Interfacing to Orbiter

Ways to get information in and out of Orbiter

Contents 1 Joysticks/Game Controllers 2 Keypresses 3 Switch Interfacing 4 Communicating with Orbiter

[edit] Joysticks/Game Controllers

• Programming game controllers - using multiple joysticks and joystick buttons
  • Fly-by-Wire addon
  • JoyToKey
  • Joyride?
  • GP-Wiz - A line of joystick and gamepad interfaces/controllers

[edit] Keypresses

• Generating key presses through switches
• The GP-Wiz line of joystick button controllers along with Joy2Key.
• Using AutoHotKey to automatically configure Orbiter and ExtMFD placement

  Script to display Four MFDs on a 22 inch Monitor

• In order to generate keypresses from a DLL, use SendInput function and follow this guideline: [1]. You can use OAPI_KEY_--- keys defined in OrbiterAPI.h.

[edit] Switch Interfacing

I/O interface solutions - These will require a software interface to Orbiter.

• Phidgets
• EPIC
• Additional resource for interfaces.

[edit] Communicating with Orbiter

• OUIPC
• Orb:Connect