This is an app + associated desktop software that allows you to use your phone as a flight panel touchscreen instead of spending lots of money on a physical one. Check it out:
This is a Kivy application that sends UDP packets to your computer. On your Windows computer you run an included python script to listen for the packets and change a vJoy virtual joystick.
I've used the application successfully with Windows 10 + vJoy 2.1.9.1 + Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 and an Android 6.0 phone. In theory, anything that can utilize a virtual joystick on Windows would be able to use this.
Installation of this application is geared towards technical users, please figure it out yourself and then update the documentation in this README for others.
First, install vJoy on your computer, and set up a virtual joystick.
Then, deploy the Kivy application on your phone using buildozer (see below). I do not currently plan to distribute this on an app store, so you'll have to use the relevant developer tools to build/deploy the app.
Once you have the application installed, then you'll want to install Python 3 on your Windows computer, and run the 'vjoy_feeder.py' python script. Figure out your computer's IP address and record it ('ipconfig' works well from the command line).
When the feeder application starts, you may be prompted by your firewall. If you don't enable the app, it won't work.
Once the feeder is running, you can start the app on your phone. Click the '...' settings thing, and enter in the IP address of your computer. You can use the vJoyConf application to verify that joystick buttons/axis are occurring.
At a high level, you need to:
- Install python 3
- Install buildozer + requirements
- Deploy the app to your phone via
buildozer android debug deploy run
See the Kivy Android documentation for in depth documentation about this process.
TODO: I don't have an iPhone, but in theory this should work?
I've been running the application on Linux like so:
python main.py -m screen:onex,scale=.75 -m inspector
See axis_map and button_map in main.py. Or set everything
up and use the vJoyConf application to observe each button.
This app is open source, so you should totally implement the idea and make a pull request so others can benefit! I'm happy to accept pull requests.
However, it's likely that I'm not going to spend any time implementing things I don't care about. The odds that I care about your feature request are not great.
It should see the vJoy virtual device as an additional device. Tell it to use it, then configure the buttons/axis as you wish.
The original app I adapted this from used them, and honestly I don't know a lot about flight simulators. Feel free to improve it.
Yes! Use GIMP to edit images/bg-xhdpi.xcf. It has layers and stuff.
Yes it does.
This is heavily adapted from the work already done by the original authors of the flightgear-tq-panel project.
I merely adapted the application to send data to a vJoy feeder application and changed the background to work with an XHDPI screen.
Copyright (C) 2020 Dustin Spicuzza
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