Hey my left box is not being detected by the pc, after opening the box up I see all green lights on so what could be the problem? I tried using the usb cable that is being used on my right box (which works on the right box) but unfortunately it didn’t work on the left box
if the box is not being detected, its probably not seeing the arduino board for some reason. does it show up in device manager under Ports (COM & LPT) . Expand the ports tab, then plug in box and see if a new device is listed. if windows sees it, it should add the device and list its com port number next to it. Once you have the com port number, try running the SMC3 app. You will need to modify the smc3Utiils.ini file, just open it up with note pad and change the com port. Then open up the SMC3 app.
Nice build, i did the same thing a year ago, after i got the the firmware update, and made a traction loss plattform under my M2 seat mover. I allway wondered if anyone else got this idea, since 2 dof boxes offers a "free" third motor option^^ I want to add another arduino with motors for a up/down motion. Do you know if i can run it on the srs software in combination with my modded M2 box in some way? thx
Hey there. Srs is very limited in doing anything custom like this since they only support certain rigs. I would suggest switching to SimHub for motion. They just added support for it a couple months ago and it's very good. You may also consider ditching the DOF firmware on the Arduino and reflash it with the open source SMC3.ino file found on xsimulators.net. if you want to play it safe, purchase a new Arduino board and save your old one with the dof software.
@@IsaacBayer thanks for your reply. I allready feard that this wont work easy... My original plan was to clone my dof arduino to tebuild a dof h6. Since the h3 to h6 upgrade kit comes with an additional box and the h3 box stays, i thought this will somehow work, but i dont know if srs just detects 2 boxes, and make it work...i guess not^^ I guess i will test a few things with an other arduino an wiper motors that i have in spare, since i just found out about flygp mover. thanks^^
@@wilmwittenhorst6665 you can run srs with simtools or simhub, but it can cause com port conflicts. I have done it though. I had my h3 running on srs, and a surge platform that was running on simtools. The open source smc3 is the way to go in my opinion though, you can just swap Arduino boards and hardware wise everything will work. Srs will NOT work though with open source smc3, so you will need to use SimHub. Diy all day though, gives you control over what you want to do. FYI, simhub does not support hexapod systems yet, like the h6
Hi Isaac
Great hack
so you use SMC soft with no problèm ?
Yes, smc3
Hey my left box is not being detected by the pc, after opening the box up I see all green lights on so what could be the problem?
I tried using the usb cable that is being used on my right box (which works on the right box) but unfortunately it didn’t work on the left box
if the box is not being detected, its probably not seeing the arduino board for some reason. does it show up in device manager under Ports (COM & LPT) . Expand the ports tab, then plug in box and see if a new device is listed. if windows sees it, it should add the device and list its com port number next to it. Once you have the com port number, try running the SMC3 app. You will need to modify the smc3Utiils.ini file, just open it up with note pad and change the com port. Then open up the SMC3 app.
Nice build, i did the same thing a year ago, after i got the the firmware update, and made a traction loss plattform under my M2 seat mover. I allway wondered if anyone else got this idea, since 2 dof boxes offers a "free" third motor option^^
I want to add another arduino with motors for a up/down motion. Do you know if i can run it on the srs software in combination with my modded M2 box in some way?
thx
Hey there. Srs is very limited in doing anything custom like this since they only support certain rigs.
I would suggest switching to SimHub for motion. They just added support for it a couple months ago and it's very good. You may also consider ditching the DOF firmware on the Arduino and reflash it with the open source SMC3.ino file found on xsimulators.net. if you want to play it safe, purchase a new Arduino board and save your old one with the dof software.
@@IsaacBayer thanks for your reply. I allready feard that this wont work easy... My original plan was to clone my dof arduino to tebuild a dof h6. Since the h3 to h6 upgrade kit comes with an additional box and the h3 box stays, i thought this will somehow work, but i dont know if srs just detects 2 boxes, and make it work...i guess not^^
I guess i will test a few things with an other arduino an wiper motors that i have in spare, since i just found out about flygp mover.
thanks^^
@@wilmwittenhorst6665 you can run srs with simtools or simhub, but it can cause com port conflicts. I have done it though. I had my h3 running on srs, and a surge platform that was running on simtools.
The open source smc3 is the way to go in my opinion though, you can just swap Arduino boards and hardware wise everything will work. Srs will NOT work though with open source smc3, so you will need to use SimHub. Diy all day though, gives you control over what you want to do. FYI, simhub does not support hexapod systems yet, like the h6