GUI
• supporters are printed in welcome screen - I'm thrilled with support and help of community!

1.5.1

• alignment for new DCS-BIOS v0.7.43

1.5.0

• Support for AV-8B N/A Harrier with:
  • UFC - Up Front Controller
  • ODU - Option Display Unit
  • decrease UFC Comm 1 Channel - G13 1st button or G19 left button
  • increase UFC Comm 1 Channel - G13 2nd button or G19 right button
  • decrease UFC Comm 2 Channel - G13 3rd button or G19 down button
  • increase UFC Comm 2 Channel - G13 4th button or G19 up button

1.4.0

• Configuration editor:
  • dcsbios - set default Logitech keyboard: "G19", "G510", "G15 v1/v2", "G13"
  • show_gui - showing or hiding GUI during start of DCSpy
  • dcsbios - location of DCS-BIOS folder inside user's Saved Games
• Check and update DCS-BIOS directly from DCSpy
  • Check DCS-BIOS button in Config editor
  • dcsbios needs to be set to correct value
• Basic A-10C Warthog and A-10C II Tank Killer support

1.3.0

• F-16C Viper use 4 buttons for IFF
  • IFF MASTER Knob - OFF/STBY/LOW/NORM/EMER
  • IFF ENABLE Switch - M1/M3 /OFF/ M3/MS
  • IFF M-4 CODE Switch - HOLD/ A/B /ZERO
  • IFF MODE 4 REPLY Switch - OUT/A/B
• Fix alignment of (DCS-BIOS v0.7.41) for F-14B Tomcat
• Internally all data fetch form DCS-BIOS is check against its specification. Sometimes due to changes DCS-BIOS protocol DCSpy couldn't fetch all data i.e. F-16 DED. It shouldn't happened anymore.

1.2.3

• Fix alignment of DED (DCS-BIOS v0.7.41) for F-16C Viper

1.2.2

• Fix alignment of DED for F-16C Viper
• Fix position of Integrated Fuel/Engine Indicator (IFEI) for F/A-18C Hornet (only G19)

1.2.1

• F/A-18C Hornet shows extra Total Internal Fuel (G19 only)
• Internal refactoring

1.2.0

• Simple Tkinter GUI - to select your Logitech keyboard
• Support for G19 - Big thanks for BrotherBloat who makes this release possible. He spent countless hours to share his G19 and let me troubleshoot remotely.
• F/A-18C Hornet shows Total Fuel instead of Total Internal Fuel

1.1.1

• Basic support for F-14B Tomcat RIO CAP (Computer Address Panel):
  • CLEAR - button 1
  • S-W - button 2
  • N+E - button 3
  • ENTER - button 4

1.1.0

• dcspy use now UDP multicast connection do DCS-BIOS, since each TCP connection slightly increases the amount of work that is performed inside of DCS (blocking the rest of the simulation).
• support for integer data to be fetch from DCS-BIOS - using IntegerBuffer()
• bios_data in Airplanes instances allow both StringBuffer() and IntegerBuffer()
• reformat waiting time before DCS connected
• fix Data Entry Display for F-16C Viper - DCS-BIOS v0.7.34 is required
• Ka-50 Black Shark - Autopilot channels show up in LCD

1.0.0

• Ka-50 Black Shark data from PVI-800 shows (in similar boxes) on LCD
• ProtocolParser for DCS-BIOS has new optimized state machine
  • LCD SDK is re-written from scratch:
  • low and high level API
  • auto-loading C library during importing
  • all API is type annotated and well documented
  • move loading LCD C library from G13 handler *internal:
  • refactoring and rename internals of G13 handler module
  • add unit tests

0.9.2

• LCD prints current waiting time to connect to DCS
• when DCS exit from plane/mission exception is catch and handle correctly
• lots of internal changes, preparing for new features, most important:
  • change structure of AircraftHandler, move subscription to DCS-BIOS changes out of planes
  • update and clear methods move from G13 handler to LCD SDK

0.9.1

• G13 handler have display property to send text to LCD
• rename starting script to dcspy.exe
• starting script now show waiting time for DCS connection
• minor code optimization and refactoring

0.9.0

• based on version specelUFC v1.12.1
• added basic handling for Ka-50 PVI-800 data are received but not formatted properly
• F-16C DED should working but not 4 buttons under LCD - I don't have it so it is hard to test
• G13 handler detect 32/64 bit of Python and load correct version of LCD Logitech C library
• adding basic logging for debugging - prints on console
• all defined aircraft are detected and loaded on-the-fly during operation
• define new plane should be easy just use AircraftHandler as base class
• Python LCD SDK was clean-up
• other refactorings and code duplication removal

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2020 Michal Plichta

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