Communicating Arduino and X-plane to build DIY Home Cockpit - Introduction to SimVim Cockpit [Part1]

In this Video I will talk about the concept of communicating the Arduino and X-plane. Then I will talk about different methods available from last tutorials to make home cockpit in action.
Finally I introduce you the best available solution which is SimVim Cockpit that does Everything for us and make our job much easier.
In the next video I am going to step into simvim and build our own project which is first real physical cockpit component that actually works in X-plane.
Link to Official SimVim Website:
simvim.com
Link to Paul's Flight Deck Channel for great SimVim tutorials.
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[@Tutor1503]

THis is EXACTLY what i was looking for!!! thank you so much man you are awesome! if we have questions about our build, can we send you an email??

[@alirezaghaderi]

sure
good luck

[@frankervin]

Thanks very much! Excellent intro to SimVim. Very inspiring!

[@alirezaghaderi]

Glad you like it! Good Luck

[@swu11]

I like your videos, also was looking at Paul's videos but he stopped. I had done direct button switch (e.g. Paul's first Pilot Heat switch), then LED annunciators (Landing gears light /Beacon lights/Nav lights, etc) with a direct connection to Arduino, finally got stuck at DM13A in an attempt to be efficient. Although I got it over now, I believe for basic SimVim tutorials, annunciators and rotary encoders are most beneficial to manipulate the simulator. For people just need to change values with the rotary encoder, there is a new vendor shipping encoder panel now, he only uses Arduino programming but not SimVim.

[@alirezaghaderi]

Yes your are right.. I just published a video about rotary encoders in simvim for controlling the heading bug. if you have time I will be happy to hear your suggestions and ideas to continue.

[@JoLo-vx1nb]

Thanks for the SimVim Info. May I suggest for your next video -- just do a simple example using a rotary encoder to change the heading bug in x-Plane and then read back the new heading from x-Plane to a display (say an LCD). This video I believe would
be a great start to understand the best way to use SimVim. Something similar would be of benefit also to show how to change
an x-Plane data ref and execute a command along with displaying a data ref to some external display device or serial monitor.
THANK YOU for your help.

[@alirezaghaderi]

Sure. I will do the rotary encoder in the next video. I dont have a free LCD Module. I I find one I will use it otherwise I will just tell you how to do it. for your next suggestion, it is a little more complicate for a beginner video, but I will think about it. but for a hint, you need to try using the last tutorials about SDK and combine both techniques .

[@JoLo-vx1nb]

@@alirezaghaderi Thank you . Writing the heading value read from x-plane to the serial monitor is good enough after it gets changed by the
rotary encoder.

[@alirezaghaderi]

Sorry to answer late
You dont have access to the serial monitor of the arduino using simvim. at least I dont know that yet. but you can do it your own. you can connect another arduino and connect it directly to arduino without simvim and constantly read back the value of the dataref associated with the heading value.

[@Noah-oc7rp]

Ive been trying to connect an arduino pro micro board to various switches and have found no real way to connect them to xplane. So i havent even connected any switches to the board in fear of not soldering them to the correct pins. Any tips?

[@alirezaghaderi]

Are u using SimVim? SimVim doesnt support Pro micro as master controller board.. You should use Mega 2560

[@davidweisbrod5771]

Thank you for your video. I am not succeeding to detect my Arduino UNO in X-Plane (also tried with the SimVim plugin without any success). The card is detected in the mac with the arduino app and tests such as "blink " do work. I would appreciate your help

[@alirezaghaderi]

Hi
Thanks
Arduino Uno cannot be used as master board with SimVim. you must use Arduino Mega for this purpose.

[@belectroart]

I have x plane 9 and put sim vin in xplane/resources/plugins/simvin but it is not seen in the plugins list in xplane

[@alirezaghaderi]

Maybe Simvim does not support X-plane 9. check their website for more info... by the way why not using X-Plane 11?

[@grafmaga86]

You help me a lot! Thanks :)

[@alirezaghaderi]

Good Luck!

[@JoJayO]

Hello Sir, how can i Connect to u? i wanted to ask some? great video thanks a lot :)

[@alirezaghaderi]

Hi Send me an email if you need help

[@JoJayO]

@@alirezaghaderi appreciate so much, but i cant findy your email adress sir

[@alirezaghaderi]

@@JoJayO [e-mail]

[@claudiodibiase4603]

old news sir. make a video with xplane 11 - Arduino - direct to xplane no third party

[@alirezaghaderi]

What do you mean no third party? you mean writing it with Xplane SDK? It is possible but what is the benefit? I prefer Mobiflight myself or simvim functionality